Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-21
THE SOUrH'S PROGRESS.

COl' AZ. Oondu uitS uSt Decn
South on tour Of inspection and has
been interviewed with the following
result:
In reply to question MS to how
he had been impressed by his trip
he exclaimed:
"Delighted, my dear fellow There
is no describing the magnificent pro-
gress tho South Is making, have
seen all the famous booms of the
American Great West from Manitoba
to Mexico, and L think may with
out egotism say have had rs much
to do with most of them us any 9th
er living Inan--or dead one either
for that matter. l have had hand
in the Dakota boom, which has turn
ed.the wild buffalo pastures and In
dim hunting grounds of ten or iif
teen years ago into two sovereign
States of the Union, with nearly n
million people today. 1 have wit.
messed the mighty booms i'll Mime.
sofa and WISCONSIN, Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico,
and had some slight share in NIL of
them. l have seen the crazy boom
In Southern California, when cactus
patches ten miles from nowhere sold
at Broadway and Fifth avenue prices
by the foot to fools from everywhere;
and in Oklahoma, when mudmen
poured in by tens of thousands to
seize quarter sections of arid desoa-
ton on which prairie dog would
starve to death. 1 have seen them
all, and been little part of them all,
or nearly all, from Winnipeg and
Fargo and Deadwood, Duluth, Min
neapolis, st. Paul and Kansas City
to Los Angeles, San Diego, Cheyenne
and Guthrie, but l have never seen
anything that surpassed, if it ever
equaled. the gigantic boom that has
now set in all over the South. 1t is
glorious cyclone of progress that is
sweeping everything old fogyish and
stupid out of its path. 1t beats all
the wonders of the Arabian Nights,
with whole tin shop stock of Alud
din's lamps thrown in. II is magical,
marvellous, glorious!
"Nowhere on all Gods beautiful
earth ia there region blessed with
so many and such vast natural ad
yantages. Millions on millions of
acres of lands as fertile as ever the
sun shone on, to be had for the mere
asking and taking; lnnds that yield
almost spontaneously every grain.
grass, fruit and vegetable of the tenn
perate and sub tropical zones. Noun
tains ribbed with inexhaustible stores
of coal and iron, gold, silver, copper,
lead, zinc and every other metal and
mineral known to commerce. Quar-
ries of marble of every hue enough
to furnish palaces and tombstones
for all creation. Building stone of
every variety in quantities sufficient
to supply the world till the last man
has gone to mansions not made by
human hands. Mighty forests of all
the most valuable timbers, waving
their long arms from ten thousand
hill and mountain sides. Grand
rivers offering free transportation to
all the wares of the artifcer. Crys.
tai streams tumbling and foaming
everywhere, babbling OF water.power
OhSuSh, iOuS WhoISu, 10 Cufn ali the
wheels and spindles of the universe.
And, ovor it all, skies as bright and
climate as mild and healthful rs
ever blessed primeval paradise. What
more could be askedl Why should
hundreds of thousands of emigrant
home seekers pour every year into
the bleak and blizzardy plains of the
far Northwest, when such land as |
have described holds out its arms
and begs them to come? Why should
the enterprising, industrious, thrifty
multitudes flock to a region where it
is winter nine months in the year,
and id late in the full the other
Shree'-where it is bitter struggle
even for coyote or prairie dog to
!ive-when the South offers to all
honest corners every bounty of soil,
climate, mine and forest that Jeho
yah Himself could possibly bestow
on his most favored children Why
should capital seek investment in O
thousand wild cat schemes and re.
mote barbarian lands, when the grand
treasure houses of the gods in the
South only await the touch of enter
prise and energy to pour their Infinite
riches into any Golfer? My dear feel
low, the whole South is one vast
field of limitless resources, and it is