Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-04

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and streams in the valleys, and within
the gateway to every farmhouse there
is an unfailing well, like that Of Jacob, in
which the stars are ever mirrored.
VARIED RESOURCES.
1t is not cotton and com and wheat and
potatoes alone that abound. The very
forests are mines Of wealth richer than
were ever explored. There are intsrmin-
able groves Of walnut trees just across the
river which will yet make Memphis the
site of rich manufacturing establishments.
Cypress, oak, hickory, pine, beech and
cedar trees abound. The untouched vir-
gin forests Of this lower valley OF the
river must soon constitute the source Of
unexsmpled wealth and manufacturing
activity. Endless csnebrskes, so use
less to as, would be Invaluable In the old
world. Not elsewhere in Americas there
such a site as this for every description Of
manufacturing art and industry. Cotton
at first cost, food as cheap as bOundless
crops of corn and wheat and bacon can
make it, with little necessity for fuel, and
industry never suspended by cold, with
railway system, as the map shows, nearly
perfected, and lands prepared for Cultiva-
ton cheaper than elsewhere in America,
and in q fsultless climate, and with rain
fall Of equal quantities in each month Of
the yesr-surely there is nothing want
ing to render this the most attractive
country on the globe.
G0ST OF LAND.
Farms in the high lands, on the eastern
side of the river, producing from thee
fourths to a bale of cotton per acre, bale
weighing 500 pounds, or 1900 pounds Of
unginned cOttOn-ths seed weighing three
times as much as the cotton-may be
bought at from SO to s25 per acre. Land
of the same productive capacity, that was
never titled, costs from S3 to SO per acre.
Three-fourths of bale of cotton, or S5
bushels Of corn per scre, or from 10 to Is
bushels Of wheat, or $50 to 800 bushels of
potstOes, or one to two tons of hay per
scro-such land giving these products
acre, the difference in price being affected
By the distanc5 from railways leading
to Memphis, and by differences in pro-
ductive value, in proximity 20 streams
and the relative area of hills and valleys.
Three bales of upland cotton grown on the
hills and plains on the eastern side Of the
Mississippi, near Memphis, won golden
premiums at the British Worlds Fair.
The lowlands produce, without manure,
from one to a bale and half per acre.
The poorest uplsnds, skillfnlly enriched,
and with careful cultivation, such as the
Dutch would give, have been made to
produce three bales Of cotton per acre, or
sixty bushels OF wheat.
CATTLE,
To the cultivation of grasses but
little attention has been given. Cattle
are not required to be kept in Enclosures
here as in the older American and Eu-
ropesu States. They are not required,
such is the mildness and brief duration Of
winter, to be housed or ted. The woods
and valleys along the streams, OvergrOWn
with cane or evergreen grasses, mainly
supply the wants Of sheep and milch
COWS. Little hay is made, for very little
is needed,
6AROEaS.
Peas, beans, grapes, Irish and
sweet potatoes, strawberries, peaches,
plums, apples abound. On the 10th Of
April, fruit stands along the streets Of
Memphis are supplied with Strawberries
as large as the eggs Of the guinea fowl.
1t often happens in summer time that
grapes, scuppernong, eatawba and msla-
ga, are so abundant that they are absO-
Iutely unstable, and yet such has been
the sddictedness Of the people to more
profitable cotton culture, that they have
given little attention to wine-making.
HEALTH.
The rates Of life insurance are
as low here as elsewhere in the United
States, and tables Of mortality, as given in
the census reports of 1850, show that the
mortality is less in northern counties of
Mississippi, within from twelve to fifty
miles Of Memphis, than elsewhere in the
United States.
THE MISSISSIPPI,
ninety feet deep in front OF Memphis, and
mile in width, is g veritable arm Of the
sea, trsnscending in cOmmarcial value ali
railways Of which statesmen and public
benefactors have ever dreamed. This
mighty stream with its countless branches /
overspreading the vast area OF States be-
tween the Aleghanies on the east snd
the Rocky Mountains on the west, bears
by our very doors, the wealth aud travel
OF a vast empire. There Is a majesty in
the sonorous march Of the waters to the
ses, significant of the splendOrs OF the
coming empire, which shall embrace
continent, and whose central seat of do
miniOn must be on the shores Of this
river.
ANOTHER EGYPT.
The lOwlands Of the Mississippi vary
from forty to ffty miles In width from
Cairo to New Orleans. Once, sometimes
twice in each year, this strip of territory
is submerged, and at each overflow a de-
pOsit OF rich slluvium is LEFT ike that
which enriches the delta Of the Nile. In |
these lowlands the most abundant cotton |
crops made in ths world are produced. |
There is not on the hsbitabis globe a richer |
country than that now most spsrsely pop |
ulated lying between the Mississippi and
st. Francis rivers. It was once the abiding
place, as shown by grsat artificial mounds
and lakes, Of dense and busy popula-
tBon. One-fourth Of the whole volume or
the Mississippi at feod tide leaves the
main channel below Cairo and, over
spreading the country, flows into the St.
Francis river, which dehouohes into the
Mississippi nearly one hundred miles
.optb of Memphis. 70 is this level plain
fr,r, f,rtv to one hundred miles in width,
bstyysen the st. Francis and Mississippi.
y,Lieb Il destined to make Memphis the
5sDositorv Of mstchl6Ez Agricultural
g-eaIth. Take away from Memphis tbe
aroduetlvs highlands on the eastern shore
81 the Mississippi, turn backward its
.rads from tbs finland ssan toward the
A tlantie ocean, and only leave 20 the eitvis
commerce the products Of the slluvial I
plain across the river, and Memphis must
become mighty commercial emporium