The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-06-01

point of all the cotton belt stretching from
South Carolina to Alabama. 1t is to At
lanta that the country merchants OF this
rapidly developing and fertile region look
for dry goods, agricultural implements,
groceries, meats, hard ware, stoves. and the
thousand and one articles that such q coun-
try, rich in AGRICULTURAL resources, requires.
Ge rgia raised last year between five and
six hundred thousand bales of cntton of
which between ninety and one hundred
Thousand b les found a markethere
She has one of the finest cotton factories
in the State employing some 300 hands and
making 10000 yards of cloth per day. One
OF her dry goods 10 bing houses claim TO
d. business of $4,000, 900 per year. She
has the finest ice manufactory in the
United States, where ice.was last year made
and sold at a profit at Is cts. per 100 pounds
at the rate of 20 10 80 tons per day. Her
| three large Touring mills make some 200
| barrels of excellent flour per day. Her
| rolling mills are among the most noted in
the Snuth and crowded with orders for
| weeks ahead. She has colleges and semin-
aries of learning and over 10000 children
enrolled in her public schools with some
| thing more than 5000 actually in attend
ance under one of the most able and eff
cient corps of teachers in the United
States.
1t is one of the striking features Of the
growth and commercial activity in Atlanta,
that Notwithstanding the depression else
where in the United States, north as we'll as
south, from 1873 to 1879, building has con-
tinued uninterrupted there all through
these years of gloom and financial inaction,
while now the amount of improvement
going on is unprecedented, one builder
estimating as many as 1,50O new structures
being in progress or projected. Under IT,
influence of the panic, real estate lost moth
ing OF its estimated value, end is to-day
from'2 rs to 30 per cent. higher than on the
day of the resumption of specie payment.
Cotton is probably the base of the eener-
al prosperity in the State of Georgia and
this finds its essence in the Capital and
central city here at Atlanta, which is
drawing to it the great jobbing houses of
Charleston and Savannah, both of which
cities appear to be retrograding at the same
time that Atlanta is advancing. Thirteen
years ago the cotton trade Of the city was
fronl IL, 900 to Is, 900 bales. Ten years ago
it ran. ed from l6, 600 to 10000 In 1878 it
reached 30, 1000 bales. Last year 1t exceeded
so, 900 and the current year it is estimated
as likely to reach 1l5,0OO, the acreage OF
cotton planted being greater than IN any
former year. T e use of commercial fer
ti.izers, which to the value of "a 900, 600 are
now annually used, has enabled cotton to
be successfully grown over a large section
in Northern Georgia believed in former
years hardly adapted to its cultivation.
1t is worthy of remark here that the
prosperity SO apparent in Atlanta is shared
in large part by the country districts, and
probably no State in the Union is to-day
so generally prosperous as Georgia. Cot
ton planting under favorable circum-
stances, is enormously profitable, as for ex
ample, case reported to us by Mr.. s. NJ.
Inman, leading authority on cotton In
Atlanta. A planter neal the city, on a
farm of something like 100 acres, raised 80
bales of superior cotton which he sold for
$4,700. This was grown especially econom-
ical as to OUTLAY for labor, and the total
on!lay was 81, 400, leaving net return of
So, 900 for his own labor and the Interest on
the investment This, however, may be
called an exceptional case.
Georgia lacks convenient deposits Of coal,
only comparatively small area existing in
the north estern corner of the State, up.
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