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grapes, and other fruits are produced
in the highest state of excellence.

scarcely remind you. That the North
has its vegetable gardens in the Sontt
Atlantic and Gulf States; that the
greater portion of semitropical fruits
such as oranges and bananas, art
shipped from Southern States; thai
great quantities of fish and game
with which the northern markets are
supplied are shipped from that section
are facts with which every vendor in
the streets is familiar
In fact, the scope of southern indus
tries is so great that we can not classify
or enumerate them in the brief space
Of this discourse. Suffice it to say
that no worthy immigrant from the
North or from Europe can land in our
midst without finding an inviting
field in which to exercise his bent OF
inclination.
AS I am perhaps more familiar with
the peculiar advantage of my own
State. and as it is perhaps becoming
that should particularize only with
reference to it, I shall attempt to lay
before you some of those advantages.
South Cardinals $4,000 square miles
of territory may he considered the
garden spot of the Atlantic coast
country and the ideal location for the
home seekers for several very potent
reasons. The State is in the shape of
an isosceles triangle, protected on its
northern side by the towering walls OF
the Blue Ridge mountain chain, while
on the east, the coast line, the tenn
pering Gulf stream makes its inward
bend on it's way to the British Isles, its
influence on the climate being 80
marked that an annual mean tempera-
ture of 65 is obtained, it never being
greater than so, even in the extreme
alpine region.
In the center of the triangle an
unvaryjug mean temperature of Al. 2
in winter, 63. in spring 76. in
summer. and 63. in autumn is main
tanned, with ten aud one-half hours of
daylight on the shortest day of the
year and fourteen on the longest.
With such meteorological conditions
South Carolina is easily the southern
France of America. Coupling this
matchless climate known the world
over through the scores who have
sought and recovered lost health at
such resorts as Aiken, Camden, and
Summerville-with most productive,
sandy, and porous soil, capable OF
growing money crops the year through
cotton, indigo, tobacco, sugar, tea, rice,
corn, wheat, oats, barley. fruits Of all
kinds of finest quality, truck OF every
description, in short, all crops COM
mon to the different portions of the
United States-coupiing this with
rarest deposits of minerals-gold, tin,
iron, lead, copper, manganese bismuth
aluminum-granite of finest quality,
kaolin and other money-value clays,
her great water powers and other
resources of value to the Investor, the
warrant for the assertion that this
State is the ideal spot for the home
seekers who wishes to devote his ener.
gy to agriculture or industrial pursuits
or the investor seeking sure results
from his energy and enterprises is
apparent.
South Carolina is one of the original
States of this Union, She has been
primarily an agricultural State. She
has never realized the need of labor
until the last year or two, but now
she has established her "depatment OF
agriculture, commerce, and immigra-
tion,D in charge of Commissioner E.
J. Watson, most able and efficient
officer, and issued her invitation to
the people of other lands and other
portions of this country to come and
enjoy her exceptional advantages.
This has come about by reason of the
last decade and by the phenomenal
success attained in industrial develop
ment. The upbuilding of the cotton.
manufacturing industry and of manu-
featuring enterprises of other kinds to
that degree which makes her the
second State in the Union to-day,
with about $4O,OOO,0O0 invested in
such plants, as stated generally Of the
South, has unconsciously drawn from
the fields the intelligent white tenant
class of her citizens, a strong type OF
America citizen, until now intelligent
white labor is needed to carry the
agricultural development to that state
of perfection that it can easily attain.
The tendency Of the negro Is to the
trades in the great center of population.
This is following in the wake of the
education of the race. This State is
to-day aiding the negro in these lines
by maintaining mechanical college,
where he is given such training, pre-
ferring intelligent white labor on the
farms, with their intensified methods,
and aiding in the solution of great
problem.
Diversified farming is now claiming
the attention of this States best farm
ers andI land owners, and they want
European, eastern and western, meth
DDS employed. Hence they invite the
sturdy white settlers to come and
share with them what nature has so
lavishly bestowed upon their land.
They seek them to come while unde-
veloped lands may be had at mini
mum prices on easy terms, and not,
as in thickly settled strips of country.
at $3.50 an acre. 1t is the province of
this new department of our State gov
ernment, just established, to collect
these lands, locate the settlers, and
watch over them, giving fostering care
to their welfare.
The stock raising industry is now
merely in its infancy, Notwithstanding
the thousands of acres of rich and val
liable meadow lands. Many are going
into this industry, and the man who
is familiar with its methods, settling
there at this time, can not but reap a
harvest. So it is with poultry raising,
dsirying, and trucking for the early
eastern markets,
No State in the Union for its size
has finer railroad facilities. The map
is a network of railroad lines, conver.
ging at the center of the triangle.
Through the State run the three main
North to South trunk lines, with fast
passenger and refrigerator service,