The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-07-12
Wednesday, July 12, 1905.
AN OBJECT LESSON DRAWN FROM
THE OIL. MILL.

tu'H Se'Soh Apuo loDS ot Se"N, aDu |
paid out for seed $l5,7V3 81. The
average price pa'd tor seed to our
farmers tho past season is little
or"r 7Sc per hundred. 1t has paid
"u! toI wages, fuel and other expenses
i,&,2 81. 1t has paid out in all for
r..... iuol, lah Dor, etc, among our
:. vie the sum Of 1855 II for tue
s' season, besides furnishing our
..' rs mcal and hulla at mill prices
,r \ as meal to go into their gu.
as, ',( low prices
= easy to sec that it is of great
u".rl:I 20 every citizen ia the whole
tnr'u.waing country. Tho mill has
,n;'"'anod the very his hest market
pr'vo possible. OH has been ns low
rs lGc per gallon this scuSon yet the
ni:i :'as paid an average price of 7Sc
per !iuu,irud for seed.
HcEore the mill was built tho far.
meas had TO pay much higher in pro.
portion for meal and hulls and had
I" ako much loss fm seed because
those milling seed at that time had
to freight the seed away to some
othet point ond freight tho meal aud
hul!s back, or haul seed to Easloy
and Liberty, and it all went to 70
dute tho price of seed on tho farm
or's wagons
In 1898 seed sold hore fer 35 and
4U cents per hundred In 1899
when Sc q went up to GO and 65
cents it produced a wild furry and
the streets Of Pickens were lined in
every direction with wagons loaded
with seed. vet Tho past season the
average price psid hy the PicLcns
Oil Mill is 78 cents.
Such enterprises are not only
convenience to everybody but is of
financial benefit to each and every
one whether he he stockho!der or
not, because if properly managed it
will maintain the very best market
for seed, meal, hulls, wood, labor,
otc aud will tend to increase tho
value OF every square rod of real es
tate within the circle of it's Influence.
Cor mill IN tkcs the very best ar
tic''. # mAal mndo anywhere, and
un der the management of Mr.. J. II
Bro"", who has been re- elected man
ur'r for another season, this mill will
g good paying Investment.
l.o location Of oil and cotton
to.ls and other public enterprises ia
ono Of the chief means Of making a
country rich. A country that manu.
tactures its raw material into fin.
lsbed products rcndy for use and
sells these products in foreign mar.
tets AMI brings money from every
quarter to pay for the now material
IA the labor needed and legiti
"":,t" profit upon the capital invested
'ri,lctes a beautiful circle of econ
y, and balances labor and trade in
"A way as to produce a refresh
circulation OF money the year
I. A regular circulation of
the year round ls much moro
inl to the growing wealth of
"y than Hoods and draughts in t
rcnlating medium. {
W" had factories to put all the t
..'i 1hat 10 shipped by the Pick, II
ia'':oNd into cloth, it would &
-".; sAouaands and tens of ,hon. I,
- nds Of dollars into the country !;
@ch year. Money would be almost b
.. plentiful! in August as in Novem &
'."r, nd there WOULD be brisk md i
"|%hanstible market for farm pro. {
....a n'd vegetables to supply the t
h"yTers and business would DO nc
~" very day in The year. t
E.. We need million dollars to pron \
crly work up our raw material INTO {
finished forms, and that much money |
could be proftnbIy invested right O
now. ,
Let us welcome and help along ev e
cry enterprise, and pail long and n
strong for the materirl, mental and o
moral bettermcnt OF all our people -
and turn out to grass every one who I
'klcks out of the traces" or lios down 5
IN the plcw. !
Think what manufacturing enter. /
prises would mean to this town !
Look at The weekly payroll Amoney !
hat would be sDent in Pickano. Z