New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-01

products IN be paying only ths
their transportation. but profit TO the manufacturer and
the cost OF transportation the manufactured articles
which It's people consume. This incubus long resting
upon the South. hinderng and Impeding march
d progress Is about 10 be removed The South will not
only manufacture nearly everything needed consump-
Non within its own borders but something 10 sell
10 her nelaf tors AMI send abroad.
VAST RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH.
Up 10 1e0i h,Ic hal not bcer produced In any single
year IN the Unlei States than S5O OF pig
iron IL IL estimated that during tho coming year The
State Of Alabama alone VIII manufacture 400 600 OF
pig iron' which viii sell fos more than 5000 0O0
1t is estimated that agriculture yielded Southern
farmers In 1887 s76,0oo,O 900 than In 1896 The
value OF the corn crop alone s2S 600 0C0 greater in
1887 than in 1es6
Over 400 900 900 were spent in building and eouppino
new and improving old railroads In the South last
The aggregate value OF all the products Of the cotton
mills In the South was $4,000 600 In 1887, against
Wi. 900 000 IN 1880
According to careful estimate in order TO allow the
South Its proportion OF the railroads OF the country TO
enable 1t to transact Its Increasing business 10 would
qure by the time they could be built 900 miles In
addition to what has II the rails should cost $50
per ton this Item alone would than $780,
OOoOoo The South will surely manufacture part OF
these rails az well the other materials and equipment
necessary to the completion of 10000 miles of railroad
During the last eighty years there have to our
shores from Europe and other lands ID 00O 900
pe-more than the combined population OF the three king
doms OF Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium His
tory furnishes parallel great people
1t Is estimated that during last year the number Of emf
grants to the United States reached about O00 The
increase In population in the United States Is about 80
per cent for each decade per cent per At
this rate adding population about 900 900
per annum than three times the population OF West
Virginia In 1880 This increase will 20 Land,
homes and employ ment be found for the The
States having good unoccupled lands, and timber
offer the best advantages for largely absorbing this annual
increase
West Virginia, bordering Pennsylvania and Ohio,
with largely the climate the soil and the
rivers with her rich valleys forests all varieties
OF timber almost untouched and her mines of coal and
iron ore only opened here and there and
and quantity than those OF Ohio and Pennsylvania IL
certain under proper conditions have and enjoy tho
same, or greeter degree OF development progress and
prosperity than either of those great States.
WHAT WEST VIRGINIA NEEDS.
While Nature has done much for the State MIR nas
done very little. With her natural advantage W"~t
Virginia has the basis Of much that makes STATE great
powerful and prosperous It's people conentef aud py
still She has fingered in the march OF progress and de-
velopment We Of West Virginia, interested In the vel
fare and progress OF the State should in all proper was
and by all proper make its attractions advances
and resources widely known. This will bring what IL
most needed and desrcd-morc FARMS coal and Ion
mines opened. coke furnaces, more mills more
capital, more towns cities and population reaching
millions instead Of hundreds OF thousands.
Tie State has debt. Taxes low. The people
liberty loving and law-ubidng For the most part
I live pure lives Crime is rare, and when committed
T. Jmptly punished The laws fair, liberal and
well administered Under tho rights Of the
guaranteed and capital is amply protected
II we do duty end make sise use Of the gifts
nature has Dounully lavished upon this fair State,
happiness, prosperity and progress will Ne the reward.
The present suspcIous Everything to point to
-c-ess confidence, encourage hope mako
,he future br. ght for ourselves and our posterty