Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-03-04
Climate, the south's Great Asset.

The very large uncultivated areas
make the influx of desirable immigrants
one of the South's greatest needs.
And instead of having raw recruits
from abroad, such as are hocking to
sthe large cities by the hundreds Of
thousands annually, it is preferable
that we induce small farmers from the
northwest to come South. One of the
greatest inducements that we can hold
out to these people is the short and
mild winters of this section. The ex-
tremely cold weather which has pre-
vailed in the North and West during
the past fortnight should makes it easy
for the South to attract people from
that section. While the mercury has
been unprecedently low in the South,
yet it has been proportionately lower
in the colder regions of the country.
There is no denying the fact that one
of the greatest assets of the South is
the comparatively mild weather. The
editor of the Manufacturers Record
who is spending some time in Florida
had the following to say by way of
editorial correspondence in his excellent
journal last week:
Climate as an asaet FOR country's
development is tangible in its value as
coal or iron or timber. Whenever the
biting blizzards sweep over the North
and West, leaving suffering, destruc-
ton and death in their trail, were the
pre-eminent advantages of the South
generally understood throughout the
entire country, millions of people would
seek this section, either for a perma-
nent or winter home. Even now rail-
roads are overcrowded with tourists into
the South, but If the South's climatic
advantages were as widely known as
they should be it would be impos sible
for years to come to have rolling stock
enough to bring the people who would
take up their march southwark.
ITO hundreds of thousands in the far
North and West who have to suffer six
months of snow and ice and zero
weather the short winters of the Pied
mont regions of the upper South, and
ev n some Of the mountain sections,
where nature has engirdled beautiful
valleys by protecting mountains, wouis:
seem to make that region Garden of
Ed n. To others. seeking a warmer
climate. there is great coastal plain
stretching along the South Atlantic and
the Gulf coast, taking in Florida and
all the region that stretches to the Rio
Grande. Ir this Southern country,
with it's mountain ranges, it's Piedmont
region of hills and valleys and the level
country of the seacoast, there is every
variety of climate that the heart of
man could wish.
To-day while the North and West
are freezing, while millions are suffer-
ing, while railroads are blocked by
great snowdrifts and many schools are
closed because of the weather, there
are signs of spring throughout Florida
and the coast country, the trees are
budding forth, the flowers are bloom
ing, the birds are mating, and man and
beast are free from the suffering of
the dpath-dealing blizzarGs. In this
climatic advantage the South has an
asset worth billions in its material
developments. This climate lessons the
cost Of living, lessons the cost of live
stock raising, and makes possible out
door work Il months in the year. 1t
gives to the fruit growers and the
farmers productive power at least twice
as great as that of theic competitors in
less favored regions. :"