Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-25
THE soUTH's AGGREGATION OF AID
XANTAGES.


VANTAGEs.
No one can study the combina-
ton of advantages possessed by the
South, says the Manufacturing
Record, without being amazed at
the possibilities of the future. Cot
ton, of which it practically holds
the monopoly of the world, is a
wonderful wealth producer, that has
no equal in the agricultural products
of this or any other country. This
crop alone, raised on 100000
acres, will this year be worth, in
Guiding the seed, nearly S5OO,OOO,-
TOGO, which about equals in value the
total corn crop of the United States
raised on 100000 acres, and is
about S1O0,0O0,000 greater than the
value of the wheat crop of the whole
country, raised on 3S,0OO,000 acres
This is basis of wealth for South
ern agricultural interests that prom
Uses greater prosperity than the
farmers of any other section OF the
country can ever hope to enjoy.
4 Added to the cotton crop are the
rice, sugar and tobacco crops, al
sources of great wealth which the
farmers of the North and West dc
not have. Then there are the early
vegetable business, which is assum.
mo such large proportions and
which already. reaches not less than
100000 a year; the fruit-grow'
ing industry, including the raising
of oranges, grapes, early peaches
etc, III addition to the usual farm
crops of wheat, corn and oats, the
three staples upon which Western
farmers must wholly depend.
The agricultural possibilities o.
the South are greater than those o.
the balance OF the country all com
bined, based on the aggregate val
ues and actual profits to the produc
ers.
With this unequalled agriculture
, foundation the South has the miner
al resources that make it certain
/ that it will become the center of the
, iron and steel production of the
world for nowhere else on the globe
, can the same combination of advan
tages be found for producing iror
steel at the lowest cost. It has fal
more coal. than Pennsylvania, Ohio
Illinois and all of Great Britain com
bined, and its coal is more easily
combined. It has the largest sup
} ply of pine and hardwood timber tc
be found in the United States.
In addition to all of these adyan-
tages it can produce cheaper thar
any other section, because living il
cheaper. New England for in
stance gets its foodstuffs from the
West and the South; its cotton, coal
iron and and lumber from the same
regions. Everything that its people
consume or manufacture is enhanced
! in cost by long transportation. Be
sides its rigorous climate add!
greatly to the cost of living. The
: South produces its own cotton; i
: has its own iron, coal and timber; il
raises its own food stufs, its milo
and health-giving climate must al
WAYS make the cost of living much
lower than in the North or West
| and with these advantages, which
> no other country possesses, it cal
! manufacture cotton, iron, steel ant
lumber and everything into which
these enter cheaper than is possible
: in any other section.
These facts are gradually impress
! ing themselves upon the people O
the North and West as well as upol
the capitalists Of England. The.
probably more fully understand tn
Y great possibilities of such countr.
: than the people of the South them
e selves. They see that there is n
e danger of OVERRIDING the business il
: the way of stating new towns an
4 new industries and building ne0
: railroads so long as good iudgmen
Q is exercised in handling such entel
!? prises. And it is because they I'LL
= derstand these facts that they ar
:? now putting so many millions int
Southern properties.
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