Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-06-25

At the FeCent ScSSioh VI thC 6chSio
assembly new voting precinct was
created for this county, to be- known
as Aragon Cotton Mills.
The price of cotton Is advancing
slowly and the, price Of yarn is also
advancing, but a little slower. Mills
that were able to lay in good stocks
at the lowest prices of the season
have fair profit in coarse yarns at
present figures; but where the mills
have to take orders and go on the
market for their cotton, they are find
ing it difficult to break even.
While in YorkviIIe the other day,
DR.. ]. H. Saye Of Sharon, advised the
reporter that he was getting along
nicely with the bank and expected to
have 1t ready for the fall business;
but he was not so sure about the cot
ton seed oil mill. In fact, he was not
disposed to encourage the idea that
the oil mill would be gotten under way
this year at all.
Superintendent of Education Nc
Mackin, has decided that Yorkville is
the best place for the educational
rally to be held in York coun-
ty on Wednesday, August II. AS Mr..
McMackin sees 1t, Yorkville Is Of more
convenient access to the county gen.
orally. He is not inclined to favor the
picnic idea for the reason that while
a picnic might bring out larger
crowd, there would not be as great at
tention to the addresses to be deliv-
cred.
Mr.. c. J. Hughes, agent for the Far
mers' Cooperative Demonstration
work in this county, says that not
withstanding the unfavorable weather,
nearly all of the farmers who under
took to be co-operators or demonstra-
tors, are sticking squarely to govern
ment instructions and their crops are
generally satisfactory. Because too
much rain and the grass getting a
good start in consequence, some OF
the demonstrators and co-operators
have been compelled to plow little
deeper in cultivation than the agricul-
tural department has recommended;
but that has been unavoidable.
The elements of success in gold
mining are just about the same as in
any other business-capital, labor, ex-
perience, and persistence. The average
individual looks upon gold mining as
the king of get-rich-quick schemes.
That Is natural. The reason, probably,
is that gold is actual money, and there
is nothing to do with the finished pro-
duct Of the mine but to convert 1t into
such commodity or commodities as
may be desired. This is all very true;
but the fact that there Is such a vast
amount of work to do before the ac-
tual gold can be available, makes the
proposition rather more complicated
than appears to all except the initia-
ted. The fortunes that have from time
to time been picked up on the surface,
bear a relation of about one-hundredth
part of one per cent in value, to the
millions and billions of dollars worth
of gold that has been taken out of
the rocks and placers; but we have
heard a hundred times more about
these picked-up fortunes than We have
heard about all the rest. That Is why
gold mining appears to be so easy, or
at least one reason why. But II Is a
matter of fact, capable Of easy demon
stration, that taking the world over
from the earliest days in which gold
began to appeal to the desires Of man
down to the present, that 1t has cost
an expenditure from SO to 81 Of good,
hard earned money for every dollar of
gold that has ever been taken out of
the earth This is not intended to dis
courage gold seeking. We could not
discourage ii II we would, and we
would not discourage it If we could.
Gold seeking will go on and on in
the future just as 1t has gone on In
the past, with about the same general
results. This will be true Of the world
at large, and it will be true of this i'm
mediate section. And as We have re-
marked before, there is just as good a
chance for a big, rich strike in the
northwestern section of this county as
there is anywhere else in the world.