Sylvan Valley News
Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
miner & BREESE.
BREVARD, TRAN'SYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1903.
VOL. VIII—NO. 42
I^unns Rock Lodge No. 267
JR.
Meets Friday on or before the fiill
fitioon in each month, at 2 p. m. ^ isit-
injr Masons are cordially invited to
meet with us.
sptly \Vm. Maxwkli., Scc’v.
Brevard Telephone Exchange.
\ nouKs;
Daily—7 a. rn. to 10 ]). in.
Sunday—S to 10 a. ni., 4 t»> p. ra-
Central Office—(,\K»i)er lJk)ck.
Professioncl Cards.
W. A. CASH.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Rooms 7 & 8, McMinn BId’g, Brevard, N. C.
Raiiroads in the south.
Tlieir Influence in Locating New Indystrlss, Beveloping llie
Country and Aslveriising Its Advantaps.
W. B. DUCKWORTH.
attorney-at-law.
Investigation of Land Titles a Specialty.
Ivooins 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Biiilclino'.
W. W. ZACHARY,
A T T O R N E Y-A T-L A W
Offices in McMinn Block, Brevard, N. C.
D. U ENGLISH,
ATTO R N EY-AT-L A V/.
U. .s. ( ourt practice a specialty.
Offices in Cooper Building, Brevard, N. C.
WELCH GALLOWAY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
l*ra.‘ticos in all the courts.
Reams 9 and 1C McMinn Blocl(, Brevard, N. C.
J. K. McLEAN.
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^Doctor Dentsi Surgery.
Rooms 1 and 2 Gosper BId’g, Brevard, N. C.
MlscellGE\eous.
T. L. SNELSON,
Blacksmitli and Horse-sliOEr.
Shop in Rear of Orr’s Livery Stable.
C'arria<j»* and Waj^oii iiuildiu;:-.
Wheelwright work a speclaity.
c. C. KiLPATRiCK,
CO^jTR&CTOR AHO BOILOEB.
Roam 13, McMinn Block, Brevard, N. C.
Estimates <riven on all kinds of worl
iu the building- line.
T. L. CLARKE,
Arcliltsct &nd GcntractO!',
Plans ant-1 s])ecifi<*ations on all kind,
of l)uihlini»- work.
T. B. CRAKY,
Cof'tractor for AI! KIncis of Brick Work.
Cement Vv^ork, Piasterinj^'. I'ebbJi*;-
ish and Roujjh Castin;^- a .Si)ecialcy.
dash
BREVARD, N. C.
J. O. DERMID,
Be Helialjle Jeweler.
Watcliotj and Jeweli‘y for sale. Fine
Watch and Clock repairing. All
V Wo'-k iruaranteed. West Main.^t.
A. C. NOR.TON,
Pfactlcsl OoQt and Siioeinaksr
Harness W’'ork a specialty.
West Main Street near Caldwell.
Town Taxes.
The Tax List for the year 1903 of
the Town of Brevard is now in ;xiy
hands for collection. All tax payers
are noliti^*'J that the tax is now due
and prompt payment will be\en-
forc^d without favor. \
.* J. A. BRYSOx\, '
Town Tax Collector.'j
Under the caption of “Give the
railroads their due,” the Augusta
Chronicle says:
It is customary, in some quar
ters. to abuse tlie railways, but
lh('y ace often indiscriminately
and unjustly blamed. Consider,
lor a uunnenl what tremendous
developiiient they have instituted
for this country and how very far
behind we would be without these
steel arteries of commerce and
H ade. It may be that the man-
airei s of these roads look primar
ily to their own interest, but who
does not? But, it must be ad-
njitted, that they have in view
the interests of the people also,
for both are interdependent.
Just now the movement of the
railways, once east and west
largel>% is now consi)icuously
noHhand south. This is dictat
ed by the change, in part, of gram
movements from one section to
the other. The gulf ports have
cut down grain exportation one
half, already, from New \ork.
Cotton manufacture in the south
has also directed raihyay tians
portatioti to this \>art of the coun
try. The development of the
iron and steel industry at the
south has likewise ]jlayed an im
portant part in this transports
lion drama. The lumber inter
est of the south has grown ]>ro
ai"u>usly, and oil developments
in^Texas and Louisiana, alonj^
with rice culture in those states.
auguHHit the rail^^i^3 tievel p
nient.
The News takes issue with the
Chronicle on the above sta e
ineuts. Cotton manufacturi'
would never have developed iu
the south without railroads; the
iron and .steel industries would
havo remained in the North had
not the means for transportation
bi'en at htsnd. and the millions of
of h'.uibtn* w(juld have re
inaiued iu the mountains and
swa'.;.;ps of the South had not the
i-aili-oads made it possil)le^ t(;
reach a paying market. Kad-
• oads have been the pioneers in
civilization and development ever
since the war between the states.
