The Prescott daily news., 1914-12-22
o * < * O o * o o 70 NEVADA COUNTY FARM o* o* ERS' UNION COLUMN So 70 By J. M. Thomas O* o o O* o o * O o O o
THE SOUTH AS SEEN BY
 A NORTHERN MAN
By A. w. Douglas


 The South today is peculiarly the land of opportunity for it's vast re- sources have scarcely been touched. In the Birmingham district are to be found in close proximity and illimit- able quantities, iron ore, coal, and limestone, such as cannot be matched elsewhere in the world. Birmingham only awaits the development of it's natural market in the South to be- come the greatest iron and steel cen ter of the world. Then there is Knox vile and Chattanooga and Northern Georgia to be heard from in the making of iron and steel, and South western Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, Tennessee, and Central Arkansas have much to say of great undeveloped and unworked veins of coal of high quail ity.
 The South has the largest area of uncut forests remaining in the United States, not only in yellow pine, but likewise in hardwoods, oak, ash, and hickory, and all the cypress. It is the principal producer of naval stores rosin, turpentine, and the like. It has more navigable rivers than any other country of it's size in the world, and more good harbors than any other section of the Union. In South Caro- lima and Florida it has some of the largest phosphate mines in the world and the greatest known sulphur mine is in Louisiana. It raises more gar den truck than all the rest of the coun- try put together, and the great truck industries of the Florida Peninsula, Southern Alabama Southern Louisiana South and East Texas, Southern Geor- gia, around Charleston, and Norfolk, and Eastern North Carolina yield an nually many million dollars in reve- nue to the producers.
 Greatest Fruit Producing Section
 It is the greatest fruit producing section of the Union, and especially excels in peaches, of which the total product in good years is over 35,000 car loads. And this tremendous ton mage is equalled, if not excelled by the annual output of watermelons. In cantaloupes, both in quality and Quan- tity, it's only rivals are the great ir- rigated districts of the West. One section alone, Eastern North Carolina produces annually something like $500, 100000 worth of strawberries.
 In Eastern Texas Southern Louisi- ana, Central Arkansas, and Eastern South Carolina, it raises so much rice that regular propaganda is constantly waged to teach the people of the na- tion the nutritive value of this most economical of all foods. Likewise the day is not far off when we shall be large exporters of rice.
 In the production of nuts, especial ly oceans, it has no rival save Cali fornia. It is most extensive grower of the small grains; wheat oats and the like, it raises nearly onethird of all the corn grown in this country, and this proportion is steadily growing. It has a little agricultural industry all of its own, that of peanuts, whose output totals about seven million dol lars each year It grows all the sugar cane of the country, and makes more real syrup, Hong sweetening." than all the maple syrup and sorghum growing sections. It has nearly all the 70,00,000 acres of swamp lands, still undrained, and are rapidly being reclaimed.
 The historic valley of the Nile has nothing on the alluvial lands, and the delta of the Mississippi for fertility and productiveness. Accurate and de- finite figures are not available as to the extent and value of it's fisheries.