Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-16
MARVELLOUS. SOUTH.
Best Crops 1t Ever Produced-FarmerS
Less in Debt than Since the war;
The Hum of Unprecedented Industrial
Heard from Virginia to fe1as-IeS
timony of Bankers
Manufacturers Record


Brilliant beyond description Is the ou'-
look for the South Is future. The DAY oI
her noverty has passed, and she has no"
entered upon, a career of prosperity anu
activity that is indeed dazzling Ihe |
oraninp season of another cotton year
finds her with crops such as never oeloIe
made glad the hearts Of the tlIlers OF heI
coil Nature has blessed the labors OF her
,aorIa With almost more than they can
care for. 80 ao7,ors
Prints have brought millions of dollars
10 the South this year, and still from l'i0
bending trees that could scaio0
" carry their burden Of peaches
oDnlas and pears, hundreds Oh
thousands of bushels have 1a!lGI
Ia rot upon the ground, because the yleiu
vas bevond the ability Of the people "
shin or consume. Such corn crop &c
has been raised was never KNOWN III 1ui9
sec+ion before. surprising even the great
9-ioId If 1883 which up to that time was
tbe largest ever produced IN the 0ou'H'
of cation If is almost too soon 10 SPEAK
definitely but the yield viii hardy, we
+binL, fall short of $50 900 to ,ooo ,Uoo
bs1es even taking the most conservative
estimates. Moreover, the increased con
sunlDtion throughout the Woriu mas
caused q steady advance IN price, anu
cotton is now bringing very much hlsnei
1,rices than last year. TINS means an
increase in the value Of the crop, auuSu
TO the increase of production OF pFoDaoly
not less than fifty to seventy-nVe IhlllioL
dollars The importance of this can be
80, understood when, in connection
Iritb If II is remembered that the crop was
raised at lower cost than any year since
the war. and that the farmers are AT tne
bepinning of the picking season less Il
debt than at any time since 1860.
Corn the South's next in Importance
croD has. like cotton, gwen the pes
yield ever secured. reaching probaDl!
fuIIv five hundred and fifty million push push
eli. against 500 ,705 900 bushels III 1000
Oats. wheat, tobacco, sugar, rice, veg
etonIes have all done better than 10
years, and it is conservative es'Iit- -
RI Mace the increase in the value OF d
Southern crops of 1889 at one hundred
and twenty five million dollars to on
hundred and fifty million dollars NOR
than in 1888, and that, too, remelnpei
inc that the aggregate value Of last yes
vas the greatest on record up 20 IhS
time.
T.atters from leading bankers ana otn'
business men of the South tell OF d Ut
gree of prosperity that the hauul0'
turers' Record has for years been pre-
dicting. but that few could be made
believe would be realized so soon. Ihe
letters tell of immense crops, OF freedo
from debts, of the abundance OF none.
even now when the money crop-cotton
has lust commenced moving to maFke
of the activity that is seen on every hanC
and Of the life and enthusiasm WhI
thrill the people of the whole South.
It needs but a moments thought
see the reason for this remarkable e
of prosperity which has just opened up
the south. In the last three and M
years the Manufacturers Record L
TeDorted the organization in the Sou
of uDwards of eleven thousand ne"
dustriaI establishments, covering eve
line of manufacturing, from maxi
pins to building locomotives, ana
buiIding of over eight thousand mi
of railroad, and the production OF
largest crops ever raised in this secuo
which welded good profits to the lar
ers. A statement Of the leading cr'
for 1887 and 1883 and the estima
WELD for 1889 is of interest: