Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-04-21
SOUTHERN GOVERNORS,
IExr OF THE ADDRESS ISSUED Ar RlcH-
MoND.

NhOND.
The following is tho address read
oy Governor Stone at the confe, once
of Southern governors held in Rich.
mond.
The governors OF the States OF
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina. Geor.
gia' Alabama, Kentucky, tennessee,
Missouri, Louisiana, Arkansas and
mississippi, assembled i'll convention
at the city of Richmond, Va. on April
IL 1893, for tie sole purpose of nd.
vanclpS, by cooperation und concert
OF action, the industrial interests and
well being of their several States. do
Issue tue following address to the
people of the United States and
those i'll Europe who may conte,n-
plato making investments in this
country on inrnigrating here in search
of homes
"Ths States represented at this
convention comprise substantially
the southern half of the American
Republic. It's eastcrn and southern
exterior limits are bounded by the
Atlantic ocean and the Gulf of Mex
leo. The interior is trayersed by
many OF the most important rivers
on the continent and by some of the
greatest in the world. The surlace
is diversified by mountain chains aud
beautiful valleys, by long stretches
of fertile bottom lands and broad ex
panse of picturesque and productive
prairies. The climate is temperate,
changing more or less with the sea
sons, aud is pleasant, invigorating
and healthful. The resources of this
vast area, distributed with wonder
full and surprising equality and it's
adoption to natural and to industrial
production is almost limitless.
"MtaeralS-All or nearly ull Of
these States have iuexhaustible do
posits of coal, mostly bituluinous,
which can be mined less expensivcly,
perhaps, than elsewhere in the world.
In every section Of the aren emprnc
ed by these States ARE enormous and
unreasonable supplies of iron, lead,
zinc and other metals useful in the
industrial arts. Multiplied thou
sands ure already engaged in mining
and reducing these metals. The
value of these mines and mineral d~
posils have already long since pass
ed the period of experimentation, aud
yet they are i'll the very infancy of
their development.
"horcSt'y-S Scattered throughout
these states are also great ;reas of
forest lands OH which are growing in
superaUunflance as iiue timber ns can
be found i'll the world, cypress, oak,
walnut, ash. maple, pine and the like,
fit III the highest degree for ship
guiding, hodse building aud for all
tho uses of manufacturing.
"-d9ricuItuye-The soil and eli
mate uulte to give TO those Stutes
unsurpassed adaptation and capacity
Tor the productions OF agriculture
Tobacco, cotton. sugar, Indian corn.
wheat, rye, barley. oaLs-all tho ce-
renls-are grown here in prof,Ise
abundance. Nowhere in the world
does the earth yield more plompt,
certain and abundant return TO the
vitalizing touch of tho husbandmen
than i'll these Commonweaths.
"Ii0Ticult've-As much NAV be
said, likewise, of horticulture. No
where can richer or sweeter fruits
such rs oranges, bananas, apples,
peaches, pluns, grapes. berries-be
grown IN greater profusion. Already
are to be found here veiy many OF
the most extensive aud profitable
orchards. vineyards and gardens on
the globe.
''Such, in brief, ere the climate and
Typographical conditions and such
the natural and productive advan.
tnges of these great States of the
South and Southwest.
Hitherto Immigration and capital
have flowed more toward the Wcst-
ern aud Northwestern States. This
was due, no doubt, largely to the
fact that these were new states, where
immigrants could find free homes by
right of settlement on the public
lands of tho United States, and due
partly, it may be, to the fact that
most of the States represented III the
convention were the theatre of war
during the struggle between tile
States, and were interrupted in their
progress by the somewhat turbulent
conditions immediately following the
cessation oil hostilities incident to the
SO called period of reconstruction.
But, happily, al these disadvantages
are now at an end. The desirable
public lands of the Northwest are
practically absorbed; they have been
taken up. Long since the old dis
turbing forces That prevailed in the
South and menaced its well being
have disappeared. 1t iIas begun il
new era of progress and prosperity
The tide Of immigration has been di
vertod southwark and is pouring in
upon us steady and aug,nenting
II