Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-05-30

job here; but it seems that there Is
nothing doing
Mighty hungry, remarked the wo-
mani amt had nothing to eat since
this morning
"Well, gave 'em an order on loca
boarding house for something to eat
and a bed. guess they got out OF
town sometime Sunday morning, since
have heard nothing more of them.
"Gosh," concluded the man who told
Views and Interviews the story, -we
people whoN have plenty to eat and
jobs have a lot to be thankful for
haven't we?"
Seventh Wonder of the World.
II find the wholesale granite busi-
ness picking up wonderfully" sale
Thos. C. O'Farrell of Yorkville, yester-
day, telling of a business trip that he
made to the quarries of the Winnsboro
Granite company last Saturday
"rhe granite business has been rath-
'er dull for quite awhile" he contin-
ued; but following a reduction in the
quarry prices some weeks ago, there
has been a decided picking up. / found
that many workers had been added to
the force in the quarries and al
though there was wonderful activity
around there, Mr.. Hayward told me
that he was badly behind with his or
ders.
while at the quarry too, l picked
up a piece of information that is of
interest to quarrymen everywhere. 1t
has to do with the Roosevelt memorial
The plans for the memorial call for
one granite block that is to be 1Sx1Sx
20, or 2OX20XlS feet. do not remem-
Der which. AnyhowS it will weigh
something like 1,25O,OOO pounds and
will be the largest piece of granite that
has ever been quarried. In fact it will
rank with the seven wonders of the
world.
1.-The Winnsboro folks are very much
in quandary about this job. They
would like to have the contract; but
they are afraid to bid OF course they
could get out the block without diff
Guilty, and they could load it on car;
but there comes the trouble. The rail-
roads can't haul it over their trestles.
The trestlcs are not strong enough.
Think of putting 1,25O,OO0 pounds on a
car built for $4,000 pounds capacity.
And even if they had car of 1,25O,OOO
pounds capacity, what about the tres
ties? or course, if they could get the
block to Charleston it would, be all
right; but getting it to Charleston
there's the rub
Commenting or the road to the
quarries, Mr.. O'Farrell said it was not
good. He was able to make good time
down to BlaCkStOck; but the seventeen
miles from there to Winnsboro is pret-
ty rough. 20, yes, you can travel IT In
a Ford all right; but you've got to 60
slow, especially if it is wet, as was the
case last Saturday" he said.
Mill Men Looking South.
That textile magnates Of the East
realize that they can no longer COM
pete with the spinning mills of the
South in the manufacture of yarns and
are making plans to build their future
mills in the South, is the information
brought by John R. Hart, Esq, who
has returned from Northampton, Mass.
where he conferred with mill men
whom he represents as attorney in
York county. While in Massachusetts
with NJ. L. Smith, of Glover, general
manager for the Hawthorn Spinning
Mills of Glover. the stockholders OF
that mill decided to erect a 10000
spindle mill at Glover, construction
work to begin at once.
"The textile business is looking much
better in the opinion of Massachusetts
textile men and ,othcrs in the East
with whom l talked" said Mr.. Hart
yesterday. while they are not cN-
pecting boom times like 1919 and the
carly part of 1920, they are expecting
to see the textile business of the coun-
try to get back to normal.
"At the same time they are making
plans TO come South with their busi-
ness and | might say that l have rea-
son 20 believe that South Carolina
stands in d fair way to become the
home of numbers of big manufactm-
ing plants to be built with Eastcrr
capital.
There arc a number Of reasons why
spinning mills in Massachusetts can nt
longer compete with spinning mills il
South Carolina. One great trouble is
the 4S-hour law which is effective il
Massachusetts and which means great
ly curtailcd production.
Higher taxes in the East have alS'
had their influence in determining th'
purpose of Eastern textile men to lool
toward the South.
Mill men of the East see that th'
South is cXcCllinG them in competition
and there arc a number of reasons VIII!
the South has the advantage in spin
ming mills and consequently they arr
making arrangements to come South
The question of climate and tCmpera
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