The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-04-01

this certainly attract outside capitalists,
and what made the Anderson Cotton
Mills will as surely bring other Mills.
The coming of other mills will bring 9TH
or industries, permanent improvements
and steady growth. In short, 1t Will
make us what we ought to be, the leading
city of Upper Carolina.
We also need better railroad facilities,
and the day is not far off when q Railroad
will be built from the Sea through West
ern Carolina over the Mountains to the
West. There is room for but one such
road, and even now our sister cities are
alive and at work to secure the route 10
themselves. If we miss this 0 we
have only to look at the cities of Spar
tanburg and G~reenville and remem Der
that their prospecting Is the result, 10 q
large measure, of our losing the Air Line
| road, to form some idea Of where we will
be ifthe road across the mountains is lost.
Anderson enjoys the geographical adj
| vantage of all our rival sister cities, but
! geographical position will not of itself
| control railroad corporations. The rail-
| roads to be built in the future will be
built for business, and will seek those
| cities which, promise most in growth and
freight.N Already this very railroad is
| routed by Pelzer, Piedmont and Green
villa, although no such grades can be had
| over the Mountains by that route as can
be had by Anderson and Rabun Gap.
But at Pelzer is a mill Of more than 10O,-
| 900 spindles, and at Piedmont another OF
more than 10000, while at Greenville are
five a%ggregating 10000 more, and more to
be built. If we would obtain this road
we must have something else to oher
than mere geographical position, and here
now is an opportunity which we should
feel we dare not neglect. With n $4,000
| spindle Mill, abundant and cheap power,
with our agricultural and geographical
advantages, our position could not be ig-
nored by any railroad that would come
anywhere within "bailing distance"
See what our neighbors with nothing
like our natural advantages have done
and are doing to-day. S~partanburg will
soon have completed a million dolla.
mill, and another of a quarter of a mil
lion has just been organized and will &C
up at once. Gaffney has just completed
her million dollar mill, Unions six hun
dred thousand mill is nearly done, Lau.
rens is at work on a half million mill, ano
| Greenyille will soon have five completed
~aggregating half million more, and e1'
poets to double them in the near future
and all to be operated with steam tina
will cost more than We can have power
in Anderson if he will go to work for it
What have we here in the richest County
in the State, with cheap power a%vailable'
One mill Of $3.50, 900 capital and 1906
spindles! Surely Anderson will not bt
content to remain in this position wher
all our neighbors are laying the founda
lions for prosperity! But il we are to d.
ANYTHING NOW is the time, and this is
our great opportunity. A great tide in
Mill building has set towards this coun
trv, and right now is the time when the
foundation of the Cotton manufacturing
cities is to be laid. If we neglect this op
portunity we may expect to be in th'
rear in this work and to stay there
We can &c to the front If we will. Let III
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