The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1882-04-08

/ or Of prniries TOO cold 70 1--we upOf &.
The recent droughts and fires ia oven
those parts OF the Northwest that are
occupied show how terrible the sum
mer IL, and the terrible suffering of
Inst winter, when whole villages were
showed up and hundreds OF persons
persisted through the cold, can give us
ln idea OF their winters. OF course
capital will hesitate TO seek section in
which there are such troubles in all sen.
.ons as these In the South there is
nothing Of this. The climate is equa-
bic. the crops are certain. and there is
no occasion for anything like general
unlure The very fact that the South
ON farmers have been compelled to
produce the cotton cop, and At the
same time, pay for supplies fifty per
cent. interest Tor the use OF money for
eight months on the immense 6mOuuts
they havepaid out for fertilizers, farm
Implements and provisions, which is
over SIX per- enui a u orr DE Nct, /
say, that they have been paying this
rlinous interest for the past fifteen
years, at the sam time cOntending with
the untried labor aud new condition of
things, and have yet managed not only
to keep their heads above water, but to
make money, is perfect proof that
this is the best section for the farmer
in America. AS soon us capital com =
into the South, and farmers can pay
cash for their supplies, getting them
ut cash iltes-as soon as they have
mastered the new science of farming
with free labor and with improved ma
chinery and scientific methods, and as
soon us they learn to diversity their
crops aud adopt the exact and prudent
management OF the Northern farmer,
they will become the most prosperous
people on the earth. in my opinion
Where the farmers are prosperous
there is always little risk in lending or
investing capital
Wi not the epilemics that the
South is subject to count somewhat
against her?"
Not ut ALL As soon as better health
regulations are adopted in the cities
aud strcter quarantine established
along tue COASTS we viii have seen the
last Of yellow fever. cholera and SINH
lar troubles. New York and Philadel-
: phii have at enc time suffered with
yellow fever as the Southern
cities do, but they are not troubled
with it now. This shows that 1t is
not the fault Of the climate, and that
by prodence 1t can he avoided. Even
now the cart OF the South, the great
, Piedmont region, is not subject to any
epidemic, and in few years we shall
see yellow fever aud cholera disappear
from even the Limited territory that it
visits occasionally now"
"What are the greatest agents OF
development in tho South2 ?"
Il should say the railroads. 1t is
, commerce that builds up aud develops
any country In oldeu times those
/, portions OF the coasts on which there
} we're the best bays and Grbors became
sites Of great cities simply because
they were points at which the products
uf the interior were collected aud sent
to market. The railroads are to the
interior just what the harbors are to
the coast, and will Just rs certainly de
velop the sections through which they
; run. They will bring into cultivation
vast tracts of land, heretofore too re.
mote from market to pay for the cult.
q v,tlon OF staple crops. They will
develop mining properties that were
heretofore inaccessible; they will make
available vast forests Of common and
hard wood that would not pay Tor the
telling, and they wall build villages
towns and cities to handle the trade
aud forward the products Of the here.
I to.ofe undeveloped regions that they
penetrate.
Better than all these, new roads
wall bring IN their wake new settler,
from all over tue world. 1t is neces
sary for their prosperity that they
z should establish colonies Of farmer,
and mechanics along their lines, and
, already many OF them have agents II
e Europe to induce emigrants to seel
$ homes in the South, ! find that il
many portions of tile South there ar,
] thrifty colonies OF Swiss, Germans
1 Enghshmen and Alsatians establisbeC
q on the lines of the new roads, and THU
Is but an earnest OF what will follow
a The consolidation OF the various shor
t lines into great combinations with am
. pie capital will hasten the develop
S ment aud these corporations should b.
looked upon with kindness rathei
than suspicion by the people. IL i
imperative with them to Dmld up Tia,
country through which they run, rath
(. er than impede its growth, and tia
4 humblest CITIZEN who lives along thei
:. lines is not more dependent upon IN
q progIe's and prosperity of the COUNT
/. than they are
~ "You iind capital coming Nor Rcneru
4 enterprisesY'
/. Every rapidly. Il is generally oar
h fessed nov IN the North, eyea by thos
u who have been most against the Sout
| heretofore, that an investment ia Ia
Is South nov affords Just as good seouit
a aud vastly more outcome than M il
1. yestment in the Middle on Easter
I, Statos, or aven in the West"
If You SEQ nothing in the way. the
~ OF bright future Tor the S0nth?n
nj Nothing The country Is prosper
y OILS aud the South Is especially 80. A
/. have said before, | believe, that th
"a best lands Of the Wcst DO not nov an
never will return as good an inves
ID ment or furnish as safe home or .
" reliable and heavy an income as Oh
X same labor, circumstances care aud IA
b, yestmvnl in Southern lauds don
IS believe there arp many opnltunitio
lea or aa tine ones offered capital ia an
10 often AZ Ia The south, and the ne,
/. pie who control tlnga la the Nor,
"a and attack the tide OF Immigration. ,
IA wul a. OF eApioa. alto rapidly hndi
la thla ont Mnau this il done Tho Aoui