The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-10-02
THE SOUTH.
Progress of the Southern States In Asri
culture and Manufactures.

THE SOUTH.
Progress of the Southern States In Agri-
| culture and Manufactures.
The capacity of the new three story
mill which Stevens Bros. will shortly
build at GreeEville, Tenn, will be two
hundred looms.
Washington county, Miss, produces
more cotton than any other county in
America. 1t yields $1,000 bales. va
zoo county is second, with $1,000.
A wooden mill to cost $4,000 is be-
ing erected at Riverside Springs, near
Colorado, Texas. The Colorado Oil
company has also been organized with
capital Of $4,000, to erect u cotton
seed oil mill at that place.
The "spook" joke which some
wretch has been playing on the peo-
pie of Houston, has gone so far that
negro girls and women can't be got to
put their foot out of doors at night.
The Post editorially calls on the jokist
to stop it.
Notwithstanding the depression in
the cotton goods trade of the world,
the south is steadily pushing Oh in the
building of new cotton mills. Among
the enterprises of this kind now under
way are tWenty-three mills costing
$3,350C10.
! Excellent industrial and business
prosperity has prevailed in South Car
DINA during the past year. The man
ufactures of all kinds foot up SS32, 1924,
404, as against SIG, ,OO8 in the year
1880. OF the aggregate 81 1863, 1913 was
cotton goods.
The Roheadel cotton mill, at Rock
ingham, n. c., is receiving its machin-
cry. It viii start with three thousand
spindles and ona hu ;dfed looms. The
full capacity Of tie building is six
thousand spindles and two hundred
and fifty looms.
Few cities in this country contain
so much beauty within their limits as
Savannah, Ga. Twenty-tour parks,
or squares, each with several acres of
| tall trees and smooth lawns, adorn
different parts of the city, and give
| breathing places for the Inhabitants.
The cotton crop of Texas last year
was worth more than the cotton crop
of the entire United States in 1913.
Forty years ago the few settlers in
| Texas lived on game. To-day the
state contains more than 100000
cattle, sheep, horses, mules and
swine.
| Ex-Governor Yarmouth, of LQuisl-
ana has gone to France for the pur-
pose of purchasing certain French ma
chinery for milling sugar cane and
sorghum. The French process is said
to yield 20 per cent more saccharine
matter than the system now in vogue
in Louisiana.
Not long ago young Florida negro
named Romeo married . young col
| ored woman named Juliet. They now
have twins which they have named
Romulus and Remus, and they are all
driven to church every Sunday by a
horse named Pontius Plate in a car
rage named Noah's Ark.
Sugar cane culture is rapidly in
I creasing in Importance on suitable
lands along the Caloosahatchie for a
stretch of country extending about
thirty five miles above Myers. The
cane fields range from five to forty
acres in extent, and the growth this
season is already very promising.
Alabama has now twenty-three cot
ton mills, Georgia sixty-two, North
Carolina n'nety-tWo, South Carolina
eighty-one, Tennessee thirty-three,
Virginia fourteen, Maryland twenty
four, Louisiana seven, Mississippi
eleven, Texas six, Kentucky five, Ar
kansas four and Florida two.
A deposit OF copper ore Of unex-
ampled extent has been discovered in
Archer county, extending through
| Wichita, Haskell, Knox and Will
barger counties, Texas. Analysis has
proven it to be exceptionally rich, it
being nearly pure sulphuret, con.
tanning about seventy-two per cent OF
metal.
The International Gordon railroad
is progressing, 500 hands, it is said
being on that part of the road between
Panasoffkee, in Sumpter county, anC
Tampa Bay. The iron is on hand, anC
by next December it is thought the
road will be completed from -Fernan
dina to the water of Tampa bay
Palatka Herald.
Pine trees in some portions of NORTH
Carolina are dying in large numbers
it is supposed from injuries inflicted
by the "bore worm" or "sawyers,
which played havoc with the pines il
that state about thirty years ago. Tn
ravages are not confined to the OLE
trees, the young ones are dying JUS
as rapidly and numerously,
The Marriage Law of Kentucky.
| From the N. Y. Herald.
In his letter to Mr.. William Walter
Phelps, and also in his answers to tn
| Jafo16opt,o Observation-Disclosures in FIJI