Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-21
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Getting A Glimpse Of York, CASTOR
And MeCkIenbufg. iH,if
YORK COUNTY COTTON THE BEST
Inside Information Intended to Inter-
est Readers of The Enquirer-How
CASTOR Is Coming to York.
Looking at 1t along the roadside
from a Ford while en- route to Char
lotte, the other afternoon with Mr..
Wistar b. Keller Of Yorkville No. 1,
IL appears that the cotton crop on the
York county side is much more iruit-
full than the crop in CASTOR and Neck
Ienburg counties, although there is a
lot of good cotton to be seen in both
CASTOR and Mecklenburg. The stalks
in the York county fields however, APP,
pear to contain more bolls and the
bolls of cotton. look little longer and
winter. CASTOR and Mecklerburg
counties, according to several farmers
! who were asked about it didn't have
the seasons that they needed, and
therefore they are not going to make
the crop they would like to make al
though they are going to make a
better crop than they thought for be-
fore they started picking. The Gas.
tonia cotton market and the Charlotte
markets are holding their own with
these down this way this year as
usual, and since cotton went to 80
cents pound lot of cotton has been
sold on both markets; but glimpses OF
outhouses and back yards of CASTOR
and Mecklenburg county farmhouses'
beside the road afforded by a Ford
every once in a while, showed many
bales of this years crop in storage
against the time when cotton might
be bringing 40 cents or 46s. cents or
50. cents pound. Farmers up that
way have devoted good sized acre.
age to corn this year and they are
gathering fair crop. The river bot
toms are turning out pretty well.
Construction work on the several
mills being erected on the Castor side
of the line between PleasantN Ridge
and Gastonia-South Gastonia, they
call It now. Is progressing very rapid
ly, all. things considered: " There is
some labor shortage despite the fact
that they are paying good negro labor77
ers and trihing negro laborers from
So to "a day, Still there is a suf-
ficiency of labor to keep things q
humming, and Gastonia people &ay
that ,sgee; II . s. 81 RsRS sags I; I M IS: s:..
new additions to the mill metropolis
|of the south will be doing their full
duty, provided the mill owners and the
mill workers can agree as to how
much money each should make, At
the same time that the mills along
this road are going up, comfortable
houses for the use of the workers
are going up too, and it is being seen
to- that construction work on the
houses keeps right up with construc-
ton work on the mills. Incidentally,
Camp Greene or rather a part of 1t
is being transferred from Charlotte to
South Gastonia. There is scarcity
of lumber in this country just as there
Is q scarcity of everything except
strikes and the mill magnates Of Cas-
ton county have purchased number
of mess halls, office buildings and
other lumber structures at Camp
Greene, where soldiers formerly ate
slum and what-nots. and shipped the
timber to Gastonia, to be used in the
building of the new cotton mills. Gas
tonia always did want Camp Greene,
like the progressive city she is, and
now she has got it.
Farmers residing on the Yorkville-
Gastonia road from Bowling Green on
haven't the slightest idea what their
lands lying along that road are worth
now since mills are springtng UP IN
night. The talk in Gastonia Is, that
there are other mills yet to be built
in South Gastonia all the way .iown
to the South Carolina line perhaps and
farmers who own lands along that way
Just simply don't know where they are.
Some of them, it is said, are
afraid to name any kind of price for
their land If it's anywhere In the vi
cinity of the Carolina G. North West
ern Railway. A Gastonia man who
bought some lands south of Gastonia
few years ago when conditions were
under normal, and it looked like every
thing was going to goodness knows
where, sold out short time ago for
$500 an acre-land away out of Cas-
tonia. He heard rumors that other
mills were going up down that way
and then he wished he hadn't shot off
his mouth and he tried to rue back.
There was nothing doing because the
mill man to whom he sold handed him
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