Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-07

Inc increase vi lIldCullleIy eillpIoSSo III
the manufacture of cotton is given as fol-
lows: Looms, 1860, 525; 1854, 1862. Spin
dies, 1860, 3O,s9O; 1854, 1912.
The production of lumber and naval stores
has increased, within the last three years,
"A per cent.
The manufacture of commercial fertilizers
has shown the unprecedented increase Of
S32, 1924 ,404 in 1888, as against SS,6l5,l93 in
1860.
In agriculture, the increase of the cotton
crop of 1888 was 1l4,Sl5 bales more than in
1860. There was decrease of five millions
bushels in the production of corn tor the
same years Of oats the increase was 1885,
l5S bushels, and of wheat an increase of
SIS, ,293 bushels.
From the information embodied in the
report the cotton crop of 1854 is estimated,
if the season is at all favorable, at 100000
bales. In this connection the Neacs ocnd
Courier remarks editorially:
This is fair estimate of what may be
expected, if the season be favorable, and if
the estimate be reduced considerably there
is still an enormous Improvement in the
agricultural situation as compared with 1860.
The increase in oats, a distinctively white
mans crop, is worthy of special notice.
Moreover, the advance in agriculture is due
to the labors Of the white people of the
State. The county reports are clear and un-
mistakable on this point. Colored labor
was less efficient last year than it was five
wears ago, and the available supply is con-
stantly less than the demand. In the coun-
| ties where the negroes are most numerous
the efficiency of colored labor is greater than
| it was five years ago, while a decline in etti-
| cheney is reported in the white counties.
The explanation probably is that the de-
moralization of colored labor, under negro
rule, reached the extreme point in the coun-
ties where the negroes are most numerous
In such counties the good effects of i'm
proved government would necessarily be
more marked than in counties where the
decentralization had not been so great. The
cOlOred farmers, as a rule, are not making
progress, not saving money and not acquir-
| inc land. They succeed betteras land-oWn-
ers than as tenants, and, as a body, are val
liable as laborers only so far as they are di-
rected and controlled by the white men.
The number of immigrants in the State is
insignificant. It's the native white farmers
who have lifted South Carolina agriculture
out of the slough and who make it progress
sive and profitable. Mark this statement.
In seventeen counties, containing about one
half of the total population Of the State, the
white farm labor is to the negro labor as I'LL
| is to 549. Four-tenths of the workers on the
farms are white men. In the State as a
whole, three-tenths of the agriculturists are
whites. Side by side with this pregnant
circumstance put the statement that there
are over twenty-five thousand improved ag-
ricutural implements in the State, and that,
excepting in five or six counties, attention
and effort are directed to the Improvement
of cattle, sheep and hogs. So are the adj
vancement and development in agriculture
accounted for and explained.
\ recapitulation of the consolidated re-
ports gives the whole value Of agricultural,
manufacturing and mining products of the
last % years as follows:
-, loi ,Ob
1SS4....................... 16,5ol, 12
In other words, after all the losses Of the
war. and with free labor, the gross income
of South Carolina, from the sources named,
was 80 per cent. greater than 1T was in 1850.
THE RACE IN TIE BLACK DISTRICT
Within the past two days a considerable
crop of candidates for Congress has sprung
up in the Black District, and the scramble
for the Congressional shoes Of the dead Rep
resentative promises to be lively one.
The following candidates are mentioned as
being in the running: Robert Smalls, COL
lector r. b. johnson, S. J. Lee, the colored
lawyer of this city; II. +. Miller, the canary
coored eX-State Senator of Beaufort; DIR.
| w. G.. Crum, colored, of Charleston and the
inevitable dark horse, sam Lee, VINO ran
against Congressman Mackey in the last
election, is filling a Federal office in Ala.
bama and will not be in the race. Local
Republican politicians here think the con-
test will be narrowed down to Smalls, Mil
Ter and Collector johnson, with the chances
! of nomination in SmallS Decentralization
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