The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-03-23
WAGON AND BUGGY FACTORY NEEDED.

Sumter Dealers Who Handle Many Car
Leads of Vehicles Annually---Lots of
Raw Material at Hand.
With suggestions as to Sumter as a
location for varied industries this
belt has the timber for not only furn-
iture and other woodworking plants
bRt the very best of hardwood for
the manufacture Of wagon and other
vehicles, and while the shops here
are busy making wagons Of difernet
descriptions for local demand they are
small, and company with wagon and
carriage works could be constantly
busy on shipping orders and Sumter
is one Of the best shipping point in
the State as glance at the map will
show.
Several local dealers bring in and
dispose oi many car loads of carriages
and wagons annually and in she last
:ew years that department Of trade
with farm machinery has become quite
important.
". B. BOYLE
I Brought in 1000 worth Of wagons,
sbuggies, harness and machinery in
one month, and has a great trade all
:
the year. His business, having sew
|eral important lines, occupies COM
modious yads, stables, warehouses and
paddocks and carriage repositories,
and last year he sold over 800 wagons
and nearly 2C0 buggies of the best
makes.
His buildings and lots strung along
! two streets and different blocks and
some of the structures will be made
two stories as extensions and addi-
tions have become Immediately ne
cessary.
Mr.. Boyle is the most extensive live
stock dealer in Sumter county and
disposed of over 200 head of horses
and males since Januafy and can ac-
commooate 125 animals under cover at
a time. He also has livery with Is
head of speedy, docile and handsome
equines and his livery for pursuit of
business and pleasure IS always good.
He handles baled hay and feed by
wholesale. and raises oats, peas and
corn for his stock on his own farm.
In 1908 he handled 1900 tons of
cotton seed meal, and with ware
house by railway bought 1000 tons
of cotton seed. His harness trade is
big enough for an exclusive establish
ment devoted thereto, and his sales of
two horse plows and about al needed
in implements and machinery for the
plantation are important factors in
causing his places of business to be
constant scenes of commercial trans
action. His trade extends over Sum-
ter, Lee, Clarendon, Kershaw, Flor
erce and other counties, and it is
stated by people in Clarendon that
the best mules in that county were
bought from W. B. Boyle, of Sum
ter.
He was born in Fairfield county,
S. c., and began handling horses on
! the iarm. He came to Sumter when
lad of IA, and has always proven
that he loved a horse next to his
| fellowman. He began the market
business years ago, and is now inter
ested in the busy Citizens Meat Mar-
ket, near the Jervey House.
Mr.. Boyle has built great horse
and mule market by good Judgment,
untiring energy and enterprise and
he deserves all the success be has
gained and more too. He has been
happy also in choice of his lieutenants
in business so that it is always har-
monious and satisfactory to all con-
cerned, and as citizen he is always
p1blic spirited and for the advance
ment of town and country. His re-
putation as humane man is known to
the afflicted and the poor at all sea
sons and he is cherry sunshiny
gentleman.
For six years as Alderman he
showed progressive spirit and desire
] to further the interests of Sumter at
every opportunity.