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variety of useful farm crops; their magnificent 

 forests of timber for building purposes; the 

 great deposits of oil, coal, iron, phosphates, 

 lime, and other minerals; with almost unlimited 

 water power; and with a mild and healthful 

 climate; but instead, every reason to believe 

 there will be expansion and growth. 



Mr. Edward Atkinson, a large American 

 spinner, after trying cotton imported from 

 various foreign countries, stated that none 

 of them were satisfactory and that no other 

 country has a climate so peculiarly adapted 

 to the growing of cotton as ours. He finally 

 concluded that the South would perhaps 

 have the monopoly for a long time. In his 

 opinion only one section, which is situated in 

 South America, could ever compete with the 

 United States in growing the best grades of 

 upland cotton. 



The English Government recently appointed 

 a commission to investigate the possibilities 

 of cotton production in Africa, and they 

 reported in part as follows: 



"All efforts to raise cotton successfully 

 elsewhere than in the southern part of the 



