Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-16
NOTE AND COMMENT.

OF course there Will pc prOnt In COL
ton raising this fall If the seasons are
favorable and good yield Is harvest
ed; but that Is no reason, why all other
things should be neglected. Side is
sues always count up If they are look
ed after properly.
We have had complaints from Point.
Balloon and Bandana of the failure Of
last Saturdays issue Of THE EN-
oU1RER to reach those offices. The
matter Is under investigation, but at
this time, we are not able to give any
definite information.
: Pigs are getting scarcer and scarcer
in York county, every year and the
price Of pork Is getting higher and
higher. It does look like there should
lie some people who are able to look
ahead a bit, and see the profit that is
promised in the near future.
In tho absence Of agitation this sum-
mer over the question as to the partic-
ular individuals who are to fill county
offices, matter which, within certain
limits, is Of very little real import
ance, how would it do to make consid-
Grafton of township road taxes the
main features of the picnics to be held
this summer. The question Of roads
is dry and serious, it is true, but then
it is very important.
; The business Of the Carolina and
North Western railroad has increas-
ed wonderfully since the change to the
standard gauge, and II that proposed
link to the coal fields is ever COM
pleted there will be a wonderful .dif-
ference in the advantages enjoyed
by this immediate section. That the
road will eventually be completed
seems reasonably certain, because
there is every promise, Of handsome
returns to those who undertake the
work.
!. John Shelton. Williams, and staff Of
the Seaboard Air Line, went over the
Carolina and North Western railroad
this week in a special train and the
circumstance has been the occasion Of
considerable amount Of gossip as to
probable developments. 1t is very
we'll understood that Mr.. Williams Is
too busy a man to be putting in his
time for pleasure, however pleasant
such trip might be, and there Is good
reason to think that his presence on
this road at this time means some-
thing Of Importance. There has been
pretty general impression that the
Carolina and North Western road Is
under the control Of the Southern; but
1t will have to be confessed that this
impression Is based on inference rath-
Ell than on actual knowledge. 1t Is a
fact that the road Is under the own
ship and control of people north and
1t Is believed that they are holding it
mainly as speculation. Among the
points Of interest that have been pick
ed up by outsiders with regard to the
Carolina and North Western road is
the alleged fact that it handles at least
100000 worth of freight per annum
for the Southern. That Is the South
ern gets this amount out Of business 1t
annually receives from the Carolina
and North Western railroad, Another
thing of no less significance Is that
the distance from Charlotte to Allan
ia is just sixteen miles less bysway Of
Lincolnton and Chester than by Mon
roe and Chester. That Is, If the Sea-
board could get to Atlanta by way Of
Lincolnton and Chester instead Of
having to go by Monroe and Chester
as now, it could save sixteen miles.
Then again, 1t is not more than thirty
miles from the northern terminus of
the Carolina and North Western to in
exhaustible coal fields, and the Sea-
board is now without coal fields on its
own lines. These. suggestions are all
and they may develop in
to something important before great
while.