The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-06-01
sERsHAW AND TIE GOLD NINE.
lanes Casswell Writes Interestingly OF
The RaiIe Gold Mine Near Kershaw.

Kershaw, May -KershaW on the
Borders OF Kershaw and Lancaster
counties, s. c.. and on the Southern
Railway, is lovely town on the Level,
With broad streets and shade tress
growing, brick business biocks, and
handsome churchesas gEArds OF long
lines of pretty homes varied IN ar
ehitecture and coloring and beauel-
lied with Horticulture and trim Yege-
table gardens.
The population is about !, 200 ard the
prospects are bright for q much larger
town. Kershaw handles from 8, 600
8Sto Ia,Go0 bales Of cotton year, and
brings IN about 8, ,000 tons OF fertili-
sszers.
It has a first class cotton seed oil
mill, and a busy planing mill and is
agitating fora cotton mill ana other
huinming industries.
The Baak OF Kershaw just organized,
IS backed by some OF the wealthless
men IN Lancaster and Kershaw who
Xas meeting on Saturday tthe 2lst)
decided 10 erect a handsome brick and
stone baIiz building. A sslO, ,000 school
! house HIS been decided upon but the
! site not efo osen.
5s His Honor TIE Mayor, Captain
James Welcfl. has land in the cor
saosate limits. with plenty OF the pnr-
ess water, In easy proximity to the
railway, which he will deed to cot
ton milling enterprise and there is
Z thorough enthusement In building up
ard beautifying the already beautiful
town. Kershaw is higher than the
surrounding country, and is very
heaIthy. the physicians making money
outside, and By other aveSIes than
their profession,
Three rpiles fIom Kershaw are she
famous
HALLE GOLD MINES
Which we're discovered in 1929. and
your correspondent was the first writer
sto glean and TO give correct descrip-
\ tion OF the plants and nous operandi.
Just eyer the line from Kersbaw
county, and in Laucastfr, the Halle
Gold Mining Compais' lands extend,
500 acres ef hill aud vlie, ind virgin
long leaf yellow pine.
A handsome roadway. with telept one
line, leads from the prosperous town
OF Kerstlaw, past plantation fields
with rich, red soil, slopipg to the
valleys, and rising again to green
breasts, and groves and stretches OF
forestry.
s.; The road rises aud falls, and creek
winds its way between the woocs
A sonorous sound, like that of q grea,
waite. fall attracts the ear. Il is
TIE MUSIC OF THE GOLD NINE
MILL.
Through the woods the road curves
aronnd, and Suddenly appear smoke
stacks of mills and mines and lovely
villas with slopine gardens and UNI
E5rageous shade and between the hills
stream runs eurgling by.
Trim cottages and painted barns
peep through the trees, and little
engine and cars carry ore from the
mines to Che mills, which are lives
of industrv.
q he present company has operated
the mines for quarter Of century:
The deepest workings are now 4SO
feet, and with shafts. drifts and tun-
neIs there are over FIVE miles "uEder-
meath the ground" The company
has an electric diamond Orlli lot pros
pect work for 1000 feet hole, and
have used it from 1G0 to 500 feet, and
are waiting the arrival Of an Oil well
drilling outfit capacity 1000 feet with
which they will prospect extensively
with tbs hope of finding ore bodies of
workable nature a5 greater depth.
The machinery shows 500 horse
power with eight boilers operating
four engines CT from 10 to $50 horse
power, and there are seven hosting
engines from 10 to so b. p. two air
eompressors for the development of
the mines--being one four and one
twelve drill capacity respectively.
One so stamp mill 80 pound stamps
which can drop 80 times a minute and
ernsh 80 tons of rock every "a hours,
ard the stamp mill runs from Monday
rnorning at / am, till Saturday night
q s. n There are 1G improved Will