The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-12
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"Two of the Southern lines ioin at
Columbia, the capital, in Richland
County, In tho centre of the State.
This county is said to have some of the
model farms Of the South. It ia on
what is called the "sand RIDGE, with
rolling lands, fine bodies of level coun-
try and fertile lowlands. Pine CLAW ia
used for brick and pottery makine.
and there are large granite quarries
which ship large quantities of stone.
Cotton, corn and tobacco are grown.
Columbia, with its $4,000 population,
ls the second city in the State, and
carries on an extensive manufactur-
ing business. The Congnree river
furnishes an immense water power
through a canal five miles in length,
developing 10000 horsepower, The
industries comprise cotton mills, fer
tilizer plants, oil mills, planning mills,
machine shops and lesser eni erprises
which aggregate extensive pay-rolls.
At Killian, ten miles above Columbia,
kaolin and fire clay are found, fac
tory employing forty hands using the
latter IN its works.
"Running through the eastern por-
tion of Anderson County is the line
connecting Greenville and Columbia,
q branch ten miles in length running
from Bolton to Anderson, the county
seat. The county is in l. Piedmont
region, rich in agriculture aud pro-
gressive in industrial enterprise. The
soils are clay, producing remunerative
returns in cotton, grain, grass and
fruits. In minerals there are iron,
copper, coal, manganese and corun-
dunn, and in woods, oak, hickory, pine,
poplar, maple and gum. Water power
is supplied by several large streams
and smaller creeks and branches. Two
OF the towns in the county have in ex-
cess of 5000 population-Pelzer and
Anderson. Pelzer turns 105 900 spin
dies in four mills, has forty-ton oil
mill, foundry and a broom factory.
Anderson has 80, 700 spindles and l.
l2O looms at work, in addition to an
OIL AMI fertilizer plant, lumber mills,
toundries and minor industries. Will
liamston, the first station below Pelzer,
has 400 people, we'll known female
college, and a mineral spring of wide
reputation. Honea Path has fertil-
izer factory and at Bolton is the center
OF flourishing agricultural trade.
Abbeville, the county. seat of Abbe-
vile County, is reached on the South.
ern by ten-mile branch line running
from Hodges. -Four thousand people
live in the county town, where is oper-
ated 1000 spindle mill, Greenwood
is in Greenwood County at the inter-
section of three railroads, anil employees
portion of its 3 800 people in several
cott)n factories. Near Hodges is a
sulphur spring Of value. Two miles
from the town is Cokesbury, where is
located the Cokesbury Conference
School, an institution founded early in
the history of the section. At New
Market there is brick factory and six
miles farther on at Ninety-Six is the
centre of the growing and shipping OF
the 'Nincty-SiX Red Oats and other
small grains.
In Newberry County one is between
the Piedmont region and the sand hills,
a section of clay and sandy loam with
sand and gravel strata under clay
sub-soil. The principal crop is cotton,
though much grain is grown, with
grasses and clover, and stock-raising is
a profitable line of industry. Oak,
hickoay, maple, ash, pine, cedar and
poplar are among the woods of utility,
there is plenty of good building granite
and some iron and gold. Nearly in
the center of the county is Newberry
the county seat, which number $500
souls. Seven hundred employees are
in its cotton mills, where whirl $4,000
spndles, and here is also an oil and
fertilizer plant and a coffin factory,
the latter a recent acquisition. Eight
miles southeast is Prosperity, town
of 1000 people, where is spoke fac.
tory, a canning establishment and a
grain cradle concern. Helena and
Old Town arc other stations around
which ere the homes of several hun
dred people.
"Leaying Columbia for Augusta,
you arc in Lexington County, where
the Broad river is crossed. Agricul-
turally, the county has high position.
The lands are rolling, with long
stretches of level country. A number
of streams make through it, affurding
abundant and cheap water-powers.
Stock-raisers find their industry a prof
table ono. Pine, cypress, oak, hick-
ory and ash are in the woods, and
granite and fossil sandstone are among