Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-10-12

to hard work during the past week.
Whole families have been In the fields,
and several thousands bales have been
picked throughout York county.
There are no income tax returns In
York county There were a few the
first year Of the enactment Of the law,
but since then the matter Of returning
incomes has been neglected. The law
provides for a tax Of per cent on
the excess on incomes. over $4,000 a
year.
What the Seaboard or the South and
Western crowd is up to, we do not
know. We give 1t up. There Is a par
ty Of surveyors over at Spartanburg
and the people of that city are also
guessing. Not long ago 1t was given
out that the new line was to run from
Rutherfordton through Spartapburg
and tap the Seaboard at Carlisle, Un-
ion county. Now the story is that this
project has been abandoned and that
there is to be branch from Spartan
burg to Bostick, N. c. That the Spar
tanburg people are interested there is
no question; but as to whether they
know anything as to the plans of the
railroad people is doubtful.
The Enquirer has a pointer which
1t considers straight that the Seaboard
surveying corps will run another line
that will pass within mile Of the cor
porate limits Of Yorkville; but as to
which, If either line will be adopted
| will depend upon the cost Of construc-
ton. From such information as we
are able to gather from people famil-
lar with the topography Of the coun-
| try the route nearer Yorkville Is really
the better Of the two. But as we have
taken occasion to say before, we are
not pretending to speak with author
ity in this matter. We are only guess
ing in the light Of the best information
we are able to obtain.
Just a pointer or two to cotton buy
ers and merchants Of Yorkville. 1t
| is to the interest Of all concerned that
Yorkville market be held up to the
|
this market has not been averaging up
to any of the surrounding markets.
We do say that there is no good reason
why it should not so average up. 1t
is true that the cotton buyer is not
| in business for his health. Nobody
should expect anything Of the kind. 1t
| is true, though that II this market
does not hold up at least to the aver
age of surrounding markets, 1t will
handle less cotton than otherwise. 1t
is a fact also that the cotton buyers
are not the sole attraction to cotton
sellers. The merchants also cut some
figure in the situation. In selecting
market for their cotton, sellers also
take into consideration the market for
things they want to buy. The time
has been and not a great while back
when cotton that naturally belonged
on this market would go elsewhere on
account of the superior inducements
offered by the merchants in the way Of
large and attractive stock Of mer-
chandise, even though they might have
to take the same or little less for
their cotton. Now, this has been
changed. Than Yorkville there Is not
in the whole state a more attractive
general merchandise market. The cot
ton seller can buy here anything he
wants as cheap and as good as he can
get 1t elsewhere. But all the same he
has a right to expect as much for his
cotton here as he can get elsewhere
and he must have 1t. We hope that
there will be no just ground for COM
plant against Yorkville as a cotton
| market this season.