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! REDUCE COTTON ACREAGE. #lant Less and Get More for ItRead This Letter and Act on Suggestions. To the Cotton Planters: J have received so many letters endorsing my 'efforts for a reduction in acreage from nearly every section of ilirf *outh that ' nave decided in continue the work ;iy .ique.-t \vrij v.* another article on similar lines that will be carried by the southern weekly papers all during this month so that 'every planter will have a chance to read it. Cotton for October delivery sold this week at eight cents per pound. Can you produce it at a profit at this pracc? No. Then in order to | S'ct a profit on what you raise this f season you must plant less than you intended planting at first. Reports 011 the acreage issued so far show that tlie acreage will be about 4 per cent larger than last year. This js probably due to the new farmers that have settled in Oklahoma and west Texas putting in so much new land. We must more than offset this increase by reducing in the rest of the belt. I again state that the main cause for the decline in prices is lack #f confidence caused by .the fear of a large acreage which mean*, with good weather conditions, a large crop and k even lower prices than at present. Do you want to grow a crop at an actual loss? If not reduce your acreage; then if your neighbor persists in planting a large acreage and you have to sell your crop at a loss you lose less tlian lie. If by reducing you add $300,000,000 to tlie wealth of the I South yon will not only receive a part of this but you can feel that you did your part to add io (lie prosperity of the country. It is good business to plant a crop i where there is no profit in it? Xo. Then let every reader at once plant Ipart of his present acreage intended for cotton in some feed crop, or let the land lit-> idle one season as you can 'jet more money for the crop grown < 11 I he pari you do cultivate. If you 11 have it already planted do not work it out as it will be labor thrown away. Which do you prefer? To plant your present acreage and get from 7 t to 8 cents per pound or reduce it and tret 11 to 12 cents and possibly higher. The present contemplated acreage and good weather means a return to the old days of cheap cotton of ten years ago while a reduced acreage means a continuance of the prosperity of the past few years. Let every planter that reads this at once make up his mind that lie will | not be the cause of Wall Street Bears ' fixing the price for your crop as they will do with a large crop. Cio to work at once to reduce your own acreage and see as many of your I neighbors as possible at once and gei a united action in this matter as this is the only way we can be independ| cut and prosperous. I urge every merchant and banker throughout the South to advise their customers to reduce their acreage as it means a loss to you as well as to , the planter to return to the old days of low prices again. Tt will pay you to write a circular letter and send it to every planter you have dealings with urging a reduction in acreage. Don't delay but get busy as there is no time lo loose. We must have a reduction in acreage to save the south. It is as much your duly as mine to help in this work. T get nothing for it. J. again urge the members of the |L Farmers Union and Southern Cotton Hj| association to work together for a ivduel ion in acreage which means much higher prices for the balance of this mferm crop and all of the next one, as well as an influence on future crops. I HV want to hear from every section of BflF the belt as to what you arc doing in the matter. Write me and I will give you nil the assistance T can. Don't H delay but get busy now. 1 President National dinners Association. Memphis, Tenn., May 1st, 1008. jf Timber Owners Organize to Fight Fire. One of Ihe most important economic movements of Ihe day about which Ihe general public has yet learned little is the concerted action of owners of .timber in different parts of the country in organizing assoeiartions to protect their holdings from fire. Tn the Pacific Northwest, the Washington Forest Fire association has ju*t elected officers at Seattle and begun work for the you>: with 3.000,000 acres uiyfer ils care. The plans include a system of palrol by rangers resembling Ihe work done ' by the 1 n i 1 a 1 es Forest Service in 2ujr$ng ngninrt and oxliivnislm; f~ ~t V / .< w. / Im- a liko purpose arc at work in Oregon and Idaho. In (he latter Slate, a portion of the expense is borne by taxation and paid froan the State treasury. A western railroad company which holds large tracts of timber has taken steps to guard its property from lire, and during the short time that its plans have been in operation, it has met with most encouraging success. fcitnilar work is being done on the other side of the continent. Forest owners in Maine have gone to work in the same systematic way to control the forests' great enemy, fire. Like organizations are found in other parts of the country, showing how fully it is now realized that protection against lire is of the greatest importance. It is safe to say that tires in Ibis country have destroyed more timber than lumbermen have cut. When' timber was abundant, the waste passed almost unnoticed', but now tli^t a scarcity is at hand and an actual wood famine threatens in the near future, the owners of forest lauds are waking up and taking action to save what is left. GOLD FROM PLACER MINES. Wealth of Dust Taken From the Gulches of Montana. Several years ago .Montnnans who j had the gold fever were rushing into ( le virgin fields of the Klondike, under the impression I hat the showing t'lere was (lie greales vvr know.n. I'or two yars now Ibis same class of foriunc hunters hlnve been making (heir way into Nevada. They are inclined to forget the magnitude of the discoveries i:i .Montana in the early days, says the Dillion Kxaminer, and the immense quantities of gqjd taken out ol the bars and the gulches, in comparison with which anything that has so tar come from Alaska or Nevada is insignificant. There were more gulches in Montana that actually yielded millions than may ever be discovered again. There are many single claims that yielded far greater returns than have been I old by the letters of visitors to thv gold fields ot the north or around Goldfield and Bullfrog. I he first discovery of gold in Montana was made in 1801. On Gold Creek, five miles below the little village of Pioneer, in Deer Lodge county, Gold fim found placer