Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-10-16
CAPITAL WELCOME.
Welcomes Northern Capital.
Takes Issue With Justice"
as to Value of Lands
Along Savannah.

Editor Advertiser As one of
the many victims of one of the
greatest outrages that has happened
in Edgefeld county since our fore
dads ran the Indians out, and took
forcible possession of the land, 1
want to express the hope that
Justice" or to be polite, perhaps
I should say Mrs. or Miss Justice,
will leave some of us off her list of
those who have been frightened in
to selling our valuable possessions
along Stevens Creek; that great wa.
ter power which has been of 80
much benefit in carrying our sur
plus soil, and drowned cattle TO the
ocean, ever since the war, the first
war / mean. do not see why Mrs.
or Miss Justice should have any
great fear of northern capital, when
most of us have virtually been liv-
ing on it Tor over forty years, anI
in addition to that we have been
begging them through paid agents
to bring their surplus capital down
south, and develop our vast natural
resources in order to build up, and
add to the wealth of our country.
No, Mr.. Editor, we were neither
fooled, frightened or oajoled by
the water power company, but went
into it with our eyes open, with a
hope that they would succeed in
their undertaking, because we be-
lieved it ito be long step in the
way of progress, that would rebound
to the common good. We need not
prste of valuable water powers,
when we well know that no indi-
yidual, or combination of individ-
uals in our section of country will
ever be able to utilize it, even for
irrigation purposes, without max
ing CONCESSIONS la order enlist
large aggregate ms Of scap apital. f tits
as true as some contcnd, thatmsny
of the states, which but a few years
back were a bowling wilderness,
are far in advance of us i'll the way
of progress, and general prosperity,
who but our own people endowed
with their phenomenal amount of
stand-stilllsm are to blame. With a
true dog in manger spirit, we have
guarded our hay until it has be-
come almost rotten.
Iown water front of nearly half
mile along Stevens Greek, but of
what benefit would it ever be to me
as a water power, unless l could
raise money enough to buy out The
claims OF every one on both sides
of the stream above me. AS to the
value of lands, the largest portion
of them are comparatively worth
less for farming purposes, and |
would not give one-ffth of what
the company has paid for them, if
/ had the money, and was anxious
to buy land, for q large portion on
ly serve as a bank to hold the stream
within its channel during low wa
ter.
Now, Mr.. Editor, I might go on,
and use quite number of argu-
ments, and point to many personal
illustrations, to prove the correct
ness of my assertions, but | do not
deem it at all necessary at present.
l may have more to say at some
future time, provided Mrs. or Miss
Justice will pardon my seeming i'm
patience this time. You know, Mr..
Editor, that Justice was always
represented as woman blind. fold
ed, but have seen pictures of her
with the bandage slipped from over
one eye, and watching out for one
side of the scale. But lest l cumber
up too much of your valuable space
l will dodge ut-of-danger.
&. w. MedlOck.
North Augusta, S. G..