The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-06-18
THE HATTIESBURG NEWS

cision of the German authorities SEEM
ed to have made the necessary potash |
for the soil impossible by prohibitive
cost, but it was a blessing, though |
very much disguised for the home |
sources are being investigated and
with most Unexpectedly fiattering re-
suits. With proper fertilization, drain
age, and, in a word scientific farming
the conditions are improving and will
continue doing so.
Next as to climate. All this is COW
cred by carefully recorded govern
ment statistics that nothing new
could be suitably added to their fig
ures, unless possibly the suggestion
that the horse never gets its full
symmetrical development unless I'M
der special conditions of heritage. The
states of Tennessee and Kentucky
have the soil and the exact humidity
to bring the native grasses to such
perfection as to develop the horse.
Hhhu II 10 hiOi . lhC CillhotS bhuii thV
feed, for with entirely different feed
but at it's highest luxuriance, the
Arabian horse has been quoted as per-
lection of the animal. So, further
east, though less known, is the island
of Timor in the eastern seas, where
the same or similar conditions have
produced similar results. And Cali
fornia is in the same belt.
The reason for Introducing these
facts here is that owing to climatic
conditions, food is easily produced,
labor is not enervating and these are
valuable assets in thegrowth of the
South.
Minerals again. with coal, iron, cop
per, zinc, lead bauxite, phosphate
rock, potash marls, clays, dolemites,
and dozen more, development is GER
tain, and it has largely arrived. AT
Ducktown, Tenn, the cheapest cop
per in the world is produced and at
Birmingham, Ala, the producing price
of steel is lower than elsewhere, ever
in competition with the cheap labor
of Germany. Timber is here in the
South in wonderful abundance ant
with the scientific conservation nov
being installed, the timber areas cal
produce the needs of the United
States. OF course it would not so b.
diverted. To choose an illustrativ
but extreme example, it would no
pay to send pine from Alabama int
oregon, but it can be safely left TO
each district to supply its own needs
: As far as it can, and buy what it re
quires from the cheapest and neares
shipping point.
The surplus of the South can the
be exported in manufactured form
the foreign trade. How will it &c
In sewing machines, buggies, autom
biles, spokes, axe handles, shook
boxing and Grating for manufacture
goods and thousands of other form
The same climate that raised II
horse, raised cotton. And the thou
ands of bales that now are shippe
as bales of cotton to England wi
gradually have their destinatio
changed as new cotton fields white
the Far East.
1t may not be generally known tn
the cotton plant grows naturally
India. and was manufactured the
and the name calico is drived fro
= the town Calient on the west coast
4 India. Naturally the plant grow
I there in luxuriance, and with En-
lands natural policy of developil
E her colonial trade, all inducemen
are placed to the Manchester spi
e ners to use it. It's cost is low, q
workers get five cents per day wag
elasticity and texture of the stap
r does not compare with that produc
in the cotton states of the South.
b Now as to position Millions of d
n lars are being expended in the Sout
8 ern ports to deepen the channels,
ID build wharves, to give modern coali
Il facilities, and but for a few detail
81 the scheme for the handling of t
b Pacific trade, would be compile
n Pensacola has probably the best
q sition as far as being central a
n with magnificent sea advantages |
r one system of railroad has the p,
n nearly tied up. That applies to otf
K ports. Galveston has a magnifice
Is position and has spent much money
n Gently to develop her facilities. G
4 graphically, she is somewhat west
b. the central point. New Orleans /
just put in belt road, but she
4 10 miles inland and that means t
days delay. Mobile is only 30 mi
II from the open sea, but she has