Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-01-19
A PH|LADHPH|AN
BUYS 4 RAILROAD.
Eighteen Thousand Heres of
hand Included IN the Deal.
also / SHALL TOWN AND 4 RAILROAD.

d. L. RIsLEY PURCHASES TWO BIG TRACTS
OF LAND In THE cARoLlNAs AND SEVERAL
INDUSTRIAL EsTABLIsHMENTs = THE
TRACTS TO BE OFFERED TO SETTLERS.
d. L. Risley, the real estate opera
tor of Philadelphia, has been at
work quietly for more than a yeal
past upon what promises to a great
enterprise and one entirely new tC
the community in which it is to be
located. Several Philadelphians
will play prominent part in the
new concern, although the capital is
furnished by Mr.. Risley. Mr.. Risley' e
plans when fully developed will in
vplye the outlay OF at least s. ,OO0,-
600.
The first steps were taken this
week, when the eighteen thousand
acres of land of the South Carolina
Land and Lumber Company, near
Charleston, and the Berkley Rail
road, extending from Monck's Cor
ners to Chicora, S. c., passed into
the hands of Mr.. Risley. The lum-
Der company's transfer included a
small town, saw mills and machine
shops, while the railroad company
turned over ten miles of standard
guage track and some 100000
worth of rolling stock.
The railroad will be extended at
once from Chicora to Eutawville, a
distance of sixteen miles. It's officers
for the coming year will be ID. l..
Risley, President Edward Moore,
General Manager, and }. l.. Caste,
Passenger Agent, all of Philadelphia.
The road will be an important
feeder OF the Atlantic Coast Line.
The operation of the railroad how
ever, is to be but part of the scheme,
One thousand acres of the land
acquired will be built up as city,
and several manufacturing plants
erected to aid in it's creation. The
new industries win be of a character to
WORK up the products of the looms,
of which there are but a few in the
South, though many are needed
The saw mills already on the pro-
perty will be engaged in cutting up
the forests of hard wood which
abound on the remainder of the pro.
perty. AS soon as these are cleared
away the land will be divided in
small farms, buildings will be erected
and then the farms will be offered
for sale or lease. At present there is
work for several hundred men. Mr
Risley believes that within two
years he will have two thousand
people located there. His record
will certainly cOrrObOrate his be.
lief.
D. L. Risley's second big deal of the
New Year is the purchase of tel
thousand acres OF land at Gold Hill
N. c., where he is to locate another
of his colonies. j. J. Newman, one
of the best of Southern engineers,
and Mr.. Risley's representatives al
Salisbury N. c., carried through the
deal /; has the property already
mapped and is now ready for colon
lists.
Gold Hill is a town OF some five
hundred inhabitants, located on the
Yadkin River Division OF the South
ern Railway, fifteen miles from Sails
bury, and takes it's name from tht
great gold mine that was discovered
there in 1910. Mr.. Newman, who
knows more about the mineral re
sources of North Carolina than any
other man, gives the output OF th'
mine at "a, 900, GOO, and declares thai
there is not a twenty five acre trac7
in Mr.. Risley latest acquisition tha-
has not a gold, silver or copper veil
| in it. In Mr.. Newman's general de
scription of the property he says
s"The greater portion OF this newl,
acquired property OF Risiey's is nov
| in timber, pine, oak and hickory, bu
there are a good many nice farml
included in the area, some OF then
| having nice new frame houses ant
comfortable barns and other out
houses on them suitable for a mai
and family to move into and com
mence at once to make crops ant
| live as if the family was OF the mano
born. Some of the farms hav
crops of wheat, and oats sown ant
the farmers are now ploughing TO
| the years crop of cotton and corn
On many of the tracts there are mic
orchards Of apple, peach, peal
cherry, plum and other fruits, as wei
| as numerous vineyards. In thi
| Piedmont section OF North CarOlini
| the Concord and Catawba and sever
| all other grapes are indigenous an,
| were first found here. The Musca
/ dine and several other wild grape
grow SO large and are so good tha
| it would take an expert to tell tha
they were not fine variety of cult
waited grape. The apple and peacl
do as we'll here as they do in New
Jersey or Delaware. The fact is,
have never seen a finer peach in Phi
adelphia, Baltimore or New YOrl
than is sold here on the streets iron
the farm wagons during the summer
Many bushels are boxed up and ship
ed to Richmond and WashingtOl
markets by express. So also wit
| the grape and strawberry, aspara
i gus, celery, tomatoes, cabbage an
other garden vegetables grow a
well here as they do in any section {
the Union and there is no reaso
why the truck farmer could not d
as well here as anywhere else. /
respect to transportation facilities
a farmer can grow his truck here
put it in the train at night, and dt
liver it in Richmond or Washingto
for breakfast the next morning. Thi
cannot be excelled anywhere"
"Mr. Risley and myself wake
through some of the woods last ia
and found the native grass as hig
as our knees. All the farmers d
here to make a meadow is to Gu
down a piece OF woods. grub it u
and let it stand one year and he ha
a meadow that will cut more tha
i " ton OF hay to the acre, yes and Gu
i two crops year too. The meados
seeds itself with sward that make
a hay as good as the best timothy.