The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22
New Land Of Promise for M1lisas d
Capital
Her GREAT RESOURCES

ing Men Of Means and Those
Willing to Take Advantage Of Her
Possibilities In Farming.
"A greater nation through q great
er SOUTH"
This Is the tocsin that the South
Is sounding today from Atlantic to
Pacific and from the southermost
everglades to the northern pines,
says the New York American.
The South wants men and mon
ey-men that her vast resources may
be given over to cultivation ano
industry, and money for entrprise.
that their products may feed the
markets Of the universe.
She has produced q cotton crop
this year which will net about 31,-
300, 900.
Her grain will fill 500, 900. 900
bushels.
Her total agricultural products
will foot up nearly $4,000, ooo, 900.
. She is mining s0,000,000 tons
+ bituminous coal.
Her cotton mills are using nearly
100000 bales Of cotton q year.
She commands the sulphur trade
# the world producing nearly one
half Of the whole production of
the world.
Her ports are second to New York
in their shipments.
She is spending today $4,000.
900 in new cotton mills.
Nearly a quarter million Of peo-
pie are swarming into her rich
country to help win for her the
'uccess that has been 80 long CON-
Ing.
Her resources are withal but
BEGINNING to show their worth, for
she has lacked in capital and the
kind of labor necessary to bring her
soil and opportunities to their full
'ruition.
She has 40 per cent Of all the
timber lands in the United States.
about $4,000 square miles; quarries
that are rich In the most beautiful
and useful stone, marvellous ores,
and thousands Of square miles OF
the most fertile and greatest pro-
1ucing farm lands In the world.
Everywhere the railroads are
pushing colonies and building their
extensions, until Ave years hence Il
Is believed that every available mile
Of her lands will be within easy
reach Of some road.
Millions Of dollars are being put
into her mines; other millions are
going into her textile advantages.
Along the line Of one railroad alone
$50 textile mills have been erected,
Her phosphate beds are being work
ed to the fullest limit OF the. pres
ent capital. Her tobacco crops are
enormous, and In every spot touch
ed by the tide OF investment syringe
forth a golden return greater than
their investors ever dreamed Of.
With a population Of nearly 20,
600, 1000, or about a third Of the to-
tai of the United States, she is put
ting out in agricultural product
alone the equal Of all the States tn
1890.
Nearly $4,000, 100000 will he
spent by the railroads during the
next ten years to add to her wealth.
Everywhere the cry is going up for
better roads, and every State Is bend
ing Its efforts to make the Southern
roads the peers Of those Of any 9TH
er States.
II do not believe that there Is
any land on the face Of the earth
that equals, acre for acre. the lands
Of the South. It is a greater pro.
1ucer than the lands In the north
west. and-it is immensely cheaper
Then, too, there Is It's fairer
climate and It's easy markets; It's
cheap freights, short hauls. immedi-
ate sales, until you hay. an ideal
Here. too, yoI have a
land we'll wate-ed BY soDi waters,
where artificial irrigatiol may be
reduced to a N; ,imnm to rroduC'
marvellous r-3r,'s Coal Is ~ ha,!,
railroad :a:l::- 70 AR: god and va.
ter hauls first class.
you have water power for the
mills, which is cheapest; cities with
all modern things close at hand; q
wideawake population both m farm
and in city. until the situation would
seem ideal"
Here are some Of the facts as tc
what may be done on Southern
Peanuts have recently be
,ome a world staple. Virginia an f,
North Carolina produced this year
.5,457,400 bushels Of them. Georgia
melons are as famous the world
,ver as the ROCKFORD cantaloupe.
Georgia peaches are the best n the
market. Florida's oranges and cit
fruits are being pushed hard
~ It's grape fruits, which stand more
'rost and bring better market prize |
IS, taken all in all, than oranges.
IF the tobacco, cotton crop, grains
md such there is no space to dilate
1ere-they are SO much a part Of
he South that a sufficient knowl-