The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-10-06
THE GREAT PROGRESS
OF LANCASTER COUNTY
County Has Advanced in
Every Way.
GREAT COTTON MILLS.
The Plant at the County Seat is
One of the Largest i'm
Operation.

Saturday, written by Mr.. Joseph X.
Connors, The States local CORES
pondent, tells a story of progress in
Lancaster county:
lit is said by business men of this
place and by others as we'll who have
carefully watched the growth and
development of the industrial life
and natural resources of the county
generally and of the town of Ian
caster in particular, that Lancaster
county during the last decade has
made wonderful and marked prog
ress in every single line of endeavor
and industrial activity, and that now
this county stands second to none
in the state in its we'll earned pros
perity and industrial achievements.
Recent reports from each of the
county's six banking institutions
show indisputable evidence of Lam
casters financial strength and pros
perity. The oldest of these is the
Bank of Lancaster, which has COM
pleted quarter century's service to
the people of this community and
the county.
/ Perhaps no one thing has per-
formed so great a part in forward
the development and growth of Ian
caster and the county at large as
.
cent cotton mills, which are located
on the east bank of Bear creek just
beyond the city limit. A million dol
lar annex to the already large mill
has lately been completed and with
all this in successful daily operation,
this town now boasts of the largest
cotton manufacturing plant in the
South, if not in the world The mill
operates 5000 looms and 100000
spindles
THE pretty and prosperous town
of Kershaw in the ruuthern portion
of the county has one Of the best
and most prosperous cotton mills of
recent construction in the state.
These mills furnish profitable en-
/ ployment to hundreds of the coun-
ty's population and play substan-
tal part in supplying the worlds
demand for cotton goods OF su
periOr grade.
NEED is FILLED.
"An urgent and long felt need
here for cotton oil mill was most
successfully filled several years ago
by the Lancaster Cotton Oil Com
pany, which at the present time,
Notwithstanding their terrible loss
about a year ago from the effects OF
one OF the largest nres even seen
in Lancaster when tneir whole plant
was swept away, having rebuilt
everything and in the most modern
manner, are doing a big business
and enjoying a season OF prosperity.
The Builders Supply Company, a
large lumber mill of this place,
successors to the Moore Lumber e.
Manufacturing plant, together with
a few other lumber concerns of the
county, deserve prominent mention
in the enumeration of Lancaster's s
successful industrial development.
During the past several years
from so TO IS mercantile establish
ments, practically all of which have
prospered. and are now satisfactorily
weathering the slump in business in
cident to European war troubles,
have been built here and in the
county. At this place what is known
as the Springs block on Main street,
consisting of IL or 15 stores, be
sides the Hotel Royal. at the corner,
is said by commercial travellers to be
one of the handsomest lines OF busi-
ness homes i'm the state. The town
has grown from only a few wooden
and poorly constructed stores, dur
ing the past 10 or 10 years, to 35
or more we'll built brick store rooms
of modern architecture and design.
IAN enterprise which has greatly
helped and pushed forward the town
and county's industrial development
and progress is The Lancaster News
one OF the most progressive and up
to-date newspapers in South Caro-
lina. Both Ly strong and persistcn:
editorial writing and otherwise The
News, formerly edited from it's be
ginning until his last sickness and
death by Charles T. Connors, but
now managed editorially by Miss
Juanita Wylie, has been wonderful-
: ly instrumental in shaping the in.
, dustrial development of Lancaster
and the county.
GOLD Is HtJND.
Lancaster county is abundaD:iy
rich in natural resources which. sc
3 far, have been but meagerly de
{ Veloped.
cone of the richest gold mines il
the country is the Halle gold min
in the southern part of Lancaster
county on Lynches creek, abou
t three miles east of the town of Ker
, shaw. The history of this mine
which covers more than 1900 acres
dates back to 1929, when gold wai
I first found in deposits in the small
l water course of the property. Th'
finding of this gold led to the find
ing of more and more, which tn
original owners worked by open
3 shallow cuts, milled in primitive de
j vices and in this way opened up
series of gold bearing stratas, whicl
in later years attracted the attention
of much capital which, from tim