The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-02-22
THE SOUTHERN STATES MAGA.
ZINE.
The February Number an Unusually
Interesting One---ImmigratiOn for
the South, &c.

the South, &c.
The contents Of the Southern States
magazine for February demonstrate
that the whole South is becoming
thoroughly aroused on the subject of
immigration. The articles on immi-
grafton and kindred topics by promi-
nent Southern men, the reports ofpro-
ceedings Of boards of trade and other
commercial bodies, the letters from
railroad officers throughout the South,
all indicate surprising awakening to
this great need of the South, and, as
if complementing, this immigration
feeling through the South, there seems
to have been developed very wide
spread emigration impulse in the North
and West. The Southern States says
that the correspondence, the subscrip-
tions to the magazine and requests for
sample copies coming to it from al
most every Northern and Western
State, and notably from the extreme
Northwest, shows, on the part Of both
farmers and business men, a very wide
spread dissatisfaction with their con-
ditions and environment, and very
eager interest in the South and desire
for information about the South.
This number of the Southern States
contains an illustrated article entitled
mobile in Midsummer" describing
visit to the guilt coast at time when
that section is commonly supposed to
be sweltering in equatorial heat. The
article makes very striking presenta-
ton of the commercial advantages
and growth of Mobile, with an inter-
esting description Of the charms Of
Mobile bay. 1t shows also the won
derful growth the surrounding country
has had in truck farming.
Gen. Thomas l.. Rosser, of Char
lottesville, Va, has an article entitled
" Let the Emigrant Come South"
Probably no man in America is better
qualified to Judge of the comparative
advantages Of the South and West than
General Rosser. One of the most bril-
liant and dashing of the Confederate
calvalry officers in the war between
the States, when the war was over he
entered upon the pursuit Of his pro-
fession as an engineer, and was for a
time engaged in railroad operations
in the Northwest. He built the east
| end of the Northern Pacific Railroad ,
as We'll as the Canadian Pacific. He
lived for twenty years in Minnesota,
and his business took him into all
parts of the West. He was a close
student of agriculture and stock raising
and of all conditions Of life in all parts
of the West, and he understands as
we'll as any living man the relative ad-
vantages of the South and West. He
spent the early part Of his life in the
South, then twenty years or more in
the West, and for the last ten years
he has lived in the South. Though
engaged in large railroad and devei-
opment undertakings producing enor-
nous revenue, he gave up his Western
interests and moved back to the South
for the sake OF the climate and the
better conditions of life.
An article on the "Increase of
Cotton Production" by Richard H..
Edmonds, editor of the Mannfae-
turers' Record, is an historical account
Of the production of cotton in this
country from the earliest period of
which there are any records up to the
present time. Under the title "The
Growth of New Industry Mr.. d.
A. Tompkins relates the history of the
development of the utilization of cot
tonseed hulls and shows how hundreds
of thousands of cattle are now annually
fattened for market on cottonseed
hulls and meal.
In " New Berne in Bloom" Mr..
Charles Hallock writes charmingly of
the floral beauty of New Berne and
the coast country of North Carolina
in January, and shows the succession
of bloom from the first of January to
June. Mr.. Andrew ]. Howell, Jr.,
discusses the question of "Immigra-
ton for the South" and makes some
suggestions as to what sort OF immi-
grafton the South needs and how this
is to be secured. Mr.. d. B. Dyer, oil
Augusta, Ga, has an article on
Southern Development" The series
of letters from Northern farmers who
have moved South is continued in this
number, and there is further install.
meEt of letters from Southern railroad
officials as to what their roads are do
ing in fur,herancc of immigration to
the South.
The departments, immigration News
Real-estate News, editc.ia and note:
of progress are very full and compre
hensive and interesting.
The Southern States is the onl,
publication engaged in the work 0
seeking to promote immigration to th'
South, the only journal given up tn
publishing Of information about tn
South in general. 1t takes up th
work where the Manuf Recon-
leaves off, covering such of the fell
, as the Manufacturers Reeo,d, bein
an industrial paper can not well entel
1t presents the advantages the Sout
4 in soil, climate, agricultural capabil
u ties and its resources in general wit
the same energy and enthusiasm, III
u same accuracy and cornprehensivcnes
e the same intelligence and breadth
It that have marked the work of th
Manufacturer Record in behalf {
the industrial interests Of the South
r The Southern States is not a bus