The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-07-10
Tennessee Production.

the links of dentiny that bind us in
commercial unity" His address
was omprehen sive, chaste, clasiC
and eloquent and would be repro
duced in full if we had the space tc
spare. AS it is, we have to content
ourselves with the3 following ex-
cerps, which we commend to the
readers of the CITIZEN, especially
those who live in other regions and
who contemplate migrating. Here
is the colorado of the continent
and of the world. Col Heating said
Cotton, which in the United
States is the oldest of these staples,
is an indigenous plant IN that part
of the south known as the cotton
belt. Early explorers found it
in the country bordering the Mis-
sissippi and its tributaries. The
rise and advance of the cotton trade
of the Uuited State is, therefore,
co-extensive with the history of the
country. 1t was first planted by
the cOlonists as an experiment in
1921, but was not successfully cul-
tivated until 1876, in which time it
was known as a garden product,
the first shipment being made in
174S to Liverpool, England, where
there is record of the receipt of
seven bags, the arrival Of which
very much astonished the natives.
Thirty-three years later, in 1871,
5,19S,l78 pounds of cotton where
imported from India, and 98,70S
pounds were exported to England.
Nine years after this, in 1870, the
first cotton factory was built in
Rhode Island, and two years later
the Whitney cotton gin relieved the
planters Of the laborious process of
separating the lint from the seed by
hand, and gave an impetus at the
south to the staple that has con
tinued ever since. In 1S26-27 the
production had grown to 957, ,281
bales, and the home consumption
149, ,516 bales; and in 1SS2-83 the
production was 6,949,756, and the
home consumption 100000 bales.
OF this last crop Tennessee raised
33O,621 bales, an increase of 124
per cent. over her crop of the pre-
vious year.
The growth of cotton manufac-
tories IN this county has been
equally rapid, and from recent sta
tistics it is fair to conclude that it
will for the next few years increase
at a rate that might be considered
fabulous by comparison with the
past. At the south especially will
this be the case. At the close of
the civil war but two or three sur
vived that ordeal of destruction,
but now there are about 200, con-
Stunning over 100000 bales, over
$5,OOO,OOO having been invested in
new factories within the past twelve
weeks; a total of $75, 100000 having
been invested in mills and mines at
the south since January of this
year. This rapid increase in mill
and mining property has rendered
necessary the construction of IL,
600 miles of railroad at the south
since 1880. With extraordinary
facilities in water power, cheap Ia
Dor and the advantage Of cotton to
be had without the intervention of
a broker or the expense Of freight,
handling and insurance, it is fair to
conclude that there will be no ces-
sation of mill construction until
the entire crop is consumed by
spindles, the hum of which will be
heard in every state from the "Old |
North to Texas. When this is re-
allied, the south will make from her
cotton crop three times as much as
she does now; in other s5ords, tax
ing the cotton crop of 1928 as the
basis, she will receive 5000, 200, 900 |
for her manufactured crop of G, 6,949-
756 bales instead of $33O,000,000. |
But in addition to these very
gratifying figures, there is the 9th
er encouraging fact that the Yazoo
Delta and the Mississippi bottom
lands that form the eastern boun-
dary of the state of Arkansas are
not yet settled, and that they are re-
garded equal to a total production
of more sthan 100000 bales.
Will there be a market for this, |
think / hear some one ask. The |
answer is found in the demand to-
day, which is in advance of the
production.
If, while l repeat the following
figures, you keep in view her $18-
100000 cotton crop, and remember
that she raises over $2,000,00O |
worth of tobacco, l think you will |
agree with me that the old VOlun
teer State is keeping pace with the
of the west, while, by the
development of her vast stores of
iron and coal, she bids fair to rival
the state of Pennsylvania. And
first let me say that Tennessee in
creased the number of her farms
between 1870 and 1880 fully forty
TWO per cent. She ranks among
the states of the union, the second
in the production of sorghum, the
eighth in corn, the thirteenth in
wheat, fifteenth in oats, eighteenth
in buckwheat, twentieth in rye,
,wenty second in barley. Let US
enumerate her principle produc-
ions. In 1888 she produced 800
j21 bales of cotton, 1,720, ,220
pounds of tobacco, 213,316 tons of
lay, 3,776,212 gallons of sorghum,
rs, ,1S8, 600, bushels of corn, 8, ,S81, ,2O9
bushels of wheat, and raised &c., |
E78 sheep, 1,988,763 hogs, 269,318
lorses, 176,427 mules, 306, ,710
Mich cows and 4S7,404 oxen and
,ther cattle. 1t seems to me that
hese figures prove a remarkable di-
,ersity of crops in Tennessee.
The perils incident to stock