The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-11-14
TEXAS LETTER CONTINUED.
n South CaroIinian Becomes Rich
in Texas. The Owner of Hum
ter's Bend Went to Texas
Poor Nan. Income from
Rents Now $aOa
Day.

LouT lSsuc VI IiAuoS, d WEEK ago
reached me though somewhat d..
laycd. The delay was caused by
an error in the address. The anxi-
ETY. while waiting was much the same
as looking for the arrival of well
coined friend.
l note with pleasure the new cor
respondents from Cedar Bluff and
Pine Grove-at least they appear
new to me-and 1 hope they will
weekly add few notes from their
respective neighborhoods. I must
admit that had the honor as we'll
as pleasure of meeting the charming
young lady, Miss Ada Duckett, OF
whom the writer from Cedar Bluff
speaks OF having just married Mr..
Bishop. l met her just year ago
and heard that such an event might
occur but had no idea it would be so
long deferred.
The novelty of getting a pig in
q new pen as they do at the Bluff is
certainly amusing as we'll as instruc-
tive and if the people want to use
this new idea they had best not let
some of the editors know about it,
as certain editor might have it
COPYRIGHTED.
Well, l am still hoping to hear
some more news from old Cross
Keys and Sedalia. Maybe when
the election is over and the fall rains
set in somebody will give US the
news from these places.
promised to tell samething about
the Texas people around the famous
agricultural district known as "Hun.
ter's Bend. The dear readers will
not imagine that the name implies
hunting for game or anything of the
kind, though there is all kinds of
hunting out there, in fact about as
much aud of as varied types as one
could find anywhere in this country,
I imagine, except in the very large
cities. Some of the game will be
spoken of later on; but as my last
letter said, the name of this famous
Bend originated from the first set.
tier who first acquired legal rights to
part of the land embraced within the
great circle of the Colorado river.
The man who seems to have planted
civilization in this once barbaric,
semi Indian and Spanish settlement,
was Will d. Hunter of Martins d.
pot, now known as Coldville, Laur-
ems County, S. G.
AS wealth. is the prime factor for
notoIiety the world over, we will OBJ
serve that Texas and the people of
Texas are part of the world and
have much of the worldliness as
found at other places, though many
of their ideas, virtues and vices are
quite different from those most pre-
valent at other places, but as l have
said, wealth is the great factor for
notoriety and nearly every ambitious
young American has been reared to
believe that notoriety is some kind Of
q virtue, or that to be happy one
must possess either wealth or notori-
ETY. and that the possession Of the
former is sure to bring the latter,
therefore he strives with all power to
gain the wealth Of this world; never
for moment stopping to think that
happiness exists only in the material
mind.
I sincerely hope the many read
ers of THE TINES will not think for
a moment that l have any respecs
for wealth or for the man on account
Of the wealth which he possesses, for
such is not the case. Respect is dua
only to the real man who is q man
all the time, whether rich or poor,
but I will have to attribute more
space to the principal owner of
Hunters Bend, because he has SO
much more vital requirements.
Will d. Hunter was born and
reared in Laurens County, s. c.,
married Miss Smith, daughter Of
Bill Smith, of the same county, was
married In 1857, at the Cedar Grove
church, Laurens County near Enoree
river, and moved to .Spartanburg
County the same year. From Spar
taEburg county he and family came
to Travis county, Texas, in 1859
and made his home Immediately in
Hunters Bend, though ct that time
he could not make q living on the
farm even though he once had a
thoasand acres Of the wild land as