The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-01-05
THE NEW SOUTH.
The Figures Considered With Re-
.spect to Localities.
The Evidences Accumulate that Decatur
is Inevitably the Center Of the
Manufacturing South.

Of the $256, 29S,000 invested in
manufacturing at the south during
1887, according to the authentlca-
ted statistics compiled by Balti-
more Manufacturers Record, De-
catur got probably the largest per
cent. OF any other city or locality.
Within the past three months
some of the biggest capitalized
plants of the south have been loca-
ted at Decatur and a large num-
Der of smaller ones running through
quite a wide range Of products,
among them the Urbana car works,
chain and architectural iron works,
car wheels and car springs, horse
shoe nails, cornice and roofing,
grist mills, boiling works, etc.
Decatur has already one large
blast furnace of her own and she
lies convenient to Nashville's fur
naces and to Shefield's, Anniston's
Birmingham's and Iron City's and
it seems to be generally conceded
that here is to be the common center
of factories to work up this iron
product. Of course it doesn't as
pire to absorb all these things by
any means, nor to take from any
of these cities anything legitimate
ly theirs, but on the other hand, be
ing the. central absorbing pom,
OF all their crude product which
they do not work up themselves, il
will be a help rather than a him
drance to them.
! Nashville is fine point for di-
versified manufactures but she has
freight limitations that retard her
while Decatur is free from any suci
hindrance, having that perpetua
promoter of competitive freigh
rates, navigable river, besides
two antagonistic railroads that per-
meate the whole country in thei
ramifed connections.
Alabama led the van in 1887 il
new enterprises, footing up tn
amazing total of $47, $4,000. Ten
nessee crowds up close with $35,
S7I 900. Here is almost an evel
round hundred millions! Thinl
, what a world of new product tina
must come Of this. 1t brings to
| gether thousands of men to make il
and other thousands to work it III
and other thousands to trade in i
and to feed and supply the me
who make it and work it up. Tha
is what makes cities. A city is
necessity and exists in response t
= the want expressed in such sur
roundings and conditions as these
With these facts and this idea i
t view, take the map and look at d.
catur, look at her transportatio
facilities, her geographical position
her location with respect to irol
coal, limestone, timber and agricu
= turaI product, and it becomes app,
rent at once that here is the natu
raj center-here is the place ixe
e by nature and inevitably fixed b
:. the processes of development goin
on in this region, for a central Cit
Il IF diversified manufactures. W
have before called attention
. these things, but 1t is matter {
such grave importance that we fe
! lmpeiled to mention it again.
. There is no myth about the!
II figures of the Manufacturers RI
cord. They are made with mut
labor and with an honest effort
No MAN. can. .trav
j sZhrouga These southern regions al
:. doubt their approximate accurac
And yet it is hard to fix in Il
mind comprehension OF the ma
J. slve work going on and to reali
II that We are in the center of it. v
% Giles comfy people do not s
rs much Of it going on. Very little
it is apparent from where we 8
= and until one steps across the RI
, line th&t divides the two states al
- wades the Bigspoon river we s
&c very little of it and cannot reali
it.
you will step into Pulaski
s. Lynaville or Aspen Hill or any
0T the stations and take the roun
lie and inquire what the nature of o.
Or shipments sre as compared wi
at what they were ten or fifteen yea
ago, you will find there is going {
now a complete revolution. La
D year THE CITIZEN urged clos
III trade and truck relations with Bi
es mingham and took pains to G
IS market reports and tried to ke,
Is our people posted. 1t was ne
venture and hard to keep up sati
70 factorily, but it opened the way al
p Birmingham consumes q hundr'
"A times as much of our product
: she did before.
+ But here is new city right
Il US, going up in rush, and the
are to be thousands of people
feed, and we can get the job. "
of have inquired and find already tn
- the demand from DECATUR is GOO
a. and growing every day. They ha,
IT. things hardly in shape there "
to but the beginning foretells tt
d. end. Here is where Giles coun
people are to feel the benefit.
y It is to our highest interes
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