The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-01-18
Marvellous Growth OF South Carolina

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10 those of our readers who had not
kcpt up with the material progress of
south Carolina the figures of our Colum.
Ola correspondent Sunday morning
amounted to revelation. No State in
.his Union can present more satisfac.
Tory record, notwithstanding msrule and
corruption during portion Of the time
LOT the past ten years, and no State can
cia'm Win confidence future more
assuring. The Iirst notification to the
country that South Carolina had taken up
with vigor her march in material tbinns
was the publication Of the tenth census
Her increase of population was found IN
be astounding, and her growth in aqri.
culture and manufacturing was almcst
correspondingly large. During the mast
three years, however, the State has made
giant strides. How better can such
statements be emphasized than by renrn.
dncing the figures of our Columbia cor.
respondent
III 1879 the number of bales of cotton
rms raised IN the State was 522,54S; 1882.
0"o.75S. In 1879, l1,764,34G bushels Of
corn were produced; in 1882, 7,46O. 900
| o9sheia: The amount of wheat harvest.
ed IN 1879 was 9G2, $3.50 bushels: in 1880
29I3,OoO. Oats in 1879, 2,7l5,445 bush
els; e; III iSS2, S,o94 600 bushels. Barley in
LoE lo'61o bushels; in 1882, $4,000
oushets; ., nen, Kye in 1879, 2G,9s7 bushels;
gallons produced in 1879 9G1 Sos. :,
1882, 507 l97 gallons. In 1879 the farm.
crs sold 257, I95 gallons of milk: in 1850
43o,?33; and in 1879 made 3,Ig6S52
pounds Of butter on tie farm. and in
1857, 1891 ,4S4 pounds.
ms LOO IN face of the fact that 1881.
notoriously severe year upon the farm,
ing interest intervened in the period
ABOVE cited. But, as our correspond,nt
goes Oh to say, 'if tho results obtained
ny the farmers of the State in the past
three years are surprising, the Increased
production in the past ten years il
astounding" '
III lS'O the State produced 224 500
bales OF cotton and 9,735 ,4G5 bushels Of
gram. There were So acres of improved
land to tho square mile, and bales of
cotton and 2S7 bushels of grain wern
made to the square mile. In 1880 there
was produced 522,54 bales of cotton and
iii,olo,593 bushels Of grain; there were
- acres OF titled land to the square
milo and 10 bales of cotton and 5OI bush-
eis OF grain were made to the SQUARE
mile: In 1870 147 pounds Of lint cotton
ana 10 ousheIs of grain, per capita of
population were produced. In 1880. 245
pounds of cotton and II bushels
OF gram. The value of tho difference
between the yield of corn, wheat and Data
IN 1901 ana 1882 Is more than the value
OF the whole amount of farm sunnIies
purchased outside of the State.
Verify do these statistics speak yolumea
for the prosperity and for the prospecIs
OF South Carolina. With the improye.
ment secured too during a time when
most disastrous financial panic had erin.
pleu tho best growth Of the whole coun-
Try, the Improvement of South Carolina
NJ that period was us marked and as
wonderful as her recupeIation from tho
blight Of civil war What more ass,,rinr
argument can Kansas, or Iowa or Wis,
consln make for the settlement of tho
immigrants, for the employment of labor
or for the investment of CAPITAL than
South Carolina hrs forciby set forth in
these fgurcs? Nor il it alone to the
iiorelgn laborer that she appeals. There
IS lesson to every Southern farmer in
tho fact that in last years cultivation
tnere were half million more acres
plantea IN grain than in cotton. The
otate, TOO, is taking prominent position
IN spinning the staple which grows
aoundantly in her fields. The product
lveness of some Of the cotton mills of
carolina has grown TO be q part of tho
history OF Augusta, still, the following
nguires, taken from our Columbia letter,
VIII be interesting in this connection:
In 1870 there were 745 looms and
3l,GS3 spindles in the cotton mills in tho
State. and, the capital invested was
$l,337, 900. The mills paid in vorss '
that year $257 $50, aud employed. ii23
hands. They consumed 475O'S23
pounds OF cotton, and the value of all
the products Of the mills was 81 ,529, ,937.
In 1880 there were l,776 looms, 02,78S
spindies, capital invested, $2,7G8, 500:
wages paid, $34O, l66; hands employed.
2,!9h; pounds of co::o;. consumed
IA ,8G9,5 500, and the value of all the pro.
ducts was, 3,75G77O.
With such record no fears need he
felt OF the future of great State or of
the prosperity of noble people. They
have secured government honest and
as conservative us any in the Union, and
they have gone to work themselves TO
prove that theirs is State TO be sought
ny others coming into this country.
oouth Carolina during the recent war
suffered heavily, but in her recuperation
from these wrongs she has shown more
heIo'sh than the conqucrer of hundred
battles. Her best people are in the
helds NJ work; her most skillful hands
are at the loom and her readiest wits are
at the wheels Of government or are devils.
ing means for the more complete deyel.
opment Of her resources. Many obiec.
tlonable features of the old regime have
passed away and have been replaced by
a. newer, stronger and healthier civiliza-
ton, upheld by the dignity of labor and
Frightened by the hope of her people.
In ante bellum days it used to be the
6eiief OF many politicians that South
Carolina longed to be the head and cen.
sre of a new Republic of this section.
limo 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 EN-
pre- Statc::-Augusta Chronicle and Con.
stitufiondlist.
Improved indictments. md that's Ef-