Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-08-09
YORKvILLE TO FORT MILL.

| Along the road from GorKVllle u
Flint Hill church, in upper Fort Mil
township, there are many things tt
attract the attention of the passer by
the most notable, perhaps, being the
crops and the roads
The road from Yorkville to TirZaf
is fair. There has been some work
done and what has been done ha:
been done in a way that shows de,
cided improvement over the roaC
working methods of a few years ago
From Tirzah station, on by TirZaf
church, the DR.. Glenn place and or
to the river bridge, there has been g
great deal of work and it has beer
done in a way that shows clearly thai
the township supervisor in charge ha:
| a good grasp on the principles o1
road making. 1t is not perfect. There
are some bad places, few and far be-
tween, but the greater portion OF this
stretch is in good shape for comfort
able travelling by buggy or automo-
| bile. Most of the road has beer
rounded to the center, drained on the
sides and some grading has been done
Taken as Il whole the road shows 9
great improvement as compared with
| two years ago, when it was little bet
ter than a farm driveway.
Across the Catawba in Fort Mill
considerable work has been done, buI
because of the long dry spell, the
dirt thrown into the roads is loose AND
does not show up quite so well as thai
done on this side. But with rains
and travel it bids fair to pack dowI
| and become a fairly good highway
There are Il few rough stretches be-
tween sections that have not beer
worked up to the meeting point, but
these will probably he reached later.
The cotton and corn crops all along
| the road, as a general thing, are not
| as good as they have been in years
past, but the situation is not entirely
| hopeless. The cotton is small and In
few places fields are noticed that
| have been given up to the grass, but
these are the exception. There are
many fields of cotton that are fine;
good stands, well grown and heavily
| fruited and their owners, apparently
have little grounds for grumbling
The cotton on this side of the river
| is larger in weed than most of that
to be seen in Fort Mill. 1t appears
| that the farmers across the river have
| had more wet weather, their grass
grew thicker and faster, but with very
| few exceptions the cotton along the
road is now clean, the grass has been
killed, and with favorable weather
| from now on the cotton may come
out considerably and make a fair
showing at picking time. The fight
against the grass in the cotton fields
over there has evidently been a siren
uuuS one.
All along the road there are great
| fields of corn. much more than ever
before, and while there is none of it
that has been cultivated as much as
| it would have been, if the weather
conditions had been better. there are
but few farmers who will fail to
make corn sufficient for their needs
and many of them will have sur
pluses.
Everywhere there are fields OF
peas. They are broadcasted and
Sowed in the corn, and drilled in
rows. There are some just coming
up and others in all stages of devel-
opment on up to two feet in height.
On one field in Fort Mill, of several
cut, raked up and were in cocks
thickly scattered all over the big
field and it was noticeable that the
pea pods were fully developed. al
though this particular field was cut
from two weeks to a month earlier
than it is customary to cut pcavine
hay.
Fort Mill township has been suf-
fering for rain. Up to Sunday after
noon it had not rained for nearly
three weeks. but it is believed that
they got good showers during Sun
day evening and night. From the
river to Yorkville there were show
ers in spots all along. A shower
would extend over 200 or 800 yards
and then a dry skip for short dis
tance and this continued all along the
way to TirZah and from there on the
rain came down plentifully and con-
tinued for two hours or more. From
the way the clouds hung and were
drifting, it is To be supposed that all
of Fort Mill township got good rains
Sunday evening and night.