Millard County Chronicle | 1916-02-10 | Page 3 | Prosperity for the South

: PROSPERITY FOR THE SOUTH ) Impression Prevails Among Cotton t Growers That Staple Will Sell 5 for Twenty Cents. J "There is a great deal of prosperity in the South, and I am told the cotton farmers have fared better this year than usual," said S. J. Bratton ol Chicago to a Birmingham Age-Herald a representative the other day. "I was i talking with a cotton grower of Mis ', sissippi who told me that he had sold ; only half of his crop of 42 bales and .- that he had received an average of 11 t cents a pound. He says he intend. to e let the rest of his cotton go gradually 3 after the market gets up to 14 cents 1 This farmer said he had several neigh-t neigh-t bors who had done as well with their e cotton as he had since November. 1 have visited two cotton states beside? Mississippi and Alabama, namely. Ok lahoma and Arkansas, and the general e impression seems to be that the staple e will be selling for 20 cents before next y summer."