The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-05-10
DIVERSITY.
The South Will Make all
Manner Of Things.
The Tendency Of Manufacturers to
Cover the Widest Range
Of Production.
Our Southern People are Coming Out. a
Candidates for Million
aires with
DIVERSITY.

Our Southern People are Coming Out. as
Candidates for Million II
aires with
HEADQUARTERS IN DECATUR.
A large party of Evansville CAPT.
talists representing many millions
has just finished tour of the new
southern cities and gone home and
the last thing they said before they
recrossed the border showed that
they had correctly solved the in
dustrial problem. They said that
Birmingham and Decatur rested too
exclusively upon iron, whereas d.
versifed manufactured was thes0niy |
sure and durable basis Of metropol
itan wealth.
1t is exactly upon this line that
The CITIZEN has been attempting
to exert its feeble influence. We
have pointed out this exact fact and
discussed it, and while it is true
that iron is the basis of the new
wealth we are developing, it cannot
be relied upon exclusively to bring
about that development and pros
perity that this section is rapidly
achieving. And neither is it true.
The Evansville men have stated
correct principle but they have in
correctly applied it to Decatur at
least.
| Decatur lies upon the borders of
four kingdoms. She is on the north
borders ofthe richest iron regions in
the world, so estimated on account
of the juxtaposition of coal and
limestone to utilize it. She Is on
the north borders of the cotton
belt and can command ixexhausti-
BILE supplies. She is on the south
border of the finest agricultural,
vegetable, stock-raising and fruit
growing kingdoms on the face of
the earth. And lastly, by reason of
her railroad connections and river
facilities and on account of her To-
cation with respect to iron, cotton
and the rich farming countries, she
: is inevitably destined to be the cen
ter of commercial action and indus
trial operations.
These very facts were considered
, by Maj. Gordon and his associates
when they began the movement for
the development of Decatur, and
they are patent to any observing
man, and it is their special purpose
8 to do exactly the opposite to that
prophesied by our visiting friends,
f to-wit: to make Decatur the seat
and center of di versified industry
Il And why not? Are not all the
e conditions there? Can the chain o
o facts here briefly outlined and
which lead up to that consumma.
y ton be gain said? Is it not con-
8 clusively apparent that Decetul
- does lie at the junction of all thes,
8 prime elements of wealth and devel
d opment aud commerce and that sh
is for that reason the natural plac,
t. for the central city OF diversified
manufactures?
l. These facts do not alone appea
from an analysis of the situation
% upon paper, but the actual thing
themselves are taking place. TIL
work is being actually done. TIL
i. city is being actually built. TIL
/. industries are being actually locs
ted. The Concentration of thes
= forces is actually going on. Their
can be no question of it, and it
q. rumoved beyond the realm of spec
H. ulation and guesswork, for there
is-the great problem actually i
NJ process of solution.
The tendency of eastern capits
d. and speculation has hitherto bee
= exclusively towards the west. Boz
ton actually built Chicago. Whe
p Chicago burned it came near banE
rupting Boston-instead of Chics
b. 60. Their millions have bee
NJ dumped upon the west and cltit
and towns sprang up as if-by mag
s. and whole counties and states wei
cleared almost in day and inhal
ut tied. Thousands of men and mi
lions of money went on every trail
W It is changing now. There ha
been comparatively little capital
u come directly sonth from the ea
as yet. The middle northern stat
IS. have led the tide south. There is
he fresh awakening now, howeve
M away up in bl4e- bellydom.
A. Messrs. Cordly a Co., the wei
D known bankers of Boston, in the
To- recent weekly circular, say tn
VT southern investments are becomii
as fashionable. 1t calls attention
cy, eastern capitalists to the fact tn
j western men are getting some
sB profits out OF southern investmen
ds, and that the beginning of it is ju
M at hand. This is IN keeping WI
r. all the advice being given the
S constituents by the pickets on Il
L financial watch-toyefs Of the mort
east. -.
W. 1t is as inevitable as that wat
ted will seek it's level that capital "
seek safest investment and spedie
lies profit. We have already in this {
ries Of articles given the facts viii
I'D, point to the transplaFtlpg of t
ana Pennsylvania iron producing
ov dustries to the south. The proc,
ties sion grove as it comes this WI
in There is p gradual Sld continual
more hurried tendency Of CAPT
! q. southward .apd every day has
s.. record of new iaveetpepts.
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