The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-11
Southern Development.

From The Farm Implement Chicago
One of the things which most strcng-
lv impresses the student of the various
State exhibits at the New Orleans Ex
position is the display of the immense
and varied natural resources of the
Southern States. Nebraska makes very
fl le and striking exhibit, and no visitor
is left in doubt as to the opinion loyal
Nehraskans entertain respecting their
State; that Corn is King" it hardly
needs their motto to prove. But when
y0u look for great natural resources, as
OF coal, timber, iron, cotton, the cereals
aud ores the exhibits of Kentucky, len
nessee, the Carolinas and Louisiana,
become az once highly attractive and
important. Massachusetts, shows the
products of her schools. technical and
general. New Hampshire her shops,
and Vermont her unrivalled marble,
but these Southern States spread before
the beholder the treasures OF their
hills and valleys, their mines and soils,
and if they do not turn the tide OF emf
grafton somewhat toward themselves
instead of leaving it all 10 press toward
the setting sun, then logic has ceased to
have any fixed laws The Kentucky
timber display is marvel and would
seem even more were it not for her coal
exhibit
TO the Atlanta Exposition belongs
much of the credit of the southern dis
play at New Orleans, but the two signiti-
cant facts are these: the possession OF
such natural resources by these Southern
States, and second, the enterprise mani
tested in this exhibition of them to the
world. Even Florida, the land of
oranges and alligators, makes display
that delights and surprises. Judge
Sebring Is her commissioner, and
botanists go into raptures over Florida 5
collection of ferns, and her timber e1-
hlbit is not only the most complete and
methodically arranged, but the most
tastefully displayed. When these evil
dences of the variety, extent and rich
ness of the natural resources of the
South are seen by the hundreds of thous-
ands of visitors to the Crescent City,
only one result can follow. Capital,
brain and muscle to develop them will
md their way into the South. When
the cry of gold came across the Sierras
and Rockies from the Pacific coast, men
locked thither by thousands, enduring
hardship, fatigue, and even death itself,
IN their eager purpose to garner that
precious harvest. Given motive men
VIII act, and the South is determined to
give new rendering of Berkeley's tritt
saying: Westward the course OF EN-
pire takes its wayn 't;Southwardp is tC
he the word henceforth, and the denizen:
OF the grasshopper and cyclone belt, In
Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota and Min
nesota, would do well to take notice anc
act accordingly!
As illustration of the transformation
going on in the South in the matter o
developing these great natural resources
we cite the fact that during the yea
just passed there were organized in th'
Southern States over 1850 new manafae
turing and mining establishments, repre-
senting an aggregate capital OF SlOo,
269. 500. invested in cotton, wooden, noui
saw and planning mills, factories for ice
furniture and carriages OF all kinds
besides blast furnaces, foundries an.
machine shops, with coal, mica, gold
silver and copper mining enterprise.
Ii il significant also that so much OF tn
capital for these enterprises comes iron
the North. Wisconsin furniture me
are turning their steps toward the timbe
resources of Tennessee and hentucky
New England's super-abundant -weaft
little conservative of western raiiwa
enterprises, so easily and unscrupulousi
wrecked" and plundered by skIilfu
operators, seeks investments i'm Georgia
cotton mills and Alabama iron works
birmingham, Ala, in the rapidity Of i
growth, as the centre Of the new iron IN
dustry,. bids fair to surpass Leadvillt
Noorado. How far Southern brain an
muscle will manage the business an