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FAYETTEVILLE OESERVER, APRIL 30, 1913.
THE OBSERVER
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30.
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rHE SOUTH: "THE NATION'S
GREATEST ASSET."
We believe it was in the early
eighties that the Manufacturers Rec
ord began its work of calling the Na
tion's attention to the South as "the
Nation's Greatest Asset." The Obser
ver was one of the Record's earliest
exchanges, aad its articles on the
achievements and possibilities of its
section were often quoted by the Rec
ord along with similar articles by
other Southern journals. The Record,
however, long since outgrew depen
dence upon literature of that kind, at
-second hand, aud has since maintain
ed an army of experts in every part
of the South and in every field of en
deavor, bringing out the marvelous
truths which have restored the South
to its former relative positiou in our
confederated union.
We are reminded of these things
by an extraordinary publication which
we have just received from the edi
tor of the Record, entitled "Uncle
Sam's Views of the South." In an I
Interview with the editor, the mythi
cal Uncle Sam "tells the story of the
South in such a way that any school
boy or girl can read it with fascin
ated interest" as well as the busin
ess man oi student of history
It is a pamphlet of 24 pages, which
we wish we had the space to reprint
in full. Here are some extracts from
It:
The South's Influence in Making This
Country.
"Well," said Uncle Sam, as he shift
ed one leg over the other, "I have
have been thinking a good deal about
the 'history of this country and the
relation of the South to it, and, do
you know, the more I study the mat
ter the deeper the impression gets that
the South is the greatest section on
earth, and that its Deotle. even if
they do not always make as much fuss
about it as some others, accomplish
more, all things considered, than any
other people that ever lived in this
country or anywhere else.
"Between 1861 and 1865 I learned
by experience that the old ideas which
prevailed for many years in the North
and West that the South was wholly
an agricultural country, and that its
people were rather given to inactivi
ty in business, or as some of their
enemies said, to laziness, were whol
ly untrue.
"At that time I learned to pray that
it the soldiers from the South were
samples of inactive or lazy people,
would Providence keep us from run
ning against any very active and
hustling fellows, for I didn't want to
meet any set of men who could march
farther and faster, and fight harder
than the men from the South.
"I ought to have been proud to
claim as my folks, people who had
such moral and physical stamina that
they were willing to sacrifice every
dollar they, bad and life itself for a
principle not lor slavery, as some
teople thought, but for the princi
ple of self-government as they under
stood it. It should be remembered
(hat not one-fifth of the wnite people
In the South were slave owners In
1860. The men who could march all
sight and fight all day, or march all
day and fight all night, though rag
ged and foot-sore and with only a
crumb of bread for a meal, because
they believed they were fighting for
their country's honor, evidently had
in them the kind of stuff which, when
turned to material development, could
be equally as energetic and equally
as successful In putting up a good
fight. When I think over these things
I wonder how in the world it ever
got into my head that with any kind
of a fair chance the people of the
South would not at least equal the
people of any other section of the
United States in material activity.
"There , are some' things to the
South's credit that ought to be told
and retold for the country's good.,
"Everybody knows that it was due
to Southern men that we added about
threfrfourths of the territory which
now forms continental United States.
"Those old Southern fellows were
the best bargain hunters in the world
when it came to making a land deal.
They bought the Louisiana purchase
and likewise Florida for 8 few cents
an acre. No real estate speculator
of today can quite equal those old
Southern leaders 111 their real estate
bargains for the government They
did things on a big scale. When they
bought real estate like the Louisiana
purchase and Florida they bought it
by tbe wholesale at rock-bottom pric
es. This country is many billions of
dollars richer because of their work.
If .they bad not had the vision to
see the business profit In making such
wbo'esale land purchases and the en
ergy to put the deals through, this
cuuuLiy uovcr tuuiu uaia cuuuuiiieu vj
much. ;' '
"Did you ever stop to think of the
limited area we originally had and
how circumscribed we would have
been without the land deals made
through Southern men for national ex
pansion T Through them Anglo-Saxon
domination of this continent was made
possible. Pretty nearly all that the
United Stated Is in extent of conti
nental territory. In achievements made
and in materia! resources. Is due to
the old fellows of the South who prov
ed their-abilities laJmslneBS aswell
as In statesmanship and in war.
