Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-11-01
0ENUINE RECONSTRUCTION.

Inc new orleans
has rendered valuable service not alone
to the South, but to the entire country.
In its issue of October 20 it gives a
thorough and carefully prepared review
Of sixty teeming columns, showing the
Industrial condition of twelve Southern
States to-day, and the progress that has
been made in them since the national
census was taken. The States are Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee,
and Arkansas. The facts and figures
were obtained from the Governors of
those States and other official sources.
The completeness and substantial accu-
racy of the information are vouched for
by the journal which gives it to the pub
lie.
For all practical purposes the report
may be taken IS a new industrial census
OF the South. 1t tells a marvellous story
Of present prosperity and recent pro.
gress. The material growth of the
South was rapid during the decade pre-.
ceding the last census year. 1t has been
far more rapid and wonderful since the
last census year. According to the re-
port Of the Times Democrat, the pro.
gress Of the past four years has been
greater than that Of the preceding ten.
Take the item of assessed value Of
property as showing the increase of ma
terial wealth. In 1879, the year to
which the figures Of the Federal census
apply, the aggregate assessment in the
twelve Southern States above named was
two billion one hundred and eighty-four
million dollars. It is nov two billion
eight hundred and twenty-five millions.
This shows the enormous increase in
four years Of six hundred and forty.one
million dollars, or between a half and
three-quarters of = billion. At the
sam time there has been q material re-
duction in the rate of taxation, while
liberal appropriations have been made
for schools, public improvements and
other useful purposes. Nor is this
marvellous advance in valuation" says
the Times. Democrat, "the result of any
imitation in value, but the natural
sequence Of grand crops. new industries
developed. new manufactures, mines and
lumber mills established"
The progress in railroad building is
equally striking. In the twelve States
which we have enumerated the mileage
Of railroads in 1879 was 1900. 1t is
nov $1,000. showing an addition of
1900 miles to the railroad system Of
these Southern States in four years. or
more than 1000 miles . year.
The cotton crop of four years ago was
five and three-quarter million bales. The
yield of the past season reached nearly
seven millions. In 1880 there were in
the four principal cotton manufacturing
States-North and South Carolina, Ala
hama and Georgia-l2S mills, with 45l,-
600 spindles and $500 looms. There are
now in these States 726. 100 spindles and
$4,000 looms humming in $50 mills.
This shows an increase of more than 60
per cent in mill capacity within three
years, and the mills are reported to be
making handsome profits. Within the
past four years the amount Of raw cot
ton manufactured in the South has more
doubled. the consumption having
increased At . far more rapid rate
in Southern than in Northern mills.
We have given the particulars Of but
, few items. The reports publish ed by
our contemporary show that the mar