The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-04-28
SOUTH ADVERTISED.
McLaurln's Recent Speech
Attracts Attention.
Nev York Sun.

Yhe HOerat opportunities ioE Sen
.SeraI debate allowed at the present
session of congress have been i'm
proved by Representative John l.
McLaurin of South Carolina with
some interesting remarks about the
part Of the country from which he
comes
DR.. Depew has described the south
! Is = region of vast, untouched forests
and CO al and iron veins, favored by
health conditions unparalleled and
ssthe best climate in the world" Mr
{ McIaurin, coming to particulars.
finds 183, ,000, 600, acres of unbroken
forests in the south, with pine, wal
'SSnu.. oak, cherry, cypress hickory
and other woods !; enormous stores OF
marble, granite and sandstone phos-
snhate rock in wonderful abundance !;
and il some places, as he learns,
coal iron ore and limestone close to-
getherin the same range, "a condition
that exists nowhere else in the
world !"
Last years cotton crop fthe south
was g, ,S37 900 bales, or 80 per cent.
sof the whole worlds production, and
a.bronght more money from abroad
stban al other agricultural productions
combiDed . The total cotton produc-
| s;on since 1870, at it's price in gold
each year is reckoned at SIS. .O0O.-
900 .O0O-in exacter figures, $l4.-
99S, ,5SS ,430. Toe exports alone for
8 century, or since 1895. have
brouehs US $1,000, ,000. 900 Last
wear the south produced 729. .392.-
561 pounds of sugar, 81, 7,617.076 gal
ions Of molasses, and l68, ,665 40
pounds Of rice, although of each OF
these articles far more was imported
Manufactures are growing enor-
smously SC the south. According to
Gen. LoagstIeet, their prodacts doub-
led 10 value between 1880 and 1890,
while the wages Of factory hands
nearly tripled. also did the capital In
vested in cotton manufacturing But.
what is very remarkable, that capital,
according to the general, has already
nearly doubled since 1890, being
shout S12O. GOO. 900 now to SCI. .100,-
300 then. In 1880 the cotton seed
oil capital was $500. 900, and now
ST Is over $50, ,000. GOO; in 1880 the
south made 397 900 tons of pig iron,
IN 1895 it made / ,702, $50 tons; in
1899 It's coal output was 10000
tons, and now it is at the rate Of 3d.
900 900 tons Low cost of labor.
freedom from strikes. nearness to the
cottos fields and low taxes all favor
The mills of the south
Congressman Lowering Of Mas
sscbusetts, himself manufacturer.
with large interests in the south.
gave like testimony in his recent
speech on the tariff Within two
wears the south's addition OF spindles,
lie said. had been 8S2. TAG. and. New
's only 671.223, the former
being an incrase of39 per cent and
tse latter of 513 "lfI we're asked
where 10 all our country was to be
fonnd the best planned, best ordered
and best equipped mill running in
low numbers, and the best profit,
/ would point to South Caralina "
Tbeu the people of the South, says
II McLaurin. care religiously in
clined. and churches are found every
where ? Their educational facilities
will appear to visitors from other
parls Of the country snot disappoint-
ing, and their standard of morals fui.
II up to the average The land
titles are perfect and the taxes en-
visbly low
But of The favored Stale Of South
Carolina Mr. McLaurin particularly
speaks. In 1890 Mr. j 2 Drake of
Marlboro county won prize s,f 81,
900 offered for the largest yield by
gathering 255 L 4 bushels of cotn
from, one acre This amount looks
large, but he did it by getting tDo
crops. planting the FIRST so that hy
the time il matured'he had second
ready TO cultivate between the rows
: have myself says Mr. McLau
riin, made . crop of oats. cut them
the lst of June, planted corn aud
peas, and thus harvested three crops
tie same season from the same land
I have also made fair crop Of cotton
after wheat and rye . On another
pr;z- stimulus year before last, Mr
j G Fletcher. from 100 acres. pro-
duced at marke: prices. $3,726 45
worth of farm pr"dac,s. ranging from
A8 bales of cotton to 400 dozen eggs
I'm 1893 South Carolina raised 3d.
33S 500 pounds of rice, or about one
fourth of the whole couatrys pro
duct, 29,261 ,422 bushels of com
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