The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-07-01
THE NEW SOUTH.
Nh. a. W. CAMPBELL IMPRESSIONS

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iths industriai, EdueatlosA,, Soelalald Political
Status Of the Gulf States-natesisl Proarsss
y , PrOduclus ludir,ei Political Rsvo.
lstio,s--1hs Tariff Question.
Readers Of the JyrELIoKscxR are already
informed al tho roturn from the South OF
III. A. W, .Campbsll. A reporter who called
IN him yesterday at his room at the Biamm
House, had very Interesting talk on The In.
lustrisl aud general progresI Of the South,
md particularly Of the Gull States, whore
Mr.. Campbell spent this pas! winter. He has
1isited that ssoIlon several times, tirst In
1900, and bis opportunities 10 form impress.
lions OF the changed and changing conditions
II things there on his late visit were there.
'ore good. Ae says the whole South "a In a
transition stage. This period might DO coz.
'idered its wanderingH ID tho wilderness, on
he pilgrimage from the Egypt Of bondsgs
md sell satittied Incidence, TO the Prom
sed Land OF material prosperity and the
1iRhest freedom. Tho old things are passing
.way, but all things have not yet been made
new. 2S5.55 Pm 20 49, fegs 'l..1.I
THE LUMBER BuslNx.s. .3Ilu'
Mr.. Campbsll's description OF tho vast
lumber operationain the South wasagrsphio
one. He says there are large fields Of alluoat
pine forests, the lumber as fine a.
any, In the world, but unappreciaied until
lately. 0ne.third Of the area Of Mississippi Ia
composed ct these pine lands. The business
In them has become vast one within few
years. Hundred Of sawmllls have been set
up at tho heads Of the bayous putting in
10 The gull, and along the little nRylgabls
streams, where the timber 10 right at hand,
aud sawed lumber Is loaded i1.mall schoon.
ers and transported out to Ship Island,
where the large seagoing vessels are loaded,
and the Lumber by tho hundreds OF thou.
Sahas OF ieet ia carried almost all over the
world. Much OF 1t comes North along tho
coast, some Of 1t IL taken across 10 Mexico,
some to South America and the West Indies.
and not q small quantity finds ia yay an.
nually to the Old World. Other mil,a aud
their markets over tho railroads which are
piercing into portions Of the South where
the iron hosss wss scarcely heard OF In ante.
bellum days. N IS z t-I75.s77
The hotel Gt which Mr.. Campbell stopped
at Pass Christian, Miss., was flashed in
native woods, and served as an excellent ad.
yertisement Tor the woods OF the country.
Every year Northern meC--axpsrlenced lum.
Der men, from Wisconsin AID Michigar--go
Into the lumber sections OF ths South and
buy up large aections OF land. Much OF this
can be bought OF the government ut ST. Is an
acre. Some ct 1t bias been sold az low Us 80
cents an acre al btate sales for delirQuent
taxes. On an average twenty good trees,
each making Thousands Of feet OF good lum.
Der, can be cut from an acre. This lumber
Ia: now shipped by rail to the North,
where 1t holda Its own against the home
woods. - =. : -
COTTON DErHRosEp. .it, So
The Southern planters OF late haye begun
TO realize, t;ys Mr.. Campbell, that cotton
10 not king. Still, 1t Is a very important
factor in the new order Of things in the Gull
States. The cotton mill Ia new. Institution
there, but already three hundred mills are 10
operation. All the largo towns have cotton
mills, and at New Orleans there are NUN,
Dor. These mills arc pushing the older mills
OF the North, aud bringing prices down. MIR.
Campbell does not think there 10 much ad-
vantsge In being near the cotton producing
country; but these mills mako peculiar Ike
OF goods which have crowded this Northern
manufacturers out Ct the market. All over
the South class Of people wear cotton sum.
mer and winte:; peculiar coarse cotton stu1
Is made for them by the Southern mile, and
this the Northern manufacturers cannot sell
as low. ....z.5s,.
Another source OF great profit to the COT.
ton planter and others, which until lately
remainfd almost entirely unused, is cotton
seed. This was formerly thrown into heap
and allowed to decomp0ss. Suddenly i. was
discovered that In this material was an uu.
worked mine OF wealth, and now cotton
seed mills dot the sauth. quite as numer.
ously As lumber and cotton mills. Here
the oil is pressed out, and forms al importan.
article Of commerce, having 10 a great
extent taken the place oil olive oil for most
purposes. The meal which IL left after the
OIL Is expressed II q valuable and popular
fertilizer. ;
.ls.As ANEW rEsNsrLyANrA.
Mr.. Campbell lees in Alabama o new
Pennsylvania, so far as the cosl and iron
trttlic Is concerned. The iron region Of the
South extends over large parts OF Alabama,
Georgia, Tenn esEee, Virginia and West Wiz.
einia. But Alabama Is a specially important
iron section. About Birmingham hre the
richest coal and iron h.lds, and at sons
places, notably Of Wheeling, whers the
,Woodwards, late OF this city, ara interested
largely In iron, the ore, coal and Limestone for
making iron are taken out Of one tract Of
land within easy reach Of the furnace. Ii.
tho lc1t three yssrs the output Of iron in
Alabama has increased from $1,000 0CO
10 5000, 600, and tho development has yet
scarcely begun. The main difficulty now
encountered Is to find home marxe,a Tor the
jrIn. tits sold through the North, snd 1t Ia
q significant f6c: that while all the iron
lurnRess III Alabama are In blast, only 10
percent OF these In 1hs country taken e. a
whole are now producing iron, Already
manufactures OF stoves and other iron pro,
ducts ase springing up In the South, and
there ~ large rolling mill at Birmingham,
and car wheel teun5sy is talked Of. The
iron region 10 network Of railroads, and the
development OF thoindustry is largely due tc
the accec1 these roads give the factories to The
markets Of the North aud Eat.
AN AdRIcuL1uRAL SECTION. 4
Though lumber, iron, coal sDd cotton arc
largely produced and manufactured, the
South Is still al agricultural community. Il
has learned the folly of depending entirely
upon cotton, and Is now raising corn and
grass. Formerly, iaa year when the cotton
crop failed the planter was Obliged to bug
corn aug mortgage MS properly TO pay
for it Now he, laipes his own corn
and 10 10 that extent jEdeps ndent.
A little pork is fsttened but only for
fresh meat, al 1t ia too warm u clinAtS to cure
meat to advantage. There is yearly greater
business ia market gsrden,rg-""trlck gar
denlpR" as it is .called-for The Northern
markets. Every day, Mr.. Campbell said,
long trains of fruits and vegetables ptsssd
North over the great through railroads. be-
ginning frat with early cabbsgss from South
ern Florida. The strawberry season begins
in April, and everything is a good month
earlier than In this latitude. i
OF the.atsple productxof course cotton gives
the mts; valuable yield per ee,e, but the I'M
Lortapcs Of the small fruit md vegetable
pu.thes, is becoming more and more appar,
ent every day. Ar. Campbell repeated
statements Of s9utEern berry groHets which
put to shame the biggest Bsrnesville straw,
berry kings, and this Is but one item OF thls
department Of agriculture, yet In Its infancy