El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-06
VALUE OF FLOUR MILLS

In the Duncan, Arizona, correspond
encs of the HERALD yesterday men
tion was made of the fact that a stock
company was being organized in that
place for the purpose of establishing a
flour mill. The HERALD is glad to see
such evidence of enterprise. Excellent
results have followed the esta blish-
ment of flour mill st Hillsboro TIE Xss,
particularly in encouraging the do
mestic growth of wheat, and equally
good results must follow similar enter
prises in every section of the south
west-in Arizona and New Mexico as
well as in Texss-where the soil is
adapted to the growing of grain.
Apropos of this subject Of so much
Importance to the south and to the
southwest, it. is timely to reproduce
the following excerpt from w. E.
Damon's paper, read before the
Huntsville industrial convention re-
IDENTITY:
For the encouragement of the south
ern farmer 1 wish to say that the av-
cotton states Is greater than In sthe
great wheat growing states of Illinois
and the Dakotae. With approved
me thods and appliances 1 feel safe in
asserting that no section of this coun-
try could surpass the south in this re-
spect. With the magnificent posi- bili-
ties afforded by the throwing open of
the ports of Cuba and Porto Rico to
American flour, to say nothing of the
-, - ~
canal, thereby making route by which
reached in the orient. the south should
be encouraged to a revival of her flour
milling industry.
The necessity of feeding her own
people is urgent. The opportunity of
feeding others is alluring. Nowhere
in the United States are there such
openings for flour mills as in the south,
especially in the cotton growing states.
Already the farmers, firing of scent
cotton, are turning their attention to
wheat growing. Georgia farmers are
producing forty-four bushels per acre.
South Carolina is holding wheat con-
ventiors, and will probably quadruple
her crop. There is general awaken
ing all along the line, and some of the
southern states are building flour mills
faster than the old wheat growing
states. Net being overcrowded, the
opportun mites for profitable operation
are good.
Mr.. Daman is Tennesseean aud has
given SO much thought to southern
manufacturing opportunities, as they
apply to -four, that he speaks with the
confidence of an authority. From the
states of the northwest he points out
fh at tho sonth dro An O00 0O0 h,,shols
of wheat annually. Last year, consid-
ering the price of wheat, this meant
the sending away of $40, 600, 900 for
oreadstuffs alone. This is startling
showing, If it be true, as Mr.. Damon
contends, that the average yield of
wheat per acre in the cotton states is
as large as in the states from whence
the annual supply has been drawn.
The cotton states. says this author
ity, now plant = little less than 600, 900
acres per annum, in wheat. If this
acreage we're increased so as to include
8, 000,O0 acres of land now devoted to
cotton, Mr.. Damon insists that "12-
cent cotton wonld be an absolute GER
tainty."
The HERALD takes note of the Dun
can enterprise particularly to en-
Texans to devote more of
their broad acres to wheat growing.
Home wheat for home mills and home
should become without
delay another impulse to Texans to
progress towards independence, self
reliance and wealth. The southwest
should encourage every enterprise that
g calculated to keep money at home.