The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1897-04-30
THE SOUTH ADVERTISED.
Representative McLaurin's Recent
Speech Attracts Attention.
FIGURES THAT MAKE FRIENDS.
The Strong Showing AstOnisbes tho
North and Greatly Gratifies tho
South.
The New York Sun, of q recent date,

The lii ecal opportunities for general
debate allowed at the present session
of Congress, have been improved by
Representative John l.. McLaurin, of
South Carolina, with some interesting
remarks about the part of the country
from which he comes.
DIR. Depew has described the South
as u region of vast, untouched forests
and coal and iron veins, favored by
health conditions unrarulled and "the
best climate in the world. Mr. Nc
Laurin, coming to particulars, finds
lS3, 900, 600 acres of unbroken forests in
the South, with pine, walnut, oak,
cherry, cypress, hickory and other
woods: enormous stores of granite,
marble and sandstone; phosphate rock
in wonderful abundance; and in some
places, as he learns, coal, iron, ore and
limestone close together in the same
range, "a condition that exists no.
where else in the world"
Last years cotton crop of the South
was ., SS7, 600 bales, or 80 per cent of
the whole worlds production, and
brought more money from abroad
than oil other agricultural products
combined. The total cotton produc-
tion since 1870, mt its price in gold each
year, Is reckoned ut $40, Ut o, 900, UVU-
In eAacter figures, Si4 ,90S, 5SS, 43O. The
exports alone for century, or since
1895, have brought us $40, 400. 600, 900.
Last year the South produced 129, ,392,-
56l pounds of sugar, 37,617, ,O1G gallons
of molasses, and l6s, 665, 44O pounds of
rice, although of each of these articles
for more was imported.
Manufactures are growing enor-
mously Mt the South. According to
Gen. Longstreet, their products dou-
bled in value between 1880 and 1890,
while the wages of factory hnnds nearly
trippled, as did also the capital invest
ed in cotton manufacturing. But, what
is very remarkable, that capital, accord
ing to the general, has already nearly
| doubled since 1890, being about Sl2O,-
| 600, 900 now to SOL, 100000 then. In
1880 the cottonseed oil capital was
50, 800, 600, and now it is over $50, OOO,-
| 900; iii 1880 the South made 391 900 tons
OF pig iron, and i'll 1879 1t made ZOE,
| $50 tons; Ill 1890 its coal output vas
| 5000, 900 tons. Low cost of labor,
| freedom from strikes, nearncss to the
| cotton fields, an low taxes all favor
| the mills of the ,-outh
| Congressman Lowering, of MnSSachu-
setts, himself Il manufacturer, with large
| interests III the South gave like testi-
mOny III his recent speech on the tariff.
Within two Years the South's addition
of spindles, he said, had been $50, ;46.
| aud New LnSlund,s only Gil 223, the
former being an increase Of 80 per cent.
and the latter of 81. If / were asked
where In all our country was to he
found the best planned, best ordered,
and best equipped mill running III low
numbers, and at the best profit, 1 would
| point to South Carolina.
Then the people OF the South. says
Mr.. McLaurin, ''are reigiously in
cllned, and churches are found every
where. Their educational facilities
Will appear to visitors from other parts
of the country mot disappointing, and
their standard Cf morals fully up TO the
average" The land titles are perfect
and the taxes enviably low
But of the favored State of South
Carolina Mr.. McLaurin particularly
speaks. In 1890 Mr.. Il. !. Drake, of
Marlboro county won = prize of 81 900
offered for the largest yield by gather
| ing 2j5i bushels Of corn from one acre,
the amount looks large, but he did il
by getting two crops, planting the first
SO that by the time it matured he had
$ cond ready to cultivate between the
rows. II have myself" says Mir. Nc
| Laurln, made crop of oats cut them
off the lst of June, planted corn and
peas, and thus harvested three crops
| the same season from the same land [
! have also made n fair crop Of cotton al
| ter wheat and rye On another priue
stimulus, year before last. MIR. j. G..
Fletcher, from 100 acres, produced at
market prices, &3, 126. - worth Of farm
products, ranging from forty eight
bales Of cotton TO 400 dozen eggs.
In 1893 So.:h Carolina raised 30
| 33S, S95 pounds OF rice. or about one
fourth of the whole rourtryS product.
90, 26l ,422 bushels of corn, t. 1h., ,S2l of
1, oats, ], '32, ,S24 of wheat. ,41, Al bales
| OF cotton. 92S. 4..S pounds of tobacco,
| besides rye, potatoes and so on. ami
| cots, cherries. olives pOmcGranatcS and
| many other fruits are raised IN abund-
| ancc. There are lU.uW, ODO acres of
| yellow pine alone, and the turpentine
| stills turn on; an annual product of 50
| OOo,OoO. lhc gum. magnolia, Syca-
more, ash and other trees are well
known. beautiful building stones and
| fine cnyS and OchrcS are also among
South CarOiina's treasures, while her
| bone fertilizers, in deposits sometimes
q foot thick, and with 800 TO 900 tons
| to the acre, are declared to he the rich
est on the continent.
OF spinC les there are more than u mil
lion Mt work in the State. their capital
| ofS12 600, 600 To S!%, 900. 900 being avn
from the North and East OF toum-
| Ola 1oNf cOtton mills, one, the tIian-
by, was built In a cotton field. and in
closed patch from which cotton was
picked while the brick walls were going
| up. That was minimizing the distance
| between crop and mill.
Pointing his moral. Mr.. Mel aurin
| says that the South asks IL fair share Of
| consideration Tor her INTERESTS ~ rIle
current tariff bill, and also wants
Northern thrift and capital to enlarge
material interests are we not of the
same great national family, an integral
factor of the same great nation?' Ger