The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-11-16

Total. ,751 ,5SO, $50 $3.50, ,2s1, ,e87
Manufactured products have more than
doubled in value in twelve years; min
eral products doubled eight times; forest
products nearly three times; fisheries
nearly three times. The aggregate has
almost doubled. Agricultural product
shows least favorably, because the inter-
est has, by OVERRIDING cotton, reduced
the income from that crop abnormally.
Still the growth is far beyond that Of any
other part Of the world since 1880, With
perhaps an exception In favor OF small
group Of the new States OF the North
west.
In regard to the re.adjustment Of the
South to the conditions of economy forced
upon her planters by over-production OF
cotton and the effect of real estate booms,
the Chattanooga ITadesmG,s says:
"It would be grave error to assume
that the OVERRIDING of cotton has been
wholly damaging. It would be an
equally grave mistake to say that upon
the whole the result has been anything
but highly beneficial. The Southern
planter had gone on in the one old rut so
long that nothing short Of hard jolt
would help him out of it. He had gradu-
ally advanced the crop from 100000
bales of 40 pounds in 1880 to $3.50, 1000
bales of 5S1 pounds in 1892, without tak-
ing the least account of the growing COM
petition of India and Egypt. He had
nursed the delusion that not only was
cotton King, but that American cotton
was the King Of commerce. He had got
ten to think that Southern land could
not be made to yield its owners living
in any other way than by cropping it to
cotton perpetually. His Indifference to
if not his prejudice against tdiversifcation
Of crops had become chronic. Nothing
short Of universal loss through over
production was sufficient to teach the
planter his limitations, and that has been
taught him twice, two years in success
sion he has barely, as an entirety got his
money back on his staple. The result is
more corn, grass, potatoes, rice and other
food and feed crops have been raised by
3S per cent. than in Sny year of the
South's history, bringing feeling OF
independence to the whole planting clans
never before felt. An especial advance
has been made in the production of rice.
Louisiana this year will harvest more
rice than the whole Atlantic seaboard,
and get good rates for her grain. Great
increase is seen in the number Of hogs
In the black belt, from which will be
obtained much of the meat needed, and
IL Will 10 1dttotcu Ou uOUlS S1OnA SOl LIE
In word necessity has forced diversif-
cation; and not the least Of the benefits
Of it will be in turning attention to fruit,
crops, pears, peaches, etc. Disaster has
done for ths South in two years what
nfty years of theorizing and warning
failed to do. As for the boom enterpris-
es, they will finally prove immensely
beneficial to the Southern coal and iron
belt. The immediate investors will lose
money on the Lest located and managed
Of these enterprises but the plants they,
have built are there for use in the future.
Many of these are Just what the section
needed to diversity our mechanical in
dustries- s-heavy hardware shops, stesl
plants, rolling mills Of the-more modern
style, agricultural implement factories
and the like. ALI, or nearly all these will
soon be available, and their operation
will in short time mark distinct and
permanent step forward.