Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-05-02
LANDS ON "NusBIM RIDGE
Nov Worth $50 per Acre-Tract Given "To
Boot" IN Horse Trade Worth S54 per Acre.
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Wa!hall2, April 1S.-PorhapS In no
other county In South ,Carolina has there
been larger increase in value of real
estate of all kinds than there has been in
Oconee during the last five years. While
the value of real estate has been increas.
ing for several years it has been only
within the last two or three years that
property has been bought and sold for
prices that only few years back would
have been considered marvellous. In all
the towns of the county the prices of
houses and lots have been spoken of az
almost prohibitory, but in all these in
stances the purchaser has been able at all
times to sell at an advance If he 80 de-
sired,
What is true of town property is
equally true of farms and forests
throughout the entire county. The high
price of cotton, better farming methods
and general prosperity Of the people
have made the farms more desirable.
Another thing that has caused farm
lands in many sections to advance is the
coming of farmers from Anderson, Alb
beville and other counties. They sold
their farms for good prices and came up
here, bought just as good farming lands
for about one-third as much as they sold
theirs there for and now have just as
good lands, crops and homes as they had
formerly. They brought improved
farming methods and when they began
to use them their neighbors have not
been slow to join the prosperous process
sion.
The general scarcity of and great de-
mand for timber has caused the lands in
all our mountainous sections to become
more valuable. Many mon are to day
selling their timber off of their land for
sum per acre that would have been con.
ssidered, five years ago, many times the
value of the land. This applies to good
strong farming lands and not to bare
mountain peaks.
In the lower sections of Oconee-Fair
Play, South Union, Oakway, Tokeena
and other sections-land is considered
very cheap at S20 per acre. And much
of this section, which was formerly
called "Nubbin RIDGE" is now worth $50
per acre. Recently one man sold his
farm near Tokeena for $54 per acre. This
is part of very large tract that was
given, just before the war, "to boot" in a
horse swap.
In the South Union section, where the
price is from 500 to $50 per acre to-day,
1000 acres were once given in exchange
for one dozen gun locks, valued at S5
each. Recently valuable farm in the
Richland community was sold for 200
per cent more than the purchase price
five years ago.
Ten miles north of here, near Salem,
is farm that has been sold several times
within the past five years. The latest
purchaser gave more than twice as much
for it as the original purchaser who gave
what was then considered good price.
In short, from all sections are exam
pies to show the true rise in the value of
lands. What is true at Oakway and
Salem applies equally as we'll to Double
Springs and Long Creek. There are nu-
merous instances in Walhalla where
property has advanced from 80 to 200
per cent within the last five years.
For years there was but little growth
here, but for some years the growth has
been regular and rapid and no man owns
land here now that he cannot dispose of
for good price. 1t is also true, along
with increased value of real estate and
general prosperity, that the county has
grown in morality and sobriety. The
water is good, the climate unsurpassed,
the citizens are law.abiding, the soil is
productive. Oconee is the garden spot
and Walhalla "the haven of rest"
For bloating, belching, indigestion,
etc., eat Rings Dyspepsia Tablet after