The sun., 1883-12-09

have not Tho money REQUIRED for setting
up, as farmers on, their own account;
still has " about 5ooCooo "a acres a'''o Of land land
r nsi u S y SSrs STn
for their lands. There nro 1.564 miles Of rail
road In the State; The cottonseed.oil mills
Os and their dPGGs syS hsnaa,
kansas but butter has been made from m it.. The
Ssa1o sn y, has sJ gaIngd n population from 4s44l in
RSposd SVf' 6Slacrs ls'o haye spent moro than
$40 900 600 In Mississippi within the past two
years, and several cotton fqctorles have becn
cotton .srowins state in the Unlon. re ISb. PROB.
solving in hor two jute factories In Brookliavcn
Hqd Re- bs Tns ps 3 ,os
lumber standing. Lands. may. DO bought at
from .25 ~ Sre %r to ss9 Misssspp
Ee he % h%G sssss nhabantss iS and s 5o7 7"S IN
The General Government still owns about
2Ooo, 900 acres Of LA land In Louisiana and tho
ns Sps for ss nd
land thu. can be drained aud si.a5 iar SstteTr SST
1000 sacks Of ground salt day. Louisiana
protecting herself from tho semi an ,iai over.
Gws Of the MssissnP prG'eston re onSs
ho a population to cultivate it. The State has
LAG ON miles of railroad; Her total debt is Sill
Texas is buying up and retiring her bonds
total debt is ii. 576.Gai. immIErants are pour. .
ing into the state over the railroads, from the
Of yesr sS% new
are rising at all points oi tho compass. ,ol
s WSe1s Sa as d IN tho f Er.
%s. ocS al and f%s b.Is, s %%sse tHS. S'Ss
for sale in Texas. which are counted BY mi;
an acre. Good land near a railroad com
mands $40 an acre: acre. Texas has g larger, aroa
streams run through it and railroads traverse
it in every direction. She has 10000 square
r Gt SunH Gn a BY, not rEra Es n4s
afew cotton mills and eottonseed oil mills. and
as these are proil.able II may be safely pre-
Texas is there will ere long be more. especially
as she has large cottcngr9%%ing region north
age in in the state Is 574s Many now @ roads arc
soon TO be completed, and 1t seems probable
wnsr m e w BE a e Br"z1 in
least three outlets to the ocean for direct trade
with Europe. Her population In 1870 was
| S1S.579. and /. .59l .749 in 1880.
birds eye view Of the progress OF the South
was taken by Major T.. A. Burke. in his sreecl
before the recent Convention of Cotton Ilnnt.
ers. in Vicksburg. He said that thirty years
ago cotton. sugar. and tobaco were tho ellie
products of the South: that the orange was al
alien in Florida. and truck gardens for com
merce were unknown; that Texas had not thcr
learned the fun value. of her stock
ranches; that Arkansas and Mississippi die
not thon know the value OF their forests
nor Alabama. Tennessee and North Caro-
lima of their mines: that Louisiana then pro
duced little rice. and that nobody in the Soutl
had o notion OF the intelligent cultivation o
fruit Tho Major continued; "I In Mississippi
Arkansas Texas. and Louisiana nearly G. OOiI
600 acres OF woodland have been either sold OF
entered during the past two years. We pro
duce and cultivate every crop more intelligent
ly. Our cotton fields yield more cotton to th
amd Of better %aty than ten
in Georgia that had been worked for man,
H ana LIVER Were d supposed TO pc exhnust"d
made to yield larger crops than ever"