The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-05-26
COLUMBIA s. G.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 2e, 1869



To NORTHERN CAPITALISTS AND IMMu-
GRANTS: The County of Newberry, agricul-
turally considered, lies within an extent of
territory running from Chester County and
extending into Georgia, which has been
pronounced by distinguished man to be
the finest cotton land in the world, except
ing no place. The soil is also finely suited
to the cultivation of the cereals. Since the
war, by little extra pains and labor, toge-
ther with manuring, lands that formerly,
under the pull down and drag out system,
produced only six bushels of wheat to the
acre, have been made to produce twenty five
bushels, and as of fine quality as can almost
be produced anywhere.
AS to water power, there is an ample
abundance of it. Numerous streams wind
through its area. It is one among the finest
watered Counties in the State. This is GER
tainly great inducement for large manu-
featuring investments. The climate is in
the highest degree favorable, while in the
leading branch of all manufactures she has
m advantage over the Northern States that
is, in time, bound to give her both capital
and population-that is, manufacturers can
spin and weave cotton on the ground where
it is raised This is decidedly great ad-
vantage.
Probably there might be some apprehen-
sion in suspicious minds as to the facilities
for the transporting of goods, if they should
be manufactured on large scale. But we
think no fears need be entertained. Upon
this point capitalists may rest secure, upon
that honest but true maxim, which is as
readily applicable to great business matters
as to Individuals that necessity is the mo-
ther of invention" Railroads will be gra-
DUAL y built in proportion to the demand
for them and the increase of business, and
at no very distant day, nevertheless fogies
and carpers, they will be spread over this
country like q network, if there is bestowed
the proper energy and enterprise in the de-
velopment OF our manufacturing and agri-
cultural resources The advantages con-
ferred by the God of nature are amply suf-
ficient to enable capitalists to compete sue
cessfully with New England, Old England,
or any other manufacturing country under
the sun.
Among the advantages that may be reck-
oned rs not inconsiderable, is tho vast diff
ference in climate. For inctance, Lowell.
in Massachusetts,, is situated in latitude
421a North. The climate is very cold. In
midwinter, not only there, but all North,
the mills are seriously interfered with by
freezes. For six or eight months of the
year 1t is essentially necessary to raise, by
mosphere i'll order that the spindles and
looms may run successfully. The furnaces
and fuel required to produce this artificial
heat form no inconsiderable item of ex-
pense. From ali this this, climate is entire.
ly exempt. Farther than this, there is a
material per centum-say those acquainted
in favor of the South in the comparative
operation of the atmosphere of the two
climates upon the machinery and upon cot
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processes to which it is subjected. You can
work machinery here of any kind ut all
seasons OF the year without having to resort
to artificial heat
You may ask the question, the healthful-
ness OF the Southern climate; of this Coun-
ty for white laborers? We are satisfied that
many-in fact, all portions of the South
are as favorable to the health of white labor
ers as any country. However it may be as
to the health of white laborers in cotton
fields, exposed to the hot sun and morning
dews in the full season, we are disposed to
think that the negro, free as he is, is better
suited rs field laborer in the South than
the white man can ever be: Yet, there can
be no doubt that white men, women and
children in many portions of the South
particularly in this County, will be equally
as healthy in factories as the operatives in
similar establishments in any part of the
world They can have better food, better
clothes, better homes and cheaper, and. in
fact, everything in more abundance than
anywhere else.
Considered in commercial point of view,
the town of Newberry has no superior in
this State, outside the city of Charleston,
having a surrounding country fertile and
productive. and offering as fine, if not finer,
inducements for trade than any town in the
interior; all of which has been derived from
the swift foot of Tie iron horse, whose
Gathering stamps is heard day after day
vending its way from the sea- board to the
mountains, and whose strong back brings
and carries away untold amounts of mer-
chantable and agricultural wealth.