Despite Heavy Handicaps In the Past,
the South Led the Nation. i
"Before the war the South beat the i
East in making money. In I860 it
had nearly one-half of the total wealth
of the country, or, to be exact, 41.9
per cent., and was getting rich fast
er than the New England and Mid
dle States combined. Why, between
1850 and 1860 the Increase of the
wealth of these sections was less by
over one billion dollars than the
South's gain. For several years af
ter 1865 this government, controlled
by the prejudices and passion born of
the war, did all in its power to Im
poverish the South by visiting upon
its people misgoverument and corrup
tion in political life. Every sensible
man now sees pur mistake. I am very
penitent now as I think over how I
helped the enemies of the South to
bring about even greater wreck and
ruin than had been left by war, itself.
This forced development to other sec
tions. The rest of the country had
the backing of all the strong financial
interests of the world, as well as of
this government I gave away hun
dreds of millions of acres of land to
subsidize the building of railroads
through the West I 'filled Europe
with stories about the resources of
the West, and bade all the people of
the world to come and get their share
of the things I was giving away. I
encouraged the financial houses of
Europe and America to bend their en
ergies and their capital to the develop
ment of the West. Some of our tar
iff laws gave Eastern States advant
ages for manufacturing over tne
South. This was done by fixing it
so as to put mauy of the things the
South produced "raw materials," so
called on the free list, while leaving
a high rate on what the South had
to buy.
"For a time I treated the South
worse than a red-headed stepchild, but
it kept on growing; it got rich fast,
notwithstanding the way money was
drained from it in order to pay pen
sions, to pay insurance aud to do oth
er things that advanced the prosperi
ty of other sections at its expense.
This drain has aggregated some bil
lions of del ars since the war. For
tunately, the South is beginning to de
velop its own insurance, its own bank
ing and other things which will add
enormously to its wealth.
"I let the cotton buyers do all in
their power to beat down the price
of its cotton for the benefit of the
spinners of Europe. Then every time
the 'bulls' came along and tried to ;
put the price up a little, the lahd
was flooded with stories from Wash-1
ington about tow cotton growing in I
ctber psrts of the wcrld wmi'd so?n
destroy the cotton interests of the
South unless prices were kept so low
that foreign spinners would not be
tempted to try to raise cotton in Afri
ca, where I knew they never could
raise it to advantage, though it was
a pretty good bluff for the foreigners
to play against the people of the
South.
"If the South had not had more
natural advantages than any other
country on earth, and if its people
had not demonstrated that in busin
ess they had the fame energy and
ability which enabled them, between
1861 and 1865, to live on almost noth
ing, to march night and day and fight
as few people in the world ever fought
that country would have gone to the
doss long ago. For years all the pow
er of the National Government and
all the capital of the world interested
in this country were united to develop
the West and the Pacific coast to the
exclusion of the South from such ac
tivities. When the Germans and Scan
dinavians began to emigrate so large
ly to this country, I knew they were
the best people in the world to pu.t
into the South, and I knew the South
was the best place for them, but few
hands were raised in defense of that
section, while the railroads and tbe
immigration agents of the West flood
ed Northern Europe with maps of this
country on which the South was print
ed in b'ack to indicate that it was a
land of negroes, or else in yellow,
with a story that it was full of yel
low fever. Many of my consuls in
Europe knew that every hamlet In
Northern Europe was full of litera
ture of this kind, but about that time
I was joined to the enemies of the
South and made lltt'e or no effort to
develop a section which I now know
to be not only the greatest asset of
this nation, but the best and most
richly endowed material asset of the
world."
