Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-01
GREAT PROSPERITY.
The SOuth's Bright PrOSpeets-The
Largest Cotton rep Ever Produced.
Farmers Less In Debt Than in Any Year 'Ince
the war-A Year Of Jnb'I"e-Nhat
Southern Bankers Say.
From Manufacturers Record OF August 20.

From Manufacturers Record OF August 30.
1t would be difficult to exaggerHte In
telling of the wonderful prosperity which
is before the South during he next twelve
! mouths. Cotton may no longer be King
as in oIden times, but as a subject IL
brings TO the South an amount of wealth
that is almost beyond comprehension.
For five years the cotton crop has been
steadily increasing, and 8 Oh year has
shown gain over the preceding one-a
record which no other five year period
can exhibit. III l6S6-S7 the crop was
6 sos ,OG0 bales; IN ISS7-9S it was Z ,046,-
S33; in lSSS-S9, e 1888 900 hnles, but the
number OF pounds was greater than In
the preceding year; in lSSJ-90 IL was
about $50 200 bales or over, and the
indications point to at least Z 500 900
to s 600 900 bales this year. SOtwith-
standing the steady increase in
production, the price has advanced
from year to year on account of the fact
that the world IS consumption Is fast out
growing the production. The total farm
value of the last four crops, including
cotton seed, was about 81 500 900, OO0,
and this year, crop, unless some unfore-
nearly $500 900. 200 III value, Including
the value of the seed, which was Il waste
product few years ago. Thus in five
wears the South will receive for its cotton
nearly 81 900, zoo. 900.
While cotton has thus been adding so
enormously to the South s wealth, all
other crops have likewise increased.
Corn, wheat, oats, tobacco, rice. sugar,
grasses, fruits and vegetables have made
great gains. and while some of tnese
crops corn for instance, will this year
fall d little short of last year, yet this
difference in the corn yield will be more
than counterbalsced by higher prices.
In fact, the Southern farmers have been
most wonderfully blessed during the last
five years, aud they are now in better
financial condition than the farmers or
any other section Of the country. They
enter the new crop year less IN debt
as class than at any time since the
war, From all over the South
the bankers. whose letters we publish to-
day, write of the ''best outlook for
farmers since the war, - ''ths condition
of farmers better than ever before, -
"farners jubiiant over the prospects, -
and other equally as encouraging words.
The people of the South are enthusias tic
over their prospects, aud everywhere is
seen life aud activity. Added 10 the
wonderful industrial progress Ia the
South that is revolutionizing the whole
country is this unprecedented prosperity
of the farmers the following figures eX-
plain the reason Of the South's agricul-
tural prosperity:
YIELD OF THE PRINCIPAL CROPS IN 1887, 1888
1Ss9, 1880.
Bal: Bales sie: Bales sale: Bales Bales.
Cotton. 100000 s.ss8,oOO t7,2sO.OO to
corn-1n the year 1887, aoa. n5, 600 bushels;
1883, 900, 7g5, 000 bushels; 1889, SIS. ,O0O
bushels; 1880, 5O0 200, OO0 bushels
Wheat-In the year 1887. 50, ssI, 900 bushels;
1888 A. 207 900 bushels; 1889 Sc, 900, 100 bushels;
oatsTn the year 1857, 81. 500, 900 bushels; 1858.
7s. 254 OOe bushels; 1883. ~ 900 bushels 1880,
IS, OOO, 600 bushels.
tEstimated.
Thus in four years the South has pro-
duced about 90 500. 900 bales of cotton,
2 900 900 900 bushels OF corn, 200 ,000,-
900 bushels OF wheat and 3l5. 600 900
bushels of oats, the total value of these
and other agricultural products reach
ing the enormous aggregate of nearly
So 800 900, 900. With a cotton crop
worth nearly $500 900 900, @ corn crop
that will yield $3.50 900 900, SIS, 900 600
OF wheat and oats, added to rice, sugar,
tobacco, vegetables, etc., the South's
agricultural products this year will reach
at least 81 ,05O. 200 600, or about $780,
900 900 more than in 1880. With this
enormous agricultural wealth added TO
the hundreds of millions of outside
money which have gone South for invest
msnt in railroads, in furnaces, in mines,
IN mills, in mineral and timber lands, in
costly horels, etc., we can readily I'M
dsrstand the South 3 great prosperity.