The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-02-22
TaB SOUTH TIN LAND OF
.<. PROlQ6D.
Director General Kimball's Tribute
to the New South-The Tremen-
dous Tax Of tho Tariff on
q Cotton Crop.

l
q Cotton Crop.
! NEW York, Feb. Sat the session
Of the National Agricultural COnven
ton yesterday, Prof. A. l.. Perry. o
Williams College, in his address on free
trade, proceeded to illustrate how agri
culture il injured BY the tariffin the cast
Of cotton ties and steel rnils. He said in
n crop of 8,OOO, ,OOO tales Of cotton. II
the tariff dnty Of 35 per cent. raises the
c,st Of ties twelve cents per bala
as is conceded by the Pennsylvania iron
makers, then the extra cost of baling
one years crop is $72O,O00, and there
fore the extra cost under the ~ pei
cent. duty, which ia now sought tn be
imposed by the Mckinley bill now
pending in Congress, will be $l,4lo,MN
ON an annual crop Of 6,OOO.ON lnles o1
cotton. In the ease Of steel rails and
the tariff, the professor showed that the
ct'st was about seven dollars extra
for each rail Of the heavier pat
tern, or three thousand do lars pr
mile extra for the single track rssd laid
with steel rnii, The farmers and PLAN
ters pay this extra cost when they TRAM
l,Ort their produce and cotton from the
VI IIIC w GOV 0X1AS VAC XC1\NS u
the south tO the place Of export. Every
freight or travels mile on steel rails.
Hon. II. I. Kinlball, director gene, al
Of the national cotton exposition ut At
iasta. read pepcr on the results Of the
great exhibition. In his most sanguinr
movements he said he had not dreamed
of such 4 grand composite display Of
every southern industry aud resource
ores, minerals and wOotls--which, in
their audacity, the directors, building
wiser than they knew, had accumulated
in this great exhibition. 1t was such
an exhibition Of purely American in
dustry as had never before been collect
eti. Fifteen years had elapsed ): nee the
old labor system had been killed.
The former masters had neither
money nor credit and the former slaves
were intoxicated with the first
,lraught of liberty. 1t was the old story
over again Of the how that had lwen SO
long bent rs to lose its elasticity: but the
essential elements Of true manhood
which, during those four years Of strife.
and bloolsietl, the Southern people had
80 fully demonstrated [applausc] still re-
n,aincd, ami, gathering up the broken
threads OF her former prosperity, ,ic
South wOve them into the complete gar
nlent which she SO lately spread out ut
Atlanta. [ApplauSe.1 He was u Yam
kec, horn in Hainc-a Republican and
il Prohihitionist-but feeling that the
south was the natural home Oi enter
prise, he had built there. He had livssl
through all the stages Of reconstruction
and had never suffered the slightest "s-
lr:,cis,l,, and he knew that hereafter
sectional strife Was done. The mex:
great result wa, the wonderful sale.
uc torthcrn implements and labor
saving contrivanccs among the South
eri, planters. The sale OF manure
spreader> amounted to over $:}6. .tkn'. Fif-
teen hundred cotton planters, two han
.lred new pattern carriages, five hundred
car loads Of engines, P!oughs. burrows.
cultivatOrs and other machines have up
tu this been sold in The South >iacc the
exposition. In conclusion hcsai.: I'VE
want men and women Ot brai:iS who
ere not afraid OF work. We have dis
t:r%lcd sentiment ami turned all "ir-
e,lcrgie; toward practical things. ThSr:
is room !nr all, Il hearty welc0'i,c far al.
and fortune fer al vii" will come ::nd
settle in the yMn," south" Great APP
i.iause.
NGtu. ECIllAIu ituuNCsS 4! NSlN -! ''s:uN"'
which was seconded l,.y Mr.. Fvan:',> -.
Nou!tun. who said .,e had been Il dele
gate to tho Atlanta exhibition and where
he thought to find hostility hc ii.u, found
u hearty welcome. The motion was
unanimously carried.
Ji.:, Davenport WAS '.r:,..;i to town
la-tuiy:lt wish a frigll:tu! ga@i, IN .:>
right silic, inflicted hy u knife i'll liz:
han.is u: George "rai:.e. The s:ahb.nS
occurred al George Majors camp on the
Teton. about four mile, from town, un-
der circumstances. which. ais reported
hv the princila lals in the affair and 9th
cy,. are about a. follows: clai:c AMI
davenport were in town ycsttruay;boi'l h
were drunk ami commenced the quar-
r.! which ended in the cutting. When
they returned to camp last night they
had words about pitching Il tent. Latcr
Cr:,ige accused Davenport of stealing u
bottle OF wl.i-kcy from the jocky box "t
one Of the wagons. This charge enra9cti
Davenport who advanced towards
('rai.e a. ii t. strike him, when the lat
ter plunged Il large open knife, with
which he was cutting shavin"s to start
u fire. into the side ~ Davenport. The
six-inch blade entered its full length
lust l.elow the heart, on the left side and
inflicted n serious if not fatal wound
Benton Record.
f.. H. Reed, Esq, the gentleman v
Route Agent ON the Terminus and Oy-
den route, was in Butte yesterday and