"Uncle Sam," said the Manufactur
ers Record, "we are glad to see you
make this confession, for 'an honest
confession is good for the soul,' and
in this case it will be good for the
South and the nation. Tou were a
good deal of a sinner against the
South. We know your repentance is
genu:ne, that you have had a real
change of heart and that you, like
the rest of the people of this coun
try, are beginning to understand the
South and thus to appreciate its peo
ple and Us advantages. We do not
mind telling you, however, that you
do not know It yet You are just
eettine a little glimpse of it. It is
10 times as great a country as you
think It is, even with all your change
of heart. It is goin? to be 10 times
as rich a country as you have ever
imag-'ned. It is really an undiscovered
country, so great are the resources
not yet even brought to life. You
think of the United States as a pret
ty . big country, and think that Its
we'alh of $140 000,000,000 is a very
handy balance to the credit of its 136
years or so- of . operation as a busin
ess enterprise. But this 'country has
nly commenced to to business with
the word, only begun to accumulate
money, only started its material de
velopment as compared with what the
next nuarter of a century will show,
and the South is going to lead in this
?rowth."
From Bankruptcy to Vast Wealth.
" "All you asert," said Uncle Sam,
"as to the way I ignored the South
is true, and I am sure that what you
say about the wealth and power which
that section is going to develop is
true." When 1 think of the busted,
bankrupt condition of the South af
ter the war, and know how recon
struction days were a great deal worse
than war, even thongh war days were,
as one of my generals said, 'Hell let
loose on earth, I wonder that your
section was ever able to get on Its
feet financially. But while thinking
over that, I have been studying the
statistics of what has been done. Yon
have about 33,000,000 people in the
South, but they are doing so much
more than the 50,000,000 people which
our country had in 1880 that I am
setting a little ashamed of tbe oth
ers. Do you know, I think If tne
North and West and the Pacific coast,
in proportion to their population and
the government backing which they
had, had . accomplished as much as
the people of the South have done,
this country would have twice as
much wealth as it has.". .- , :
"After the war you started - with
nothing. I nfact your debts were so
big that if the whole South had been
sdldxuraraucncc-lTwtrair-BorijsT
brought enough to pay its public and
private indebtedness. For 40 years
you were simply trying to catch op
on debts, while we started up here
after the war so rich that we hardly
knew how to spend the money and
kept on piling It up year after year,
And now you have more money in
your factories thnn the whole country
had in 1880, though you have 16,000,-
000 or 17,000,000 people less. That
is going some.
"And as to agriculture, you set the
pace for the world. Talk about agri
culture In the West and on the Pa
clfic coast, and then look at what the
South has been doing and any West
ern or Pacific coast man ought to feel
ashamed of himself. Why, you are
producing a greater agricultural out
put including animal products, by
$340,000,000 than the total value of
all the farm crops, not including ani
mal products, in tbe United States as
late as 1890. And some of us once
had an idea that you were a little
slow and non-progressive, and that
your soil was not very good, and that
you could not raise anything bat cot
ton. Jehoshaphat! If you are slow,
or if your soil is poor, what in the
world would have been left for the
rest of the country if you had been
energetic and your soil had been
good?"
Anglo-Saxon Love of Achievement.
"That is all true," said the Manu
facturers Record, "but we are not
bragging so much on what we have
done as on what we are going to do.
e are just betting ready to work.
"Way back in 1860 we had 950,000
of onr people living in the West and
in other sections beyond the borders
of the South, developing the country.
They were Anglo-Saxons, and hence
they were pioneers who loved to take
hold of new and big propositions.
Swank, in his 'History of Iron In All
Ages,' said that the pioneers in the
mountain regions of the South 'seem
ed to have been born with a genius
for iron-making. As a matter of fact
the pioneers in the whole South were
born with a genius for doing things.
They loved to achieve, whether in
statesmanship, in war, in engineering
or in agriculture. Some of the fel
lows who went West did not like
slavery, so they journeyed across the
mountains and opened up the Western
prairie regions to get far away from
it, or led the 1849 movement to Cali
fornia and laid the foundation of the
wealth of that State. You know that
with a very large number of people
in the South slavery was never popu
lar; many of its foremost men and
women regarded it as uneconomic, as
well as morally wrong, and it never
would have been fastened around the
neck of the South if that section in
early days had been left alone to solve
this question. Many of the ablest men
of the South, including some of its
greatest military leaders In the Civil
War, were opposed to slavery.
