Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-22
HERE AND THERE.

"D1Q you KNOW tIldt There lS d iSdu
mine on or near Crowder's Mountain
said a we'll known citizen who has
more or less familiarity with the his
tory and traditions Of that neigh6or-
hood, to Here and There a few days
ago. well there is a lead mine there
If not a lead mine, at least natural
deposit of lead, whether in vein or
pocket or lode. There is a well au-
thenticated tradition that the old time
negroes Of the neighborhood used to
get from the mountain or from the i'm
mediate vicinity, supplies Of lead which
they would mould into rifle bullets for
hunting purposes. When asked about
the4 matter by the whites the negroes
would declare that they dug the lead
out of the ground; but they would not
tell where. If pushed close, they
would claim that they did not know
themselves where the lead was, but
that some other far-away negro knew,
and that he would come occasionally
and get out a supply for sale to those
who used lead. It Is said that one ne
gro proposed to his master that he
thought he could locate the lead vein
or lode and would like to make the at
tempt II his master would agree to give
him freedom in case Of success. But
the IIldSlcT oSSiiuCo shS fAofS
and the source Of the lead supply was
not disclosed. So far as I know no
lead has been found there since the
close Of the civil war"
The sale of the James Bros farm
of about 65 acres, on the southern out
skirts of Yorkville, for around $3.50 an
acre. made a record for land transfers
In this section. In discussing the trans
action, some people have expressed
as saying that Mr.. Cameron
paid a rafting good price and others
say he got the land cheap. 2. w. Love
is among those who say that Cameron
got the best end of the bargain. Mr..
Love owns something over fifty acres
on the eastern outskirts Of town. He
bought it some ten or twelve years ago
for $50 or $40 an acre, and people SAID
then that he paid a good price. 1t has
not been q great while since he was Of
fered $40, 900 for the place, and he
only laughed at the offer as though II
were a Joke. This summer he cut eleV-
en- tons of hay off about five acres, or
less and sold it for $50 ton. On
those same five acres now there Is corn
that Is six and seven feet high, al
though it was only planted along ABOUT
the 4th Of July. Here and There was
on the place with Mr.. Love few days
ago. Cotton planted in rows hve
feet apart is more than six feet high,
with branches interlocking to such an
extent that it is impossible to tell from
the roadside which way the rows run.
Asked about the James-Cameron
Mr.. Love said: mo, Cam
eron did not pay too much. l bought
this little piece of land next to mine
over here two years ago for $500, and
made enough cotton on the first year
to pay for 1t. Take my little farm here.
/ can make two bales of cotton or a
hundred bushels of corn on every
acre of it. Five thousand bushels OF
corn these times would be worth $1O,-
900. A hundred bales Of cotton would
be worth $4,000, not counting the
seed. Why q man could give me $4Oo
an acre for this farm and make it pay
for itself in two years. would not
take $3.50 an acre for it. Cameron
ought to pay for the James in two
years easy and have something left
In connection with the recent resig-
nation Of P. w. Love as chief OF police,
is recalled to the memory of Here and
There an episode which Is characters
tic of the quality of the man and which
came very near marking a tragedy
that would have been an occasion Tor
sadness in certain homes to this day.
1t was in the fall Of 1903. Several
prominent young men had been cele-
brating q marriage or some other So
cial occasion, and still being In hu-
NOR for fun at a late hour in the night
thought to keep up the excitement a.
the expense Of their friend, the chief.
All of the men were among the chief's
close personal friends; but for the
time being they had lost some of their
discretion. Chief Love was arous
from his bed with a story to the effect
that a certain badly wanted criminal
was in a house on East Madison street,
near the A. r. P. church, and that then
was the time to arrest him. Out OF his
bed at the word and quickly into his
clothes the chief hurried to the scene
Another policeman was picked up
the way and let into the joke, on con-
dition that he keep the thing to him
self. AS the chief approached the
house some yards in advance of those
with him, there came out of the dark
ness q peremptory order to Throw up
YOUR hands!" The chiefs answer
came from his revolver in the shape or
a noise like "bam! bam!" The flash
es Of fire were straight In the direction
from which came the order, and from
the light of the flashes two well known
young white men were seen to go
down. Then the chief gave way and
all but burst into tears. He thought he
from the flashes he thought he HAD
had killed two young men, both OF
whom were among his closest friends.
But happily it turned out otherwise.
Neither of the men had been hit. They
had calculated that the chief, on real
ling that he was covered by an un-