The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-06-01
southerr, Enterprise.

| Our correspondent 'B. f." men
toned, in his letter Of May 21st, tha
Gen. West and other enterprising cit
liens of our State are in New York ne
gotiating for the means to erect sew
eral home manufacturing establish
ments.
We are gratified to learn that theil
efforts are in fair way to be crowned
with success. They could not address
themselves to work which will re.
dound more to their credit and pros
perity as individuals, and to their fame
as public benefactors.
With ample water power in the
midst of their cotton fields, and every
other essential material element, and
with resolute spirit which should
look doom itself in the face, our peo-
pie can soon build up manufacturing
system of their own. This with dill
igent attention to the cultivation OF
their great staple, and of enough grain
to supply their wants, and more, will
soon rescue them from their PROSTATE
condition, and place them on the
highway of commercial and financial
independence.
On the subject of Southern enter
prise, particularly the business of man.
ufacturing, we find an excellent arti-
Gle in the New Orleans Picayune, from
which we can appropriately insert the
following extracts:
awe condense these facts from recent re-
ports to show how immense and how prof.
table is now the field open in the Southern
country for manufactures of this descrip-
ton. We might 60. on TO give other ex-
! amples by describing similar factories in
other localities of Georgia and the neigh
boring States. But these are sufficient.
They show by the best evidence of all, an
experience of thirty years, factories could
be made to realize profit of rs per cent. an
nually before the war when as yet almost
protective duties had not been levied on for
eign manufactures, and the prices of similar
goods were immensely lower. Seeing this,
these companies have fastened to erect new
buildings and put in new machinery, and
they will undoubtedly hereafter reap larger
profits than ever before.
"And what has been done on the Chatta-
hooche can be done all through the South.
There is no country in the world more boun-
teously supplied with suitable water power,
and none whose climate is any way more IA
vorable. Instead of dozen cotton and
wooden factories in the State of Georgia,
there might easily be found sites for five
hundred, enough to work up all the cotton
and wool raised in that State at least into
yarns, and to supply all the people with
suitable clothing. The same may be said of
the Carolinas, of Alabama, Mississippi and
Tennessee. Through all those States run
living streams of purest water, admirably
adapted to all the purposes of manufaetu-
ring. There is no climate more healthy.
The raw staple is ready at hand. There il a
VasU MAI noU upon az nvIiIo, anu WHaU ~ noJ
wanted for consumption here can be export
ed at immense profit to the North and to
foreign countries.
ut seems to have been easy, even since the
war, to form companies, with a certain
amount of money, to engage in the export
of the raw cotton to Europe 1t would be
equally as easy to form associations for man
ufacturing this cotton into fabrics, desirable
either for consumption. here or for export,
and thus add vastly to their profits, at the
same time they made themselves independ-
ent, and established their business upon a
solid and enduring foundation. Up to the
present time, on account of the impertection
of machinery and the want of skilled labor,
only certain descriptions of goods have been
manufactured. There is no reason in the
world why we could not have as good ma
chinery as they have in England, and labor
as skilled, for thousands of starving opera.
tives there would eagerly jump at the
chance to emigrate hither, and companies,
like those on the Chattahooche, thus sup
piled, would be capable of turning out the
finest fabrics known in Lancashire, and of
large portion of the markets of
the world.
"We earnestly invoke those of our people
who are seeking investments in profitable
business to enter upon this, the most in
viting business of all The raw staple at !
hand, ready markets, abundant water pow
er, o healtbful climate, local independence,
business that can never be undermined nor
made subject to fluctuations, every consid-
GRAFTON that can bear upon the human
mind, honor, interest and love of country,
all eagerly invite them. To The people of
Europe, also, and to those of the North, East
and West, who desire to change their homes
and better their condition, never offered so
desirable an opportunity. Here there would
be no laboring in heated and unhealthy
rooms an unnatural number of hours per
lay for mere support, but genial employ
nent as it were in the open air, at wages
hat would enable the common operative in
/ few years to possess, in fee simple, bis own
home, as proud and Independent as that of
he landlord of England, and in our fruitful
Southern cline, far more beautiful"
Secretary McCulloch has written a