Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-04-15
ROCK Hill News; .BlpdlI'i
Former York County Man .! ;sfItltes
Conditions In Texas, +.
AGAINST PHONE INCREASE :..MM!'
Body of Frank Roach, Deceased Sol
! dier to be Buried Sunday Amer:
can Legion. Post Gains> Meubsf, s:as
Result of Driyo-Ncws Of the ~ oft-

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can Legion, Post Gains> Membsf AS
Result of Drive-Ncws Of the York
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Rock Hill. April 14-=Mr. Ed: F. Ay;;..,
cock of Midlothian Texas, has writ
ten Rock :, Hill business mama
mighty interesting letter.. telling r:of
present conditions In theissL Lone Star
State. Mr.. Aycock .whosia engagsdan, ),
business in Midlothian ia:, q former.
resident of, York county and 5iss j
brother of Messrs. John, ands Will! Az - Z
cock of Bethesda township and So ~.
Aycock of Bullocks Creek. -, -; !:
Business conditions are bad, but, [
thing 1 have seen them much worse
says Mr.. Aycock In. his letter .describ-.
ing life in Texas Because OF the fact
that many York county people shays
relatives and Z friends: and. acquain:
tances living In Texas and are an1totiS :
to know how they view the outlook,
the major part of Mr. Aycock's> letter
is here given: =, !. :, ~ =
Conditions here? are pretty bad, at
1.-THE present time, especially with the;
farmers. In 1919 it began raining In 7
the early fall and kept It up through
out the entire fall and winter keeping
the farmers out OF the field during the?
fall and early winter. There was
hardly any grain sown at all, .thfs cntlIj; cntlII;;
pelling the farmers. to put Ia E hrse /;
cotton crop in. 1s20:;.:.s, Labor wag
scarce and high, cotton chopping rum.
ming as high as $3.50 per day. The
high cost of labor. and every thing
else connected with farming, made the :
cost of producing, the; cotton crop
mighty .high-an: average sor about :1s
per pound to produce, gather. gin ahd.
put in bale, On account Of the, fate,5s
wet spring the first planting Of cotton
failed to come up and had TO be 're:,
planted. Planting seed being vefy:
scarce they had to pay, from 5000 to-
$4,000 per ton for seed taking edny
kind they could set This fgplaatltk5
made the crop from two t6' 'faut MsSHa3
hte the. larger part Of :ittopehiGs In,
the latter part of Oct gov. and Dee.
too late to getAt picked and pat :it on
the market when txfts Vas :soodss
|. TAsn } E. " Whsn i It heEsas ! a.sg agyas.
lsh enough to store and Hbrd it. belie3z:
ing it would go back tu s.4dt per pound; :
Much Of it is still being held;twith shsi
results that there is;y' hot One, farmet:
out Of ten that was abies:fo. pay; His.
last years debts, and ,5t; ;abbsea there !.
are very few that haYe anythins. TO-
start this years crop .oh.H$. :
There is quite. Ia it.dt Heed $aHdt
other supplies in the hands Sof the:
average farmer here. we Had a good:
corn crop, a good oats, EtopIE but3;s;as
very light wheat crop & The: averaA
of corn. was pretty .go6dE but Z. tn ! !
wheat and oats was shoH: There;sis
lots of cotton in the fields here nov.
We paid as high as ss.Db|per Hundred.
pounds for picking I'm the early fail
and are now giving half Ufsthe eottoh
for the picking. The cotton that's
being picked at this time: is bringing
.oa per pound in the sued, which As I:
equal to :os per pound in the lint II LOIS,
of this cotton could have been nicRed
and put on the market when II first
opened, it would have brought from
80 to s5 per pound in the. lint So
you can draw a pretty good: idea from
this what the Texas farmers have lost
selling cottonat this tine"for .oe per
pound that cost him 80 per pound to !;
make. There are lots of them tta4!will
not get out of debt in the, next five
years, unless they kick out, But; who
is to- blame?-In 1917. 1918 and 1919
the farmer made SO much money IN
this country he did not Know what to
do with it, and became one Of cttie
most extravagant and biggest spend
thrifts in the whole country. They hH
have their acknowledgement. the ones
that are working one of the crops on
the half and don't own a team have
their automobiles. ' -.
The making of another crop: Is go
ing to be quite problem here. Many
Of the farmers are badly In debt to
the banks and also the merchants. 4
am a stockholder in the First Nat.
lonal Bank, vice president and direts-'
tor and served last year ON the adss
visory board this putting nas. In pretty
close touch with the banking: condi!
TONS We took loss of about $780,.
100000 last year and we are carrying
over some mighty hard paper from
the past two years. We are ;loaning
money to farmers for actual farm
purposes and we are making the
landlord so on the note with the ten
ant. Crop and chattle mortgages are
proving very satisfactory with us and
we are not going to loan any more
| money on that kind of security. We
are not going to loan any farmer mon.'
ey to make a crop unless he, plants
enough corn and grain to make his
feed and bread. We are trying awful
hard to get the cotton crop cut one
half. We have the largest grain acre