Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-02
HUNTsVlLLE, ALA.
The PrSgrs s. that is Being VI ade by ths
SORth In Eabor-Savfng Machinery.
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Special Correspondence of the Appeal
HUNTSVILLE, January 3i.-The article 10
your issue of the 2lst inst ant, How We Hate
the Yankees" with extracts from the Atlanta
Constitution upon the same suhjsct, indicates
that our Sou bern people are beginning 10 be
benefited in the practical lessons in politi.
cal and domestic economy which such journals
the APPEAL and Constitution are directing
their sttention 10.
The South is making cure and steady pro-
gress in the development of her wealth by
evincing progressive spirit oil enterprise in
building up and fostering important manu-
featuring points. These are evidences OF the
beginning of a new era of prosperity, re-
sultiug from the diversified interest and re-
sources of the South. The fields OF iron,
COAL marble and forests are being converted
into wealth, giving attraction and employ
ment 10 numerous artisans and laborers.
Cotton factories, blast furnaces, rolling
mills, machine shops, foundries, cotion-seed,
lumber and Touring mills are being built
throughout the South, aud necessity, the
mother Of invention" is stimulating the
mechanical genius ard skill of our Southern
men. The same cause of expense of produc
ton, scarcity and unreiiability of labor in
the Northern States which suggested the
invention of gang-plows, corn-plauters, cul-
tivators, grain drills, reapers, mowers, bind
ers and harvesters, is now directing the in
ventive genius OF Southern men 10 the pro-
duction of lahor-saving machines especially
adapted to Southern agriculture.
Cotton is the chief and important crop of
the South. Improvements in cotton-gins are
being man by Southern men. The huller
gins are made in your city, and the genius Of
Memphis man will soon perfect the cotton
gin.huller and separator. Cotton-seed and
I'll Ri h,iIt thronrbo,k 4
country, thus enhancing the value of cotton
production. Labor saving inventions of cot
ton seed drills, cotton euItivators, cotton har-
rows, have already supplied an important
necessity. The cotton-plcker will doubtless,
in a shert period, be perfected. Men Of cap.
ital and mechanical skill are now expert
menting for its perfection with encouraging
results. Here 10 Huntsville, we have cot.
ton chopper and cuitivator factory under the
management oil gentlemen of intelligence,
energy and integrity. This is the invention
of Capt. 3. j. Curry, native of Alabama,
and gentleman who has been long and ex
tensiyely engsged in cotton planting. This
machine invented by Capt. Curry will in a
short time occupy and hold more impor-
tant and valuable position on The cotton
plantations than the reaps-s and mowers oc-
cupy in the grain and hay fields of the
NOrIl auQ httl. 1His mdcutue Idukb
among the foremost of Southern inventions.
II performs its work with accuracy in chop
ping. and thoroughness in cultivation. 1t
saves the labor of at least twenty. five hoe
hands per day. This has been atlested BY
large number of the most prominent and
successful planters OF our section, and this
same genius stimulated by the love OF ma
chinery aud a desire to benefit the people
of the South may at no distant day present
machine which will gather the cotton.
Qgein Sdbes
The cost OF production must be reduced
by the, me OF labsr-saving machinery. Our
people are becoming educated TO this fact.
and are thus adding to the profit side Of
their accounts. By fostering such enter
prises We retain our surplus at home for the
development and establishment of our Sc
ton. Recognising that capital creates CAPT.
tai, the conversion Of all our crude produces
into marketable condition here saves 10 US
the larger profits from manipulation of
skilled labor, which has made our Northern
neighbors rich al our expense
CHARLES p prCH