Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-29

He has raised, this year, five hundred
bushels of splendid corn, three hundred
of oats, six hundred of sweet potatoes,
one hundred of Irish potatoes, thirty
bushels of peanuts, a very large crop of
peas of a variety peculiar to the south,
excellent for stock, a fine lot of sugar
cane, several bales of cotton. a good crop
Of turnips, cabbages, &c, and an abun-
dance of hay. IF some of our northern
farmers will come down here and apply
northern methods to this soil, am sure
they will realize, from their investment,
more easily and more largely than at
home in Wisconsin or at the west in Da-
kota. I predict that the time is not far
off when the tide of emigration will turn
southwark instead of altogether west
ward, as at present, and with splendid re-
suits both to the south and to the whole
country. Montgomery stands high in the
cotton markets of the world. In amount
it ranks about third, in quality its cotton
is scarcely inferior to any grown. 1t is
thought that the crop harvested here this
year will reach two hundred thousand
bales. The average price will be about
Mae cents per pound, making total Of
nine millions of dollars paid out in this
city for cotton. You can form but little
idea of the number of men and teams
and the amount of steam power employ
cd in getting this cotton ready for ship
ment by rail and boat, to the various
manufacturing centers of the world. All
through the marketing season the streets
of the city are alive with teams bringing
in cotton, and On Market Square, the
headquarters for sales, even Broadway
is outdone.
Warehouses, ginneries, presses, oil
mills and cotton exchanges seem almost
to constitute the city. There is one i'm
mense institution which everybody goes
to see, called the Compress" The cot
ton as it comes from ordinary presses in
five hundred pound bales, ia very bulky.
The Compress, like horse sitting on his
hind legs, takes theIe bales and by means
of tremendous hug, so powerful as to
make everything about the building
~, l. e
about five feet to little more than two
feet A car or boat can then be as read
lily loaded with cotton as with wheat.
But in any correct view OF the cotton
trade, az it now stands, there is another
item which must be taken into account.
and that is the cotton seed | have al |
ready said that for every five hundred |
pound bale Of cotton there are one thous-
sand pounds of cotton seed. Thirty-three
and third pounds make bushel, which
brings a shilling, and is as easily sold as
wheat The cotton seed crop will, in this
locality alone, amount 70 nearly seven
millions OF bushels, which will bring
for the raw seed, nearly one mil
ion dollars. When made into oil, as it
all is in the Nails of the city, it's va lue
will be many times increased. There is
one cotton factory here now, but when
shall come to manufacture
her cotton into fabrics as Minneapolis
does her wheat into -four, she will havs a
growth not less marvellous than that of
the city of the prairies. -, q Our city is
full Of life and interest The State
Fair has just closed, the Legisls-
ture, the Unitsd States Court, the
State Temperance Convention, and the
Methodist General Conference, are all in
session this week. Ia my next [ shall
try to say something about the city and
it's people. R. @. BEDFORD.
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