The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1900-10-05

80 20 WOrH, WB!Cn lie ulI Win VIII
and determination that could hut
lead 10 success. Ana result he spld
the required amount Of stock, s50,000,
:uI began tic hui,tiDg CT lis mill,
pushing the work go rapidly that ne
had it finished and was making cloih
betrre tho Lockhart Mill was con.
plotcd. 1t was great success &nd
before il had hecn in operation two
years Mr.. Duncan had determined 20
baild = so:onl mill, after having in
creased the capital stock of the fist
mill to $l50,000 The SUCCESS of the
first mil, under Mr.. Duncan's excel.
lsat management, had become so we'll
known that he bad not the slisntts st
trouble in securing all the stock he
Ni''el for the building Of $S50,OO0
mill. This mill was ruehed to con-.
pletion with the samc indomitab,c
push and energy that has character
lied Mr.. Dunc&n's work ever sinco lie
entered the mill business, aud in
eighteen months from the time tie
dirt WAS broken for the biggest IL II
under oHc roUfil the Southern Stat IS
the mill wag ready 10 go to woik
manufacturing cloth. L1ckhart Mjll
had been completed in the meantime
and there was large quantity Of cloth
being daily turned out from the cct
ton mills i'll Union county as the re-
suit Of tho enterprise Of The yourg
men who lad taken hold of the reirs.
OUR SISTER TOWN JoNEsvILLE,
some ten miles north of Union, re.
alizing that there was money to he
made in industries, broke the ice by
the building Of an up.to date knitting
mill, which has been III successful op.
Grafton ever since. Union, seeing that
louisville had such good thing ia
her knitting mill, determined to have
one also, and stock company was
formed, the stock was rapidly taken
up, and soon the Union Knitting Mill
waS whiting its machines merrily.
1t paid, of course, and when Union
sees good thing these days che is
ready 10 push it along, so the next
thing was to extend the knitting mill
plant. More machines were ordered,
a building three times as large as the
old one was erected, a new engine put
in and now Union mas q $4,000
Uniting mill, which is considered ore
Of the finest in the South.
Joncsville determined to reach out
further in the industrial field and
joint stock company was organized fer
the building Of a cotton mill in that
growing town. The stock has been
taken and the building is almost com.
pleted and the machinery is arriving.
In the meantime Jonesville had built
a fine plant for making -four, which
is receiving large patronage from all
parts of the county.
But Union did not have enough
cotton mills yet aud Mr.. Duncan bu.
gan to bestir himsolffor another larps E
mill. AS usual all he had to do was
to take hold and capital was waiting
for him. He located this last plant
some four miles from town on Buffalo
Creek. To facilitate matters he said
it would be necessary to build rail.
road to that point. He did it and
the ground was then broken for
THE BIG BUFFALO MILL,
which is now above the second floor.
1t will be run by electricity furnished
from large electric power plant to be
built near by, which will also supply
the motive power for the cars on his
railroad and the extension which ia f.
run through town, giving Union the
advantage of an electric street car
service in the very near future
Fifty operatives houses for this mill
J have already been, finished and one