Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-04
Scraps and facts.

feet, exclusive Of boiler room and the
transformer house. The transformer
house is 15x20 feet, the boiler room for
the heating plant, 35x35, and the pick
er room 25x100 feet. Electricity will
be the motive power and thirteen mo-
tors of different sizes are stationed
throughout the building to give an in
dependent power tC each division Of
the machinery. The mill will also be
lighted with arc lights as is the Low
ell mill, Lowell, N. c.. This plant has
5000 spindles, and when the new mill
is completed the town Of Lowell will
have a total of $4,000 spindles. The
new Peerless mill Is surrounded by a
row of neat cottages for the opera
tives. The officers are: John c. Ran
kin, president, and S. NJ. Robinson,
secretary and treasurer.
BY substituting gas for coke for
heating its blast furnaces, the United
States Steel corporation figures that
it will be able to make a big saving
in the cost of producing pig iron.
Heretofore the tremendous heat nee
essary for the making Of pig iron has
been brought about by the use of coal
and coke with the assistance of forced
drafts. The burning Of this coal gave
off vast quantities of fuel gas which
the iron makers were unable to utilize
and 1t therefore was considered dead
loss. Now however, inventors have
uhinh nonRaS
its own gas from the coal and coke
fed to an auxiliary furnace. This gas
can be made in quantities sufficient to
furnish the necessary heat for the blast
furnaces for the pig iron making. One
of the advantages of the gas blast
furnace over the furnace using the
raw coal will be the reduction Of the
amount Of coal smoke that has always
been a source of much annoyance and
discomfort in the vicinity Of the
furnaces.
According to official figures, since
the reclamation law was enacted by
congress in 1902, eight towns have
been built and 10000 people have set
tied on what were desert lands. To
prepare the way for these settlers 100
miles Of branch railways have been
built, 1857 miles of canals have been
dug, many of which carry whole riv-
ers, and forty-seven tunnels have been
excavated. 1t is estimated that the
territory embraced in what Is known
as the arid regions Of the United
nf
which about 6O,OO0,0O0 acres are sub
ject to irrigation, which, when prop
erly supplied with water, can be con-
verted into farms fully as productive
as lands in the most favored sections.
A bill was introduced in congress at
the last session for the purpose of re-
claiming overflowed and swamp lands
in Arkansas, Indiana, Minnesota, Wis
consin, New Jersey, North Carolina,
South Carolina and other states, and
those back of it say that 1t will be
pushed" at the next session. The
member who offered this measure
roughly estimates the amount Of over
flow and swamp lands to be reclaim
ed at 50,000,000 acres, the reclamation
OF which would increase the land value
more than s5,O0O,OOO,OOO, the annual
crop value $500, 100000, and if sub
divided into forty-acre farms, would
supply 100000 families with homes
and put 100000 people on lands now
practically worthless.
Charlotte n. c., June /: An i'm
portant civil action in which the Four
C's company brought suit against the
Southern Power company, ten mil
lion dollar electrical development con-
Germ, for title to certain water rights
near Mount Island, N. c., was decided
in favor Of the first named concern at
Dallas this afternoon. About one
hundred thousand dollars is involved.
The case, briefly stated, is that the old
Catawba Power company, now con-
trolled by the Southern Power COM
pany, bought certain river rights, part
of which 1t is alleged the Catawba
company later discovered had been
purchased by the Four C's company or
was alleged to have been purchased.
The Four C's brought suit to clear and
prove title to this area along both
sides Of the river, and on the possess
sion of which the development of some
eight to ten thousand horse power de-
pended. The Four C's of Charlotte,
having won out, will be able to COM
pete with the Southern Power COM
pany, in this locality, as the tracts thus
secured will materially cripple the de-
velopment by the Southern Power
company OF a fine power site imme-
diately below. An appeal will most
likely be taken.
New Orleans, La, May 81: Secre-
tary Hester's New Orleans cotton
statement, issued today, shows the
total for May to be 412,954 bales,
against 501,911 last year. The move
ment from September l to May 81, in
elusive, shows receipts at all United
States ports 9,640,900 bales, against
7,4S9,154 last year; overland across the
Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers
to northern mills and Canada, 1,146, ,46S
bales, against 926,629 last year; south
ern mills takings, exclusive Of guam
tity consumed at southern outports,
2,061,000 bales, against 1,940,351 last
year, and interior stocks in excess Of
those held at the commencement Of
the season 16S,93S bales, against 1885,
asa last year. These make the total
movement of the cotton crop brought
into sight during the nine months end
ing close Of May 13,017,306 bales.
against 10,511,5SS last year Foreign
exports for the nine months of the
season have been S,029,1S9 bales,
showing an increase over last season
of 2,0S9,592 Stocks at the seaboard
and the twenty nine leading southern
interior markets on May 13 were
764.260 bales, against 1921 the same
date last year. Including port and in
terror town stocks left over from the
previous season and the number of
bales of the current crop brought into
sight during the nine months the sup
ply has been 13.3l5.076, against 1885,
119 last year.
The international cotton congress
held at Vienna last week, came to an
end on May 90. The attitude of the
congress from the standpoint of Amer
lea was, upon the whole. favorable.
The most important thing the congress
did was to reach an understanding as
To how cotton would be ginned, baled
and delivered. An interesting feat
ure was the fact that both growers and
spinners were united in opposition to
speculation in cotton futures, and in
this connection a resolution was pass
cd in faVnr Of the cp.1OnrpSSiOn pf the