The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-20
VIRGINIA LEADS.
WHAT CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW
SEES IN THE SOUTH.
The BONOVZA OF THE FUqJRI
The Resources ofsrost other Sections
Have boen Devel0ped-But Such is
not tho Case Here-The Crust Only
Has Been Broken.

Chauncey III. Depew seems TO nave
reached the core of the situation, and
stated it 80 positively that it needs DO
effort to comprehend 1t. The natural
resources of the North, East and West
have been drawn upon until they nov
Weld no attractive values. The day
of big things has passed. 1t is to tie
South, kept back by circumstance
which could not be well avoided, that
the capital and energy of the country
are looking. 1t is here where &C
cumulations of years in the enter
prises of the North and West, must
find profitable employment. And no
where under the sun are oppor1un-
ties more inviting. While MIR. DepeW
does not specially mention Virginia
in his reference to the South. it Is BE-
cause he has never traversed The
State and Investigated her resources.
OF all the States in the Union the IS
the richest in material resource
Not even Pennsylvania, in her vlrglo
DAYS, could surpass her in minerals,
in tinbers, in clays, and agriculture
possibilities. We venture nothing =
saying that the iron o,e resources CT
this State are unequaled in the Union,
and yet we have comparatively no
industries to represent them. 1t
only in recent days that capital and
skilled knowledge have been attracted
to these conditions. And the more
| investigation is made the more wonder
that such marvellous wealth has so
long lain dormant. Our day has come,
and Mr. Depew presents the future OF
Virginia in the language he applies o
the South, while at the same tine TT e
whole Southland heaves and tlrobs
under new impulses and new inspire
tions. There is nothing, nor has there
ever been anything, in the East or
| West to compare with tie natural ;
sources the South is unfolding and
which are magnetizlnS the minds al q
muscles of the country. We are just
entering upon the infancy OF our de-
velopment-just breaking the crust
which conceals the wealth that nature
has so lavishly bestowed, and which
must command the capital and ente:-
prise to convert into the uses OF cIvl-
lization. Mr. Depew sees all this. and
as much as says SO in the following
sentences:
"The net result of this visit to II e
South to my mind, is just this-that
the South is the bonanza of the flt-
ture. We have developed all IL e
great and sudden opportunities for
wealth, or most of them, in our North
western States and on the Picli c
slope. But here is vast country wltn
the best climate in the world, wit
conditions OF health which are abso-
liutely unparalleled, with vast fcres s
untouched, with enormous VEINS Of
coal and iron, which yet have net
known anything beyond their orlsI-
nal conditions with soil that, under
proper cultivation, for little capltas,
can support tremendous popule tlol;
with conditions in the atmosphere
for comfortable living winter ana
summer which exists nowhere else in
the country; and that is to be the al
traction for the young men WHO
90 out from the farms to seek se5-
| element, and not by immigration
from abroad-for do not think they
| will go that way-but by the Internal
| immigration from our own country t
is to become in time as prosperous IS
any other section of the country AMI
as prosperous by purely American
development
4 Others see it as does Dir. Depew, AM
we know it, especially as it relates TO
Virginia. We are indeed entering
upon a new era. We are stel ping
upon the threshold OF new malerlil
birth, and our growth and progress
can only be measured by the efioi [
that is put forth. The South, vita
old Virginia in the van, is coming, and
coming to stay, to contribute her
wonderful resources to the progress
and grandeur of the nation.-Valley
Virginian.