Smyrna times., 1890-10-01
For the Smyrna Times.
The New South.
NOTES ETC.

October and continuing until Noyem-
Der 1st, next, promises to be one of
unusual interest. The "Gate City"
will be taxed to accommodate the great
number of visitors sure to attend from
every portion of the South. The main
feature of the Exposition will be the
exhibits from adjoining states that pre-
dominate in them. Alabama, with
her magnificent display of metal ores
will attract universal attention because
of their superior quality and extensive
use in strictly Southern manufacture.
Birmingham, Ala, is the nucleus
wherein is evolved the great output of
iron that has within less than decade
entered the Northern markets and un-
dersOld the best Pennsylvania blooms
for structural purposes. In 1880 Ala.
bama produced II, 100 tons of pig iron,
III 1889 79l ,425, showing an immense
output for the decade. In coal mining
the same wonderful progress is to be
noted.
The amount of coal in the South is
beyond human computation. The en-
tire coal area of Great Britain covers
II 800 square miles while Texas alone
has coal area three times as great.
Now as to the size of Texas. If you
stick pin in the extreme northeast
corner and reYOlve the State, the South
west portion will overlap Rhode Is
land in the North or reach nearly
across the Atlantic on the east. In
railroad construction the South has
made the most remarkable progress,
for without the development of this
great interest, mineral resources are
practically unattainable. While the
miles of track laid last year in the en-
tire country amounted to 1898 miles,
Ills miles were laid in the South.
In the manufacture of cotton into
fabrics the Exposition will be enriched
with the products of Southern looms.
Cotton factories everywhere are hand.
ling bulk cotton and competing with
the best of New England looms. The
number of looms through the entire
cotton growing states in 1880 were IA
S23, in 1889 they had increased to As
600; more than three times additional
from comparatively experimental
stage.
GEORGIA PINES.
Georgia has varied products chief
among them being the splendid
variety of woods. A Georgia saw mill
is marvel of peculiar adaptation to the
needs of vast interest. Generally the
machinery is of the finest description,
great circular saws with inverted teeth
that bite into a pine log with more
than bull dog tenacity. Every day is
varifed among the Georgia pines the
old saw, as hungry as a saw mill"
1t seems of no account for the mills to
cut $4,000 feet of lumber every day.
Then as Georgia pine is not bled for
their terpentine and rosin so much as
the North Carolina pine, it carries a
better grain and is more compact, as
spOnginess detOriorates the quality of
this kind of timber.
The uses Georgia pine is put to now
are manifold. 1t cOmpOses seven eights
of the build of every ship being con-
structed on the Atlantic Coast clear up
to the shipyards of Maine where they
go so far as 10 build the entire hull with
it. Itsprings across the great warehouses
as girders, and after wards sheaths
them in flooring. Every description
of machinery requiring wooden tim
bers are made of this wood.
Four coasters after unloading ice in
Northern Ports, will continue down
the coast to Brunswick or Darian Ga,
and make return cargo of Georgia
pine. The great empire State of the
South has millions of acres yet of pri-
meval pine forests untouced.
NATURAL RHOSHhATES.
South Carolina, leaving at home her
unmeaning Palmetto, will have what
other States are beginning to find in
their own borders her unapproachable
mineral exhibits including the greater
of all phosphate, and lime. The an
nual output of this mineral exceeds
SOC, 900 tons, one half of which goes to
Europe. The manufacture of the
crude ground rock into the better
known acid phosphate, has, with the
aid of cotton seed as an ammoniate,
placed within reach of the Southern
farmers a cheap fertilizer that has in
creased the value of the present crops
to greater value over former yields.
Thus will be seen features of the
SOuth's unparalleled progress within a
few years that is wonderful for the
people of the south to contemplate
themselves.
ELOQUENT WORDS.
And now, dear reader, will con-
clude, by calling attention to the elO-
quent peroration of the late Henry
Grady before the Boston Merchants
Association a short time previous TO
his death. Said he:
'Far to the South separated from
this section by line-once defined in
irrepressible difference, once traced in
fratricidal blood, and now thank God,
but a vanishing shadow-lies the fair
est and richest dominion of this earth.
It is the home of a brave and prosper
GUS people. There, is centered all
that can please or prosper humankind.
A perfect climate above a fertile soil
yields to the husbandman every pro-
duct of the temperate zone. There, by
night the cotton whitens beneath the
stars, and by day the wheat locks the
the sunshine in its bearded sheaf. In
the same field the clover steals the
fragrance of the wind and the tobacco
catches the quick aroma Of the rains.
There, are mountains stored with ex-
haustless treasures. forests, vast and
primeval; rivers that tumbling or lOi-
tering run wantOn to the sea. OF the
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