Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-03-08
Auction Sale of Land.

The only auction sales Of land yes
terday, salesday for March, were two
small tracrs in Bullocks Creek town.
ship by F. A. Thomas, agent One
tract contained 79s acres and the other
contained 12a acres. Both tracts were
bought by S. B. Pratt at $3.50 per
acre. The 123 acre tract is said to be
we'll timbered in original forest.
Death of Or. w. 3. Fewell.
DR.. w. B. Fewell died at his home In
Ebenezer yesterday afternoon at about
o'clock, Of gastritis, after an illness
Of several weeks. He was in the 77th
year Of his age. His surviving chill
dren are Mr.. A. B. Fewell, Mrs. Green
Steele, Mrs. Ed Barron, Mr.. BreVard
Fewell and Miss Sadie Fewell. The
funeral Is taking place at EbeneZer
this afternoon.
Smallpox at Smiths.
A case Of smallpox Is reported at
Smiths Turnout. 1t developed yes
terday morning, the victim being Amos
Hoyles, a negro who has just return
ed from work on the double tracking
of the Southern railway in Virginia.
The people of the neighborhood are
very much stirred up about the mat
ter; but as to what arrangements nave
been made for taking care OF the pa
tient, the reporter has not been IN
formed.
Death of J. Ran Warmoth.
Mr.. ]. Ran Warmoth, a well-known
citizen Of Hickory Grove, died sud-
denly at that place last Friday even
ing. He had been i'll for a short time
only. Mr.. Warmoth was a native OF
Concord. N. c., and was in the 68th
year Of his age. He was saddle ana
harness maker by trade, and was
good workman. He leaves widow
and four children. The children are
Mrs. J. A. Hames Of Gowdysville; Mrs.
C. S. Morehead Of Hickory Grove;
Mrs. Cameron Littlejohn and Mr.. Io-
gan C. Warmoth Of Gaffney. The de-
ceased was a member Of the Associate
Reformed church, and the funeral
which was largely attended, was con,
Quoted by Rev. J. L. Oates. assisted
by Rev. P. B. Ingraham of the Metho-
dist church, and Rev. w. r. Lambert
of the Baptist church.
The Great catawba Dam.
Fort Mill special to Charlotte OBJ
server. One would think that now that
the Catawba Power companys Dam
has been completed, after four years OF
vicissitudes, during which they nave
been overtowed by high water more
than thirty times, entailing loss eacn
time of from a hundred to more than
a thousand dollars, that they would pe
anxious to reap some benefits from the
fruits of their labors, especially SO
since the interest on million-dollar
investment is no trifing matter.
However, one cause of the delay may
be that the mills have been delayed IN
receiving their electrical machinery.
The equipment for the two mills here
will cost about $4,000 and they nave
lust begun to install it. The placing or
machinery in the power house at the
dam Is dragging along slowly, while
the right of-way for TRANSMISSION wire
to Charlotte is being secured Inc
river has been raised to hlgher pom,
than anticipated by the engineers ana
the company has been called upon 10
build a 700-foot bridge over Allison
Creek. where the county road crosses.
Since a large part Of the dam has been
hidden from view by the water ana
dirt embankment, the immensity OF a
few figures will be entertaining. The
dam was begun May 4th, 1900, and fin
ished January Is. 1904. Average num-
ber of hands employed about 5OO, cost
about one million dollars, length about
one fourth Of mile, depth eight 1eet
Mt the top and thirty-five feet at the
bottom, height twenty-one feet above
average low water. Sixty thousand
cubic yards of masonry are embodied
in it's construction; $4,000 barrels, or
more than 400 carloads of cement were
which alone would appar-
emily build the dam. There were forty
carloads of water wheel machinery and
sixty cars of electrical machinery.
Sixty thousand dollars was spent for
equipment machinery for erecting the ]