The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-05-17
THE BOOM STILL BooMS
No Let-Up in the Situation
South.

he Focal centers Of the New De- %
vslopment Of Wealth South s.
is Decatur. n
building Houses on Big Rush in the b
Chicago Of the South. =
There is an advance all along the
inc in the southern boom. "Boom" b
9 the wrong word, however. 1t has +
passed the fever stage and is now q
steady food of progress and devel- !
,pment on sound business basis i
md bottomed or actual value. The
asst number of the Manufacturer
Record is running over with items
from all over the south giving ac-
count of new things being started. j
Every southern state and almost
every town has some important new
afoot. There is no doubt
about this flood of development any
longer. The tide has set in and
every day it increases. We see q
little Of it here and little Of it
here and a little of it yonder and We
do not appreciate the extent Of it
until we see it aggregated from
week to week in the Record and
the Tradesman, and then it as
tounds US.
Neither do we realize that we are
right in the focus of it. The ten
dency of capital and energy and en-
terprise is right in this very section.
Our railroads are flooded with bust
ness and crowded with prospectors.
The cities all around US are teem-
ing with business. Nashville is on
rush. Birmingham is bee hive.
Sheffield and Admission and Atlanta
ADD Chattanooga and Soath Pitts
burg and all the other new and old
cities are In the throes of q new Gre
alton of industrial enterprise. We
say it with deliberation and from
careful study and analysis of the sit
| uation as it exists and events as
they transpire that the focal center
of all this grand evolvement of en-
terprise is right here in this section
of the south and that Decatur is
the inevitable capital of the new in
dustrial empire-the middle part OF
it all, the manufacturing metropolis,
the central emporium OF diversified
energy.
/ New England, the richest spot ip
creation, was almost a desert to be-
gin with. The Plymouth pilgrims
landed upon a veritable rock and
looked out upon a barren waste.
Now see what it is. Man made
the soil, and the whole of, it's won
derful wealth and unequalled devel-
opment was forced in the hot house
of indomitable energy. We do not
have to begin upon such q barren
basis. The God of creation gave
US the best lands and the clearest
rivers and the balmiest skies in the
, world and he hid under our hills the
richest minerals and endowed us
plenteously with all the prime ele-
, ments that make up all the things
! needful for mans wants and bis
pleasures, and all we have to do is
to dig and build with what we have
I Let's see what is being done a
, Decatur. Yesterdays Journal tells
of another of those monster manu-
! featuring plants to be located there
the nature of which it is not at lib
| erty to divulge.
Numerous syndicates and build
q ing associations exist and they ar
= building houses as fast as none.
and mechanics can work, and yet i
is estimated that there is demant
!. for one thousand new houses tina
! could be rented to-day if finished.
III The Land Company have made
= wise move 10 putting on the marke
= new addition of residence lots a
: reduced prices to parties who vii
= build at once and they are bein,
!. greedily taken.
Mr.. T. J. Phillips Of Pulaski i
, building a new hotel on Walnu
= street to be known as the Decatu
q Hotel.
- The company is putting in 4
= miles of water pipe to be supple
"a by works that cost $3.50, 900.
~ The L. & N. shops and the U.
4 Rolling Stock Company are fas
! pushing their works and it is calcr
~ lated that these will add 5000 to tn
: population.
,eI We could mention numerous ma
:. ters of this kind that are progress
= ing eyen in this dull season. Th
Decatur papers tell every day {
houses being built, singly and b
the dozen and score, Every bust
ness house and residence is oceupi
ed and people are clammorous fe
lee more. That doesn't indicate an
- let up. There is not SO much
~ that frenzied rush of Speculation
1 and rough and-tumble scramble {
y real estate agents, and it is well
" is so. That was wild speculatio
'e and generally results in collaps
re They do not buy to build but to Sc
u again, Now men are buying
build to rent or to sell. Men war
to live in them. There is wor
6 there for hundreds Of men to do an
= they must have houses to live il
New manufacturing plants are col
Of tinually being placed and they brin
their operatives who must hay
of3 houses. People are increasing an
stores and shops multiplying
supply their demands. It is q
founded in solid business. II is
Substantial. real development ar
o.l no scramcciling boom.
" The facts stated n the beginnir
of of this article show the prime nas
" of it-that this is the inevitable If
cal center of new southern develop
ment.
ofl There is another feature in Il
southern situation deserving
notice: The manufacture of cotto
ofl goods south is going into the fin
grades. A few years ago we mat
up scarcely bit of oar cotton. T
day the south has practical mt
at nopoly of the coarse grade cote
IS goods. 1t has to be done gradual
as because our people have to learn
,r- When we began making eoar
nd goods the north said we couldn't
.te It because we had no skilled labo