Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-08-30
Prosperous Seneca stlI Pushing to Front.

following from correspondent at
Seneca:
Along the western borders of the
North and South Carolina line, the back
ground of which is ornamented by the
ragged peaks of the Blue Ridge and em-
belished with cliffs, peaks and water
falls, castles, villas and picturesque
flower gardens, is to be found the ideal
section of the South. Here the plains
aud the mountains meet to form condi-
tiOH in climate and resources between
the extremes experienced in the lowest
and highest attitudes. and one of these
quented and adorned as the far-famed
table lands of England. The climate of
the two places is similar. Southern peo-
pie have known of the attractions here
for centuries; Northern people are just
beginning to discover them and are buy
ing lands and erecting homes and devel-
opiug farms on them. Hotels are spring
ing up to accommodate transient guests
for summer and winter, dairy farms and
vegetable gardens are being developed
each year, and within few years this
industry alone will exceed in extent and
profit the fruit industry of the entire
State of South Carolina. Of course the
most important industry of this section
is textile manufacturing, but as other
possibilities exist, prefer to dwell upon
these rather than upon facts already
pretty well understood.
There are numerous towns and viii
lagos of this section, some as old as the
Revolutionary war, but young in energy,
power and spirit; Others not over ten
years old with a population exceeding
1000 and bank deposits of over 500, 600,
with mum erous other evidences of thrift
and abundant prosperity. In passing
one such town you may look from the
car window and count four cotton mills,
representing an investment of $500, 900,
in which more than 5000 people are en-
ployed. In or near the towns are large
dairy farms, some employing as many as
100 head of registered Jerseys, from
which the annual sales of butter and
milk exceed $25,OOO. The manure from
these dairy farms keeps the lands fertile
and large crops. AS much as 40 bushels
OF corn and one bale of cotton, to the
acre, are harvested.
Among the towns, which through it's
enterprise and pride may be singled out
as quite representative of all other mu-
inequalities of this section, Seneca, which
contains two first class hotels, two banks,
an oil mill, cotton factory and thirty
mercantile establishments, may be mon
toned.
Seneca is beautiful little city-cheer-
full, thriving and thoroughly alive. 1t is
not often that one sees place that COM
mends itself 30 favorably and pleasantly
to stranger at first glance as this does,
with its clean homes of white and gray,
its cleanly streets and paved sidewalks
of bright tile. The Streets are broad and
free Of trash, and the stores extremely
we'll kept, the private homes and
churches remarkable for their neatness
and style. The inventiveness and happy
fancy worked out in the varying styles of
these structures is indcitve of the
talent and taste that formed the town of
Seneca and of the people who inbabit it
to-day.
And the disposition to ornament and
beautify these villages and make them
attractive leads to the culture of trees
and flowers, and the laying out of we'll
kept gardens, the sight of which to
those passing on the trains or walking
the streets is inexpressibly refreshing
and agreeable. In all of the means of
rendering towns attractive Seneca's
work has been limited only in the amount
of money necessary to extend it and de-
velop it to the fullest extent, which it is
the hope of the people to do at the
earliest possible moment
The development of the commercial,
manufacturing and banking interests of
Seneca has been always encouraging
The people welcome 1.-THE boom periods.
believing them necessary to enlist the
active support and assistance of some
people who can be secured in no other
way. But Seneca has never been hurt
by boom, if, indeed, any town has: it
usually occurring that not the town, but
only few of the people are the losers
by the tiuctuation Of values.
If what is meant by boom is that
there is much building and rapid changes
OF real estate holdings, then Seneca is on
boom to-day for within the last few
weeks the Citizens Bank has completed
a most substantial and costly brick
home, trimmed in stone, with a fine
opera house overhead, seating 800 people
or more.
Tho Oconce Inn is also new three
story brick building, which contains 80
sleeping rooms, an Office, dining room,
dance hall, three large parlors and about