Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-06-03
WALHALI.A, u. C.s
WEDNESDAY,. JUNE 8, 1908.
rAl MANurAcruaE OF FURNITURE:

Wc have had good deal to say re-
Gently about the building and operation
Of furniture factory in Walhalla. 1t is
not a personal matter with us by any
means, but it is matter that can be
made to mean much for Walhalla, and
for this reason we feel that we cannot
say too much In it's favor or do too much
\ toward creating sentiment that win
SECURE such an enterprise for the town.
{ We must look to ourselves in the future
for whatever we get, and there is no
time better than the present to start the
work of building up the town with local
capital, home enterprise and energy.
We have heretofore pointed TO the sue
cess of Abbeville's furniture factory as
incentive for the people of Walhalla to
secure fox our town the benefits of plant
similar to Abbeville's. In another col
umn will be found communication from
Poplar, this county, signed "W. III. CO.,
in which the writer notes some things
not mentioned in the past. Among other
things, he says:
"We are glad to see so much said about
the Abbeville Furniture Factory and the
hope of getting one in Walhalla. .
know that Oconee county is far ahead
in suitable timber for the manufacture
of every kind of furniture. You can get
the timber one-third cheaper. y One
other enterprises trunk factory
would be one of the best and quickest
paying factories that the business mon
could put up. The country is full of
choice poplar and other fine timber, 80
why not buy it and stop paying out money
to the railroads for transporting trunks
II hnu f,.nx al
good portion of Virginia, where thou
sands of trunks are made, y and they
have not got near the timber we have
here in Oconee county. for one would
like to see Walhalla come to the front in
manufacturing furniture and trunks
Indeed, why should we not buy the
excellent timber right here at our doors,
manufacture furniture and trunks, sell
and ship the finished product to others
instead of buying from others the things
that nature has made it possible for us to
manufacture almost on tho spot where
the raw material growsp There is no
more business reason for shipping timber
long distances to furniture factories than
there was in the old system of having
cotton mills in Massachusetts, to manu-
facture cloth from South Carolina cot
ton. The folly of the two propositions
is the same, only intensified in the latter
case by the magnitude of the cotton mill
industry and the distance from the cot
ton plantations in the South to the mills
in New England.
5 Here at Walhalla we have every advan-
tage for the successful operation of fur
niture and trunk factory, and there is no
reason why such plant should not pay
handsomely from the start. Let every
business man in Walhalla face squarely
the question of organizing company
and building first-class furniture fac
tory. Do not ask, GLOW much has my
neighbor put into it, or how much will
he put into itP' Put yourself in better
light-subscribe to the capital stock all
you can and give the work your hearty
support. Put into this and other enter
prises amounts representative of your
faith and interest in the welfare of your
town. There is money enough in Wal
halla, lying idle half the time, to build
and equip number of factories, and it
can be made TO work materially to the
good of the town if we can but induce
ourselves to dig it up and use it.
Remember the Parable of the Pounds!