The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, May 08, 1908, Page THREE, Image 3
! 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;
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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.
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'AS. McINTOSH.
President.
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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
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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
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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.
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President.
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Cashier.
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V. President.
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Assistant Cashier.
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