The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-29
III In The puln,t. why Not In the Theatre ?
More Machinery Wanted.

Louisville t0urf6F-J0ufnAi.I
The award of prizes at the Paris Exposition
TO Southern exhibitors was meHgre, for the
simple reason that there were comparatively
few Southern exhibitors there. The South
ern products exhibited were everything to bc
desired in their way but it is noticeable how
poorly the South figures at Paris and every
where else, in fact, where manufactures are
brought in competition, or where Inventive
genius is displayed. The Patent Office reports
also show the weakness OF the South in
the mechanic arts and the Inventive faculty.
While less than three hundred patents arc
issued yearly to the people Of Alabama,
Florida, Georgia. Louisiana Mississippi,
South Carolina and Texas, over 5000 are is
sued to the Northern STATES of Illinois, Con
necticut, Massachusetts,, New Hampshire,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. That
tells the story. The latter States, which
have been selected at random for purposes OF
comparison, have largely given their atten-
ton to manufactures, which have drawn out
the inventive faculty always on the alert to
improve machinery.
In the Southern States as is well known,
until late wears the attention of the people
was almost exclusively given to the produc-
tiOn of cotton, corn, tobacco and sugar. One
Of the most promising signs at the present
time Is the Southern movement toward the
establishment of manufactures. Barren as
the South is of factories when brought IN
comparison with the New England or Middle
States it Is interesting to note the change
which has taken place since, the war. Ac--
cording to a carefully prepared statement OF
Gen. l.. 2. Walker, Of Alabama. that State
has 2118 factories, working 8248 hands, with g.
capital invested Of S., ia ,032, paying annually
in wages S2.227, ,968, and yielding annually in
products ST., ,04O 644. Florida has $50 facto-
ries, working 2749 hands, with a capital in
vested of 81 ,679, $50, paying annually in wages
S989, 500, and yielding annually in products
| 81, ,685, ,4O3. Georgia has 1916 factories, work
ing 1871 hands, with capital invested OF
S13 $50 1885, paying In wages S4, ,844 5O8, yielding
annually in products S3i 1876, Is. Louisiana has
2557 factories, working 30,O71 hands, with a
! 1893, ,470, yielding annually In products s2,'
| 16l ,9O5 Mississippi has 1871 factories, work,
ing 594l hands, with capital i Invested o.
81, Sol TIA, paying in wages 81 SAT 428 yleldlne
lima has 1884 factories, working 8l4l hands
with a capital invested of S5,4OO,4 ,4l8, paying
in wages $1,543715, yielding annually ir
products S9,858,981. Texas has 23lt
factories, working 1927 hands, with capita
invested of s52s4, 40, paying in wages 81 787, 81,
B35, yielding annually in products S11 ,517, ,3o2
! Aggregate number OF factories, IA ,884; aggre
gate number of hands employed, 8O,948; ag
grpgate capital invested, S54, ,82t,3o aggre
gate wages paid annually, Sl7,5l4,5l6; aggre gre
gate annual value OF products, ol026l2loS
During the past year cotton factory am
a cotton seed Oil factory have been pu
in operation at NatcheZ,, Miss, with IN
most gratifying results The population o
the city mas Dee0 lnCEShSeh hS s'oiL oo oi
business and both enterprises gave abundan
evidence that they would more than pay
up to date when the quarantine against tn
introduction of yellow fever had 10 pe estaL
lshed In Georgia the otton manufactures
have been very successful, so much SO, ID
deed, that more than one New England s tmoul m
nal has expressed apprehensions lest the sea
,, of the cotton manufacturing interest shout
be transferred from that section to the oputf
ern States, where the raw material Is right 9
the door OF the factory, and the cotton good
can be manufactured cheaper than IN Ne
England with the Spanish American ma
kets contiguous, as an additionally laVorao
feature. go
It is no wonder that 50 much wealth hi