The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-05-21
GROVES aaid that himself and many other

owners of groves, who had heretofore USED
Northern fertilizers, would hereafter use
nothing but the Carolina products. An
owner of one of the largest sugar planta.
tious near New Orleans said that he used
about two hundred tons of fertilizers
every season, and nearly all of it vas
manufactured in the North, but hereafter
he thought he would buy largely of the
South Carolina manufacturers. The
Florida commissioner was presented with
quantity of the South Carolina fertil-
izer, shipped to New Orleans for distri-
button, and it was used on his orange
groves, and he reports that the results
have been so satisfactory that he is sure
many of the owners of groves in Florida
will use it another year. Many farmers
from the Western States who have never
used commercial manures of any kind
are anxious to make some experiments
with them, and it is possible that some
orders may be received from them, and
if the introduction of these fertilizers is
satisfactory it will be followed by a large
business. The South Carolina fertilizer
exhibit has given such q boom to this
industry that manufacturers all over the
Union will be benefited, but of course
not to the same extent as our own COM
panies.
THE WOOD EXHIBIT
has attracted almost as much attention as
the phosphate display. Lumbermen
from all sections of the country have
visited the Exposition and have been
pleased with the exhibits from all the
Southern States. In the South Carolina
department there are about 140 speci-
mems of native woods, all of merchanta.
BILE size, and they attract much attention.
Inquiries relating to the timber resources
of the State have been frequently made,
and these investigations will no doubt
result in a rapid development OF the
lumber industry at no distant day. The
exhibit of manufactured goods and the
maps of the water powers of the State
have attracted attention to the advan-
tages afforded by the State for factories
of every description, and this should
result in bringing capital here for invest.
ment in such enterprises. The varied
agricultural productions of the State
illustrated by the exhibit have given 9
correct impression regarding our agricul.
tural capabilities, and the interest that
has been shown by visitors in this divis.
ion convince nae that it will be the means
of inducing an
INFLUX OF PROSPEROUS SMALL FAR.
MERS
from the Northwestern States and else
where to South Carolina. The display
of ores and building stones will, I am
satisfied, cause the development of our
resources in that direction. Our special
exhibits, rice, naval stores and fish, have
been of immense benefit to the State in
showing the variety of our productions
and our natural wealth, while the exhibit
of birds and animals from the Charleston
Museum has not been e1celled in the
quality of the specimens even by the
splendid displays of the Smithsonian
Institute, and have not been equalled by
that of any State.
South Carolina has never been more
favorably before the people Of the world
than she is to day, and do not exag-
gerate the
IMPORTANCE OF THE EXHIBIT
when I say that the good impressions re.
garding the resources of the State are in
a large measure due to the stand we have
taken at the Exposition. Some of the
States could have remained away from
New Orleans and not have been greatly
injured by their absence, but South Car.
olina has been so long and 80 persistently
misrepresented that it was absolutely
necessary for our State to disabuse the
public mind of the impressions that have
been created by these false statements.
I do not hesitate to say that this has been
accomplished, aud that hereafter we will
stand before the country in our proper
position. But great as the good may be
that our State has derived in this way
the greatest benefit has been in the
knowledge of our resources that the ex.
hibit has given our own people. Old
South Carolinians who left the State
years ago visit the department at New
Orleans and are astonished at the variety,
quantity and quality of the exhibit.
Our own people are little less surprised,
and they leave the Exposition with q
higher regard for their homes than they
ever entertained before. They examine
the products of the other States, and
then their own and they realize that
South Carolina offers them every oppor-
tunity for the requirement of wealth or
the delights of home that any other
section does, and they return to the State
with the determination to develop her
resources and to spend their lives upon
her soil. If, therefore, we waive all the
possible benefits to come to the State
from outside, we have been amply repaid
for all expenditures on the exhibit by
the elevation of the State in the minds
of her own citizens. In addition to this,
the work done by our people in assisting
the department in the collection of these
specimens has given them better under.
standing of the varied resources of the
State, aud this will result in better sys.
tenn Of agriculture and the development
of new ideas, and this will, in itself, 60 q
long way in the advancement of the ma.
terial progress of the State.
A Contrast,