The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-01


ton and the addition of an amendment
tnat business men shall have representa-
tlon IN the adjourned meeting, but that
the voting power of each state
shall be equal. The section providing
That the convention ad ,ourn to
meet in Washington was also adopted,
as was also an amendment requesting
governors to appoint as delegates men
representative of the industries in their
several states.
Mr.. Irvine of Alabama offered an
amendment to provide that before any in
dustry be listed it shall be indorsed by
the state bureaus, boards of trade, town
councils or three banks. 1t was laid on
the table. The report, as amended, was
then adopted and a recess taken until 3
o'clock.
THE AFTERNOONS WORK.
At the afternoon session a number Of
papers were read.
Responding for Florida MIR B. F. Clay
ton said: The orange output of 1898 "a
was about 5000, 600 boxes of oranges. The
climate of the entire state is semitropical,
but 1t is only south of the twenty-eighth
degree of latitude that the tropical fruits
proper are cultivated with certainty and
prohtably every year, though oranges and
other fruits Of ike nature are grown ex-
tenslvely in every county in the state
fruits of the middle-southern states,
grapes, peaches, plums, pears, and the
various nut trees and fig and all the small
fruits grow in great profusion South of
the twenty-eighth degree of latitude we
find the orange, the lemon, the olive the
banana, the pineapple, and, on the south
and southeast coast and the Keys, the
cocoanut, the date, and sugar palms, the
mango, guava. etc, are or may be sue
cessfully grown for market.
AT the present time the principal
fruit output consists of the orange, the
pineapple, the cocOanut, the banana and
the fig of the tropical fruits, and the
peach, pear, and the strawberry Of those
grown later in the season further north.
with such vast area adapted to fruit
culture and such wide range as to varie-
ties from which to choose. embracing all
desirable tropical fruits which cannot be
grown elsewhere in the country, except in
portions of Southern California, it will be
easy to see that the possible wealth of
Florida from these sources when devel-
oped by proper skill and capital is almost
beyond computation, better and more en-
during than the mines of gold and silver
and coal and iron, which must have an
end some time the fruit trees will bloom
and bear as long as the sun shines and
the rains fall-fOrever.
Regarding the pineapples and bananas
the labor of planting and cultivating, es-
pecially the former, is much greater, but
| the crop is worth in the market many
times as much as oranges or any other
! crop grown anywhere. Planted eighteen
| inches apart one acre would produce l5,-
000 pines, which at $40 per 100, would
| give $500 for the product Of one acre.
| This has been exceeded in some instances
bymore than $500.
There are three great systems of rail
roads, the Florida Central and Peninsu
| lar. Second-the Plant systematic
| Florida Southern, from Jacksonville
| south to the Gulf. Third, the F7lager
| system, or Jacksonville, st. Augustine
and Indian River railroad. In the aggre-
! LOCO miles of navigable rivers and 1.200
miles of coast, she boasts water transpor-
tation of 1900 miles"
Dr. William G. Day of the United
| States geological survey told the conven-
| tion about the mineral resources of the
south. He told of the wonderful deposits
| in the mountains of all the southern
states and his talk proved so interesting
| that a special resolution of thanks for his
| information was adopted
Virginia and Her Resources" was told
| of by William Catlett. He called partic-
| ular attention TO the great fields of mar
I BILE and slate which were overlooked by
| builders in the city of Washington, who
| brought these things from Vermont and
| Pennsylvania at double freight rates.
| MIR. Claude Bennett, private secretary
to the Secretary of the Interior, told of
! Georgia S resources.
! Responding for Georgia, Claude N
| Bennett, private secretary to the Secre-
! tary of the Interior, gave many facts 60
! ing to show that Georgia still set the
pace in industrial progress that entities
| her to be known as the empire state of
! the south.
Some of Mr.. Benefits specially strik-
! ing statements showed that the general
! development of Georgia in industrial
! transportation, horticultural, mineral
! lumber and commercial interests had in
| creased from 80 per cent. to 100 per cent.
| from 1850 to 1890, as shown by the census
Of 1880.
Savannah, Ca, is the largest naval
| stores market in the world and next to
the largest shipping point for cotton
! New Orleans, Louisiana, alone preceding
| her. Georgia leads the union in the pro
| duction of naval stores; the product
| given in the census of 1890 was 81, $50, ,000,
| while North Carolina came second with
| a product of something less than g, ,000,- =
! COO
THE cotton manufacturing product in
| Georgia increased from $4,000, 900 il 1880
10 81. .OOO.O 900 in 1890. The number of
! spindles increased from 1S9, 900 in 1850 to
! $4,000 in 1890. The one city of Augusta
alone manufactures $4,000 worth Of
cotton goods She is closely followed by
! Columbus. with Atlanta coming third.
In all-round manufacturing Atlanta
| leads the state with product of over
! Sl3 200, 600, which has increased since 1880
| from less than 10000
In 1880 Georgia had 2 432 miles of rail-
road: in 1890 she had 4,557-an increase
| in railroad building Of nearly 100 per cent.
| in ten years.
! Between the two last censuses the
! product Of chemical fertilizers in Geoagia
! increased from S246, 900 to S5.000OOO.
The lumber product in 1850 was worth
| IS. 900, ,OOO in 1890 it brought 80, 100000
! The corn crop is over 10000, 900 bushels a
year The cotton crop in 1880 was 100000
! bales in 1890 it was l,19l,000 bales.
"Mr Edward Atkinson, believe" " Mr..
! Bennett continued, "has estimated that
the chicken and egg crop of the south is
worth more than the cotton crop. About
| this 1 do not know; ! do know that the
| growth of chickens increased between
! 1850 and 1890 from 100000 to Z, ,000,O0
! and that eggs increased from 100000
| dozens to II ,000, 900 dozens. The produc-
tion of butter increased from 7000,0O0
pounds in 1850 10 100000 pounds in
/ 1890.
Between the tenth and eleventh cen
/ suses the total farm products Of Georgia
| increased from S67 900, 600 TO $50, 900 900, a