Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-04-20
CONE TO THE SOUTH !!

The Convention Of Southern Governors,
in Richmond, Virginia, was an assem-
blage of great importance. Nearly all
the States were represented.
RICHMOND, VA. April 13.-The Con-
vention of Southern Governors was called
to order this morning by President Fish
back.
The committee on permanent organiza-
ton reported, through Gov. Mckinney,
recommending that the temporary Off
GERS be made permanent and that upon
all questions before the convention each
State shall be entitled to one vote to be
cast Dy the Governor, and if not present,
by one of the delegates from the State
selected by its representatives. Adopted.
Gov. Carr. of North Carolina, offered
the following resolutions, which, under
the rules, were referred:
First. In order that the work now and
here begun, it is recommended that the
Governors of these States appoint several
persons, one to investigate carefully each
of the following subjects in its relation
to immigration to that State: Direct
trade, labor and employment, mining,
climateology and health, advertising and
manufacturing; and these persons, under
the direction of the Governor OF that
State, shall cooperate with him in such
immigration work as he may direct.
Second. THAI for the purpose OF gene
raj cooperative immigration work in all
Southern States, the persons appointed
as provided for above in the several
States, to investigate each of the several
subjects named, shall constitute CO
operative committee on each subject for
the several States. and these committees
shall hold meetings and publish such
reports on these special subjects as may
hereafter be agreed upon and provided
for by the Governors of the several States
cooperating, or other accredited repre-
sentatives of these States.
A number of other resolutions anc
papers were presented, including draft
of letter prepared by Governor Fish
back, address ed to the President, all o!
which went to the committee on resolu
tons. Among the papers read were
three by the following, setting forth the
resources of their respective States: Gov
Fishback. J. o. Waddell, of Georgia, ;
paper prepared by Gov. Northen, and Mr.
Armstead, of Tenness ee.
Col. Nicholson, Of Louisiana, presented
a resolution requesting further govern
ment aid to the various agricultural ant
mechanical collee throughout the coun
try.
A recess was taken until four o'clock
The convention reassembled at 4.20 ?. NJ.
when the chair stated that the genera
committee had appointed sub-commit
tee to prepare an address. and that the.
were now engaged to that end. he an
nounced that recess would be take1
for thirty minutes. The chair was re
sumed ar $50 o'clock, when the com
mittee on resolutions. through thei
chairman, Gov. Stone, of Missouri, pre-
sented an address to the people Of th'
United States and Europe, setting fortl
at considerable length the agriculture
and commercial advantages of the South
ern portion of the United States.
The following is the address adopted
The Governors of the States of Mary
land, Virginia, West Virginia, Nortl
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri
Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi
assembled in convention at the city o
Richmond, Va, or April y, 1898, for tn
sole purpose of advancing by co-opera
ton and concert of action the industria
interests and well-beine Of these severa
States, do issue the following address t.
the people of the United States, ant
those in Europe, who may contemplate
making investments in This country, o
immigrating here in search Of homes:
The States represented at this conven
ton comprise substantially the Southern
half of the American republic.
The territorial area OF these States i
S50,560 square miles.
The population as shown by the cen
sus of 1890 is y, ,249,27I
It's Eastern and Southern exterior lin
its are bounded by the Atlantic Oceal
and the Gulf Of Mexico.
The interior is traversed by many o
the most important rivers of the cont
nent and by some OF the greatest in tn
world.
The surface is diversified by mountain
chains and beautiful valleys, by lon'
stretches of fertile bottom lands and
broad expansc of picturesque and pro
ductive prairies.
The climate is temperate. changin!
more or less with the seasons, and is pleas
ant, invigorating and healthful.
The resources of this vast area, dis
tributed with wonderful and surprisin,
equality and adaptation to natural aid t.
industrial productions, are almost limit
less.
All, or nearly all, of these States hav
inexhaustible deposits of coal, moStl,
bituminous, which can be mined les
expensively perhaps than elsewhere il
the world
In every section of the area embraced
by these States are enormous and immea
surable supplies OF iron, lead, zinc anC
other metals useful in the industrial arts
Multiplied thousands are already engaged
in mining and reducing th>se metals
The value of these mines and minera
deposits have already long since passet
the period of experimentation; and ye
they are in the very infancy of thei
development.
Scattered throughout these States arr
also great areas of forest lands, on which
is growing in superabundance as fn'
timber as can be found in the world
cypress, oak, walnut, ash, maple, pine
and the like-it in the highest degree fo
ship building, house building and for al
the use of manufacturing.
The soil and climate unite to give tc
these States unsurpassed adaptation ant
capacity for the productions of agricul
ture. Tobacco, cotton, sugar, Indiar
L.