The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-23
SCOTT AND NECK N c. THURSDAY NOVEMBER %. 1893.

bluestone. and the other -ulphlde gold
ores have their pyrites turned into cop
peras. all at a profit The acid asricul-
,ural fertilizers, for chlorate Of lime
and generating chlorine
By building a missing link OF rail-
road twenty miles from Norwood to
Wadesboro'. the South Carolina bone
phosphate, that is the base OF all fertil-
izers. can be put down at or near Gold
Hill, Salisbury, or convenient works,
for less than a dollar ton freight, and
no point can compete in the manufac-
ture of fertilizers. In connection with
the works erect cottOn-seed oll-mlls,
right here in the centre of the cotton
belt. and make oil at profit. The oil
cake is source of ammonia, a plant
food, besides being splendid stock
food or a fertilizer in itself then
steam can be generated for the works
bv what is left Of the oil-cake, and that
then turned into potash, another avail
able plant food. What else?
The talllngs from the ores have all
been going to waste. Treat them with
the slllphuric acid obtained at profit
from the refractory ores, and soda, lime
potash. phosphorus, &c, all available
plant food when obtained and rendered
soluble by the sulphuric acid. IN 9th
er words. utitize all of the dormant raw
material at profit.
Most of the sulphuric acid that goe:
into fertilizers is made from Stellar
sulphur that has to pay an importan
duty. Our cotton is shipped to England
and manufactured there. The reduc
ton works of Swansea and other place
, make sulphuric acid, from which chic
rine is generated to bleach our cotton
from pvrite ores obtained from Spain
: Africa. South America, and the Unlte'
States, and they treat the ores for al
2 they contain, get the contents out at
: profit. and utilize the most refractor
s (that which has kept our mines fror
J, paying) to manufacture, and sell bac
$ to Us our own products In the shape {
fine bleached cotton.
:, THE ONLY WAY.
If Swansea can treat ores from a
> four corners of the earth Ghe most
- refractory ores, that contain almost e
y ervthlng) at profit, why is it that tt
' same thing cannot be done in a secti(
where practically the same ores are ;
found in abundance, at no point furth
than a 100 miles from suitable pla
~ to erect these reduction works? l.
" ores are shown to be in sufficient qua
tity to supply not only one but ma
'' such works. Thus, and only thus, C
w these fields ever be made to yield
' their precious metals at a profit to
= stockholder. II would render this
richest country in the world, beca,
the mines would be profitable;
" cotton factories of the South, lnste
of making, as now, only coarse 600
could turn out cheaper than En9lal
or anywhere else in the world, the
= est kinds of cotton bleached goods, a
80
TX if for nothing else, the difference
freights would be big dividend !
wv farmer would be the gamer, as his
90 tilizers would cost him 80 per &C
- less. and he would have a home n
ket for his crops population would
% increased, and all branches OF BUSH
would be benefited.
The practicability Of this course
a. plain and feasible, because 1t IS m
~: profitable by foreigners who utilize
dormant raw material in foreign &C
trv, and we have to pay them trlt
=, for what naturally belongs to us.
:, do it will take brain, energy, and
:, ital. and lots of it. Who will be
first to ioin hands to do it?
J. J. NEWMA
pes, ~-
ont. Guaranteed Cure,