The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-28
REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH.
"A Record of Widespread Internal advance
all Along the Line.
From the Interior.


The industrial revolution now IN
progress in the Southern States prom
ises, if c. ntinued, to effect more r;ld'cai
changes than those produced 10y Inc
disappearance of slavery. After 'he
civil war, the States were some years
in recovering from the drain and ex'
sshaustion of struggle, the cost ol
5:i------la>Soas. in the lcssened value of prop
on time l.etween lSG0-7O, ap
general af[Ies inss'y was aoSjow was 'h'
The aS oaeS but by hard WoF's II
provement -~otteu thlpSs-F lo'o'
but from that date until the pres
zent. progrcss in almost all lines, and
particularly that Of industry, has
been surprisingly rapid. The war
offered the first stimulant 10 in
sdustrial energy, but it was only after
! the period of reconstruction that u fa'r
field was given to its development, and
the States entered up:" L new career OF
prosperity.
During the last decade the South has
{ been hard at work, drawing on It's vast
reserve of raw material liz the shape or
minerals and lumber, increasing its
production of cotton and tobacco, corn
and sugar, and lii thousand ways
adding to its wealth. The gain during
the decade in the assessed value OF
property has been 81 ,306, 729, ,927, while
the growth of manufactures has been
so rapid that at the present rate OF pro-
gress, the South will soon be Us DIS
tinguished for its manufacturing III
terestS as the North LOW Is.
A trade Journal which has recently
compiled some statistics of this re-
markable development, states that
there are now 355 cotton mills i'll op-
Grafton, as against l6l ten years ego,
with 2l3 cotton-seed-oiI mills, and that
at least 500, ,OO.000 is invested in tim
/. Der E,nds and saw mills. The output
Z of pig-irou last Year WAS ,56G, IO2 tons,
or more than one-thifd OF that OF the
!, whole country, aud while new furnaces
are constantly being built, nearly ~
600, 600 tons of coal were mined. Conn
:. panies, with large capitals, are rapidly
being formed for the development OF
! iron and coal mines, and iron Is now
produced at less cost in Alabama, aud
coal is cheaper there and III the adJa-
cent States, than in any other part OF
the country. Oyer 10000 miles of rail
way have been built since 1880, and in
nine months OF last year 25O railway
companies We're organized il the
South, and development Oh this line
has apparently only begun. Foreign
commerce has increased to SO, 540, ,2296,
and banking capital to s16,,L4, $40,
while over 100000 bales of cotton
were sold last Year, and G52,2 ,29l GOO
bushels OF oats, wheat and corn were
raised.
Beside this, the material wealth. Of
the States has been largely increased
by fruit and vegetable gardening, many
large plantations having been converted
into "truck farms for the supply Of
the Northern markets, and by the de-
velopment of The phosphate and other
industries. The population Of the
South has also greatly increased ; u re-
cent report, based upon estimates made
by the governors and controllers of the
twelve strictly Southern States, show
ing their population to be 6,4S9, l:O, 4
growth in ten years ofover thirty-,hree
per Cent.
This is probably us great L gain rs i'll
the remainder Of the States, for al
though the latter have received the
bulk. of the foreign immigration,
the inequality has been balanced
in large part by the migration
from North to South, by the influx of
German farmers into Texas and that
Of European miners and artisans into
the mining and manufacturing dis
'tricts of the South. Indications are
hat the rate of increase has not been
greatly different in the two sections,
and that the South has kept pace il
growth with the rest of the country,
despite the fact that the immigration
of the present decade has cQualed that
of the two preceding it.