But the Chronicle’s remarks
are general—let us be a little
' or^rspecitic. When the writer
ame to this mountain section
liere was a stage linefrom Green-
/ ville, S. C., to Asheville, and that
^was the only route in for a visitor
I ora would-beinvestor. There was
no railroad nearer than Old I* oi t
the Sw’ananoa tunnel was not
then com])letecl. All the wealth
of lumber in these mountains at
that time was worthless and an
incumbrance to th9 ground. We
have seen fences—old fashioneo
rail fences—made of walnut lails
which to-day, in marketable
shape, would be w’orth more than
the land they enclosed. We have
seen houses covered with locust
shingles made from timber that
would now X)ay for a modern
house with a slate roof. And
this change has resulted from
building railroads into these
mountains.
Wherever a railroad is con
structed an effort is made by the
company to find paying business
for the road—if it isn’t in sight
they proceed to develop and cre
ate it. The railro.ids bring in
men with money seeking invest
ment and they proceed to intro
duce new Industries—sawmills,
tannin plants, tanneries, etc., are
located and the railroads become
successful.
But what of the people? They
have found a market for what was
an incumbrance, and as a result
they build new houses, buy up-
to date furniture, send their chil
dren to school and proceed to get
civilized.
It isn’t quite eight years since
the railroatl was built into this
county, and yet its civilizing and
developing intluence is seen and
Ct'lt in every section. Land that
couldn’t then be sold for 50 cents
an acre is now in active demand
at s3. Wood which had no value
except to pay for cutting and
liauling. has now a ready sale at
a cord—even chestnut wood
uiiich is almost worthless for
i'uel brings at the tannin
[)lant. Tan bark which had no
market ])rice before t :e railroad
was Vniiit is now i)utting money
in the pockets of m^n who live
baclv in the mountain coves away
Lroin the railroad. Farm pro
duce*. fruit, cattle and shee[), poul
try and everything eatable [)ro-
duced in the county, now finds
a ready market at home, and the
I’ailroad is responsible for it.
\Vhih.‘ the road is working fo? in
creased business to malve it a
[)aying investment the people at
large are vtistly more benetitted
than the cotnpany can possibly
be for many years to come. T«)
drop the railroad out of this coun
ty would mean stJignation and
death to every enterprise. “Give
the railroads their due.”
10,271,000 BALES.
Estimate Placed on Cotton Crop by
Ccmmissioncrs.
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 10.—Ten
million, two hun.lred and seventy-one
thousand bales is the estimate of the
present cotton crop, made by the As
societion of Scuthorn C'omrjission-ers
of Agriculture, which adjrjurned heree
today after three days of continuous
s-esslon. ■ The estimate furnished i£
the result of a careful in.vestlgation
made by the comimlssioners of the
several cotton growing states.
The following is the estimate by
states repcrtod by the commissio-ners:
States. Bales.
Alabama l,000,0<i<
Arkansas 870.00(
Florida 60,00('
Georg-la 1,300,000
Louisiana 75!),GOO
Mississippi 1,500,00
North Carolina 5o,00u
Oklahoma 2000,OOi
South Carolina 900,000
Tennessee 300,00'v
Virginia 16,0h'
Texas and Indian Territory. .3,000,00(
The association pas&ad numerous
resolutions during today’s session.
Most important was one looking to f ae
prevention of the importation O'f th(;
boll weevil from Texas into the cot
ton states. It is urged that no cotton
material be brought from Texas so
long as the weevil is know-n to be ic
the state.
There seems to be need for a
medical examiner at the White
House to pass upon the sanity of
uninvited and undesirabls vis
itors.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
of Union Springs will urge the Charles
ton convention to legislate against cel
ebrations held on the Sabbath.
Near Nashville, in Berrien county,
Gk?rdon Bennett, a lad of 14, fatally
wounded his cousin, Ben Cornelius,
with a gun supposed to be empty.
“Al” Morrow, confidential clerk ot
Governor Dockery, of 'Missouri, has
been indicted cn a charge of aiding
frautdulent naturalization.
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
Ritchie, speaking of Chamberlain’s fis
cal proposals, said that Great Britain
should he careful not to give the Unit
ed States cause for injuring Canada.
At the trial of a tutor in Qerma^ny
for whipping a boy to death, the spec
tators became sc excited by the rev
elations of brutalities that a lynching
was feared in court.
All signs of the old Missis*'’ppi pen
itentiary will soon be removed from
the site of the new capitol. No more
convict labor will be used on the
grounds.
