The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-01-25

| upon the farming interest, inter
yened in the period above cited.
But, as our correspondent goes on
to say, ,ifthe results obtained by
the farmers OF the State in the
past three years are surprising. the
increased production in tbo past
ten years is astounding
1 In 1870 the State prodaced 224 :
500 bales of cotton and 9,735.465
bushels Of grain. There were S8
acres of improved land to the
square mile. and 6 bales of cotton
and 287 bushels of grain were
made to the square mile. In 1880
there was produced 522,548 bales
Of cotton and 17.010,593 bushels
of grain there were Ill acres of
titled land to the square mile and
! Is bales Of cotton and 501 bushels
of grain were made TO The square
mile. In 1876, 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 ofcorn. wheat and oats
in 1881 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 the prospects of South
Carolina. With such improve
ment, secpred too during q slime
when most disastrous financial
panic had crippled the best
! growth Of the whole country,
the Improvement of South Caro-
lima at that period was as marked
and rs wonderful as her recurera,
tion from The blight of civil war.
What more assuring argument can
Kansas, or Iowa or Wisconsin
make for the settlement of the
Immigrants, for The employment
of labor or for the Investment o!
capital than South Carolina has
forcibly set forth in these fgurcs
/ Nor is it alone to the foreign Ia,
berer that she appeals. There is
a lesson to every Southern far,
ner in the fact thai in last years
cultivation there were baif a mil.
lion more acres plantedin grain
than in cotton. The State, too,
is taking prominent position in
spinning the staple which grows
abundan,ly in her 6ulds. The pre-,
ductiveness OF some of the cotton
mills Of Carolina has grown TO be
a part of the history of Augusta,
still, the following figures, taken
from our Columbia letter, will be
interesting 10 this connection:
In 1870 there were 745 looms
and 1868 spindles in the cotton
mills in the State, and the capita
invested was 81, ,3s7 900. The mills
paid in wages that year, $257,
$50, and employed 1,123 hands,
They consumed 4,7sO, ,s43 pounds
of cotton, and the value of all the
products of the mills was 81, ,529,
937.. In 1880 there were 1,77t
looms, 92.7ss spindles, capital in
vested, s2,768,5Oo.; wages paid
$40. 1866; hands employed, 2,195
pounds of cotton consumed, IA,
1863, 800, and the value of all tn,
products was, $780, 77o.
With such a record no fear
need be felt Of the future of &
great State or of the prosperity 0
a noble people. They have secured
a government as honest and q
conservative as any IN the Union
and they have gone to work them
selves to prove that theirs is
State to be sought by Others com
!. lss into this country. South Caro-
Ina dniag the recent war suffered
!, heavily, bus',;a her recnperatiol
from these wronge~aa has showl
5 more heroism than the saouere
of a hundred battles. Here's
: people are in the fields at work
be. most skilfnl hands are at th
= loom and her readiest wits are Q
the wheels of government or ar
= devising means for the more con
plete developmentof her resource
q Many Objectionable feature of th
: old regime have passed away an
:, bave been replaced by a newe'
: stronger and healthier civilization
!, = upheld by the dignity Of labor an IN
: frightened by the hope of he
people. In ante-bellum days