Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-01-03
ON THE CAROLINA COAST
Enquirer Correspondent Writes I'm
preSSiOnS OF Remarkable Section.
WHERE The PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP


State Hard Blow-Means No Terror:
for Truck Farmers of Coast--StorS
of a Pioneer in the Coast Jungle
Game in Abundanec--SoiI Rich ir
Fertiity-First of a, Series OF Arti'
cIes Showing Coastal Progress ane
! Prosperity.
| (By a Staff Correspondent.
1 En- route on the South Carolina
a Coast-Bg town Chambers OF Com
merco and other equally large civic
bodies advise: "See America first and
then Europe" That is a slogan for tlIe
United States of America. Yet, would
advise for South Carolinians and Geor-
gians especially, "See the Carolina
coast first; IL will hold you for a
while" During this Christmas week
Mrs. Grist and have been the guests
Of Mr.. James Henry Rice, Jr, and the
Beaufort Chamber Of Commerce. the
sights that haye been afforded us have
proved revelation that could be
more ft;lng'y described in book In
stead OF, newspaper article OF series
| of articles. Because TO be perfectly
frank, the South Carolina coast coun-
try is the most prosperous section oi
tho state ut the present time and prom
lses to be for several years to come, be-
cause Of the ravaGcs of the boil weevii
and the ravages that C is to make up
state In the next couple of years.
And right here let me say, that he
! is going TO make them. He has done II
down state already and those people
| say it and know It. He has done his
biggest do there. Yet, according 10
them, he is going 10 do just as mucn
up state this year and next year to up
country folks as he did to low country
people in the past two. They'll talk 10
you about it us they did TO me. we
I didn't believe the stories sent to us
from Georgia." they say. we beliey-
ed that we would he hurt 10 certain
extent, but VIC didn't believe that the
boll wecvil or any other bug or storm
For ANYTHING would clean us out as
| Thoroughly dS VIC ibNc wv"
out this year.
! .And vet il came. We arc almost
bankrupt. We have planted cotton Tor
wears on n much more extensive scae
than you up-country folks have done.
| What we VIII do another year nobo9y
Knows. We all know That We havesg2t
m change our system of farming. We
don't believe that VIC can obtain the
capital to go OIL the same big scale; put
we are going 10 carry on as best We
can"
That is the line of talk between CO.
lumbia and Charleston. From buSi-
ness standpoint Columbia is dong
business on very small scale as COIN
pared with two years ago or even
wear ago. The crop in Richland coun-
ty this year was failure. Columbia
merchants and other business men, as
is we'll understood, count on the busi-
ness of the state TO carry them through
They have gotten some business from
the up- country this year. but practl-
cally nothing from the low-country as
compared with former years. And II
has hurt-hurt badly.
II is SO with Charleston. This city,
the LARGEST in South Carolina, depends
upon a country for business ranging
from Orangeburg down that produced
in 1920 a cotton crop worth something
like s55,OOO. 900, according TO Mr.. Ru-
do,ph c. Siegling, business manager OF
the Charleston News and Courier. ana
one Of the best known business men
dowu-statc. Yet that crop--'hc coltoi
crop, uIdcrstand--in that territory VIII
total only about $2.5O0.O00 this year!
: DESPITE that big difference. Charles
ton had great Christmas business
Where they got it, nobody was prcpar-
cd with an explanation. Yet different
Charleston merchants told this report
cr that their Christmas sales this year
we're about equal to those of last year.
They were all practically agreed That
the cotton crop was Il failure ar'l sup
posed that folks got the money 1or
Christmas purchases from bank ac-
counts saved from former good years
Getting into Charleston on the morn
| ing Of Christmas eve and spending the
day with a friend. Mr.. l'cn L. Adams,
post adjutant OF Charleston Post OF the
/ American Legion and being SHOWN
some of the show places of the city, ~
: cludipg tho famous 'Bat-iiy, Win an
accent on the second go. as well as
! fnvors ut tho hands Of other members
.nf the News and Courier statf, the lead
ing daily newspaper IN the city, The
marty. left in the afternoon for WIG
gins. d small station in Co'lcton county
there to bc the guests Of Hon. James
Henry Rice, Jr.. one of the IVrcmoS'
naturaliSts Of the United States, anu a
man who is generally conceded TO he
the best Informed citizen Of the state
OF South Carolina regarding the natu-
raj resources of the state, to say MOTH
ing Of the states history. her cduca- =
tional system and her political and f.
nancial system.
A Mansion In Jungle.