Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-10-26


quoted on the local market at 10.15. :
catawba river, which has been un-
usually full all summer was UP to the
22 foot mark at Wright's ferry last
Tuesday.
The saw mill people are now cuf-
ting large quantities Of baby timber
timber that a few years ago would
have been rejected even for cord wood.
The probate judge Of this county has
funds under his CONTROL as guardian,
amounting to about $4,000. Practi-
cally all of this, however, Is loaned
out, !,
A few weeks ago the odds against
w. r. Hearst were three and four to
one.s Now the. gamblers. are generally.
putting up even money. The chances
of Hearst's election to the governor
ship SEEM to be very good. .safis !,
II lie not likely, that a great many
new cases Will be entered on jury caIl-
endar for the approaching term OF the
court of common pleas. The calendar
is already overloaded, and 1t will be
quite a long time before the new cases
are reached.
According to q bulletin issued yes
terday by the census bureau, there has
been ginned up to October IS, 4,s1o,29o
bales of cotton against 4,990,b66 bales
up to the same date last year This
report was regarded as bearish and the
effect Of it was to depress, the price
of cotton about so points. 80, 80, . ~ T.
The Charlotte Observer, complains
that men; and boys are shooting pare
tridges In Mecklenburg county in viol
lation Of the law. They claim to zbs.
after rabbits and squirrels. but are IN
reality after partridges. aItstis 3ooni-
monty reported that the, same thingifs
going on in this county and there are
number,of sportsmen who are very
anxious to convict some yiolator OF
the law, The open season for par
tridges does not commence until MOI
vember 15. "" r'.s,3. :, i3'..; 7
|. As a result of his trip to Texas last
winter, Mr.. W.sB. Keller Of Yorkville
No. i, has adopted the Texas method
of cotton picking. In this section, as
everybody knows, the picker makes use
of small sack in which to, put the
cotton as 1t comes from the bolls, and
as the sack Is filled 1t Is emptied into
hampers. The sack Is carried on the
shoulders. The Texas equipment con-
sists Of a canvas sack. about two feet
In diameter and seven or eight feet
long, The picker attachesra sack 10 lpies
shoulders by means of straps as In the
case of the smaller sacks; but he does
not pretend to be burdened with the
increasing load Of cotton ~
the sack. Instead the sack Is dragged
along the row until 1t has been FL Jed
when the contents are weighed to-
gether with the sack. The sack holds,
when full, forty or fifty pounds of cot
ton. -, '.,i
The Anderson Chamber Of Com
lherce has been, investigating COM
plaints of farmers to the effect that the
local mills have not been paying full
value for cotton offered on that mark
ct. 1t has been charged that the mills
were in combine in restraint Of COM
petition and, that the farmers had to
take what they were offered. The naill
people all denied knowledge ofsor con-
nection with a combine of. any kiHd;
but explained that they had adopted a
plan of buying cotton at an average
price regardless Of grade: that Instead
of paying the top Of the market for
the best cotton and the bottom for the
poorest, they were accustomed to pay
the same price for all medium grades.
This plan the mill people claim has
proved more satisfactory to themselves
and about as advantageous to the far
mers. AS the outcome of the investi-
cation the Chamber Of Commerce
adopted resolution asking the mill
people to return to the custom Of buy
ing cotton on its merits.