Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-25

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Tennessee, and other States of the South.
ought to make money by her iron manu-
factories selling at fifty dollars Der ron.
but il seems from the statement 0fven me
yesterday by the protector of the Mem
phis and Little Rock Railroad, he makes
money by importing English iron at
ninety dOllar%per ton. Is il not wonder.
full that We send over three thousand
miles for iron to build railroads that are
built over the richest ore beds of iron In
the world2 Mr.. Murdoch, in his report
to the Planters and Manufacturers As
.sociatlon Of Mississippi8ays that we have
on the Eastern side OF our State, in close
proximity 20 market, the ore beds of Ala
bama, of the Brown HemoHte species.
rich in quality, equal to the best Swedes,
peculiarly adapted to the manufacture OF
machinery and agricultural implements,
and in fact, all our wants in that line.
Ereights hone should prevent COMPETE
ton in this matter.
WOOD MANUFACTURERS.
Our magnificent forests are being now
regarded as the source of great wealth.
Some OF the Older States are now drawing
Inelr supphes from their younger sisters.
The South presents facilities for an kinds
of wooden manufacture beyond competi-
ton. According TO the eensusreport. there
are in the United States sixty-six oeeupa-
tions depending on wood for a support
employing near a half million of souls.
n representing in their families 1000. coo
of persons. Il requires no prophet to fore
tell the inal home of a majority of these
artizans. Right here 1 viii point You to
the inestimable value of oar forests and
coal fields.
WEALTH OF SOUTHERN FORESTS AND COAL
FIELDS.
Population viii follow eheap fuel. our
ineXhaustible coal beds and splendid for
ests are by no means the least attractive
feature in that world of wealth held in the
soil Of the South. Many parts of the Uni
ted States, and immense tracts of country
in the old world, including Alpine Europe,
are threatened with desolation in the loss
OF their luxuriant forests. As cheap fuel
embraces the happiness and prosperity of
every nation and occupation, people viii
seek that happiness and prosperity where
tuel is moro abundant. The South pre-
sents facilities for a more complete divis-
of labor than any country on the
globe. Cheaper bread, cheaper fuel, cheap
er houses and cheaper transportation lin
our power to afford are exciting the won
der and attention of mankind. Our i'm
mense virgin forests, generally regarded
as comparatively worthless since the abo-
lition OF slavery, are really the substra-
of the future wealth II glory Of the
Each succeeding year adds value
TO those forests, and when we contemplate
immense consumption OF wood by the
mechanical industry of the country, for
fuel, railroad building. steam vessels.
founderies, and factories of every descrip-
ton, the question of wood ssum a II
Importance second to none among the in
dustrial of the South. Instead
Of ruthlessly destroying this great Gle
ment of wealth, limitless though il ap-
pears to be, We should begin TO look to its
reproduction. This subject ha9 been
considered by some of theAE Orth-
ern States. Kansas RENTS taXati$h on all
forests, and pays a bonus of two
dollars annually on every acre so planted.
New York in 1866 chartered a company
for the purpose of experimenting in this
business. These precautions are full of
wisdom and in keeping with the warnings
Of profound thinkers in the old and new
world. The celebrated Bernard Pelissy
Of France, expressing his Indignation at
he reckless destruction of wood, said he
not only regarded it as IN error, but as a
calamity to all France-for when forests
shall be exhausted, all arts shall cease,
thoseNwhO practice them shall be
driven out to eat grass alike Nebuehednez-
Ear and the beasts 2the field. He as
also, that there was no art that
could do without wood. The great mind
Of Mirabeau gave this matter investiga-
ion, and he thought France, as q national
measure of safety, should retain al least
)ne-third of her land in wood. 1t is
stated as an illustration of the immense
consumption of wood, that 4 single gun
in Europe consumed 5000 walnut
.rees in two years to supply gun-stocks
for the American market.
GOA
The black diamonds OF A~merica-the
n~exhaustible coal beds of the SOuth-is
source of great wealth and attrac-
ion to Europeans, The statesmen of Eng
and look with more dread to the gradual
consumption of their coal beds than a
violent disruption of the Government.
The one is a slow death, the other at worst
but anarchy, Mr.. Gladstone and Mr..
Bright have very pOintedly exhibited their
ears, and the London Times, in a recent
EDITORIAL, saws: England must loo be-
rOnd this century. In three generations
he coal of this island, which lies within
our thousand feet Of the surface, Will be
Our population will follow
.Oal wherever it is to be found"
How grandlv lavish nature has been in
he bestowal of her richest gifts upon our
land. Whilst England is trem-
bling as she reaches down four thousand
eet to grasp her main support, we eontem-
)late serenely the immense earbOniferOus
groups which greet us from the banks of
very Tiver-springing eagerly from the
to gladden. our hearts and enrich our
DEPRECIATION OF LANDS.
There is a general depreciation i'll the
,rice of lands throughout the South, and
according to tho report of J. r. Dodge, !
TO Hon. Horace Capron, Commits
Toner of Agriculture, upon the special
tatistics of farm resources and products, |
{ is shown hat the average depreciation
f farm lands in Mississippi is sixty-tive
e compared with the valuation in |
SEQ. In Tennesseet the depreciation Is not
o great-forty and fifty rer cent. is about
he averagedecline. Throughout theSouth
[ is surmised the decline is about sixty |
,er cent. In some parts Of Mississippi
decline has been fully seventy-five per
ent. / think this latter is abont the gen
raj average. DeSoto county is 50 report
Only One-third of the area of cleared
ands have ever been in cultivation at the
anne time. Mississippi, the greatest cot
on State, produced in 1889, l,202, 507 bales.
We can easily double or triple this pro-
uctiOn if labor can be commanded. In
rable and fertile lands Mississippi stands
rst among the Southern States. In 1859
he produced 2l5,552 bales of cotton more
han any other State-Alabama next, and
ieOrgia third. Having produced one
)urth of the entire cotton crop, she is en-
to be called the Queen of the South.
he magnificent of the South,
5 well as our system of labor, made us
Indifferent heretofore to emigration. We
lust now take advantage of the GOd-Sead,
nd welcome all m~en-whether mailing
.Om New England, Asia or Africa-whO
ome in good faith TO promote the general
-elfare.
In regard to grasses, the experiments of
oil. Nathan Adams, well known TO the
of Memphis, have proved that
and a half tons of hay per acre can be
altered from the uUlands OF the South.
nd that clover and timothy grow luxu-
antIy in this climate. He has grown
lue grass forty-two inches high. Thomas
Craighead, of Arkansas, raised four and
half tons of timothy and herds grass to
ne acre on swamp lands.
CoOLIE LABOR.
1 am satisfied that this element of labor
i'll soon be introduced into the South
Iuch more extensively than ever. Expe-
in Cuba have proved that Cp0lie
.hOr is six times more remuneTatiYe
slave labor on that island. Expert
in California show that they are
ithful and Woodworking, and adapted to
| kinds of labor. The largest wooden
anufactory in California employs sue
COolie labor alone.