The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-08-21
rhc Prosncritr of Tho sontt.

The Baltimore SIM says The South can |
afford to let the partisan politicians misrep- |
resent and malign her, for she is able to stand /.
alone and attend to her own business. The |
census shows that she is rapidly gaining in
the best sort Of populotion by the influx Of
sturdy, hard-working ponser5 from the
North aud West, as well as from. Europe.
She had no part nor lot in the tremendous
Gland grab by means Of which the North
and Northwest were not only reticulated
over with a comprehensive railroad system,
but landed territory was lavished upon those
sections such as enabled them to offer ire
sistble inducements to foreign immigration;
yet nevertheless, the railroads of the South
have been repaired, consolidated, extended
and multiplied in such a way as to afford
ample, cheap and convenient facilities for
transportation, and the best sort of stimulus
to the development Of agriculture and man
uiactures. Her great staples, cotton, tobac-
co, sugar and rice, have resumed their COM
handing positions in the aggregate Of the
worlds indispensable products, ana now
yield crops greater Than ever before, while
greater attention to diversified husbandry is
teaching her people their ability to feed and
cloihe and supply themselves, thus giving
them all the proftsrealzed upon their lead
ing crops to be applied to their own uses.
Her mineral resources are also being devcl
oped most rapidly; cotton mills, furnaces and
lorges are erecting in many sectionsj there
is a new spirit of enterprise among nearly
all classes, attended with a more uniform
distribution Of wealth which is the accepted
sign Of happy people. Under such cir
cumstdnces the outcry Of tie politicians
against the South is recognized to be "a vain
thing" the more so from the fact that it will
not be heard any more after November2
The cotton crop last year was 5,OO0,0OO
bales, the largest ever raised, and it is esti-
mated that this years crop will exceed last
years very considerably. In the last fifteen
years the cotton crop has yielded at the
ports of shipment an aggregate Of $4,000
100000 in gold, paying the cultivators an
average of 500 bale, or SO 500 900 300 and
yielding in surplus over former averages las
credit which may rightly be placed to the
account Of free labor), SBOO,OOO,OOO in gold.
In Arkansas the crop hes increased from
Ill 900 900 pounds in 1870 to 3lS,OOO,O 900
in 1878. In Texas The increase h,s been
from $4,000, ,oeO pounds in 1870 to nearly
5OOOOOOO0 in 1878, and probably 100000,
600 in 1880. The cotton crop Of the South
in 1879 gave employment to / ? 900 spin
dlesS 100000 600 capital in buildings, ma
chinery ard operating expenses, and found
work for 100000 persons. The South has
| begun to take part in the manufacture Of
/ its great staple. Its spindles are already I
per cent of tho total number employed in
the country, and aggregate 774,OOO. These
/ Southern cotton mills are small, but more
profitable in proportion than the more ex-
tensive ones at the North. Careful estimates
show the saving in cost Of raw material in
favor of the South at least 90 per cent, an
important factor when the raw material am
cunts to 64 per cert of the total cost o.
manufacture. The making of cottonseed
oil is another growing industry at the South
employing Al mills The oil sells readily
at high prices, and the pomace left over is 6
good fertilizer. The iron ores of the Soult
are worked to advantage already. Georgi;
produces 1000 tons of pig iron per annum
aud large IRON works are established n
Grcensburg, Newport, Covington, Louisville
Rome, Atlanta and other places, whore ca
wheels, rails, spikes, nails, engines and 9th
er things are produced The ores Of Ten
nessee and Alabama can be worked NOR
cheaply than the British ores of Cleveland
At Birmingham, Ala, pig iron can be turn
ed out at so a ton. In East Tennessee ho
, blast stone coal mill and foundry iron, mad
of brown and red Lematte can be producet
for Sll per ton, and Bessemer pig, made c
magnetic ore, for SIG a ton. These price
defy competition. In Louisiana, Texas an
Florida the sugar industry is making nota
bic progress and yielding good tirofts. Th
Louisiana crop last year yielded $40, 100000
One planter raised on 3,2S7 acresof land 6
$4,000 pounds of sugar and 1920 barrels {
molasses, selling for $565,O0O. The Dal
, rymple wheat farm in the North consists {
g $4,000 acres, yet its total product was onl
$ljO.OOO or 100000 less than the Louisian
! planter got IRON one-seventh the quantit
of land. We say nothing Of Florida orang
, crops of the countless herds of cattle an
> wool,yielding sheep or the broad plains {
, Texas FOR the facts already adduced in te;
, timony to the prosperity and the teemn
/ resources Of the South are enough to eXplai
: why so many enterprising men arePushin
I thitheI from all sections, determined to pu
in their sickles ere the harvest is ripe.