The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-11-17
A Remarkable Exhibit.

A Remarkable Exhibit.
Every display ut the exposition is
worthy Of study, but the exhibit made
by the Richmond and Danville railroad
and its combinations is of unusual sig.
nifcance, and demands special attention.
The collection Of woods and minerals in
this exhibit is without doubt the finest
and the most suggestive ever made in the
world. 1t shows almost at glance the
immense material resources of the South,
and studied in connection with the other
southern exhibits, demonstrates beyond
all question that the field of profitable
investment in this section is practically
boundless. In the display made by the
Richmond and Danvile combination
there are, from North Carolina alone,
copper ores, masses Of great size and
richness; refined copper, in iugots aud
plates; lead and silver ores; iron ores
from many mines corundum, marbles,
soapstones, mica, in clear sheets Il foot
square; sandstones, flexible and other
chrome iron kaolin jewels, amethyst,
carringom, green and rose, berlys, true
sapphires, zircans, etc.. including fine
specimens Of the newly found gem, Hid.
denditc, which rivals the diamond.
Those enumerated are all from North
Carolina, and contained in the exhibit
of the Richmond and Danville railroad
company, which, besides samples Of the
wealth of that State, embraces products,
too many to enumerate Of other States
| traversed by its system Of railways. In
that company's exhibit may be seen some
S7,OOO, worth of gold neggets, besides
bars OF retorted GOLD Of weights from 3S
to 58 ounces. and single mass cf gold
of the value of So 800 10 the quartz that
forms its matrix. The display of woods
in the rough and worked, in the same
exhibit, is very large and fine. In this
| exhibit there are also rare and desirable
qualities ofiron.
1t is also demonstrated that in the re-
gion covered by the Richmond and Dan
vile and its connections that the crops
produced in one year by more Of the
land will sell for more than the land
itself will bring. The exhibit is also re-
markable for the display Of bright"
tobaccos from North Carolinn, from
which the Durham brands are
manufactured The value of this
Yew York industrial weekly, whose
editor had been dazzled by the possibili-
ties which the exposition makes mani
fest, writes thus of the resources of the
South:
ut has always been seen that the South,
making its cotton crop net-that is to
say, growing its own food and manufac-
turing fabrics equal in value to the
clothing of its population-would thus
demonstrate itself to be the richie coun-
try in the world. 1t is claimed that it
has already reached that result-with
moreover, its yield Of cereals and meats
and its manufacture offabrics increasing
yearly. Growing its own food, its outlay
for clothing fabrics met by the returns
from its own manufacture Of textiles-it
has, in round numbers, $500, 10000 net
$40 per head Of population, 5000 per
family, from cotton alone. To this add
the product of $50 million pounds of to-
bacco raised in six States, 200 million
bushels of rice raised in as many States,
together with the revenue from naval
stores, timber, early fruits and vegetables,
and other products of varied industry in
the renovated South.
"Since 1870 the capacity of Southern
mills has increased from eleven thou
sand to moro than fifteen thousand
looms, and from four thousand to
seven hundred thousand spindles.
Within the same period the consumption
of cotton has more than doubled. I.
was fortyfve million pounds in 1870,
and in 1880 it had increased to more
than one hundred million. The census
returns show the past decade the South
has made moro rapid strides in cotton
manufactures than either the country at
large of New England, the great center
of industry in America.
Magnificent water-power for spinning
and other purposes is supplied by the
streams which flow from the East and
West slopes of the Allegheny range tc
the Atlantic and Mississippi, and from
the Southern slope to the Gulf, North
Carolina is estimated to have moro than
three million horse power in her streams
from the table lands to the sea. This
exceeds that of all the steam engines in
the United States or Great Britain com
bined. South Carolina has not far from
the same amount of water power, from
streams flowing to the Atlantic ocean, and
Georgia, from water flowing to that
ocean and to the gulf, probably an even
greater amount, inasmuch as the differ
among the mountains and the mouths OF
! tuO AtfSio III NAV AtAtO lItt
the ocean or gulf, ithe Chattahooche
Etowah, Savanna Broad, Ocmulgee
Flint, Ogeechee, Attamaha, etc, ranges
from one thousand to three thousand
feet, and the rivers flow in the aggregate
; thousands of miles in that State.
"The splendid lift of the continent
which furnishes this vast reservoir O
power, has its crests (the highest il
North Carolina, reaching near 1000
feet, in sn even chain, 250 TO $50 mile.
from the seabord. It's significance anc
, value to the -egion is far beyond the
water-power which it supplies, importan
, as that is. 1t insures mild, equabl,
, climate, in wide extent of country
commencing as soon rs narrow strip o
, alluvial plain along the seashore is passed
! and stretching up the gradual ascent t.
the hi!ldsidcs among fertile valleys anc
rich forests, till the summit is reacAct
t and turned with fertility and wealth o
, natural production on the western slope
! This climate is probably uneGualled il
i the world"
3 A large part of the region referred t.
1 in the foregoing is traversed by th