The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-16

it has been in 1880, now the export trade
seems to be on such sure foundation
that it must grow, and will greatly re-
lieve our market of all the best quality
of beef cattle of suitable size. When
buying remember that it pays to get good
blood, for such will always sell best when
fat. Butchers are learning fast that it
pays them well to get nothing but we'll
bred animals.-American Farmer for Sep
TENDER.
Prosperity OF the South.
The South can afford to let the partisan
politicians misrepresent 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 population by the in
fux of sturdy, hard-working pioneers
from the North and West, as we'll as
from Europe. She had no part nor lot
in the tremendous Gland grab," by means
of which the West and Northwest were
not only reticulated over with compre.
hensiye railroad system, but landed terri
tory was lavished upon those sections
such as enabled them to offer irresistible
inducements to foreign immigration ; yet.
nevertheless, the railroads of the South
have been repaired, consolidated, extend
ed and multiplied in such way as to
afford ample, cheap and convenient facil-
tiles for transportation, and the best sort
ofstimulus to the development of agricul-
ture and manufactures. Her great sta
Piles, cotton, tobacco, sugar and rice, have
resumed their commanding positions in
the aggregate of the worlds indispensable
products, and now yield crops greater
than ever before, while greater attention
to diversified husbandry is teaching her
people their ability to feed and clothe
and supply themselves, their leading
crops thus giving them all the profits
realized upon their leading crops
to be applied to their own uses. Her
mineral resources are also being de-.
veloped most rapidly; cotton mills,
furnaces and forges are erecting in many
sections there is a new spirit of thrift
and enterprise observable among uniform
distributor of wealth which is the &C.
cepted sign of happy people. Under
such circumstances the outcry of the po-
litician against the South is recognized
to be 20 vain thing" the more so from
the fact that il will not be heard any more
after November 2.
The cotton crop last year was 500, 900
bales the largest ever raised, and it is es.
timated 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 culti-
vators an average Of $50 a bale, or So $780,
100000, and yielding in surplus, over
former averages (us credit which may
rightly be place to the account of free
labor, S600,000,00O in gold. In Arkan-
sas the crop has increase from Ill ,000,-
900 pounds in 1870 10 $4,000, 900 pounds
in 1873. Ir Texas the increase has been
from $50, 900, 900 pounds in 1870 to nearly
100000, 900 in 1878, and probably 80O,-
100000 pounds in 1880. The cotton crop
of the South in 1879 gave employment to
12,5OO, 900 spindles, 81 900, 100000 capital
in buildings, machinery and operating
expenses, and found work for 100000
persons. The South has begun to take
part in the manufacture ofits great staple.
It's spindles are already seven per cent.
of the total number employed in the
country, and aggregate Including 113, 900
in Maryland) 774 900. These Southern
cotton mills are small, but more pro6ta-
BILE in proportion than the more extensive
establishments at the North. Careful
estimates show that the saving in cost of
raw material in favor of the South is at
least twenty per cent, a very important
factor when we consider that raw mate
rial amounts to siXty-four per cent. Max.
ing of cotton seed oil is another rapidly
growing industry at the South, employing
forty-one mills. The oil sells readily at
high prices, and the pommace left over
is an excellent fertilizer. The iron ores
of the South are being worked to great
advantage already. Georgia alone pro-
duced 100000 tons of pig iron per annum.
Large iron works are established in Green
burg, Newport, Covington, Louisville,
Chattanooga, Knoxville, Rome, Ashland,
Atlanta and other places, where car
wheel, spikes, nails, steam engines and
other things are produced The ore Of
Tennessee and Alabama can be worked
more cheaply than the British ores of
Cleveland. At Birmingham, Ala, pig
iron can be turned out at $40 ton. In
East Tennessee hot blast, stone-coal, mill
and foundery iron, made of brown and
red hematite, can be produced for S11 Per
ton, and Blessemer pig, made of magnetic
ore, for SIG ton. These prices defy COM
petition. The South Carolina phos-
pilates will suffice in generation or two to
renovate and repair half the wasted old
fields of that section. In Louisiana,
Texas and Florida the sugar industry is
making notable progress and yielding
remarkable profits. The Louisiana crop
last year yielded $l9,OOO,0OOO. One
planter raised on 3,2S7 acres of land g.
$1,000 pounds of sugar and 1926 barrels
molasses, selling for S575,000. The Dal-
rymple wheat farm in the North consists
of %, 900 acreas, yet its tolal product was
only $3.50, 900, or 100000 less than the
Louisiana plan got from one-seventh the
quantity of land. We say nothing of Flor
ida orange crops, of the countless herds of
cattle aud sheep on the broad plains of
Texas, for the facts already adduced in
testimony to the prosperity and the TEEN.
ing resources of the South are enough to
explain why so many enterprising men
are pushing thither from all sections,
determined to put in their sickles ere the
harvest is ripe.-Bahimore Sun.
Edgefleld's Candidates.
EDGEF1ELD, September 9.-The fol.
lowing is the result of the Democratic