The South Has Given More of Energy
to . Other Sections Than It Has
Received in Return.
"The heaviest loss to the South was
not the destruction of property by the
war nor the cost of maintaining its
armies -for four years, but the loss
of men through death in battle and
through emigration after the war. Be
cause the South was almost destroyed
by war, and by reconstruction days
which continued till 1876, the oppor
tunities for work were so limited that
between 1865 and 1900 over 2,500,000
Southern-born whites went entirely be
yond the borders of this section; and
so far as the Central South is con
cerned, another million left and went
cut into the Southwest, mainly to Tex
as, Missouri and Arkansas. Tbe Cen
tral South from Virginia to the Mis
sissippi river thus had to stand the
drain by emigration of 3,5 ,,000 of its
white people. This is the-greatest
drain upon me vital life of a coun
try that has been seen in modern
times. We , sometimes hear that the
development of the South has been
due to the nergy and capital of peo
ple from other sections, while but
little attention has been given to the
fact that the South has freely given
to, other regions many times as much
as it has received in numbers and-
energy. Of immigration from other
sections it has had comparatively lit
tle until recently, while emigration
drained much of its life blood to the
enrichment of the North and the West
and the Pacific coast. With this les
sened vitality the people who were
left at home had to meet many prob
lems greater than Anglo-Saxon civili
zation had ever beiore faced; prob
lems of reorganizing State govern
ments, of tne reconstruction of their
labor system, of their agricultural and
business interests, as well as prob
lems of law "and education. To the
men who 'staid by the stuff and who
boe theie burdna, increased many
fold as they were by emigration of
so many of the strongest and ablest
men of the South , eternal credit
should be given."
The Truth of History Needed to Be
Known by All.
"That's all true," said Uncle Sam.
"I might resent your rubbing these
things in so bard now, were it not
t'aat the truth of his'cry justifies your
statements, and because the South and
its people, past, present and future,
cannot be understood without a knowl
edge of these facts, and because it is
vital for the country's good that each
section shou'.d understand the other.
Maybe we could have avoided the war
if all sections had known each other
in the early days.
"The .Northern or Western man who
does not know the true story of the
South will not be able to forecast Its
development and thus cannot measure
in advance its influence on this coun
try and on world affairs. Its resourc
es must be known, tbe reasons for
the delay in their big development
must be understood and the inherited
trait of Southern men In engineering
work, in manufactures and in man
agerial ability must be realized or
else the important part the South is
to p'ay in world affairs will not be
grasped. You know, when I wanted
to build the Panama anal, I got most
of tbe engineers from the South. Chi
cago's great drainage canal, one of
tbe biggest pieces of engineering work
in the country, came from the brain
of a Virginian. , Baltimore's $20,000,
000 sewerage system, accounted by
many as the most advanced sewerage
work in the world, has been engineer
ed by a Southern man. It was left
for a Southern man to finance and
engineer to success the tunnel under
the Hudson river, the greatest finish
ed engineering achievement of the
day, after English and American en
gineers and &reat promoters had re
peatedly failed. My weather bureau
and all my bydrograpblc work harks
back to Maury, the Virginian upon
whom Europe heaped more honors for
scientific attainments than it ever
gave to any other American. The list
of men from the South" who have
wrought marve'oug achievements In
things that make for human progress
can hardly be counted. The McCorm
lck reaper, which revolutionized the
world's agriculture, was the iavontlon
f -Virginlanr Without -It the- prali.
ies of the West could not-have been
turned into wheat fields to supply Eu
rope and America wlth. Joodotnff s.
From the days of Washington all the
way down. Southern men have had a
genius for engineering and for big,
broad business operations. And, by
the way, speaking of Washington,
what a geulua he had, not only for
pioneering engineering work, but for
Knowing how to pick out good lands.
If he had lived in .these days be would
have been a billionaire, for he could
see a bargain .about as far ahead as
anyvot the big fellows ofthis genera
tion. "A quarter of a century or more ago.
when you took as your motto, 'The
development of the South means the
enrichment of the nation,' you did not
have many believers. Faith in the
truth of the motto was rather weak
because there was lack of knowledge.
