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Show 24 EMIGRANT'S GUlDE. When the Indian claims are extinguished, this state wm possess 23 4UO,OOO acres of land; ~ome part <;f which equals any soil in the w~rld, and !TI(JSt of it C(lpable ol' becoming tbe residence of an active race of human beings. Upon the entire swface, cotton can be produced in abumlance as a staple; whilst <~.lmo t eve:ry ~lant n.ccessary to human sub~istence cau be produced m plenty. 11.re ciJm<~te is ten1pP-rate, anu most part of the state elevated and salubnous. ~ew places have formed a more permanent basi~ for lasting prospenty. To . ecure the well l)eing of bf!r citizens, demands only a moderate share of t:llent · and virtue in her future legislators; but the beneficence of nature cannot be rendered abortive, without a higb degree of folly and cupidity in the aJmini. tr;,tors of her.Ia.w~. . . Re~pP.cting the agriculture of the state of 1.\h:;~,~~rppr,. l_r_ttle. ~oul d be auc..led, not noticed under that head in the stattstrcs of LnUJ 1a11a. The products of agricultural industry, th(lt claim the attention. ?f the people of the two stat<:!s, do not, rice and sugar excepted, dtfler esl: enti ally. Cotton.-Mr. Niles ob.~erves that,* " This great staple has ~row n up within a very few year;,. In 1791 we exported only 189,?16lbs. ; in 1792, l38 ,328lbs. ·; in 1793, 487 ,600lb . : ten years after, J 803, we exported 4l,l05,6'23lb ·.; in 1807, 64 millions; in 1810, 93 millions; in 1815, 83 millions; and {o,r the year ending with September 1816, nearly 81 millions, as follows:- Jbs. cts. valued at Uplands, Sea islands, 72. ,046, 790 at 27 ( d124 I OG OOO 9,900,326 at 47 s· jjJ ' ' lbs. 81,9-17,116 " We have seen an anonymous estim::tte of the whole crop of 1816, which gives us 320,000 bale'l, as tlJe whole suantity raised, viz. In Virginia, 2,000 bales. North Carolina, 13,000 South Carolina, 120,000 Georgia, 110,000 Louisiana, Tennessee, ~ anc..l Kentucky, S 77 ,OOO Which are valued thus:- 290,000 bales upland at $75 300,00 Sea island 1 15 22.050.000 3.450,000 $ :. h,f>OO,OOO " The bale is not a determined quantity; but we are told that it may be ~ver,•ged at 3i0]lrs. This t:!Sti:nate then woult.l give us~ prouud ~)[ Qnly I 02 .tiOO,OOOibs. The average of tbe four ye::trs export bef~~~ ~b~war, viz. fur 1808,1809,1810 and 1811, was about 55 mH"' ,. o. ~8. Vol. XU. Niles' Register. • I ' • ; ' • I I EMIGRANT'S GUIDE. 125 ~ions; but in 1815 we exported 33. and in 1 816, 82 millions. We know that the cultivation of tl1is commodity bas been greatly extended · and if we call 80 millions ::~s the surplus quantity over the home cor;sumption, the wboiP quantity ~aised cr~n hardlr be ~ess than 120 or 130 millions, it having been f'Stlmated that our factones could consume 29 millions, a they stood in J815. Tlrese bavc somewhat c..lec1ined, !Wdt<lp:->,-but household manufactures, as before observed, have grea1ly incrca,ed ; and we sball put dovm the crop of last yE>ar at 125 millions of pounds, of which 13 may have been sea island . · " Of Tobacco, we exported, in' 1815, 85,339 hhds. and in 1816, 69,Ci41 hhdi! tht· l <~st valued at $12,809,000, or an average of 185 dollarspcrhhd. Fortbeyears 1808. 1-{~09, 1810 and 1811, the average was somewhat more than 45 .000 bhds. The cultivation was declining for several years before the war, but has, since the peace, been far mor<- rapidly extending-and we may accept 70,000 hhds. ;;~s the surplus quant;ty. The table before referred to, estimates tho whole crop of last yeJr at 127,000 hhds-valued as follows: 4&,000 Vin;inia, l t d1 30,000 Loui s i<~na and Kentucky,~ a 130 ,;> 7,500 South Carolina, at 96 ~ 14,562,000 7,000 N<,rth Carolina, } 7,500 Georgia, ' 30.0 00 Maryland, 90 J " This gives an average of or1ly $115 per phd-$71 less than the treasu~y estimate of last year. But the price bf the article has decreaseJ; . an'd this nray be a pretty fair estimate of the quantity produceJ. The export of manufactured tobacco is not wortb taking into the account. " Sugar is becoming a very important item in our agriculture; and the time is dose at hand, wben it will nearly cease to be imported. Large tracts of land are continually brought inte> the cultivation of the cane. .Mr Darby te lis us there are 250,000 acres in LQuisiana fit to proc..luce it. We have reason to believe there is a muqh greater quantity than that; but ~.50,000 acres, worked by 83,333 hands, at one to three acres, calcul~tecl to produce 1 OOOlbs. per acre, would give u~ '2.50 millious of pounds !-a quantity that we should not know what to do with. Besides, it succeeds well in Georgia, and the most southerly parts of South Carolina. At pre~ent it i-s the most profitable crop of the plauter-Mr. Darby estirnatas the product, per hand,, thus : • Sugar at 8 cents per lb. Cotton 15 Indigo 00 Tobacco $10 per cwt. R Cf' (:) cenb per lb· - $240 per hand. 180 140 107 84 * Th.is valuation is not at such a high rate, as that ·made at f he tr.easury de" partnwot ; allowing the bales to be of 3.00lbs. weight e~tch, as ~tis pl·ob~t-blt;. they were 1ated at. .J ' . |
