Show southern gold and southern cotton before 1849 the south furnished the chief gold fields of the country but ince that date the south has not been 1 in the running this section has been outclassed by california by colorado by nevada and last but not least by alaska in the last fiscal year alabama produced gold to the tha value ot of and silver to the value of this state was outranked out ranked in gold production in order by north carolina georgia and south carolina but no one of them turned out enough gold to make the tha round figure of fool the entire production of gold in the south in the last year was and in silver joliver jB nearly all tho the silver was mined in texas it Is pretty plain that alabama and all the rest of the south can get morg mor gold out of the goll oll via the cotton boll than it can dig out in tho the gold mines proper the climate and the soil can in that way be coined into gold tho the method is a trifle more circuitous but bul it yields in cotton alone more money nine times over than do all the gold fields in the country for the total yield of gold in the last fiscal yeat yea in this country was but birmingham age herald |