The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-07-31
Boundary Line Between Kershaw
and Lancaster Counties

ing report of Mr. T. M. Belk, sur
veyor. to the Supervisor of Lancaster
connty as to the boundary line be-
tween the counties OF Lancaster and
Kershaw:
Having been called upon to ex-
anime all evidence as to the true To-
cation OF the County Line between
port whether the last line. Wilson
survey. Is correct, and. II, not, to give
facts as to why 1t Is not correct.
Therefore. 1 hand in the following
report. after surveying in part all
the lines from Hammond's spring to
Lynches river.
There being little dispute between
the Russell Place and Catawba river,
I did not go farther west than Ham,
mond's spring. Mr.. p. T. Twitty
says he dug out and made a spring
here since the war. but does not
know whether or not there ever was
an old spring here. Whether or not
this is the old spring place. called
for in 1920, is very doubtful as the
main spring for the Hammond house
was south Of the house and not north.
however. this Is the spring called for
in the ActSof 1892 and called for ic
the Haile-Ragsdale-McI survey.
under which the Act was presumably
based.
Here found coming from Russell
place, the Wilson-Dwight-Colc
trial line struck 22S feet to the west
OF (north of the new corner they
established (75 feet south OF Ham
mond spring. and indicated change
OF the needle OF over one and six
tenths degrees ~ strike their new
corner instead OF one and one
twelfth degrees as In their report.
II they run north "A east. accord ng
to the Act. this will give \. IS 6-10
degrees T.. insteadof n. 10 11-12 de-
grees as called for in their report.
The next line from Hammond's
spring the Act calls for n. As E. and
the Wilson survey calls for exactly
the same degree. Had they made the
same mistake with this line as they
did with the trial line, just mentined
between two known corners Of the
Ragsdale McIlwain Halle survey.
they would have struck the Salisbury
road about $50 yards south OF the
point they located as a new corner
GEO feet south Of creek.)
As a matter OF fact, they struck
the Salisbury road 14O to $50 feet
N. or the Stone corner placed there
by the Haile-McIlw ain -Ragsdale sur
vey. This place was pointed out to
me by three men who were with the
Haile-McIlwain-Ra Ragsdle survey and
these three men, j. s. l.. Barton, AL
bert Bailey and S. c. Gardner. could
not be mistaken as IL was just south
OF a large oak and at the intersection
Of. or just south of small road
Leading out westward. Their state
ment OF this corner is also corro-
borated by DR. Mcdowell OF Kershaw.
who also was present at time of
survey. ------- -----~ -. -
From the corner near Hanging
Rock creek. they measured around
q ms" road :iia: circles d Hill Iii stea'i
of measuring straight up a hill. as
Mr.. Barton says Halle McIlwain-
Ragsdale did. I measured both dis
tances and found IL 45 feet farther
rkound the hill.
Then. measuring down the Sails
bury road, the Wilson Survey"
placed a corner COS feet short of the
stone corner OF the interchangeable
McIlwain survey-that is. father
north. This stone corner was point
ed out to me by MIR. ]. S. l.. Barton.
who was with the Haile-Ragsdale-
McIlwain survey, as stated above.
Mr. Archey Vincent also pointed out
this same stone corner as shown him
by C.. II. Ragsdale. one OF the before
mentioned surveyors. who started at
this same stone corner In locating
which county a man was killed-this
being not long after the Haile-Mc-
interchangeable survey. Others
pointed out this same stone corner
to me as beinbg told 1t was the
Observation-Disclosures corner. The
location OF this stone. under a cedar,
and there being no large walnut
north the one near this place, to-
gether with the positive statement OF
Mr. Barton tha this was the corner
that c. c. Halle, Surveyor, showed II
to the others the day or survey. and
that they began here and measured
northward to locate the corner near
the creek and did locate II by the
measurements from this corner
whether correct measurements or
not.) makes this stone unQuestion-
ably the Haile-McIlwainR Ragsdale
corner OF 1892. Mr.; Neal Bennett
was also helping with the Haile-Mc-
Twain -Rassdale survey and states to
me that the stone corner OF the
Halle e-McIlwain- -Ragsdale corner was
under, or by. a cedar and not far
south Of large walnut, nearly oppo-
site. or but little north Of Bethel
church and away south Of new stone
OF Wilson Survey" Mr. Richard
Halle OF Columbia was laso present.
and, II necessary. others can testify
to this corner.
Distances cannot be counted in a
court of justice. against the known
fact OF a corner. aud. especially so.
when the three other lines from Ca
tawba river to Salisbury road re-
measured show over $50 yards gain
Of distance; and this gain on whole
distance Of lees than Is miles.
p Starting from this new corner OF
the Wilson Survey" eos feet north