Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-03-27
IHE ADVANCE OF The TOWNS.
EXTRAORDINARY IMPROVEMENTS NOW IN
PROGRESS THROUGHOUT THE STATE.

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nary improvements now in progress
in at least a score of the larger towns
of Soul Carolina.
A decade ago sewerage systems,
for instance, were almost unknown in
the Palmetto State, while paved
streets were only dreamed of. Not
even the most casual newspaper
reader Gan have failed to observe the
change which has come, and which is
still in progress-the vast develop.
ment which is at last fully under way.
Within the last fortnight, for ex-
ample, it has been the pleasure of
The News and Courier to announce
half a dozen municipal enterprises
which ten years ago would have been
deemed absolutely incapable of ao-
complishment. Every section of the
State is represented in this forward
movement.
Away up in the Piedmont, Ander-
son has voted the sum of $4,000 for
the work of improving the streets.
In the heart of South Carolina,
Orangeburg has begun the construc-
ton of q sewerage system, the cost of
which is to be $4,000, the money
being already in hand.
Camden has, by N overwhelming
vote, authorized the issuance of $780,
600 worth of bonds for the laying Of
a sewerage system.
In the Pee. Dee, Florence is en-
gagged in the erection of a splendid
graded school building, which is to
cost $4,000.
Bennettsville is soon to vote on
the question of issuing 100000 worth
of bonds for city improvements.
Sumter has recently held or will
shortly hold an election for a similar
purpose.
The Bishopville Light and Power
Company has accepted the PROPOSE
ton of the town council to purchase
it's electrical system, and the plant
will be transferred for 100000.
Passing to the extreme western
part of the State, we find Aiken plan.
ming the erection of a ssnitarium,
which is to be superbly equipped,
with accommodations for 500 patients.
The company has already been
formed and plans are being COM
pleted.
Theee are all current matters. The
list is doubtless incomplete, being
compiled from memory. No note is
taken of advances where the work is
already finished. Such a list as that
would be long indeed.
The significance of all this will ap-
pear more clearly when it is remem.
bered that it is only within the last
half dozen years that Columbia has
installed a sewerage system and that
a dozen years ago the principal
streeto the capital city was ~unpaved.
What town of consequence is there in
South Carolina to-day that has left
unpaved its business sectionY What
town of consequence which has not
a system of water works?
Many of them, like Georgetown
and Darlington, have, in addition to
these other improvements, already
completed splendid sewerage systems.
Most of those which have not are
even now ~agitating the question.
Nothing could be more gratifying,
nothing more encouraging. l, indi-
Gates the progress of South Carolina,
as nothing else could dc. The cree
ton of manufacturing enterprises,
the improvement of farm lands, the
development of water powers, and
all matters of this character are good.
But those who put their money into
things of this sort ere looking first of
all to their W personal betterment.
Not 80 with the municipal improve
ments of the kind we have referred
to-. These will be shared by rich
and poor alike. Good streets, good
water and sewerage accrue to the
advantage of all. 1t is work for the
common good.