Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-12-17
wALHALLA. SOUTH oARolrsA. DEC. ~. 1eoa.
A mAsoN FROM ocoNEr
Talks Interestingly Of the Growth and Pros.
periiy Of His Section.

Mr.. r. t. Jaynes, of Walhalla,
who is attending the sessions of the
Grand Lodge, talked interestingly to
q reporter for The News and Courier
yesterday regarding his CITY and SEQ
tion. Mr.. Jaynes said:
"This year has been one of more
than ordinary prosperity in Oconee
county. Crops of ali kinds have
been good and the fair price of cot
ton pleased the farmers. The close
of the year finds our people in splen-
did financial condition. There is
no croaking, fault,fnding spirit
such things have ceased and every
one has faith in the future. And
well they may, for nature has been
lavish in her gifts. Rich soil, fine
climate, (even better than Charles.
tons, of which we hear merited
praise continually, splendid water
powers, cotton mills, shuttle and
bobbin factories, lumber plants and
numerous smaller industries 90 to
make up portion of our material
development.
BY the way, speaking of water
powers and cotton mills, calls to mind
that Oconee's pioneer mill man was
none other than your own honored
and beloved Courtenay, who, nine
years ago, harnessed the hidden
power of Little River, at Newry,
and founded one of the largest and
most prosperous industrial towns in
the Piedmont section. Just think
of it, why already this fall there has
been paid out to the farmers of
Oconee county for cotton alone
by the Courtenay Mills over
100000 in hard cash. No won
der President Courtenay and his
sons are popular with our people, for
they believe in high-toned, honora-
BILE dealing and paying full value for
the products of the field, garden
and dairy. 1t would do your heart
good to visit the clean, busy, happy
mill village at Newry, which owes
its good estate to Charleston men
and money. But others have fol-
lowed in the wake and to-day we
have four large mills, the others be-
ing at Walhalla, Westminster and
Seneca. At Westminster we have
one of the very few shuttle and bob
bin factories in the South and, l be-
lleve, the only one in the State. 1t
does large business, selling its pro-
ducts to mills in this and other
States. Numerous smaller indus
tries are springing up. Thus, you
see, in manufacturing sense Oconee
is keeping step with her sisters in
the march of industrial progress in
this, the greatest State in the South.
"And when we speak of South
Carolina we at once recognize the
great work done by The News and
Courier in the past for the redemp.
tion of the State from political cor
ruption and promoting it's material
development along all lines. 1t is a
great paper and you have no idea
how much it is admired and appreci-
ated by the people III hitherto remote
districts. Did you know that your
paper reaches Walhalla in time for
one to read it while taking an after
noon smoke ? Such is the case, and
then the enlarged edition of The
Sunday News holds the eye of the
reader at the foot hills of the Blue
Ridge in the afternoon just as it
does yours here in the morning.
Wonderful, do you say Well, fact
is sometimes stranger than fiction.
This is the day of great things and
The News and Courier is a great
paper. 1t gets there, too."--News
and Courier, December II.