Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-01-22


Yards wooden goods made per week. 100000
Yards of carpe.ing mako per week, ll2.600.
Shawls made per week, & 1900
Dozens of hosiery made per week, 60,400
Bales (4oo pounds) cotton consumed
per week, $3.50
Pounds OF wool consumed per weok, 457,600
Now, what consumption Of cotton does
this call for per annum2 Not loss thnn
3O4,2o0 Goo pounds) balos, and spending
tho forco OF tho power on coarse goods DO
less than 100000 bales will be consumed, or,
material. So us to wool, VIC find an annual
consumption Of 22,790,O00 pounds, which, at
DO cents average, is 50, llG 600 raw material.
llcre, then, is no less than $25, 900, 900 in
textiles Taking two for one to the hands
engaged in the iamiliesof tho employees, wo
would tn haro manufacturing population Of
$4,000, which, at an average of SIS per head
per month, involves tho consumption Of
S7l0.00O worth of food per month, or
$S,420,000 per annum. Add to this lrc
wood, clothing. &C.. aud do wo not perceive
somo $I0,000,000 Of trade springing into
existence around this great enterprise, which,
like tho fruitful waters of tho Nile, would
annually flow over tho State aud III,
giving new lifo to all our industries an, :.
riching what would DO otherwise waste
places by thrift and energy which would
make u garden Of desert? 1t is truo this
cannot DO realized in day, but this is tho
living possibility awaiting the development
of the greatest enterprise ever attempted
North or South, with everything to cores
pond to it,
Now, let us sec what proportion tho total
capital of Lowell hears to tho capital cm-
employed in manufactures. Whilst wo find
tho latter Stated ut $iG,OO0,O00, we find tho
total assessed valuation Of Lowell for 1874 at
$32 7G2 ,OO5. Now, then, tho capital others
wise than manufacturing capital is about
equal to it.
Whenever. thon, wo have reached tho do
velopncnt and uso of the $4,000 horse power.
reach like amount in assessed valuo of
property in the city Of Columbia: and when
the Development and use Of 10000 horse
power is reached, with the accrucl Of
$iS 600, 900 manufacturing capital, wo would
reach u like amount Of assessed value in the
city Of Columbia But could this bc possibly
confined to Columbia. would not tho nilu-
cncc DO felt all over tho State and send up tho
value Of property in all directions to an
extent it would not be safe here to saw with
out mourning the charge Of childish cxtrava-
Gancc.
Just here. let us come to positive facts.
Since this scheme has been set ufoot We have
heard cf property that was going IL begging
ut only II nominal price, without purchasers.
from three to four prices.
One word moro ns to tho Bluo Ridge Rail.
road and our other great Western connections.
Docs not every one SEQ that with this great
enterprise well afoot it will bring capital at
once and rs surely as the SUI rises for tho
building OF these great arteries of trade. If
we can interest Northern capital in this great
aud lucrative scheme. will it not build the
B!uo Ridge, aud build tho Spnranburg and
Asscvil!c and other routes to the great West
and make our cities by tho sea active marts
where ships will cousrcgatc and II grcat trade
grow up such as they never knew in the past
and never dreamed of in all their rcmotcst
anticpations?
So far, then from olicc,ing TO the rights,
privileges mud rewards we have offered to
Northern capitalists wo should rather be
delighted if they will accept them aud come
hero aud grow richer than they even ever
dreamed Of and take their places among MS
rs EGnorcd bcnriactors, as many Of them
have done and will continue to do. If we are
wise pc0p'c We will meet them with Il cheer
ing welcome, and ii wc arc Il worthy people
we will give them aud their children after
them all the respect and consideration which
shall attach to the great monuments of the
enterprise and muni!iccncc which shall have
changed the face Of lhin.s in our old common.
wealth and made her richer amd greater for
all generations by ten -Ipld than She ever was
in her pnlnicSt days
Arc these the words Of cxtraragancc? Let
us lodge comparison between Massachu,
sets and South Carolina:
MASSACHUSETTS,.
Acres in Improved farm land, 1,73G.22l
Wood lands, T06,7ll
Other unimproycl lands. cS7 3S.i
Total, 2,730 os3
Cash value Of lands, $llG,I327
Value Of lands per acre. 427OE
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Acres in improved farm land, 3,0l0,539
Wood lands, G.Al3.S5
Other unmNroYod lands, 2,G50,S90
Total, 1905 $50
Cash yaluc Of lands, SlI,SOS.7G3
Value Of land per acre, $40
With our lands brought mp to the MnSsa
chuSot,s rate wc would have $5l7,U00 O00 Of
inrm values against $l5. coo 900. Docs not
everybody know that it is the great manuGc
turing interests Of Massachusetts alone that
has gwen it its enormous farm land values?
Take the cotton manufactures of MnSsn
chaSetts alone and what expression have they
in the economy OF her industries? We fnd
that they c0nsumcd in 1870, 326, ,635 bales of
cotton (!0O pounds, employed 43,5l2 hands
and yielded an annual product of *S5o, ,403,-
| SO and paid out &337l2 996 wages. All
this was the foundation OF Kindred industries,
so that its whole manufacturing product
amounted to &ll2, 1921 and its total pro-
pcrty valuation to 50, lGl,30S,5B, whilst
South Curolina's total manufacturing pro.
duets is stated mt 0.s52,0 05l, and tho total
property valuation at 81 3d. 100000
But why make that which is so plain
palmer? Let thoso who have ears to hear,
hear.
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