The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-08-26
TO RAISE SUGAR BEETS.
German Farmers TO be Located Near Alb.
bevilIe, S. C.
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Mr.. Julius Hartman, the man who
laid off and established Little Switzer-
land and who afterwards made Tyrol
from the rough and rugged hillsides
of Ponce de Leon, will shortly bid
adieu to Atlanta for a season, as he is
preparing to return to his native
country, Germany, for the purpose Of
bringing back about dozen families
to the South, the advance guard Of a
little colony of thirty people who have
tired of the old country and are anxi-
GUS to seek their fortunes in this new
world.
Mr.. Hartman's success in this coun.
try has been watched with great
deal of interest by his many friends in
Germany, and for several years they
have been trying to get him to 60 in
with them in forming colony. Fo1
long time Mr.. Hartman was unwill.
ing to do this, but his friends would
not take no for an answer so he finally
consented and agreed to help them
establish their colony and live with
them, as soon as a suitable body oi
land could be secured.
This having been decided upon Mr.
Hartman began prospecting and after
visiting tracts of land that we're offer.
ed him in Georgia and other Southern
States he decided upon tract of land
in Abbeville County, S. c., where pre-
parations are being made for the col.
ony. Mr.. Hartman now goes to Ger
many after the first installment of
families. He expects to bring back
with him about dozen families as a
starter, but they will be followed later
on by many more, and then some
thrifty farmers from different sections
of this country who desire to go in
with them will be allowed to settle in
the colony and to participate in its
benefits.
In speaking Of the colony Mr.. Hart.
man said:
"The emigration which the West
had for the past twenty-five years has
now turned to the South. Our mil
lions of acres of good farming land
will soon be settled by Northern and
European farmers. The land is cheap
and when the work is done here there
are far better results than in any other
section of the country.
MANY farmers from my native
country wanted to come to the South,
provided I would agree to remain
with them. This I at first I refused
to do, but I finally consented, and the
next question with me was where to
find the right sort of land for
the cultivation of our chief crop,
sugar beets, as tnis will be profta-
BILE business, with no tax to pay for
the production Of sugar as in the case
Of Germany. The import of sugar is
enormous, and amounts yearly to over
51O0,OO0,0O0 but this will not last,
and the German farmers are well
aware of it; consequently it cannot
surprise us when large immigration
Of farmers, we'll acquainted with all
the methods of raising high stand
ard sugar beet, sets into this country,
and when they are guided well it will
be q blessing to them.
"After a search of two years I have
found exactly what [ have been look
ing for in Abbeville County, S. c.,
near the line of Georgia and in the
same latitude with Atlanta, having
the same fine climate and delightful
winters with plenty of sunshine, where
che summer days and nights are not
Of that sultry nature existing in the
North. The place is known as the
garden spot Of South Carolina, con-
aisting of a plateau of many thousand
acres, with a frstclass soil and the
land nearly level, having just fall
enough to turn off the surplus water
into the small branches running
through the property. 1t has many
springs of the best freestone and min
eral water. The Seaboard Air Line
Railroad runs through the tract and
will erect a station thereon.
ITO start sugar factory it has been
necessary to get all the land on this
plateau under our control. This has
now been done and company organ
lied.
"We have laid off a town site and
plated small farms around it, in 25,
so and 100 acre tracts with streets
and roads to the best interests of the
colony. We have an agent now in
Germany, and I will join him there
and will bring back number of my
countrymen who I will locate on this
property. These German farmers are
we'll to do and will soon make a fine
settlement with fourishing town in
the centre. Good farmers on good
soil always make a good town. These
farmers will not only pay cash for tbe
land they buy, but will build up good
homes, and will also take en- interest
in the sugar factory. In 1898 we
will be ready to raise sugar beets and
have a factory built with German
capital to make them into sugar. The
power will be electricity. A large
plant at Calhoun Falls, near by, will
soon be erected.
"There are at present only seven
sugar beet factories in this country
three in California, one in Utah, two
in Nebraska, and small one in Vir-
ginia. There are 403 large ones in
Germany. The pecuniary results here
have been exceedingly profitable,
even in Nebraska, where the season
for good maturing of the beets is
rather short and the price for labor is
double what it is in the South.
"Splendid food is left after the
sugar is extracted from the beets, to
fatten cattle for the market and the
deep cultivation necessary to the suc-
cessiul raising of the sugar beet en-