Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-10
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
How 10 Have a Cotton EEiIl.

EDITORS APPEAL-YOu have very
properly been urging strongly the i'm
portaDce of erecting cotton manufacto-
Ties in Memphis. You say truly that
Memphis can never have growth to
make her a city much larger than she
now is while her only business is buying
aud selling cotton. This proposition
has been so well argued that
l presume it is regarded as
fully demonstrated. Now, it seems
to me the next thing in order is
to suggest some practical mode of &C
complIshing what all agree is 50 vital
and important for the prosperity OF our
city. Let me begin with my mite Of
suggestion. Let few of our solid men
unite IS partners, or as stock company.
To guard against unnecessary risk or
loss, let them select an agent who shall
visit Lowell or Lawrence, and put him.
self in communication with intelligent
and experienced manufacturers. From
them he could get reliable estimates
of cost, best plan Of buildings,
proper kind of machinery, and
all the minute details necessary for il.
augurating such an enterprise without
the blind and foolish risks sometimes
incurred by men who undertake to do
big things in a business OF which they
know nothing, but which they and their
friends regard them fully cOmpe-
tent to manage, because they have been
good generals or eloquent stump-speak-
ers. 1t is important that the first eXpe-
riment that Memphis attempts should
be successful, so that Encouragement
and disgust should not prevent that
laudable effort and energy which we all
want to see put forth to save our city
from the decadence which so many are
prophesyisg. VIII anything come OF
this suggestion Of.mine? If l can re-
ceive any encoursg ement will devote
weeks time to the labor of perfecting
such an organization, for such purpose
IS 1 suggest. Why delay an hour? The
attempt will cost nothing. Let US have
something besides talk. SAT.
Dyer County Crops.
From an Occasional Correspondent
DYER COUNTY, TENN, July 81 have
taken some pains to form correct esti-
mate OF the wheat crop of this county,
and it may be of some interest to the
business men OF your city to know that
when the Paducah and Memphis rail-
road is finished they are within a few
hours run OF county that will produce,
this season, not less than three hundred
thousand bushels of wheat, One-half or
more of which is surplus, and could be
shipped to your city if you had mills to
manufacture it into flour. Now, would
it not be well enough for some of your
large capitalists to erect fine Touring
mills in your city, that would consume
ali the surplus wheat grown so near you,
and by 50 doing encourage the growth of
wheat in this section instead of cotton?
For the want of market near at home
we ara compelled to ship our wheat
north, where it will be manufactured
into flour at profit and shipped back
to you to supply your trade and feed the
people where it is raised. Crops of every
kind were never so promising, snd, if
the season continues favorable, all hands
will have to erect new barns and cribs
TO store their corn and grain crops.
Hurry up our railroad, as your city is
losing a fine trade for the want Of the
road from this county.