At Berlin, it is reported that there
are many plots to kill the kaiser.
Nearly every day a would-be regicide
is arrested.
The Rhode Island Republicans have
nominated General Colt for governor
and indorsed 'President Roosevelt.
Natural gas has lieen found near
Huntsville and experts say the sup
nly is sufficient to feed the city for
KO years
At the meeting of the Peabody funr
trustees in New York, Dr. A. S. Greer
was appointed general agent to su;
ceed the late Dr. Curry.
For the third time in ten days th<
Standard Oil trust has advanced th’
price of oil. Oil is higher than it ha:
been in tiiree years.
Joseph Chamheriain is losing no oj
portunity to spread his fiscal go.ii;-
John Redmond says the new ca'ciii
will scon go to pieces.
An Argentine gunboat has s'.iilod t-
the Antarctic regic-ns to se.Trch for f
Nordenskjohl oxiu-* ’if.inrT.
Will Vyinter at Lakewood, N. J.
New York, Oct. 9.—Former Presi
dent and Mrs. Cleveland have taken
a cottage at Lakewood, N. J., where
it is understood they M ill spend much
of the winter season. It is for the
benefit of ]\irs. Cleveland’s health that
the temporary change has been made.
She has not regained her strength
since the birth of the baby Francie
Grover.
LOW RATES
TO
Colifcrnia and the
NORTHWEST!
RAC1FSC
RAILWAY/W
Will sell daily between September
loth and November .’K»tii. iu'.-iMto
colonist ticL'els to pom Lei iu
Washington,
Oregon,
California,
Montana,
Idaho,
LVyoming,
Colorado,
Nevada,
Utah,
Jrrizona and
J^ew Mexico.
Short, line, quick time, no i»ii^ trausjers, treo
re< liMiii,i^ < hail-ciiis.
For rates, .scheduics, maps and fuU inl'<i.n;>a-
tion write to
F. E. CLARK, W. T. SmBEhS,
Traveling Pa-s. Agt. yen. Ai.'l. iJort.
ATLANTA, *tA.
MORGAiN
Wood^
WORiCS
Spartanburg, - S. C.
SASH
Doori.'^
BLTXi/.S
RCm, (i IT. aiii 1
DnZSSKP
LUMBEIt
Employes Co-Operative Store.
Topeka, Kans., Oct. 10.—It is alleg
ed here today that the Santa Fe em
ployes have decided upon starting a
co-operative store in Albuquerque to
furnish groceries and supplies to the
railroad men. The men have sub-
sc-'ibed the necessary amount and se
lected a manager. They expect to
pay cost for their goods plus a sma!
percentage for running the store.
Steamship Rata War Probable.
New York, Oct. 12.—After a confer
ence of the managers of the variou.^
steamship lines running the Atiafitlc
formal announcement has bean made
here that the agreements of the north
Atlantic conference which establish-
the minimur rate for first ana second
cabin passengers traveling on the
steamers of the lines bound by the
agreements will be annulled today.
Thereafter each company will be at
liberty to make whatever rates it
please, and a rate war may follow.
It is not po.ssil)le for tlie proprie
tors to publish more than a very few
of the ninnerous letters received in
praise of Chamberlain’s Coli(?, Chol
era and Diarrhoea Remedy and tell
ing of its remarkable cures. They
come from people in every walk hi
life and from every state in the Union.
The following from T. W. Great
house, ot Prattsburg, Ga., speaks for
itself: “I would have been dead
now but for the use of Chamberlain’s
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Reme
dy. It cured me of chronic diarrhoea
after seven years of suffering. I can
never say too much in praise of that
remedy.’^ For sale by Z. W. Nich
ols, Brevard, and O, L. Erwin, Cher
ry field. *
Iron work and castiii^s ol' « * < ry
description. Estimates farni^-hed
promptly on all work.
W/n. M. JONES, Fres. 2nd
J. A. MULLINAX, Supt.
BREVARD
Machine Shops
Why send your ii'.oney abi?: d
when you can get knvv-]' pi ic<- at
home for
Turned Cciumns
and all other turned worl':.
Door and Wiiidcw Fra«!cs
mantels and all similar luMol-ine
work. Call and see me b<ri* l e
sending orders away.
Very truly,
Kilpatrick’s & King,
J. M. KILPATRICK, Manager,
Galloway, Ouckwcrtl) & Oo<,
HEAL ESTATE OEALEHS,
Rooms 3 and4, McMinn Block, Brevard h. C.
Buy and sell all kinds of Real
Collect rents, and attend to
erty when owner is absent.
Faming and TImtier Lands a Specialtji.
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