The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-12
FORESTS OF THE SOUTH
4 Wealth Of Timber For Enterpris
ing Ycung lIen.
vast Areas OF Woodland Hardly EN-
pIored-i.round Can Be Bought
Very CheHpIy in MiSstssIppi and
other Sections of the Southwest.
Railroads Entering the Territory

BALTIMORE. Md, Jan. PA CORE
sponGent of the Manufacturers Record, %
VINO has spent a month Of travel and OBJ
servation in the South and Southwest.
finds everywhere in that part of the coun-
try feeling Of prosperity with merchants
and manufacturers. railroad men and
planters. farmers, and men who work for
days wages. The impression prevails that
the good times now prevailing viii not
end antil there has been a development
of the South's resources approaching the
advance made in other parts of the coun-
try.
In Analysing the situation the CORE
spondent gives due credit to Decent cot
ton. accompanied by a diyersifcation of
crops.
OF the needs Of the South the CORE
spondent says: In railroad building the
South and Southwest now show a great
degree of activity, but railroad building
down here is by no means complete. There
are several North and South trunk lines Of
great Importance. and which probably VIII
meet all rsquirem ents for many years to
come; but large areas are wholly devoid
Of transportation facilities
In many o. those sections there are
vast forests of the finest timber. miner
ais of great variety and commercial value,
and land which. when cleared. will make
as good farms as lie outdoors. Already
there are numerous undertakings on foot
in the way of building small branch lines
to open up tracts of the character named,
anu it is evident that here viii be rich
field for development work by both rail-
road constructors and real estate nperat-
ion
OF the line of railroads there are thou
sands and thousands OF acres of timber.
which VIII cut from 10, 600 10 20. 900 feet
to the acre, and when cleared they VIII
produce a minimum of bale Of cotton to
the acre as well as other crops These
lands may be bought for from Sc to $40
per acre. The soil is an alIuvial deposit,
and like the famous black lands OF Texas,
which now bring from $50 TO $50 per acre,
these lands can be worked for years with
cut using any fertilizers.
The idle timber lands Of this section
alone offer opportunities for almost IL
Irritable profitable operations The dis
lance between the development OF any
one of these Southwestern States and the
conditions which prevail in Aassacnu-
sets, for instance, reveals the reason
why the South is today pointed out as the
section above all others where the young
man seeking a location will find more op-
pcrtunities than in any other part Of tie
nation.
There is 50 much to do dowa here and
the rewards are 50 certain and 50 rich
that there is a disposition 10 wonder why
any ambitious young man viii remain IN
the overcrowded East and North. where
conditions are fixed. and opportunities for
original individual effort grow less every
year while in many parts of this cOUn, ~
almost primitive conditions prevail, and
development work remains to be done
T which it viii take generations to accom-
plish-
in timber lands an astonishing change
( has occurred within the last five years.
/ Five years ago timber lands were almost
( 4 drug in the real estate market. and any
I amount OF good lands could be bought for
/ somewhere around 81 an acre Now one
has to hunt for bargains al anything
/ less than So an acre Lumbermsn from
Michigan and Wisconsin have come N and
bought UP tracts BY the tens Of thousands
: CT acres. good yellow pine lands are being
but infroQuently offered. and prices have
! Jumped uD to at least 100 per cent all
round. Five years ago the red cypress
I men, who were then feeling blue over the
dull condition Of trade. agreed with pro
moter 10 sell out their holdings. plants,
I and all. for 81, 000 O00 Today these same
/ people, who compose about so per cent
! of those engaged in the red cypress indus
: try and own al least that proportion OF
! the available. merchantable red cypress
i timber standing. would hardly sell for S25,-
/ coo 600. and red cypress timber lands
which could be bought for So or less than
/ are snapped up now at So per acre