Moreover, many people North and
South did not understand that only
through the development of the South
could there come a well-rounded na
tional life. Hence, they were slow
in grasping the meaning of your mot
to. Millions of people In the South,
and in the North and West as well,
would today be richer than they are
if their knowledge of the South's re
sources and Its future had been full
enough to give them the faith which
the Manufactures Record has always
had.
"Had the South itself realized the
truth of what you were preaching, It
would not have given away so many
millions of acres of its timber lands
and its coal lands, its oil and Its gas
lands, for a few'dollars an acre. There
are a lot of millionaires in this coun
try who are millionaires simply be
cause they believed what you were
preaching, and fhey staked every dol
lar they owned or could borrow to
buy Southern properties at prices that
were absurdly low.
The South the Nation's Main Reliance
In Foreign Trade.
"You are beginning your city
growth period. You are Just getting
a little touch of what city activities
will be. Birmingham, and Atlanta,
Houston, Tampa and Jacksonville, and
Chattanooga, and Memphis, and Okla
homa, and a lot of other places are
only faint types of what will be seen
throughout all the great region from
Maryland to Texas in the next 10 or
20 years. Even now you are grow
ing faster than your own people can
understand. Pretty soon the world
will begin to capitalize Southern
growth, and then there will come a
ruh of wealth that will amaze you.
We talk about the cities on the
Pacific coast, such as Portland, Seat
tle, San Francisco and Tacoma aa
thriving places; but Galveston alone
exports nearly twice as much as all
the cities on the Pacific coast com
bined. Last year these Pacific coast
ports shipped abroad $127,000,000 of
domestic merchandise, while Galves
ton shipped $218,000,000. Even Tex-
s city, a sub-port of Galveston, a
place built up in the lasf few years,
handles more export trade, although
in goverment records it is credited to
Galveston, than San Francisco; and
more than Portland, Puget Sound,
Seattle and Tacoma combined. Sa
vannah exports more than Boston or
Philadelphia; New Orleans about as
much as Boston, Philadelphia and San
Francisco combined. Brunswick, Ga.,
outranks Portland, Ore., in exports by
over $8,000,000. Savannah ships
abroad more than twice as much as
San Francisco. Wilmington's exports
are three times as great as the ex
ports of Portland, Ore. Mobile, Ala.,
exports more than four times as mucn
as Portland, Maine, and Tampa, Fla.,
more than four times as much as San
Diego, Cal.
Uncle Sam Sums Up the South's Ad
vantages.
"Briefly," added?Uncle Sam in conclu
sion, "I may say: Your sections com
bines "First, the advantages of limitless
agricultural potentialities.
"Second, unequalled natural advan
tages for manufacturing and facilities
for assembling and distributing by wa
ter or rail to the West on one side
out to the Orient and to the East and
Europe on the other side.
To these points in your favor you
add. health conditions, due to climatic
advantages ranging from the cold of
the high mountains of Western Caro
lina and Texas to the soft and balmy
air of the Gulf coast meeting every
requirement or those wno want a
strong, bracing, cold climate, or those
who prefer the balminess of the semi
tropics, givingvto this section a com
manding situation for health and
pleasure seekers not to be found in
any other part of the United States.
Summing up a few things I find
that:
'The South is now- producing three
times as much cotton as the rest of
the world.
"It is mining more than half of the
sulphur produced .n tue world, and by
reason of the cost of production is
dominating the world's su phur trade.
It Is supplying a very large propor
tion of the phosphate rock which
makes possible the fertilizer industry
iu Europe as well as of this country.
It is producing one-half of the tim
ber annually cut in the United Stages.
and it is beginning to turn much of
this into the finished product.
It is mining l,000,000 tons of
coal a year, which is 80 per cent, more
than the United States produced of
bituminous and anthracite coal com
bined in 1880, and as much as the
entire country produced of bitumin
ous coal In 1893.
