Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-05-31


ly, as is generally remembered, the
Carolina and North Western got from
Newton to Hickory with the use OF a
third rail on the Western North Caro-
lima track. Now, however, the mar
row gauge is independent, with road
bed and track of its own. 1t runs
parallel with the Western North Car
olina for distance of 10 miles, and at
no point is it more chan 100 feet away.
For most of the distance the two roads
run within 20 feet of each other.
At Hickory the Carolina and North
Western makes close connection with
the Southern. The Southern was a
few minutes late on Saturday, and
there was an opportunity to see little
of the town. Hickory is thriving
place. There are several large facto.
ries there, and also quite considera-
BILE lumber business. The business
portion of the town fronts on the rail.
road, not more than stones throw
distance, with long narrow park be-
tween. There are some handsome
buildings in the town, public and busi'
ness buildings, and also as much shade
as seems 10 be required. All the sur
roundings have decidedly business
like look that is more suggestive,
probably, of Gastonia, than any OF the
other towns mentioned. Hickory,
however, has not nearly kept pace
with Gastonia. But a very good prac-
tical idea of the Importance of the
place may be gathered from a remark
of station agent to the effect that
during the week ending Saturday, the
Southern railroad had taken AZ loaded
cars out of the town, and the Carolina
and North. w estern had taken 80. The
cars were loaded principally with lum-
ber, dressed and rough, and in the
form of finished building material.
There were also two or three carloads
of wagons and several of mixed man
ufactures.
TIE trip of Saturday was continued
only to Granite Falls, 7S miles north of
Yorkville and - miles south of Le-
noir. This is little town of 600 or
700 population that has been built up
entirely through the transportation
facilities offered by the Carolina and
North Western. There are number
of shingle and lumber mills, build
ing material factory, a roller mill and
other smaller industries. The sides of
the railroad are piled with more lum.
Der and shingles, ETC., than could be
hauled away in weeks of steady work.
There is big cotton mill on the river,
about mile from the railroad, and
the industrial activity everywhere
apparent is sufficient to indicate
considerable amount of prosperity. AS
yet, however, the people seem to be
bent only on making money. They do
not seem Ito have commenced to live."
Back down the road between Gran
ite Falls and Hickory, is the station of
Winklers. There is nothing here much
except log boom and big saw mill
on the river. Logs are foated down
from the mountains in times of high
water, and sawed up here at the rate
of from 10000 to $4,000 feet day.
The lumber is all shipped to eastern
cities by way of the Carolina >and
North Western railroad. One of the
saw mill men told of loss that was
entailed by the great freshet of some
weeks back. At that time there were
many thousand logs in the boom.
The boom was broken by the high
water, and the logs went down the
river. A day or two afterward one of
the saw mill men went down the river
in a row boat in search of his logs. 1t
was the intention, if the logs could be
rounded up anywhere, to put down
saw mill plant and convert them into
lumber on the spot. But it was no
good. The mill man went down as
far as the G. G. & A. railroad bridge
between Fort Mill and Rock Hill-a
distance of about rs miles-without
overtaking his logs. The logs, probably,
were finally lodged in the swamps be.
low Camden.
In addition to the industrial activity
around Winkler's, the station has an
other feature that is of growing inter-
est. It is here that "The Cliffs" are
located, and within the past few years
the spot has become popular pleas
ure resort, especially with the North
Carolina people. A good many Ches-
ter people go up from time to time, and
occasionally there are parties from this
immediate vicinity. To lovers of ma.
ture and beautiful scenery "The
Cliffs" is an ideal locality. 1t is here
that high bluff, extending all the way
back to Hickory, distance of three
miles, stops abruptly at the river.
The railroad runs along at the foot of
the bluff. The water washes the en-