The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-07-31
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MONDAY, JULY 81, 1922.

Published from day 10 day, can !
.our weeks We have had many sub
scribcrs To pay up in full, az is indi-
Gated by the five stars. Many others
have given assurance that they would
pay up within few days. 1t may
also be noted that we have secured
quite number of new subscriptions.
W" are not going to abate in zeal our
efforts until we reach $2O, 1000; and not
then, until the last dollar is paid in.
We are now operating and have run a
portion Of three days. and have sue
c"cdcd in canning more than 5000
cans-about one-fourth of car load.
These we are stacking away until we
Get a solid car. The market IS good,
We can sell, at a small margin of
profit, out entire outfit. 1t is not our
intention to try to make big profit
on any one sale; we prefer to deal
generously with the producer 1t is
our intention tn pay the producer the
hest price possible. We feel that we
now have probably ten carloads Of to-
n'atoes growing in the fields. For the
mex; sixty days we expect to be get
ting fair supply to can. The first
crop, now coming in, is very good, but
rot so good as we expect the main
crop to be. Every day It becomes
more apparent that We have moved
wisely in our enterprise. We have
raid in full for our machinery, and
We expect, in short while to owe no.
body and to have $40, 900 working cap
ital. This we can have with a paid in
capital of $4,000 With an $4,000
plant, including house and hot, and
$4,000 capital to operate the bust
ness. we will be ready to take care of
five successive crops of two hundred
acres each per annum. We are par
ticularly anxious to get the stock sub
may at once begin campaign for a
tall crop, spring crop, a summer
crop-thus using, in succession, the
$4,000 to turn over each crop From
all accounts the boil weevil is getting
IN great work. Next ycal the farmers
Of the county will be un6cr the ncccs-
SIty Of planting something besides cot
ton for a money crop. We &rc getting
ready, in fact, so far as equipment
IS concerned, we are now ready to can
one solid carload of product a day.
True, we have buildcd greater than
cur need for this first crop Of toma
toes. But we are looking to the fu
turc, and we believe time will vindi-
cate our Judgment
1t Is in our plans to put in a side
track in the rear Of the building Up
To now we have been afraid to ven
ture, for it requires an outlay Of
SllOO-quitc sum of money. All
Tut $3.50 Of this would come back to
US in allowances Of 50 for every car
shipped in or out, during tn four and
'n"-half years following the building
Of the siding. But we need this siding
very greatly. With that we would not
hesitate to begin now to urge farmers
to raise, each, two or three fine pork
cr@ and sometime next winter wc
would all club together and shin one
solid carload Of hogs to Richmond, orI
some ether good market. There is no
reason whatever why by cooperation
many ether farm products could not
bc shipped out Of the county. With a
general shipping business and the can
Elng Of five crops a year, we see no i
reason in the world why the venture
nay not be made to pay n reasonable
dividend upon the investment. and at
the same time work revolution i'm
the farming activities of the county.
We feel that we should receive a more
generous response in the matter Of
subscriptions to stock, both from the |
farmers and the businss men of I'm
ion. AS to the business men of Union.
we may say that every one Of them
will benefit through the operation OF
the enterprise. Last week we paid
out an even hundred dollars for labor.
Does anybody doubt the statement
that nine tcnths of that sum has al
ready found its way into the tills of
hn