'It is making almost as muchpf
iron as was produced by the whole
country In 1880, and it is beginning to
turn a large part of this into steel
rai's, pipe, machinery and other fin
ished products. r
It is making steel whftm Is not sur
passed as to quality by any other
steel made in the country.
it is shipping largely over. $100.-
000,000 worth ofear'y fruits and veg
etables from its truckinn farms and
its orchards to the North and West
and this business has grown at a rate
wnicn guarantees that within a few
years Its vo time will be doubled.
It is now developing its water pow
ers at an actual outlay of about $i50,-
uou.uoo, and it is probably safe to say
that the waterpower enterprises now
under way and projected will require
an expenditure of over $200,000,000
of actual cash.
It is producing $3,300,000,000 in ae-
rlculture, which is two and a half
times as much as its agricultural out
put in 1900, and $840,000,000 more
than the value of the farm crons. not
inc'uding cattle products, of the Uni
ted states in 1890. .
"It has more than $700,000,000 great
er manufacturing capital than the
united states had in 1880, and Is ad
ding to its industrial development at
a rate which insures far more rapid
advancement in the next 10 years
than , during tbe last 25. -
- inese are a few of the things that
have Impressed me with what the.
South is, what it has done and what
it is going to do. The more I have
tudleL-thamaurr-the.JBioreJLam .
impressed with the fact that the
South is-indeed the nation's ereatest
asset Any man of ordinary common
sense who will study the situation
as I have done will come to the same
conclusion.'
"The development of the South will
add to national wealth, to national
progress, to national solidity, to a
greater extent than any but the most
far-seeing men could even dream of.
"Indeed, the South is not only the
nation's greatest material asset; it
la the world's greatest asBet, and its
development win enrich the world,
without its cotton, beggary would
rstalk the streets of Europe and mil
lions would starve.
"The South Is to be the land of
promise fulfilled; the Eldorado of
American activity; the focusing point
oi me worms commerce and Indus
tries. .1
"To the intelligent people ot this
country and the law-abiding people
oi murope i would say, 'Go South.
"To the capital of the world I would
say, 'Invest South."
Uncle 8am's Views of the 8outh.
"By gum!" said Uncle Sam, as he
looxeu up from a study of statistics
of the South's progress to greet the
manuiacturers Record.
v "1 believe you are right in claiming
mac tne boutn is tbe nation s greatest
asset l nave been doing a good deal
ot thinking of late. I tried to digest
the statistics of -the South's upbuild
ing, and lor awhile thought they had
given me.a bad case of colic, but pret
ty soon I found it was a bad case of
conscience at work. You know a
good many people's consciences are
located in their stomachs, and you
cant always tell whether it is Ken-
ulne repentance for sins or a bad liv
er that sends a man to the mourner's
bench. As I thought of how long I
aimost ignored tne south, and at times
made laws which enriched other sec
tions, often at the expense of the
South, I got ashamed of myself. And
yet, despite my shortcomings the
bouth has grown rich and powerful
Thinking over these things caused my
conscience to stir itself and it soon
gave me a pretty hard jolt. It Drov
ed to be a genuine conscience work
and not indigestion. I am glad to see
you. The fact is, I want to talk to
you about the South. I have repent
ed of my mistakes, and now I want
to do what I can through the Manu
facturers Record to proclaim to the
world the real truth about tne South.
I know that for a good many years
many of my people In the North and
West had a very unfavorable opinion
aDout your section. Maybe I got a
little twisted myself as the result of
the trouble 1 had between 1861 and
1865 in persuading your Southern peo
ple not to set up an independent gov
ernment for themselves."
"Now, Uncle Sam," said the Manu
facturers Record, "the South has no
ill feeling because of the family
squabble of former days. We thought
we were right. The other folks
thought they were right, and as they
outnumbered us, naturally you were
controlled by the majority. There Is
no hatred, so it is said, so bitter as
that of near relations when they get
into a squabble, but with us hatred
.ong ago gave way to renewal of fam
ily ties and of kindred love. It's all
one country now. The Manufactur
ers Record regards as its highest
praise that which says that through
its work for Southern upbuilding it
has helped to break down sectional
barriers, has brought the South, the
North and the West into closer busin
ess and thus into closer personal ac
quaintanceship, and broadened and
deepened the nation's life. But if you
want to talk out in meeting, go ahead.
