Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-18
PROSPERITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
From the Augusta Chronicle.

SAhVAiNEts
From the Augusta Chronicle.
To those of ouI readers who have not kept
up with the material progress Of South Caro-
lima, the figures of our Columbia correspon-
dent may amount to a revelation. No State
in this Union can present a more satisfactory
record, Notwithstanding misrule and corrup-
tion during portion of the time-for the past
ten years, and no State can claim with con-
fdence future more assuring. The first notl-
fication to the country that South Carolina
had taken up with vigor her march in material
things was the publication of the tenth census
Her increase of population was found to be
astounding, and her growth in agriculture
and manufacturing wasalmost correspondingly
large. During the past three years, however,
the State has made giant strides. How bet
ter can such statements be emphasized than
by reproducing the figures of our Columbia
correspondent:
In 1879 the number of bales of cotton raised
in the State was 522, 54S; in 1882, $50, 75S. In
1879 II, ,764 ,349 bushels of corn were produced !;
in 1882, II, 100000 bushels. The amount Of
wheat harvested in 1879 was 962, $3.50 bushels ;
in 1882, 2,973,600. Oats in 1879, 2,715, ,455
bushels in 1882, S,O94, 900 bushels; Barley in
1879, 16,545 bushels in 1882 423. 900 bushels.
Rye in 1879, 26, ,9S7 bushels in 1882, 136, 800
bushels Sorghum-gallon produced in 1879,
261, ,7OS; in 1882, 507, 1877 gallons. In 1879 the
farmers sold PSI, 1876 gallons of milk; in 1882,
430, ,933 and in 1879 made 3, 1876, 1857 pounds of
butter on the farm, and in 1882, 4,66l ,4S4
pounds.
This too in face of the fact that 1881, a
notoriously severe year upon the farming in
terest intervened in the period above cited.
But as our correspondent goes on to say, ''lf
the results obtained by the farmers of the
State in the past three years are surprising,
the increased production in the past ten years
is astounding"
In 1870 the State produced 224 800 bales of
cotton and 9,735, ,465 bushels of grain. There
were IS acres of improved land to the square
mile, and bales of cotton and 2S7 bushels of
grain were made to the square mile. In looO
there was produced 2,54S bales of cotton
and 7,O1O,593 bushels of grain; there were
III acres of titled land to the square mile and
- bales Of cotton and sol bushels of grain
were made to the square mile. In 1870 147
pounds of lint cotton and 13 bushels of grain,
per capita of population were produced In
1880, 245 pounds of cotton and II bushels OF
grain. The value of the difference between the
yield of corn wheat and oats in 1851 and 1882
is more than the value of the whole amount
of farm supplies purchased outside of the
State.
Verify do these statistics speak volumes for
prosperity and for the prospects OF South
Carolina. With such improvement, secured
too during a time when most disastrous
financial panic had crippled the best growth OF
the whole country, the Improvement OF South
Carolina at that period was as marked and as
wOnderfulas her recuperation from the blight
Of civil war. What more assuring argument
can Kansas, or Iowa or Wisconsin make forthe
settlement of the immigrants, for the employ
ment of labor or the investment of capital
than South Carolina has forcibly set forth in
these figures Nor is it alone to the foreign
labor that she appeals. There is lesson to
every Southern farmer in the fact that in last
years cultivation there were half million
more acres planted in grain than in cotton.
The State, too, is taking prominent position
in spinning the staple which grows abundant
ly in her fields. The productiveness of some
of the cotton mills of Carolina has grown to
be part of the history of Augusta, still, the
following figures taken from our Columbia
letter, will be interesting in this connection !:
In 1870 there were 745 looms and 34,GS3
SpindleS in the cotton mills in the State, and
the capital invested was S1,337, 900. The
mills paid in wages, that year, S257, $50, and
employed l, 123 hands. They consumed 4,150,-
1923 pounds of cotton, and value of all the
products of the mills was 81, ,529,937. In 1880
tai invested, s. 76S, 500; wages paid S340, 1G6; /;
hands employed, 2,195; pounds of cotton con-
sumed, 1860, 500, and the value Of all the
produces was, So, 75O, ITO.
With such record no fears need be felt OF
the future of a great State OF OF the proSperl-
ty of noble people. They have secured a
government us honest and as conservative as
any in the Union, and they have gone to work
themselves to prove that theirs is State to
be sought by others coming into this coun-
try. South Carolina during the recent war
suffered heavily, but in her recuperation from
these wrongs she has has shown more herolSm
than the cOnquerer of a hundred battles.
Her best people are in the fields at work; ;
her most skillful hands eat the loom and her
readiest wits are at the wheels Of government
or are deviSing means for the more complete
development of her resources. Many 0pjec-
tionable features of the old regime have passed
away and have been replaced by a newer,
stronger and healthier civilization, upheld by
the dignity of labor frightened by the hope of
her people. In the ante-bellum days it used
to he the belief of many politicians that South
Carolina longed to be the head and centre of
new Republic of this, section. Time has
changed all that, but it would be no lowering
of her destiny were her people to resolve to
make her one of the leaders OF the New South
in the restored Union-to rank with Georgia
as an Empire State.
GLIMPSE OF SALT LAKE CITY.
Salt Lake City sprettily laid out with wide
streets at right angles, many large stores, well
built, and doing good business, while the
residence portion contains very many line
houses surrounded with lawns tastefUlly laid
out, and great variety Of fruit and shade
trees and all this has been reclaimed from Il
sage-brush plain by perseverance and plen-
tiful supply of water distributed by a system
of irrigation. We were there at the time OF
Mormon conference, and so had the oppor-
tunity of going to the conference house"
church it would be called anywhere else-and
saw 500 or more Of the brothers and sisters,
principally the latter assembled there, and al
so heard President Taylor, Brigham Young
son OF old Brigham-and one OF two others
pray for the advancement of their institution
and annihilation Of their enemies and oppres-
sOrs. And here let me state my impression OF
the average Mormon. They are set of peo-
pie drawn mostly from the lower classes OF
foreigners, and utterly devoid of personal
beauty or even average good looks, and as
whole, showing a great lack Of mental powers.
OF course the leaders are exception to this last
remark
We next examined the tabernacle, but only
outside, as no Gentle would he allowed there
in if it could be prevented. The new Tenn
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