SPARTAN BURG

city ana county seat of Spartan burg co., 8. C., about 100 miles northwest of Columbia, served by the Southern Piedmont and Northern, Charleston and Western Carolina and Carolina, Clinch field and Ohio railroads. It is located near great coal fields of its own and adjoining states, and is also the center of a rich agricultural region, of which cotton is the principal staple. The city’s industry is almost wholly confined to the making of cotton and it has 36 mills with an invested capital of more than $15,000,000. There are many handsome buildings, including Wofford College, the Converse College for Young Women, the Y. M. C. A. buildings and several imposing church edifices. The city has numerous churches, an excellent public school system, 5 hospitals, 9 newspapers and periodicals and 12 banking institutions. A commi ion form of government has been established. The waterworks are municipally-owned and operated. Pop. 1920, 22,638.