Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-31
MANUFACTURING Opportunities.

II there Is any disposition or human
nature more common than that which
manifests itself in a constant longing
for the possession of profitable en-
ployment in useful business, we would
be at loss to specify what 1t Is.
With so many idle or comparatively
idle people all around US, most OF
them ostensib1y hunting something to
do and with so much idle, capital that
Is apparently but little better off, this
looks like a rather strange PROPOSE
ton: but nevertheless 1t is absolute
ly true.
There are some people who. are idle
from desire and who would not work
at anything useful If they can help
1t: but they are the exception rather
than the rule The average man,
whether he be employed or not, is
seldom free from a desire to occupy
position Of usefulness among his fell
lows
The principal reason why there are
so many idle people is because they
do not know how to do anything use
full, and the principal reason why
there is so much idle capital is be-
cause the people who hold 1t are un-
able to put it to work with reasonable
assurance Of safety and profit.
No one in this country would have
the hardihood to claim that there Is
anybody idle for the reason that they
can find nothing to do, or that capital
is idle for the reason that there are no
opportunities for investment.
We would not be understood as try
ing to direct the energy or attention
of either class Of people we have men
toned. There have always been such
people and such people will always be.
We do not think that we could say
anything that would be likely to in
fiuence them great deal, and besides
we do not consider them as calculated
to be Of much use to the situation
we have in mind.
What we started out to say is that
come what may hard times or good
whole union that has more promise in
store for it than this section of which
York county is the centre, and the de-
velopments of the next five, ten or
twenty years are likely to be some
thing beyond any reasonable dream of
the present.
We do not desire to be understood
as indulging in empty flights of i'm
agination: but if we had positive in
formation that this whole county were
underlaid with as plentiful a supply
of gold as is to be found in the KlOn-
dixie, or with diamonds as numerous
as they are in the Kimberly district,
We would not have more conprehen
sive data by which to read the pros
perlty of the future than is now in
existence.
1t is nothing new that we are try
ing to give. We merely have in mind
the completed work of the Catawba
and Southern Power companies, with
out. taking into consideration further
developments now in progress or those
under consideration.
What man of reasonable intelli-
gence and information has ever con-
templated the water powers of Broad
OF Catawba river without picturing in
his minds eye the tremendous indus
tries that would one day be OCCASION
ed by either? We refer now even to
IL hn liSnnN.ArtE .f
the possibility of transmitting pow
er by means of electricity, and of
course, the picture not only had to be
limited to the immediate vicinity Of
the falls under consideration, but the
period of probable realization had to
be placed sufficiently remote in the
future to leave opportunity for such
development as would have to take
place in the meantime.
But see what we now have-mOre
Of this power than we are ready to
use already available and a guarantee
of having ii doubled and quadrupled
before we have fairly commenced to
take up the supply. In the past, wa
terfalls of considerable volume have
always become of great value as soon
as they were approached by transpor-
tation facilities. Why? Because it
was known that their power was a
certain basis of industry. The discov-
cry of coal fields has always been TAX
en- to mark the scene of future indus
trial activity, the remoteness Of the