It may do great good to tell the peo
ple of the whole world just why the
South was halted in material upbuild
ing and why its advancement is now
to be the dominant factor in the na
tion's business life. You know that
the war and reconstruction days held
the South back tor 40 years while the
balance of tbe country was making
amazing progress, but lots of people
don't understand this, and so if you
will tell the story as you see it, you
will do the whole country, as well as
the South, good. '
Limitless Southern Opportunities,
i nese tnmgs reminds me ' of a
story told about that big sulphur de
posit In Louisiana, the development
of which raised such a hubbub in Pa
ly. Italy had for generations controll
ed the sulphur trade of tne world, but
it doesn't now. Years ago someone
discovered su.phur in Louisiana, but
it was so far underground and so
heavily covered with quicksand that
every effort made to mine it proved
unavailing. Finally a lot of rich New
Workers after various experiments
concluded, like others had done, to
abandon the enterprise. A meeting
was caild for the purpose of disband
ing and pocketing the loss, but tne
itory goes that Abram S. Hewitt sug
gested that they make one more at
tempt and lend the company enough
money to test a new system propos
ed by a man named Frasch. His plan
was to pump superheated water into
ihe vine Under such pressure as to
melt the sulphur, whic.i wouid flow
io ueaiuy wens anu ue pumpea oui
'.n its l.quid state. Hewitt's proposi-
.on was accepted, Frasch's plan tcjt
ed, and it is whispered around Wall
Street tha. the annual dividends are
10 or 12 times as great as the capital
nvested. The property had been kick
ed around lor years without buyers
and was offered to a New Orleans
nan lor $15,000. He didn't think it
worth 1t. It is taxed now at $10,
000,000. That sulphur success startl
ed tbe Italian Government and -upset
the words sulphur trade. It came
.tear bankrupting all the Sicilian sul
phur interests. Through this mine
.n Louisiana, the South dominates the
.u'.phur trade of Europe and Ameri
ca, producing more than one half the
sulphur of tbe world. Another sul
phur deposit is being developed in
exas, which experts" claim to be sim
ilar to the one in Louisiana. The
owners expect to mane as much -money
as the crowd who own tbe Louisi
ana sulphur deposits aas gathered a.
A thousand frustrations came to
me about similar wealth-making lo-
ngs down South. A quarter of a
century ago, so tbe railroad people
te l me, tbe Southern Pacific Railroad
officials d,d not believe that the prai
rie land in what is now the Crowley
rice-growing section, through "Wwich
heir road passed on the way to Tex
as, would ever be worth anytnlng.
You could buy a') you wanted at 25
cents an acre, and the seller would
feel that he was cheating you when
he took the money. But al- s came
two men, one from Iowa and one from
Louisiana, who insisted that the land
could be drained and made to pro
duce rice and other crops. - The Iowa
man had begged a pass to get down
to Louisiana, and then he worried the
Southern Pacific offlmcials so much
about the possibilities of the country
and bow he could bring settlers from
the West that one of them, so I am
told, in order to be rid of his per
sistence, said to him in substance, one
dayJwm givejrou $ 50 month to
keep out of this ofncvY6u canHo
what you please with it; but the coun
try you are talking about Is not fit
to' put a settler in. I won't be guilty
ot being a party to it' That land is
now selling at $100 an acre, and about
$200,000,000 of wealth has been creat
ed by the rice industry and the thriv
ing towns which have grown up there
as a result. The railroads whose offi
cial had no faith in the country hauls
out thousands of carloads lot rice an
nually, Arkansas people nave been
doing equally as well in rice growing,
which has changed a whole section of
that State. "
"And when you talk about making
fortunes by draining the rice-growing
lands ot Louisiana and Texas, and ir
rigating the upland rice lands of Ar
kansas, think of the pillions of acres
of the richest lands in the world
lands which by comparison make the
lands of the Valley ot the Nile seem
too poor to cultivatethat can be
reclaimed down South. Already sev
eral hundred thousand acres are be
ing drained by men who had the sense
to scent this money-making chance. It
beats gold mining even in a real gold
mine. For $50 an acre you buy and
drain big tracts which will make an
annual profit of over $50 an acre. Do
you know anything better? And out
In Texas big English and American
companies are spending millions in
vast Irrigation projects. -
"You cannot turn around down
South, so people from other sectons
who have been spying out the land
tell me, without butting your head
against facts showing what has been
done, in great development schemes
and without finding still greater pos
sibilities for doing equally as big
things.
