Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-30

ing intelligence and discreet cour
age in business, which have alike hon
iOred the men who did ii and inspired
lali the balance 81 the SOnth with new
Fife and new hopes. The result hai
been an Admission, &, Sheffield, a Flor
ence, o Decatur, a Fort Payne, {
I South Pittsburgh, Rising Fawn, 9
Cowan, johnson City, a Crane
Rivers, Roanoke, and many othel
manufacturing cities and towni
where the energies and capabilitiei
Of the Southern people arr
attracting the attention OF TN
Dresa and capital in all parts of th'
world
ii was but the other day when {
delegation of 450 of the most exten
live manufacturers Of England anC
| Germany visited many OF the South
new industries and, alter seeing mucl
| If the whole country, pronounced thu
south tile wonder OF this great coun
~, and in the most public way de
,lared that the South would, in tune
le tie greatest iron producing coun
~ of the world. The great depths o.
he coal veins Of England, the cost q
the right of way TO reach the coal, tht
taxes, and the rising wages in England
,s Nr Shonk, who made thorough
personal examination Of all these mat
tiers in England, and who travelled and
alnveiseu with the leading iron men
! among the $50 visitots--infnrmed me
makes the price OF coke to make iron
n England at SO a ton on an average
| While coal fields in England are not
| worked out, they are becoming more
| md more inaccessible, and the iron
making world is looking to the South.
ern States.
70 emphasize with statistics cur
growth in the new industries OF coal
lad iron, / present these astounding
dgures Mark you it is new indus.
try, for before the war we made char.
,oal iron only, which is a specially,
md that in small way.
At the beginning of this year we
lad 100 furnaces, producing in l8S9, L.
! 1876 9O3 tons of iron. The output In
1880 was 2l2, 722 tons. Ifany people ever
made such an advance as this in ten
years 1t has escaped my reading.
! 'rne growth in the output OF coal
! cannot be given for want Of statistics,
though in the future the statistics will
he given. But the output in 1889 was
u, 9T9, 500 tons. The aggregate growth
may be Appropriated by some Ala
bama statistics. In 1860 there was
mined 100 tons in that State. Last
year the output was a fraction over
1000, 600 tons.
In 1860 the manufae tured goods OF
the South, in value, amounted to Sl93,
1872, 900 In 1880, it was $3l5 1924, $50.
In 1889, it was $675, $50, 900.
In 1880 we had 142 cotton mills with
542, l48 sp' ndles, with 1888 looms.
In 1890 we have 346 mills, with | $40,
626 spindles, and AZ, 307 looms.
In 1880 we had II, 1908 miles of rail
road. In 1890, 37,5lS miles. In 1880
the assessed value of property in the
twelve southern states was So, l64, 1872,
900. IN 1890 SO, FOG 906, 900.
The investments in railroads, bank
ing, mining, manufacturing in ten
years have ueen about 50, 1856, 900, 000las
near as can be ascertained.
The total population of the South
in 1880 was l4,63S, 936. In 1890 it Is
10, 480, $50. This is the "New South. y
Does this look as If the Southern
people were enfeebled by climate ? In
Southern men. Northern men and
Northern capital have aided, but the
South is Justly entitled to the credit OF
this uppar lleled success. From the
formation of the constitution down to
he present time, the south has com,
pared in her public men favorably
with ev ry othe portion of our com
mon country, and as u nation Southe n
men mark every page of our history
In national development and pro
gress we have been far behind the peo.
ple of the North, aud being so far be
hind, we have been dependent, and
not an independent people. But the
pride Of every Southern man is that
we are asserting in a manly way our
right to he free by virtue of Aelf reli
ance. In all this success there is moth
ing so far reaching and of SO great
magnitude as the new Steel Woi ks at
Chattanooga demonstrating that our
ores are admirably adapted, it'll
modern inventions, to making steel
cheaply and of fine quality, This il
the browning feature of an industry
IN the South whose products make our
railroa s, build our cities = for more
and more is iron becoming the most
important factor in house building
make our fences, our farming nipple
me nts, our warming and cooking uten-
sls, our wheeled vehicl $, build our
ships, aud equip our armies.
IL is difficult to realize the magni
tude of this advanced step in the
South Every iron man in the South
has appreciated our real difficulties
~ L. al IN,
such proximity as to arrest the at
tention of iron makers in all parts of
the world, and with labor, though not
as cheap as in England, yet admirably
adapted to the heavy work, yet up to
this time we have been confronted
with he fact that steel was fast taking
the place of iron and that steel could
only be made with Lake Superior
ores, or at least that our southern ores
was so impregnated with phosphorus
hat they would not make steel. But
it was believed that In En-
gland, Scotland and Germany they
were making steel, under a
new process, out of ores impregnated
as ours are.
Seeing this our southern men did
not wait on northern capital TO come
and make the trial, nor did they ac-
cept the published reports and invest
money on the experiment, but they, |
as they had done when they inaugu
rated the iron industry, went abroad, !
visited the furnaces and carefully in. |
spected, for the mselves, all the de- |
tails of the process. Like wise men,
they chose to spend money to guard |
against mistakes: they came home 1
content to invest large money, in what I
everybody, except themselves, regard |
I'd a hazard. 70 day their works SO