The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-26
$4,000 a Day is What
Our Iron Product Will
be Worth in 1889.
Enormous Increase Of Profits Pour
ING in on South ern Farmers
and Truck Raisers.
The Situation at Decatur Full of Promise
Her Managers Hard at Work
and Confident.

asst Saturday. 1t is an astonishing
statement and yet it is true. We
can hardly realize that we are right
in the center of wealth creating
apheaval that is so extensive and
more enduring than the Pacific
slope gold boom.
1t is estimated on reliable data
that the output of southern furna-
ces in 1889 will reach a million tons.
1t is sold mostly at the north and
IN its crude form means an income
of $4,000 a day. Think Of that!
Nor is this all. 1t will not be dis
posed Of exclusively in pig form.
Admission is preparing to roll and
to manufacture her entire output.
1t will multiply its value many fold
and the final sum will reach enor-
nous figures.
1t is attracting the attention OF
the world, because of the untouch-
ed and inexhaustible stores of iron
and coal that lie hidden in our
mountains and because of the con-
ditions that make the cost of it
smaller here than anywhere else in
the world.
The whole manufactured product
of the state of Alabama in 1880 was
only $13, 100000, and now Admission
alone produces more than that, to
say nothing of Birmingham, Deca-
tur, Gadsden, Sheffield, Montgome-
ry, Bessemer and the numerous
other points where smokestacks are
building.
Admission alone to-day has a
payroll to her workingmen of $751;
600, and it will reach 100000 a
week next year. That is what
makes thriving city.
Decatur's payroll will reach up
towards this amount next year. 1t
was announced last week that the
Urbana car works, now approach
ing completion. was under contract
to employ 1000 men. The L. & N.
shops will employ several hundred.
Already the enterprises in course of
construction and completed will
work at least $500 men. If things
prosper there, and there is every
reason to believe, next year will see
upwards of 5000 workingmen in
Decatur, and at $1.25 a day Ca too
low estimate) the payroll will reach
$45, 900 week. And this does not
include any new plants. Possibly
the roll may be doubled in 1889.
All this has been done,in Is months.
beginning on the ground. With
such a start, what may occur next
year after the tariff question is set.
tied and business is resumed.
Maj. Gordon and Judge Bond,
the president and general manager
of the Decatur Land Company, have
not been idle this summer. The
writer had long talk with Judge
Pond last week, on his return to
New York, and he has fullest conf
dence in Decatur's future. Both
these gentle men have been working
like beavers in the north, making
Decatur's advantages Known and
making overtures to manufacturers
to move there. The manufacturers
Record last week said that they
have succeeded in locating $780,
600 cotton mill there.
Judge Bond told US that the con-
tracts had been closed for the build
ing of the railroad from Decatur to
Gallatin and what stands in the
way of beginning work is the secur-
ing of right Of way.
The city of Decatur last week
voted $4,000 issuance of bonds
to grade her streets. This is for
the old town and is in addition to
the several hundred thousand dol
lars spent by the land company in
grading and paving streets.
1t abundantly appears that things
are in healthy shape at Decatur.
and now that tariff agitation is
about over and the democratic party
has done all it intends to do, and it
is seen that no damage is to result
to our new industries-that the
question is at least settled for some
years-capitalists will resume &C
tivity and the work of development
will receive fresh impetus.
What effect is all this going to
have on farming communities? We
already feel it here in Giles county.
We have repeatedly referred to it,
and every reader of The CITIZEN
knows of his own knowledge that
we have been immensely benefited.
1t appears from authentic rail
road reports that the roads are re-
ceiving now about $4,5OO,OoO a
year freights on southern truck
shipments. The shipments are be-
coming enormous and increasing
steadily, aud the more it increases
the greater the stimulus it injects
into farming operations. This
branch of income to the south is an
absolute new creation. We have
boys in their teens to day who can
remember when southern farmers
shipped practically nothing outside
of cotton, and noW strange as it
may seem, cotton is to be reiegated
to the third or fourth place in the
list. Iron, manufacturing and fruit,
vegetable and truck production will
each bring more money than cotton,
at least in Alabama and Tennessee.
What produced this? Is any man
foolish enough to say that the
southern farmers would not now be
in the sans old inpecunious ruts if
there had not been an industrial
eruption south? How then can we
best help this farming revolution
on? The answer comes ia the
statement Of the facts: encourage our
irdusiriesl
The prospects are better in the
south to-day than they ever were.
There is continued and continual
advancement. The men who inau-
gurassd the new movement less
than fifteen years ago begpn almost
without money and totally without