"Did you ever hunt birds when the
coveys were so big and numerous that
you never knew just where to shoot
to get the best results" asked Uncle
Sam. "Sometimes," said he, "you get
bewildered as the birds fly up in all
directions, and you are liable to shoot
in the air because there are so many
birds you hardly know which way to
aim. Well, that's the way down
South. I have had my agents all over
the South, experts from tne Agricul
tural Department, experts from the
I Geological Survey and others hunting
over that region pretty actively during
the last few years, and I have learn
ed that opportunities for investment.
for development enterprises, for home
making, for every Imaginable kind of
farming, for railroad building, for
city activities, are so many and so
great that the investor is very much
like the hunter who becomes puzzled
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350 Mules and Horses Just
Arrived.
Our Mr. Bevill has just returned from the Western
Markets, where he bought an extra nice lot of
Mules and Horses, which have arrived.
Busies, Wagons, Harness, Robes
-' WE HAVE ON HAND AT ALL TIMES THE WELL-KNOWN MOYFR
BABCOCK, AND HACKNEY BUGGIES. AS WELL AS THE I CHEAPER
GRADES,. HARNESS, ROBES, ETC., TO GO WITH THEM WE KEEP
ALL SIZES OF1 PIEDMONT AND HACKNEY WAGONS, BOTH ONE A vn
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Fayetteville N. G.
as to the particular bird at which to
shoot. The investor who goes down
South and studies these things hardly
knows whether to put his money into
a railroad, into a coal mine, into tim
ber land, into sulphur deposits, Into
phosphate mining, into fertilizer manu
facturng, into cottonseed oil, Into tex
tile mills, into citrus fruit growing or
apple raising; or into peaches, pears
or grapes, or dairying, grain growing,
or into cotton growing. In all these
lines and others he can find examples
which show "money-making possibili
ties that are not equalled anywhere
else in the country over which my flag
floats. .. : .
Fruit Growing Potentialities Compar
ed With the West.
"I know that the people on 'the
Pacific coast are always hurrahing
uuoui iruu growing in jaiiirunia, ana '
apple raising in Oregon and Washing-,
ton; but the South can beat them
both 'to a frazzle,' whether it be In
apples or in oragnes; and when it
comes to grapefruit California, of
course, simply draws out of the race,
for Florida is the one supreme grape-
r 1 . . i , il l j . j
nun. nevuuu Miunii n- me funu, ttUU
ar to peaches and grapes and figs,
pecans, peanuts and other things, the
South is the real home of these things;
It is, Indeed, the Garden of Eden for
fnlits and nuts. Why one county in
Virginia raises 1,000,000 barrels of ap
ples a year, while Florida Is raising
7,000,000 or 8,000,000 boxes of citrus
fruit. . Last year's apple crop in four
contiguous counties of Virginia and
West Virginia exceeded the whole ap
ple yield of Oregon and Washington
1 1flA T II.. A. 1L. 1 J 1
Ill I M I II II I I H rHKI III I I1H Wlirill KIIHOT V
what a fruit land it is, more than
one flaming sword would be needed
even, to keep in line the crowd rush
ing Southward."
Southern Energy and Initiative Turn
ed to Marvellous Account.
"Uncle Sam," said the Manufactur
ers Record, "you felt pretty proud of
your country In 1880, when you had
50,000,000 people, and thought yon
were the biggest thing on earth, and
the world seemed to take you at your
own valuation. Have you stopped to
think of how much greater in achieve
ments is the South today with 33,
000,000 people than was the United
States in 1880 with 50,000,000?"
"Yes," said Uncle Sam, "I told you
a little about that in the beginning.
When I think over these facts I am
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