The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-29
THE SOUTH ADVERTISED.
Representative McLaurA's Recent
Speech Attracts Attention.
FIGURES THAT MAKE FRIENDS.
The Strong Showing Astonishes the
North and Greatly Gratifies the
South.

The New York Sun, of recent date,
says:
The lii 9 al opportunities for general
lebate allowed at the present session
IF Congress, have been improved by
Representative John L. McLaurin, of
South Carolina, with some interesting
remarks about the part of the country
rom which he comes.
DR.. Depew has described the South
IS region of vast, untouched forests
and coal and iron veins, favored by
health conditions unparalleled 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
lime stone close together in the same
where else in the world"
Lust years cotton crop of the South
was 9, ,S37, 900 bales, or 80 per cent. Of
the whole worlds production, and
drought more money from abroad
than all other agricultural products
combined" The total cotton produc-
tion since 1890, at its price in gold each
year, is reckoned at S15, 900, 900, 600
in exacter figures, $14, 99S, 5SS, 430. The
exports alone for century, or since
1876, have brought us $40, 400, 900, 900.
Last year the South produced 729, 892, :
5s1 pounds of sugar, 1857, ,O76 gallons
of molasses, and 1853, 1855, 40 pounds OF
rice, although of each of these articles
far more was imported.
Manufactures are growing enor-
mously at the South. According to
Gen. Longstreet, their products dou-
bled in value between 1880 and 1890,
while the wages of factory hands nearly
trippled, rs did also the capital invest
ed in cotton manufacturing. But, what
is very remarkable, that capita, accord
ing to the general, has already nearly
doubled since 1890, being about 1920,
900, 0O0 now to S61, 100, 900 then. In
1880 the cottonseed oil capital was
S3, SOC, 600, and now it is over $50, 0C0, =
900; in 1880 the South made 397, 600 tons
of pig iron, and in 1895 it made 1,702, :
800 tons; in 1890 its coal output vas
5000, 900 tons. Low cost of labor,
freedom from strikes, nearness to the
cotton fields, aud low taxes all favor
, the mills of the South.
Congressman Lowering, of Massachu-
sets, himself manufacturer, with large
interests in the South, gave like testi-
mony in his recent speech on the tariff.
Within two years the South's addition
of spindles, he said, had been Ss2, 746,
and New England's only 671, ,223, the
former being an increase Of 80 per cent
and the latter of o.. eff I were asked
where in all our country was to be
found the best planned, best ordered,
and hest equipped mill running in low
numbers, and at the best 1roft, [ would
point to South Carolina.
Then the people of the South, says
Mr.. McLaurin, ''are religiously in
clined, and churches are found every
where. Their educational facilities
will appear to visitors from other parts
of the country mot disappointing, and
their standard Ct 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.. q. J. Drake, Of
Marlboro county won prize of 1000
offered for the largest yield by gather
ing 2554 bushels of corn from one acre,
the amount looks large, but he did it
by getting two crops, planting the first
SO that by the time it matured he had Q
cond ready to cultivate between the
rows. I have myself" says Mr.. Nc
Laurin, ''made crop Of oats. cut them
off the 1st of June, planted corn and
peas, and thus harvested three crops
the same season from the same land. I
have also made fair crop of cotton af-
ter wheat and rye" On another prize
stimulus, year before last, Mr.. J. G.
Fletcher, from 100 acres, produced at
market prices, So, 726. 45 worth OF farm
products, ranging from forty-eight
bales of cotton to 400 dozen eggs.
In 1893 South Carolina raised 3d.
1888, sos pounds of rice, or about one
fourth of the whole country's product,
80, ,261, 422 bushels of corn, 4. 767, S21 Of
oats, 1882, 1874 of wheat, TAI, All bales
of cotton, 222, 29s pounds Of tobacco,
besides rye, potatoes and 30 on. April
cots, cherries, olives pomegranates and
many other fruits are raised in abund-
ance. There are 10000, 900 acres Of
yellow pine alone, and the turpentine
stills turn out an annual product of SS,-
600, 900. The gum, magnolia, syca-
more, ash and other trees are we'll
known. Beautiful building stones and
fine clays and ochres are also among
South Carolina's treasures, while her
bone fertilizers, in deposits sometimes
o foot thick, and with 500 to 1000 tons
to the acre, are declared to be the rich
est on the continent.
Of spino les there are more than mil
lion at work in the State, their capital
ofS,12, 900, 600 to $15, 900, 900 being drawn
from the North and East. OF Colum-
bias four cotton mills, one, the Gran
by. was built in 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.. McLaurin
Saws that the South asks q fair share OF
consideration for her interests in the