The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1886-09-17
EXPERIMENTS IN JuTE RAISING.
Preparing the Fiber for Narket-Good
News for the SnnfIi

Preparing the Fiber for Nfarket-GOod
News for the South.
The announcement that O company has
been organized in New York to make a
thorough experiment in iute raising in the
south, is cheerful bit of news The COM
pany has leased 10000 acres of land in
Madison county, Alabama, and will plant it
in jute and ramie; it win also establish a
factory for preparing the fibre for market.
1t can not but be a qualification to Professor
Waterhouse, of this city, who has written and
said SO much in behalf of jute culture in the
sonth, to see the Endorsement of this broad,
practical enterprise given to his theory
Northern capitalists have been brought at
last to believe that this fibre, which is super
seding others in the manufacture of so many
kinds of cloth, can be profitably grown in our
southern states - and that we can not only
save the $20,000,0O year we now pay for
India jute, but establish in this country new
system of prosperous manufactures The city
of Dundee, in Scotland, lives very largely
upon its jute industries, the jute being i'm
ported from India and manufactured for ex-
port to all parts of the world. We have i'm
portant jute manufactures in this country,
too, but the butts, which are the raw material,
are brought from the other side of the world
and this necessitates an outlay which would
be saved If we could raise our own supplies.
There are good reasons for believing that
we can do this Partial experiments already
made have had very satisfactory results. The
plant requires rich soil and a warm, moist eli
mate - conditions found in Louisiana and
parts of Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina
and Georgia Jute stalks OF very large size have
been raised in Louisiana, and it is claimed
that a crop of the fiber can be made with one
half the labor required for cotton, which will
yield twice as much money. This, if it shall
be practically demonstrated, will be of great
value to the southern states. It will give
them two staples instead of one; it will cur
tail the cultivation of cotton, which has been
carried to an extreme, and it will make south
ern plantations the seat of q coarse and sim
pie manufacture which will still further di.
versify the industry of that region. The Ala
bama enterprise will be watched with inter-
est by southern planters, and if the results
shall be satisfactory, jute and ramie culture
will become an important feature in southern
agriculture.-St Louis Republican.
When Mark Twain Was Tmpecanious.
When Mark Twain arrived in San Fran
risco from the sagebrush state he was IN his,
1T that time, chronic state Of impecuniosity.
He had furnished some correspondence to
The Call and at once made raid OH that Of
ice for funds for immediate use and for a
position ON the local staff. He wore ragged
felt hat, blue soldiers overcoat, pants which
had formed a passing acquaintance with the
tops of his boots, and the latter were guiltles5
Of knowledge of even the name OF black
Ing brush. George Barnes, who was at that
lime city editor of The Call, told him to come
70 work the next day, and gave him an order
On the business Office for money enough to
make himself look respectable. The next day
Twain took possession of his chair, and fer
six weary months Barnes tried to get. Some
work out of him
At the end of that time, in his good-na-
tlred way, he tried to let Mark down and
out easily and politely, by saying to him:
"Mark, don't you think you are wasting your
time and talents in doing local works Why,
I think with your style and talent you could
make more money writing for first-elass
magazines than in such work as you are do
ing now"
"That means that you don't want me any
more. You have come to the conclusion that
am not the kind of man you want
"Well, if you will have it." said Barnes,
you are not You are the LATEST, most
shiftlcss good d-for-nothing specimen l ever
saw around newspaper office. Thaye tried
for six months to get some hard work out of
you and failed, and have come to the con-
clllsion that it is useless to keep you any
.onger."
Barnes" replied Twain, in his most placid
manner, "you are not as smart man as ]
thought you were. You have been six
months in finding that out, and / knew it the
day came to work. Give us an order on the
office for three days pay, and l git. San
Francisco Call