Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-12-10
THE NEW SOUTH.

Those who, in the service OF Uncle
Sam, footed it over the worn-out planta-
tions in the older Southern States during
the late unpleasautness, will need no
description OF those desolate wastes.
The undulating waves OF former cotton
fields, overgrown with coarse grass and
stunted pines the undisturbed home OF
small game, with here and there lordly
rattlesnake, impressed one with sense
OF onesomeness and Inconsistencies,
painful even to think OF in retrospect.
And speaking OF rattlesnakes, reminds
one OF an incident that came under the
observation of the writer in the last days OF
the war, near Statesburg, South Carolina.
Two OF our black regiments had made n
flank movement TO capture a masked
battery which was playing the deuce
with the Union lines under General Pot
ter. The Confederate slIirmish line was
struck and driven back across one OF
those interninable old cotton fields, and
the two regiments in beautiful line OF
battle were closely following up the skir-
mishers, when the hidden Confederate
battery suddenly opened with storm of
shell upon both advancing lines. The
regimental line suddenly broke apart
near the centre and officers hurrying to
the spot to prevent threatened panic,
found themselves inclined to fight shy of
q monster rattlesnake with head erect
and rattling tail, which had done what
bursting shell had failed to do-broken
the lines of the black regiments. They
came together again, leaving the parti
colored monster monarch OF all he sur
veyed. The fire was too hot to think o.
stopping to dispatch him. The incident
called to mind the fact that the old colon.
ial flag OF the Palmetto State had upon
its slken folds coiled rattlesnake witt
head erect and quivering tail, and under
meath it the warning words; "Don'
Tread on Mer'
Returning from this digression, the
point is, that the once sparingly settled
and poorly cultivated South under the
palsying touch OF human slavery, is
now, under the recuperative power oI
free institutions, free labor and new
blood, dividing up her large plantations
into small farms, and creating home mar.
kets by remarkable development o
her mineral resources, her magnificent
water power and valuable forests. The
following reprint will show the wonderful
progress the new South is making in
material development:
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Nov. 3O.-A oompila.
tion of special reports to the IrddeSmdll
from twelve Southern States during the quar-.
ter ending September lst shows a remarkable
development in various industries: During
the period specified the following companies
We're organized and incorporated in the
twelve States, work having actually com
menced on many of them: Twenty-f five blast
furnaces, IS railroad companies, 13l wood
working establishments, 18 electric light
companies, % foundries, mills and machine
shops, 70 mining and smelling companies
and So flour mills. Alabama received IL
Virginie 4, Louisiana l and West Vir-
are divided as follows: Alabama 2,
Arkansas 3, Florida 4, Georgia II, Kentucky
3, Louisiana 3, Mississippi, North and South
Carolina /, Tennessee II, Texas 3, Virginia
2, and West Virginia l. OF l3l wood work
ing establishments, Alabama received %,
Florida 16, Georgia 49, Tennessee Is and
West Virginia 13. Of seventy three foundries
and mills, Alabama received "a, Tennessee
II, Virginia 10, West Virginia 6, Texas G
and Georgia 8. OF fifty-nine mining and
smelling companies, Alabama has 8, Arkan-
sas 2, Georgia g Kentucky 8, Mississippi l,
North Carolina g. Tennessee II, Texas T.
Virginia 4 and West Virginia 20. OF flour
mills Arkansas received 3, Kentucky 8, North
Carolina 6, Tennessee 8, Texas 3 and Vir-
ginia 8. This is exclusive OF large number
of miscellaneous industries.