Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-05-15
THE GREAT soUTI.

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Missions OF the Southern Baptist
Convention recently i'll session at
Birmingham:
COMING GREATNESS OF THE SOUTH.
The recent census of the United
States, though all its results have
not been tabulated, contains mar
velous record of the growth, and
more marvellous prophecy of the com
ing power and greatness of this
Southern land. Within tho past
decade, and mainly within the hitter
half of it, the mineral interests of
the South have grown so wonder
fully that tho production Of iron orc.
pig iron and coal in 1880 was equal
to Tint produced by the whole coun
try twenty years ago. In 1880 this
city where we meet had less than
10000 population;today it is the cen.
tire of industrial activity for 10000
people.
MIR. Howell, of New York, and Mr..
Edward Atkinson, of Boston, two of
the bost informed men in this coun.
try in regard 10 iron production, tell
us that in 1900 this country must
make double its product of iron if
the demands of the world arc met.
10 clio this, they tell us, will require
400 new furnaces. with an average
capacity of 100 tons per day.
Everybody knows that should 400
furnaces be constructed in the next
ten years, 800 OF th.m will be built
in the South. Placed two and half
miles apart they would stretch in an
unbroken line from Birmingham 75O
miles to Harper's Ferry-a great
battle line under whose black Kan
ners mighty host of the sons of
toll would wrest from conquered ma.
lures grasp riches that for a thous
sand ages havo been concealed with
III her stony bosom.
HER COMMERCIAL PROGRESS.
Her commercial progress is as
us her mineral develop
ment. In 1890 Southern ports in.
creased their exports nearly S25, 0OO,.
900. while those of the remainder of
the country showed an actual dimin
ution. Baltimore increased her OK.
ports more than New York. Tie
increase of foreign trade from Hamp-
ton Roads, Va, was greater than the
combined increase of New York and
Boston. Five cities of the South,
Baltimore, Newport News, Norfolk,
Savannah and Galveston, increased
their exports more than either New
York or Boston; while both Snvan.
nah and Galveston are rivuling in
actual amount of foreign trade San
francisco, the great city of the Pa
cific coast.
Newport News, the name of what
a few years ago WA but rural 10.
cality, has just finished the finest
ship building plant in America, and
one superior in some respects to any
other IN tho c,Ioba
From Hampton Roads, the ideal
harbor of the world, two great trans
continental lines of railway have
crossed the Alleghanies and are fur
nishing Cincinnati, Chicago and st.
Louis nearer line to the sea. The
roads terminating at Savannah and
Brunswick are linked by bands of
steel with those west of the NIissis
sippi, and are inviting the trade of
Kansas City and of Little Rock and
Memphis to their ports as their near
est point to the ocean. Galveston is
sending her ever-lengthening lines
northward to clasp hands with Santa
Fe, Denver and Bismark, and thus
invite Colorado and Nebraska and
the Dakotas to trade in her sunny
cline.
The 10000 miles of railway of 1880
has grown to be 10000 today and
will be 10000 in ten years more.
HER-yAsT WEALTH
But when her mineral resources
and commercial advantages have
been developed to their highest ca.
paclty you have but touched the out
er border of that empire of wealth
vast enough to sustain in comfrot all
the Inhabitants of the globe. 1t is
her soil, the marvellous product of
I)iuinn ,,N,unr ..I..t .