The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-08-28
10 RAISE
| SUGAR BEETS.
EERMAN FARMERS TO BE LOCA-
TED NEAP ABBEVILLE.
Fhe Great Industry Of Extracting su-
gar From the Roots is to Be
Taught the Southern
Cultivators.


Ind and who afterwards made Little
yrol from the rough and rugged hill
des of Ponce de Leon, will shortly
I'D adieu to Atlanta, Ga, for a season,
he is preparing to return to his na-
We country. Germany, for the pur-
ose OF bringing hack about a dozen
hmilies to the South, the advance
usrd Of little colony of thirty peo-
Pc who have tired of the old country
nd are anxious to seek their fortunes
ln this now world.
Mr.. Hartman's success in this coun-
fy has been watched with great deal
q interest by his many friends in Ger
nany, and for several years they hav.
Den trying to get him to 60 in with
lem in forminga colony. For long
me MIR. Hartman was unwilling to do
his, but his friends would not take no
$or an answer SO no finally consented
md agreed to help them establish their
polopy and live with them, as soon as
suitable body of land could be Sc
6ured.
This having been decided upon Mr..
Hartman began prospecting and after
sisiting tracts of land that were offered
lin i'll Georgin and other Southern
8tntes he decided upon a tract of land
1n Abbevi4le county, 5. c., where
Epreparations are being made for the
<colony. Mr.. Hartman now goes to
E4ermany after the first iastullment of
\ families. Ho expects to bring back
with him about dozen families ms IL
Eetarter, but they will be followed Inter
fsby many more, and then some thrifty
MARINERS from different sections of this
y fcountry who desire to go in with them
will be allowed t. settle in the colony
4 anI to participate in it's benefit
ssN In speaking of the colony Mr.. Hart
Sman said:
s 1.-The emigration which the West
\ has had for the past twenty five years
+ has now turned to the South. Our
millions Of acres of good farming land
VIII soon be settled by Northern and
Europeen farmers. The land is cheap
and when the work is do:e here there
arc far deter results THAI in any 9TH
er section of the country.
S "Many farmers from my native coun-
Try wanted to come to the South, pro-
fUded L would agree to remain with
Them. This l at first refused to do,
but finally consented, and the next
Rkquestion with me was where to find the
tight 4 rt of land for the cultivation of
!. Our Hhlef crop, sugar bcets, as this will
BE profitable business, with no Tux to
q pay for the production of sugar as in
the case of Germany. The import of
sngar ls enormous, and amounts yearly
( to over 800, 100000 but this will not
i last, and the German farmers arc we'll
aware of it; consequently it cannot
surprise us when large immigration
OF farmers, we'll acquainted with all tho
methods of raising a high standard
sugar beet, sets into this country, and
when they are guided we'll it will be
Z blessing to them.
81 "After search of two years / have
: found exactly what 1 have been look
ing tor in Abbeville county, S. G., near
the line of Georgia ard in the same
latitude with Atlanta, having the same
fine climate and delightful winters with
plenty of sunshine, where the summer
. days and nights nre not of that sultrv
nature existing in the North. The
place Is known as the garden spot of
south Carolina, consisting of plateau
OF many thousand acres, with a first
class soil and the land nearly level,
having Just fall enough to turn off tho
surplus water into tho small branches
cumming through tho property. 1t has
many springs of the best free stone and
mineral water. The Seaboard Air
Line Hallway runs through the tract
and will erect station thereon.
q 10 start sugar factory it has been
necessary to get all the land on this
tplateau under our control. This has
snow been done and n company organ
Sized.
il 1--WE have laid off a town site and
plated small farms around it, in 25, so
Yhnd 100 acre tracts with streets and
roads to the best interests of tho col
ony. We have an agent now in Ger
many, and will join him there and will
bring back number of my country
men who l will locate on this proper.
ty. These German farmers are well TO
do and Will soon make fine settle
ment with flourishirg town in tho
centre. Good farmers on good soil ul-
ways make II good town. These farm
ers will not only pay cash for the land
they buy, bnt will build up good
4 homes, and will also take IN interest
in the sugar factory. In 1898 we will
be ready to raise sugar bee:s and have
factory built with German capital to
make them into sugar. Tho power will
bo electricity. large plant at Cal
houn Falls, near by, will soon be erect
ed.
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