The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-23

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shall not escape 10 their homes With
out being told IN indlfTeren: Spanish
tha; the South Is their nearest aud
their best market.
The growth of the iron industries
provoked other ventures. In At
lanta the best gold watches are now
made the faest pianos. double con
cave razors and sewing machines.
La Birmingham pins, in Gainesville
matches. Itls curious 10 note how
the industries OF the South have
been built up, step by sep, and
how the system has grown OF its own
growth. A few years ago q firm IN
Atlanta began making paper bags.
1t sold these all over America, hav.
ing branch depot IN Chicago. It
then added cloth bags. 1t then built
a cotton factory to supply the cloth
for It's bags. Later it doubled the
factory. And now it has just added
a bleachery at cost of 100000 TO
prepare the cloth. A number OF men
established successful proprietary
medicines In Atlanta. Two box
factories followed-snd now a glass
and bottle factory, with 100000
capital, supplies them with bottles.
Each item grows out of another.
And so vast and varied are our re-
sources that the system Is a miracle
of success and expansion. The last
census shows that Atlanta stands
third IN the list of American cities
IN the proportion of actual workers
to entire population. Lawrence,
Mass, is first; Lowell, Mass, second
and Fall River Mass. and Atlanta,
Ga, tie at third place
UNPARALLELED DEVELOPMENT.
Here is a wider instance of how
one industry in the South has
brought others into being: Cotton
seed on the oil plantation was burn
ed, or dumped into rivers as WORTH
less. 1t was after slavery was
abolished that some one discovered
the seed was a good fertilizer, and
it was then covered into the worn
cotton fields. Then 1t was fouad it
made a good food for cattle and
sheep. After awhile some one p-ess>
ed thirtY-fve gallons Of oil out Of a
ton of seed, aad sold the oil for
thirty-fve cents q gallon. He found
that the seed, stripped of The oil, was
better food and fertilizer than when
it was so rich and heavy. Experts
ments with the oil developed that it
could be refined up to 81 gallon,
at which figure 1t is sent to Italy and
shipped hack as olive oil. The hulls,
first used as fuel and their residue
sold as potash, now prove 10 be ex-
Cellent food f0c cattle. The refuse
makes the best and cheapest soap
stock. To treat this pregnant seed
and adapt its riches, q vast and
complicated system of factories was
needed. Over one hundred and
eighty immense cotton seed oil mills,
costing 100000 each, grind the
seed, and over fifty refneries, costing
half as much. clarity and improve it.
An enormus system of acid chambers
and fertilizer mills have followed, to
work the cotton seed meal of the oil
mills into fertilizers. In Georgia
alone $1,S26,000 has been invested
in ten years in fertilizer factories
that work up mainly Carolina phos
pilates Georgia cotton meal, and
native iron pyrites for sulphur. Ten
years ago Georgia imported every
ton OF her fertilizers, usually high
priced guanos. Last year 2O2,OOC
tons Of fertilizers. worth s., 100000
were sold in Georgia, and the
Georgia factories prodnced 165.OO.
tons, worth over $4.OO0,00O. Thea
there are soap factories to convert
the refuse of the oil mills into soap
And now, near each mill, are i'm
mense pens, in which thousands OI
cattle are fa.teNed On the hulls
These, IL turn, will lead to packing
factories, and increase the fertilizer
factories. The oil output OF The
cotton seed, fifteen years ago thrown
away. represents S60.000.000 a year
and the value Of the meal and bull:
for fertiIizing or fatteniDg stock, /:
S40,000,000 more. More than $40
100000 is invested in plants for the
manufacture of its various products
Surely, God has led the people of th,
South into this unexpected way o
progress and prosperity.
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