The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-08-09
The South Just Beginning
to Realize Profits on
Her Investments.
Decatur's Immense capitalization
and the Proftaatable Results
that Must Follow.
The Necessity for More Cities and Better
Facilities for Pushing Southern
Development.
DECATUR TO THE FRONT

day 1t IS q young city OF several
thousand people and an immense
business. Admission approaches it
in marvellous growth and Decatur
is brilliant imitator. When it Is
remembered that just Is months
ago the site of New Decatur was |
selected and the first dirt broken |
one can hardly believe his eyes
when he beholds what stands where
restitution reigned supreme. Only
last week the plans were perfected
to build two new coke and one
charcoal furnace at Bessemer, with
two more coke furnaces probable.
There is remarkable fact in
connection with the south's new in
dustrial growth that has probably
escaped many minds. Hundreds of
millions of dollars have been in
vested in all manner of enterprises
that have scarcely yielded a cent in
profits yet, and notwithstanding
this prosperity is unparalleled,
very few of the iron furnaces, roll.
ing mills, machine works, ETC., have
gotten under way and the millions
of money spent in their building has
been :as if buried in the ground,
yielding not even ordinary interest.
If the south prospers so marvelously
under this adverse state of facts,
what must be the result when they
: get under Roadway and begin to
, accumulate profits2
! Decatur has 81, 900. 900 inactive in
her United States Rolling Stock
!, Co.; 100000 is locked up in the
L. d N. Railway Construction
: Shops; 100000 lies sleeping in the
charcoal plant; $4,000 is buried
, in seventy ton charcoal furnace
: 1925, 900 is inactive 10 hundred
ton blast furnace; 100000 is in
;. vested in Ives d. Sons Steam Boilel
} and Engine works; 100000 hal
gone into the Southern Horse Mai
> Co; 100000 has bsen sunk out o
~ sight In the Water Works system
various and numerous other small
. plants covering a wide range o
.e product have taken from circula
y ton several hundred Thousand dol
lars; the Land Go. itself has put il
about a million collars; severa
hundred thousand dollars have gon
!. into private dwellings and baslnes.
buildings, and other hundreds O
thousands have gone into stocks
All this has been invested, literal
. ly buried, Withdrawn from business
q and yet there seems to be no lacl
: of it. When they all get under full
Roadway .and begin to yield thei
# legitimate profits then will begin il
+ earnest solid and prosperous &C
a emulation of wealth such as W
have not dreamed of.
r The crops reports from all owe
d the south class this year as the
: richest in the history Of the coun
:. try. There was never such frui
o crop; the corn crop is without par
il allel; the wheat crop was enormous
. cotton promises to keep the rio
q pace; vegetable and truck produc
% tion was never so remunerativt
- With this added bulk of wealth t
the great mass of it growing out {
manufacturing and the rapid info,
b. of capital from the north, what is t
" hinder an awakening of bushes
!. development and industrial growt
ic this fall, such as we have not see
: before.
j. There has got to be better facil
J., tiles for carrying on the commerc
,e that flows out Of this and to utiliz
n the excess Of capital that will &C
a crue, and Decatur by reason of ii
" shipping facilities furnishes bette
i advantages to investors in all kind
" of commercial enterprises and es
j. pecially in the varied forms of d
h versified manufacturing.
c. Decatur will necessarily be th
a center of diversity. being midwa
of betwixt the prime elements that er
in ter into it, and the Biographies
a center Of it all and the center {
lie transportation.
4 These are not dreams in Utopis
,e it is not a fairy tale from orien ia
|: Persia; it is not Imagination NO
1t yet guess work. 1t is solid fac
is The myriad of southern cities tia
J. have sprung up in the blackjack
" and waste places appear like
it mirage upon the sea, but when 20
,e near they assume tangible form an
come down from the clouds an
range themselves upon solr
grousds-scenes Of great activity
2 centers of enormous energy an
t. wealth, veritable and actual real;
N ties. We have not the tenth par
b of the cities We need to handle on
l. new wealth and our new commercs
% There can be no crowding.
}. Decatur is destined to stand u,
2 towards the front and investors an
n capitalists know it. Wise is tn
: m an who reads her destiny il ad
g vance.
q On account of Harrison's grea
Il friendship to the heather Chinese
;. the chairman of the national execu
q tive committee has b cen assured b
/. them that they will raise in tbi
n country and in China 100000
e for the use Of the comm ittet