Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg Court House [S.C.]) 1877-1881, 1878-03-23
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south CaroIlua to run fifty large
tannerics for years, and how many
have we got? Hardly any! Tho
tanners Of the North pay from s12 to
SIS for cord of bark and live by it.
We can get any amount of it from
So to Sc per cord. The tanners South
are obliged to sell their rou gh stock
to 3altimo ore and Northern markets,
where it is finished, sold then to
Northern shoe manufacturers and our
own lea:l..g comes back to us rs
Northern leather in harness, boots
and shoes Many of you wear to day
Il pair of Northern boots or shoes
made of Southern stock. TIE general
opinion here is that leather and shoe
mnter@l manufactured here is # no
account. In this you are mistaken.
Encourage your tenners. Sell them
good hides. and 1 warrant you they
will give you good article back again.
By hunting around your farm
premises, you will find old iron en-
ough to make farm implements, mill
gearing and other iron ware to last
you for fifty years. Gather your old
iron before it becomes worthless. Start
folndry-we have pine timber
enough to keep large foundry in coal
for long time ard buy your iron
ware for one-half the cost you do
now.
TOBACCO.
How many of You donot love
good cigar, good smoking or chewing
tobacco What becomes of the to.
bacco which you raise? Most of it is
shipped to the North and come back
to you in the shape of Havana cigars,
or ofDurham smoking or some brand
of chewing tobacco. YOU get from
elght to fifteen cents for your weed,
ard after it has been sent North and
been favored a little, you buy it back
at from sixty cents to c:.e dollar and
over pound for smoking tobacco or
pay for it i'll the shape Of cigar, from
five to fifteen cents apiece.
FRUITS AND VEG ETABLEs.
just see the large amount of peach
eg, tomatoes, berries, peas, DC Yl;:sh
you slip 70 the North Tor MHfSa \ ou
get but trihe, and then when winter
comes you pay enormous prices for
the fruits Of your own soil by going
to some store keeper and buying can
OF Bal,im re canned tomatoes or
peaches. My friends. could 60 on
for q whole day in showing you what
we can and what we don't do, but l
know that you will all say, "How can
we start such enterprise when we
don't know how to do it?" will tell
how. Encourage immigration
Through it you will encourage home
manufacture. Induce the right kind
of immigrants to come here, and l
assure you that in less than no time
you will see home industry flourish,
and our beloved Palmetto State in q
prosperous and healthy condition.
Before l close my essay, I will give
you some statistics of the amount Of
money which yearly leaves our State
never to return
Supposing we have, at low guess,
100000 inhabitants in this State, and
put down, rs an average, $50, which
are spent bY young and old during one
year-it gives us the small sum of
s2l, 100000 Then put down 7O00,.
600 with two pair of shoes or boots
year, at an average of$2 per pair.
s2,S0O,0O. 100000 sides of leather,
such as sole, upper and harness leath-
CT, at 23 y side or skin, $500. 900.
100000 inhabitants who smoke or
chew tobacco at an average of $40
year, S1,00O,000. 100000 hats, al
lowing one new hat every year, at an
average Of s5. .S2,100,OOO. Further,
we allow for farm implements. farm
ware, tools, &C., 100000. Together
it sums up, s27 100000.
No wonder we are poor, then, if
this sum leaves our State yearly,
never to return. Why cent we keep