The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-06-07
THE BOOM MOVES.
Alabama and Pennsy1va-
MIA Compared.
The Room for Development and the
Distance Yet to be Travelled.
The Steady March Onward Unin'
terrupted, Unimpeded and
Irresistible.
The Work at Decatur Still Proceeding
Without Setback or Hindrance.

thing new but because the state
ment of the facts comes from such
authority. Briefly stated, it is that
the south leads in timber, in coal
and iron, in cotton, in agricultural
product, and is rapidly going to the
front in manufacturing. He goes
into detail and substantiates his
statements.
Coming right upon the heels OF
this is an article in the Manu-
facturers' Record comparing the
states of Pennsylvania and Ala
bama, from which we quote:
In iron and coal resources, the basis
of Pennsylvania's wealth, Alabama
surpasses that state in area it exceeds
Pennsylvania by 5000 square miles; in
the amount of timber it Is eight or ten
times better off than Pennsylvania; in
agricultural possibilities it is ahead of
Pennsylvania, for while it can produce
everything which Pennsylvania pro-
duces, it adds to this cotton crop
worth $50 ,O00, 900 to $40 100000 year
its climate is vastly better than Penn
syIvania's; its rivers and its sea coast
greater. Thus, in all the essentials nee
essary to BULL up great and prosper
Gus state, Alabama is infinitely ahead of
Pennsylvania. With this asa basis.
Alabama's brilliant future is assured.
Alabama's iron ore is lnexhausti-
BILE and by far surpasses Pennsyl-
vania's, and it has the additional
value of being located side by-side
with coal, thus enabling Alabama
furnaces to make iron so cheap that
it can be sold right at the Pennsyl-
vania furnaces cheaper than they
can make it. Ala5ama's coal fields
are IL 900 square miles greater in
area than those of Great Britain,
who leads the world, and is 1000
miles greater than the whole state
of Maryland.
Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, mayor of
New York and one of the largest
iron manufacturers in the country
said:
alabama will be the greatest
center of coke made iron ON the
| globe"
1t is the universal opinion of all
men who know the facts that this
prediction will inevitably be full,
filled, and it can easily be the dem
onstrated by the cold figures.
| We speak of Alabama particular
ly because the facts are before US
with reference to that state, but we
mean it as much of Tennessee be-
cause she is rs rich in all essential
particulars as Alabama and in some
far surpasses her.
To those who doubt the future of
Decatur, Annlston, Sheffield, Iron
City, South Pittsburg and the other
young cities struggling into being,
a few additional facts may reassure
them. Pennsylvania is studded all
over with prosperous towns and
cities, jutting right upon each other.
Doubtless it was said then, as it is
being said here, that there was MOI
room for so many cities and there
was bound to be collapse;
What Alabama may do can be
copjectured by what Pennsylvania
has done. We quote again:
That some idea may be had CT the
| immense growth which this state must
| yet make before it reaches Pennsylva-
MAS vast wealth and development, and
thus show how the rapid growth now
| in progress may safely and certainly
continue for yaars to come, contrast the
statistics of these two states. In 1880
| Pennsylvania had 81 200 manufacturing
| enterprises and Alabama 1880; Penn
sylvania had s474, 100000 invested in
anufactures, and Alabama $9, GOO, 900
Pennsylvania Industries turned out
$744, 100000 of products, and Alabama's
$l3,500 900; the assessed value .of prop
erty in Pennsylvania was 1880, 000,-
900, or an average OF $40 tor every
man, woman or child in the state, while
Alabama's property was worth $l22,-
5000, or an average of $1Q0 for every
inhabitant These figures show the
almost unlimited growth which Ala
baRa cap make before it reaches unto
Pennsyivanis's wealth, and yet there is
no sound reason whatever why Ala
bama with its vastly greater advantages
should not attain unto Pennsylvania
great population and prosperity. A
dozen Birminghams or Admissions can
grow ND in Alabama to be large cities
| without reschipg the limit of healthy
| growth. Alabama--and what is true OF
| Alabama in this respect is true OF the
whole sou h--has scarcely got well I'M
der way.
Now we ask the reader to apply
these facts and thoughts to Deca-
tur and then ask and answer the
question: "What is to be Deca-
| tur's fatureY The result is as in
evitable as sunrise. Decatur is the
border city upon the confines OF two
incompatible iron realms on the
north and south, in the center of
the very finest agricultural region,
a railroad center and a river port
the exact spot for the great central
metropolis. You may cut the e. a.
ures haif in two and count Ala
IT,. "a. Only half reaching the
Pennsylvania n-. go - -
tur stands out on the map :
early future a splendid central man
ufacturing city.
Decatur felt dash of cold water
two weeks ago, and some people
had a chill over it. We remem Der
just % months ago being in Biz
minghan a couple of days and find
ing everything depressed and PEG
pie blue, and it looked as if the
dire crash SO long and mournfully
prophesied by shaky croakers was
about to come. Since then, in these
% months, there has been enough
wealth added to Birmingham to
make a steamboat load of Monte
Christos feel like paupers! Shelf
field is struggling along up and
crushing down whole companies of
croakers as she moves on towards
her great destiny with a mighty
vim. Admission has sprung into be
ing giant in its infancy. Nash
VILE is adding to her population by
the ten thousands. Chattanooga
strides forward with majestic tread.
They all bad their seasons of de-
preston and they are to have an
other, but they will go on all the
same from wealth to wealth and
from glory to glory.
Why?
Because lying under them and
back of them are mines and noun
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