Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-13

dustrles. Besides, 1t Is evident from |
what has just been stated that the
farmers of the Western States depend |
almost entirely upon home markets for |
the sale of their products, other than
grain, provisions, and live animals, and
that the farmers of the Southern States
depend almost entirely upon home
markets for the sale of their products
other than cotton. 1t is cheering sign
of progress that the people Of the
Southern States are beginning to ap.
preciate, more highly than ever before,
the Importance of developing their own
home markets by encouraging manu-
features.
The immediate relations sustained by
manufactures to the several sections of
the country are indicated by the fol-
lowing facts in regard to the distribu.
ton of manufacturing and mechanical
industries: According to the census Of
1880 the products of manufacture in the
United States were distributed thus
twenty.one per cent, in the New Eng
land States; forty-one per cent. in the
States of New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland,
and the District of Columbia /; twenty
nine and a half percent. in the West>
ern and Northwestern States two and
half per cent. in the States of Vir.
ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Florida three and halfper cent.
in the States of Kentucky, Tennessee,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas
and Arkansas two and half per
cent. in the States of California, Oregon,
and Nevada. These facts show the
extent to which the manufacturing in>
dustries of the United States have be-
come natiOnalized.
Within the memory Of men of mid.
die age, the great West was depend
ent almost entirely upon the East and
upon foreign countries for manufac-
tured products. But the value of the
manufactures of that section increased
from S946, 675, 900 in 1860 to 81, $685.
1851 in 1880. During the latter
year, the value of the products of
manufacture of the Western and
Northwestern States was fifty per cent.
greater than the total value of the
products of manufacture in the United
States in 1850, and almost equal to
the total value of manufactures of the
country in 1860. The very fact of
the movement of manufactures toward
the great surplus-producing agricultu-
raj area of the West clearly proves the
mutually of interest existing between
those two great branches of industry.
Through the improvement and ex.
tension of the facilities for transporta-
ton, and the growing tendency on
the part Of local traders to purchase
cat first hand" the manufacturer has,
to grerat extent, become a merchant,
and local points of manufacture have
thus become centers of trade. The pro.
ducts of the manufactures of the West
are now shipped not only to ali points
in the Western States, but also extern
sively in the Southern States, and to
the Eastern States, and certain articles
are even exported to foreign countries.
In view of the present rate of increase
of manufactures in the Western States,
the rapid growth and Improvement in
the facilities for transportation by rail,
and the constant tendency of popula'
ton westward, it appears safe to pre-
dict that, if nothing shall occur to re
press the present prosperity of the
manufacturing industries of those
States during the remaining years of the
century, there will be developed be
tween the agricultural and the manu-
, featuring industries of those States {
commerce equal in magnitude to the
, foreign commerce Of the United States
: at the present time. Experience ha'
proved that the domestic commerct
. thus created will be much more stead,
and reliable, and, in all probability
, in the end more productive of in 1ividu
al wealth than trade with foreign
r countries. s..
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