The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1895-01-19
Cotton Growers Meeting.

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farmers, and distinguished gentle
men of various other occupations
, was held at the court house ia this
city last Tuesday, for the purpose o.
discussing and formulating some
plan, that would tend to better thu
condition Of the agriculturelist gener
! ally. Captain J NJ Foster called the
meeting to order, and moved thai
Judge Z gan of Red River parish be
called to the Char which was unan-
imons. Mr.. Hawkins, Secretary of the
Board Of Trade as Secretary. Judge
Egan said that he took it that the
planters had not assembled them
selves for an idle purpose. That a
great and serious problem was star
ing them in the face; that no conven-
ton ever had more at stake. The
low price OF cotton was yearly i'm
poverishlng the country. he asked
them to look back over the past
thirty years and they wonld readily
see what had brought about this con-
dltlon Of affairs; to get away from
the credit system, and base on other
things that will insure them a living.
He urged the capitalists and bank
ers to help the agriculturalists by
building factories and doing every
thing in their power to bring about a
better state of affairs. Judge Egan's
remarks were well timed and directly
to the object for which the meeting
was called, and in conclusion he
urged the planters and farmers to
produce everything to live on and
make cotton surplus crop.
The following gentlemen were then
appointed to draft resolutions of the
sense of this meeting:
D. W. Pipes, of >. .;G.|
W. Montgomery, Of Madison parish
). NJ. Lee, of Lincoln parish; W. C.I
Vance, Of Bossier; J. NJ. Foster, of
Caddo; Ed, Gamble, Natchitoches;
Jno. Randolph, Grants, S. @. Hol-
lingsworth, Red River; and H. &.
Odin, BienvlIle, "
An able paper by Major Lee, of
the Experimental Station, was next
read, on How to manufacture sugar
on small scale: where to obtain ma
the process, results, ETC."
which was highly interesting.
Col. Schiller, of DeSoto, next read
. very interesting paper on How to
make 5 cent cotton" He said the {
Did theory that cotton was king had
ong since been exploded, and urged
he planters to no longer hug the de- i
uslon to their bosoms. He gave
'aluable statistics of the foreign cot. \
on raised, which Was conclusive to
very thinking man that be was cor. :
ect. He recommends that we live I
within ourselves as much q, possible. !
secure immigration, take hold of inn j
'roved machinery; in fact go to work ;,
nd do all in our power to build mn :,
be waste places. His paper was full
+ just what the country Feeds, and
let with hearty approval by every
ne. MIR. j. Henry Shepherd next :
sad most excellent paper on immi 4
ration, the needs Of settling up our 4
|nds with live, wide-awake people: 1
ow to go about by raising money to I
lyertise our country, and above all
send good men into the field, /
herever that may be and see that 4
icy come and locate among us. Mr.. /
hepherd's paper was replete with 4
any valuable suggestions inter- =
lngled with his own experience and i
'servatIons, some Of which we
I've knowledge Of, at the close of
is paper being the last The COM 4
ittee not being ready to report, an t
Ijournment was taken until 7 o'clock 4
n. Promptly at this hour it con- 4
ned. Mr.. Pipes read the report. !
which the entire Jackson, Miss, Z
solutions were adopted and other i
inor resolutions also. The question +
a pork factory was then discussed, +
+. Mayor, one Of our wide-awake,
ergetic farmers, read encouraging
tiers that had been received from ]
rec Of the leading pork factories OF
e North and West, as to the estab- q
hing plant here. The question Of 4
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