Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-15
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HOW TO GET PROSPERITY.
Don't Leave 1t All to One Man; but Let All
Hustle Together.

Don't Leave 1t All to One Man ; but Let All
Hustle Together.
Mr.. D. R. Bird, of Pacolet, S. c., in
a letter to The Manufacturers Record,
says:
expect to build 15-box dry-press oil
mill at Gaffney during 1896. The capacity
of the mill will he Is tons every "a hours.
1 have already bought the machinery
from the Stillwell-Bierce q Smith-Vaile
Co., of Dayton, Ohio. The machinery was
bought to build at Blacks6urg, 5. G., but
the stock could not be raised there $50
tried Gaffney, and have $1,000 subscribed.
I want 81, 800, and am told that the bal
ance is assured.
1t is quite probable that there is an
abundance of money lying idle in
Blacksburg, which could have been
iudiciously invested in such an enter
prise as this, just as there is in
hundreds of Southern towns; but the
failure to realize the Importance OF
investment in industrial enterprises,
and the lack of hustling spirit to
encourage such undertakings often
cause the loss of opportunities to
secure a factory, and, once lost, these
chances can never be regained.
Blacksburg could easily have taken
hold of this enterprise, and, to its
lasting benefit, built a cottonseed-oil
mill, just as it could easily build one
or more cotton mills; but its local
people are entirely too we'll satisfied,
and, hence, make little effort to do
some hustling and build up the
industrial interests of their town.
Admirably located as the place is,
with excellent railroad facilities, with
wonderful mineral resources surround
ing it, it has left to one or two men
the work of doing all the hustling
which has been done in that town
for the last four or five years. So far
as an outsider can judge, its business
people never seem TO unite in pushing
forward and carrying to success,
enterprises which could easily be
started, and which would quickly give
life and prosperity to the town.
The Manufacturers Record is not,
however, criticising Blacksburg more
than it would criticise hundreds of
other places. All through the South
there are towns having excellent
natural neutrality-suspicious. in which
money is lying practically idle,
bringing little or no profit to its
owners, and doing no good to the
community. If every such town in
the South could be inspired with some
of the hustling qualities which have
made Atlanta, and which are today
bringing to the front Rome, Ga, now
one of the most conspicuous places in
The South because of its success in
capturing great cotton mills, hundreds
of towns throughout the South would
quickly spring into life and activity.
The South has the ability and the
money to build up its own industrial
interests. 1t ought to be more indie
pendent, more self-reliant, and its
people ought to unite, and through
active cooperation, gather into manu-
featuring enterprises its now unutilized
capital, and thus cease to depend upon
outside men and outside money. There
is scarcely a town of 1000 people in
the South which could not raise $685.
600. $50, 900 or 800, 900 of local money
for the purpose of starting industrial
enterprises but there is too much lack
ofpublic spirit and broadminded energy
in many Of these towns. The Manu-
facturers' Record wants to see Blacks
burg and every other place, which has
been waiting for outsiders to come IN
and create prosperity, 60 to work and
create their own prosperity.
THEY SAY-That a fast man easily
runs into debt that light heart
cannot accompany heavy head that
a man always feels cheap when he
has been sold E; that people who bor-
row trouble have to pay big interest;
that a city is always called "she"
"because it has outskirts; that the
people who influence you are they
who believe in you that woman can
not drive a nail, but she can drive
bargain that it is curious how wo-
man who screams at a mouse Is not
startled at q bill that makes a man
tremble; that the fun that a man has
in watching woman sharpen pen
Gil is only equalled by the quiet amuse-
ment the woman experiences while the
man is endeavoring to thread needle.