The daily gazette., 1880-11-10
RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH.

South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and
Alabama, and is to be found in other
Southern States. At Augusta the sup
ply can be doubled when needed. At
Macon similar canal is practicable,
which can furnish an immense power.
Near Columbia, 8. c., is magnificent
power. At Athens, Ca, and in its
Immediate vicinity there are numerous
falls Of great capacity. At Tallahassee
and at other points in Alabama the
falls are very fine. The Chattahoochee
River, in this State, falls 112 feet in .
distance of twelve miles, with the sue
cessful manufacturing city Of Column
bus at the longer end of the falls.
Here are the celebrated Eagle and
Phenix mills, q pride to the city, to
the State and to the Union. The river,
rising far away among the mountains
of Upper Georgia, affords many ad-
mirable sites along it's course. The
Tallulah, in Rabun county, falls 400
feet in one mile at the Tallulah Falls,
so well known for its picturesque beau
ty and for the sublimity of its "Grand
Chasm." The James River, in Vir-
ginia, has a great fall as 1t flows
through that famed valley vhere Po-
cahontas and Captain Smith wandered
before Hargreaves invented the up
right spindle to be driven by steam or
water power. Many of your readers
have seen and admired the beautiful
rapids at Richmond, Va. The Ooste-
naula, Etowa and Chickamauga rivers
in Upper Georgia all afford water
power. At Tangipshoa, in Louisiana,
I understand there is very fine power.
But there is enough for all for, per-
haps, a hundred years to come. The
Union will certainly need the 20, OOO,>
900 spindles by A. D. 1900. Where
shall the new mills be locatedf 7 There
are mills in the South that receive cot
ton loose, "in the seed," in two and
four horse wagon loads, direct from
the fields I; weigh it on wagon scales in
the mill yard Gas you do hay), gin it in
the mill aud convert it into yarns i'm
mediately. l have often seen "seed
cotton" received in this way in the
morning and spun in faultless yarn be-
fore night. This saves the trouble and
expense of bailing. Even when baled
it reaches the Southern spinner In the
loosely packed planters package, not
after compression (for shipment) un-
der pressure of many hundred tons
into bulk one-f1fth that of the plan
ter's bale, in which state it remains Of
hard as a board for six TO twelve
months before it reaches the distant
mill. Can any one doubt that the
Southern spinner may safely dispense
with part of the violent and destruo-
tive Cheating" that is necessary to the
Northern and foreign spinner to re-
! store that life and elasticity of fibre
which have been squeezed out of it b.
the gigantic congresses Of the presen
, dayp SO much for Southern waite
g power as soompared with steam. Their
S is much of it north Of the Potomac
S but much more available here, at th,
, cotton fields, and never impeded b.
: ice.
TIE COURSE OF PROGRESS.
: Northern manufacturers excel us nov
in design and colorlng and weaving
skill, aud will long continue to do SC
but in the manufacture of the heavie
co ton cloths and of the lower number
of yarn we are firmly established an
perfectly successful, as the extremel.
satisfactory dividends from many South
ern mills sufficiently at est. Northern
, weavers give up to us the heavy good
and buy annually hundreds of tons O
Southern yarns. Why is this? Simpl,
because we can spin as well as any othe
soinners and more cheaply. If it wer
J | not so would these skilful and thrift
! people buy of us? AS we increase tn
production of yarns more and more mill
, will be started North to consume them
8 and as Northern weavers learn more an
S more TO depend upon lis for their sup
= plies we will, before long, be spinnin
finer numbers of yarns, and then th
! spinners of the North must come to 90
/ SOS and zoos. We will soon, probably
compete with the North in manufactur
= ing print cloths, to be printed there int
a the exquisite callcoes they now mske.-
Finally, we will commence spinning fin
) Yarns for expectation to Europe. Th
f great impediment in the way of immed
late and rapid progress is the poverty c
the people, but this is rapidly passin
away, and we will be able to take a re
spectacle portion of the new spindle
=, that will soon be needed. Before tn
: end of this century the Southern State
| Will DlOo'ho - NSiy oiASANAS NHk'NNe'
b "Wilh such advantages as we have 9Th
: story is not near told) is it not strang
G that the vast accumulatlons of wealth
: North and East, and in England, do nc
= find their way to this favored regior
d which lacks nothing but capital to Gre
# ate manufacturing industry in this lin
that will not only be very remuneIativ'
but will add to the glory of the recor
structed Union, and make ityet MOI
q signally1 the "wonder of the nations
{ Hundreds of thousands read your brigl
cosmopolitan journal. You can reac
y them with sound suggestions on tn
D important subject. Can you accept tt
: views here suggested9 If you can sen
them abroad, East, West, North an
South and "across the waters" and Il
@ us see these magnificent streams, no
7, wasting their wealth of power in the A
J. lautic and the Gulf, harnessed and mac
IL to minister to our progress and the pr
gress Of the American people.