diggings where there was gold in paying quantities and in the most primitive manner possible worked some of the ground. No attempt to operate the locality systematically was made until a full year afterward, when Granville Stuart, afterward minister to I rnguay and Paraguay, and his brother James bought some necessary appliances, and operated the first, placer mine in Montana in 1802. Their tools and appliances they imported into the country by pack train at infinite labor and expense. Many millions were taken from the vicinity in time. Pioneer. Independent and Pike's Peak districts lay along Gold Creek. At the highest point 011 Pilgrim Bar four men in two seasons took out $32">.000. Down the valley there was gold in large quantities. but it was so fine that miners would not be bothered with it. The gold on the bars further up was coarser and there was plenty of it and many m.?n were made rich on that little creek, which was subsequentIv overshadowed so completely by the discoveries at other points that later on ditches were put in and the ground was worked on a still large scale. One of the ditches cost $300,000 and had a flowing capacity of 10,000 miner's inches, an inch being equal to a supply of 17,000 gallons in twenty-four hours. Under those ditches the ground was worked out over an area of 3,500 feet, of an average depth of fifteen feet to bedrock and a total yield of $13,000,000. The next discovery of any importance, was made by John White and was called Grasshopper Gulch, where the town of Bannack stood soon afterward. The ground was of wonderful richness and before the year was out mining had been inaugurated on ft much larger scale than on Gold Creek. More than $20,000,000 in gold was taken from I his vicinity. The richest placers ever discovered in the world were found in Montana at Alder Gulch, where Virginia City stands. More than $50,000,000 in gold dust formed the total output of that rich locality. Of that amount probably $25,000,000 was taken out within thro or four years after the first year's work. Last Chance Gulch, where Helena now si amis, would cause a Klondike | or Goldlield rush all by ilseK, it is believed by some, il i| were once more /-h ipped of the valuable houses that now stand upon it. and (he industry of the miner were allowed a field for the work. The-four original discorverors took out of their live claims, one claims t\?r each man ami the tfiscovery claim, nearly $200,000 each, thv? richest of it being not far from where the corner of Clore and Wall streets now is, ami there was another wonderfully rich portion, a piece of groniul 20*0 feet square near where the Montana Central depot now stands that ylelde<l ils owners, Taylor and Thompson, $vM().000. And in (ho estimation of many the lowest, bedrock ought to have contained the richest <Tirt, and it was not reached. The output of Last -Chance Gulch has been estimated at $20,000,000, and some believe that figure is not high enough. Confederate Gulch was discovered in 18(>o, east of the Missouri river, where Diamond City afterwards stood. From three of the b:irs above (he bed of tire gulch about $.'1,000,000 was taken. From Montana Bar the Wheeler party, consisting- of four, took out of the territory in a single season about $(>00,000, or nearly half the aggregate product of the whole ground. A single panful of dn-t from a nouk in the diggings at the junction ol Montana and Confederate gulches, where the deposit was the richest, con" tained $1..">S5 of dust. In Hear gulch placers were discovered in October, ISO."). The yield of gold in two years was not less than $1,000,000. Ophir Gulch, on a tributary of the Blackloot river, has yielded as high as $.'{00,000 to the claim, and' in some parts of MeClellan (Julch the same gravel has been worked over as many as five times and lia< each time paid for the work. In one instance a fair sized fortune was taken out on a claim \ that was found to have craeks in the bedrock which were filled with gold and the miners made a slake by digging out the gold with a talespoon. Asparagus Rarebit. Lightly toast and buttc rthin rounds II Illl I 111 | || an | ? YOUR Bi THE 8EWK5SY Capital $50,000 No Matter How Small, The Newberry vill &'vq it careful ipplies to the men and 'AS. McINTOSH. President. This is \ ...READ1 It is not our po bait for breakfas lemon for dinner shop worn goodsfind at "Special B; dear at any price, gle item in our line a lower price tha consistently offer, viceable goods at4 your own interes Show You a on any every pure large trade we cor a day or by "Sp Only by persistent have we gained public. Spend yc dollar gives the fc Yc O. KLE The ^air and S ot whole-wheat bread", covering each with a thin layer of cooked asparagus, cut in minute pices, sprinkle with sale, paprika, a few drops of Worcestershire sauce and a liberal coating of grated American cheese; cook in a hot oven sufilciently long to melt the cheese, hut not brown it. Serve immediately on Welsh rarebit plates, with a poached egg aranged on the top of each portion.The New Idea Woman's Magazine for June. I ECZEMA NOW OURAJBLE. All Itching Skin Diseases Which Arc Not Hereditary Instantly Relieved by Oil of Wintergreen. Can Kczema be cured? Some physicians say "Yes." Sonic say '' No." The real question is, "What is meant by KczetnaIt" you mean those scaly eruption's, those diseases which make their first appearance, not at birth, but years afterward, and perhaps not until middle age?then there can no longer be any question that these forms of Kczema arc cura ble. Simple vegetable oil of wintergreen, mixed with other vegetable ingredi- a ents, will kill the germs that infest 1 the skin. Apply this prescription to the skin, and instantly that awful itch is gone. The very moment the liquid is applied, thai agonizing, tantalizing itch disappears, and continued applicatons of this external rcme- U dv soon cure the disease. h Ct We carry in stock this oil of win- h tergrceu properly compounded 'into H H- H. I). 1'rescription. While we are ? not sure that it will cure all those , cases of skin trouble which arc inherited, we positively know that this ^ 1). I). D. Prescription, whenever rightly used, will cure every last case of ^ genuine Kczeina or other skin trouble. which did not exist at birth. WWWW0B3?tea??r>mnT?TTrnTirafi?i?iiTT-4NKING! I SAVINGS BANKi j IT Surplus $30,000 c< No 1 >1 a'Icr Mow Large, j IV Savings Bank j g ontion. This message. ? the women alike. ' J. E. NORWOOD, Cashier. <Vorth ING... 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