Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-10-27


Sand and clay road surface costs
about one-fourth per mile what mac
adam surface costs and 1t Is worth
about four times as much.
The cold weather Is generally well
come. The farmers are ready for 1t,
and so are the business people.
Wheat and oats sowing is the i'm
portant business of the present time.
Many farmers are sowing and others
are preparing to SOW. There are still
others who, next summer Will wish
they had sowed.
The turning of the old Bowling
Green Knitting mill into cotton ware
house is proving a great convenience
to the farmers of the neighborhood.
They are able to store their cotton on
exactly the same terms that prevail
in the surrounding markets, and have
the advantage Of selling to whom
they please and when they please, with
assurance of getting the best compel
tive prices to be had and without
subjecting themselves or anybody
else to embarrassment.
We do not believe in the idea that
land will ever be much cheaper In
this country. We freely concede that
the advance of the past few years has
been caused by the advance in the
price of cotton, but we do not concede
that such a cause has had anything to
do with present values. The only
reason why prices have advanced is
because currency has been more plen-
tiful. But prices are not going down
again with scarcity Of money, un-
less there Is a good deal more indebt-
edness because of unpaid balances on
land purchases than we have reason to
think.
One duty in which each and every
neighborhood can unite to the adVan-
tage of all it's members is in improv-
ing the roads. Five years back there
were few neighbohoods in the county
that gave reasonably intelligent atten-
ton to it's roads. The rule was for
each man to get over the roads as best
he could and leave others to do like
wise. A stone or chunk could lie In
the roadway for weeks and months as a
stumbling block to passers by, not one
of which would think of getting down
to remove such an obstruction. But
1t is not that way now. There are
hundreds of travellers who do not hes
itate to kick such distractions out OF
the way, and there are many farmers
who take a personal pride in looking
after the roads in front of their homes.
Where formerly it was difficult mat
ter indeed, to get people interested in
a subject like this, now folks appear
to be almost of one mind.
The demonstration sand and clay
work done by D. H. Winslow, the gov
ernment road superintendent, on the
Adair's Ferry road about two miles
northwest Of Yorkville, holds up
as the best piece of construction OF
the kind in the county. This is the
opinion of Mr. A. L. Black, supervisor
of roads for York township. Speak
ing of the subject day or two ago
Mr.. Black said that on his demonstra-
ton section Mr.. Winslow did not use
quite as much sand as the chaingang
had been using or as 1t continued to
use at the point where Mr.. Winslow's
work left off. Mr.. Winslow said at the
time he put the work down 1t was
possible that he was not using quite
as much sand as was necessary; but
if more was needed it could be added.
1t has developed, however, says Mr..
Black, that Mr.. Winslow had 1t exact
ly right, and it is easy to tell where
the Winslow strip begins and where 1t
ends. But all the sand and clay work
done on this road, it is proper to say,
is holding up nicely.