Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-05-20
YORK COUNTY PROGRESS
Much Building Going On On in all al Sec.
lions Of Prosperous Community.
TO Be REAL Big YEAR for BUILDING

Contractors and Carpenters Busy in
All the Principal Towns-Sisns Of
Progress in the Country Districts
Business While it Could be Better is
Good. = !,ir'.....'
Eleven cent cotton and more or
less general epidemic Of after-war
blues to the contrary notwithstanding,
things are looking up, throughout the
county Of York and unless present
signs prove false, at the end of 1921
people are going to look back on 1921
as a pretty progressive and prosper
Gus year after all. The county build
ing programme judging by that under
way at present and scheduled to begin !.
within the next month or six weeks Is
going to be the most extensive Of any
year in the past five perhaps. With
the biggest part Of the cotton crop Of
the county for 1920: still in the: hands
Of the producers, and the indications
that it is going to stay where it. is for
while at least business Is pretty
good, according to merchants in every
nook and corner of the county who
have been interviewed regarding it.
Discarding the opinion Of the other
fellow and what he has to say, one
who drops into the various towns of
the county every few days and has a
look for ones self doesn't have>to be
told that it is pretty good.
Little Cause to Complain.
The average merchant who hasn't
forgotten the good old days Of 1918.
1919 and early in 1920 when one didn't
haveeto hustle even a little bit for
trade and in fact had nothing to;do: ex-
cept rake in the shekels and cuss the
railroads and express companies and
Mr.. Burleson for: :slow deliveries, will
say perhaps that trade isn't much.
But talk to him a minute or two
and he'll tell you that he Is doing
pretty we'll under the circumstances
and that business could be a great deal
better but he really has no complaint.
And somehow you naturally kneW5it
But talking about building: IS:
Rock Hill, metropolis of the county,
is now engaged in the expenditureGof3
several hundred thousand dollars ifor
street improvements and :extensioR oRof
the water mains. 5.+W1inthrop-co coIeEe
over there is going to do quite a; biF.of
repair work this summer as usual';;al-
though there are to be no large build
ings added to the magnificent college
property. Recently contracts for seY-
eral handsome homes to be built: In
that city have been let and real estate
men talk Of others who are going to
build. They claim that they know JUST
what they are talking about because
they have already sold the lots on
which the new residences are to be
erected In addition to that various
business houses in the city have plans
for adding to the'r plants. Another
fine addition for Rock Hill before the
wear is out will be the completion Of "a
handsome theatre. a Building formerly
used as a newspaper office to be con-.
verted for that purpose, giving the
Good Town" facilities for handling all
the best road shows and other theatri-
cal attractions that come south
: Fort Mill.
Talk is Of new buildings over at Fort
Mill, extreme eastern York county
town WHARF the principal building
programme for the, year, however
will be in the nature Of an asphalt or
concrete street, perhaps a little paving
land a hard surface road from Catawba
river to Fort Mill, connecting that
town all the way with a hard surface
road. Quite a bit of painting-up and
remodellng generally Is now going on
in Fort Mill and there will be more, 1t
is said, as the summer comes on.
Yorkville.
Getting back to Yorkville, the county
seat and the center of the county
about, there is on foot building pro-
gramme that is going to have the efect
Of boosting local business wonderfully
while the FARMERS nolo ol ~ |iAS SoSsN
which they made on thirty cent basis
and for the sale Of which they are Of
fered Just about third of that price.
A new high school building is to be
erected that is to cost in the neighbor-
hood of s1O0, OOo-maybe little more.
A sew school building for. colored peo-
ple to cost more than $4,000 Is going
to be built this summer and in addition
to that a teacherage or home for the
superintendent Of the school, it is un-
derstood is either to be constructed
straightout or else some residence
will be bought and remodeled for the
purpose.
That isn't all. Work on municipal
building to cost around $4,000 COM
plete is already under way, located%on
a lot, adjoining the Carolina & North
Western railway. The Masons have
property on South Congress street that
they arc talking about converting into
Masonic hall and office building and
lust as soon as the spirit really moves
and they realize that more doing ana