The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11
THE GREAT SOUTH.
The Ell Dorado of American Vim
and Enterprise.
Judge Kelly on Its Nautura
Wealth, Which SURPRISES
all Other Countries.


The Real Estate association, of Mont
gomery, Ala, has issued an unusually
handsome pamphlet, illustrating the beau
ties and describing the advantages of the
capital city. Very rarely has a more at
tractive pamphlet come to our notice.
Only a month or two ago new stove
foundry was started at Florence, Ala, and
already the demand for its stoves is so
large that the company cannot fill orders
with their present capacity, and must en-
large their works. This is an illustration
of what diversified iron industries can do.
The pay roll for the month of August
at the Roanoke Machine works amounted
to over $4,000. The immense
extent and capacity of these
works can be judged from these
figures. Here is a car-building concern
Employing nearly 1900 hands and paying
out $4,000 month in wages, located in a
town which six years ago had 400 inhabi-
tants. That is sample of southern
progress.
The rush of freight, especially from the
south, via Savannah, to northern ports, is
pany have been compelled to charter two
! large steamships to add to their present
| fleet of ten. This company Which lately
built the City Of Birmingham. designed
mainly to carry Alabama iron north, are
now negotiating to build two more steam
ers to cost about 100000 each.
An effort is being made by southern
and orthern capitalists, so it is reported,
to establish regular line of steamers to
run between Savannah and all the princi-
| pal eastern ports for the express and
nearly exclusive purpose of transporting
pig iron and iron ore to these points.
Should this be carried out as fully as con
templated, trains will be put a that will
run exclusively for this trade, and very
large business is antici pated, which will
result in materially reducing the expense
of putting iron and ore into the hands of
consumers.
Judge Kelly, speaking of the great
south in an interview published in the
Baltimore Manufacturers Record, says:
81 have Travelled much in the south since
the war;" said Judge Kelley, "and have al
ways been keenly interested in every step
of progress she has made, and eager to
learn all could OF southern resources and
advantages. have urged my friends to
go there, and my son is there now, with
all that he has embarked in manufactur-
ing enterprise. 1 do not consider that
there ever existed in the west, great as its
wealth is, nor in any other portion of the
country, anything like the MAJ ural wealth
of the south. A very large part of the
south is blessed with climate unexoelled,
| e 1rl -, -, khn IL As To
the mountainous region of the south, it is
richer in natural wealth and iE advantages
for the development of that wealth; it has
finer climate, better water and higher
conditions of health than any region of
which have any knowledge, end is withal
one of the most beautiful regions of the
world. Whoever will read the little pam
phlet written by Mr.. George B. Cowlam,
of Knoxville, Tenn, The Undeveloped
South will get some specific information
that is valuable because based on actual
knowledge and facts, and when the pres
ent local and scattered development of the
south shall give place to such development
as Mr.. Cowlam suggests, not only will
southern manufactures be consumed at
home, but thsy will need to be vastly in
creased and of a character of more highly
finished product"
In Wilmington, N. c., they are manu-
featuring cotton bagging of pine straw,
and the manufacturers say: "We had dur
ing the past summer very largely ln-
creased the capacity of all our factories,
and as we have large and profitable
trade in our pine fibre mating, we desired
to restrict ourselves flor the present, al
least) to the manufacture of pine fibre
mating, more especially as we had been
put to SO much trouble and expense in
charging the plant for making this mat
ting. The demand, however, of our
southern customers finally became too
great to be resisted, and we will now
emporarily suspend the manufacture of
mating IN order to, as far as possible,
supply pine fibre bagging with
which to bale at least portion
of this seasons cotton coop. To dc
this we will run our factories night
and day for several months to come. The
begging we are now making is made with
the machinery, which was especially
adapted for mating. With proper bag
cling machinery it can be made much bet
ter and very much cheaper. Even if the
duty is taken off of jute, pine fibre bag
cling can be made and sold for less thar
jute bagging, The pine bagging will not
rot, and is much less infammable than jute
We expect to introduce the proper ma
chinery into our factories and manufac
ture this bagging on large scale, so that
by next season we will be prepared tc
supply the demands made upon u.s."
The pine straw is gathered from the
pine tree.