The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-08-29
THE SOUTH'S NEW ERA.
WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED IN
THE SOUTH SINCE THE VAR.
Some Northern Men Try Planting and Fall
Disastrousiy-Free Labor in the south
The Place for Young Men.
From The New York Times.

From The New York Times.
New Orleans La, July 23.-Though the
change in the nations social and political
system since 1860 has been startling be
You'd anything in the countrys history,
yet in all this bouleversement there has been
certain degree of advantage until the
south, which some of its old-time states
men and pubcsts would have had us
believe could not exist without slavery,
has really become richer in material wealth
than it was before the disruption And
all this, too. i'll Il quarter of Il century.
Before the war the south was purely ag-
ricultural. Its wonderful deposits of iron
and coal were absolutely untouched, ex-
cept in two sections of Kentucky and
Tennessee. The coal fields along the
Black Warrior in Alabama were known,
| but there was no adequate idea as To their
extent or value or that here nature had
worked one of her matchless maryels; that
| III Alabama'S hills iron ore, coal as good
as any known and limestone tan indispensa-
| bic in the reduction of iron ore) were laid
in endless quantities side by side
| Providence seems to have done more for
| the south than for any other section of
the country. The climate is milder life
is not 50 grindinSy hard as in the blizzard
swept west, where between drought, grass
hopperS and Colorado bugs i'll summer
ami billiards and awful cold in winter
the people become as coarse, common and
hard Us the life is among them. Hum
boldt truthfully says: The people of Il
country partake in their personal traits of
the. peculiarities of the climate they live
ill.,"
The close of the war in some respects
was the beginning of southern develop
mcnt And be it known that this very
development has been begun by southern
born men and continued by them until its
success has been assured Take. for cX
ample, the history Of birmingham, Ala.
In 1S6S there lived in Washington coun-
ty, Mississippi, the banner cotton growing
county of the United States and the world,
Il planter named ]. T. Powell. The cOun-
ty mentioned has two river fronts, one on
the Mississippi and the other on the Nazo0.
Old Colonel Powell had two fine parta-
tons, Pluck and Daybreak, of about $500
acres each on the 1aZco front OF Wash
ington county. With some pecuIiarities-
firm belief i'll the code ducllO being among
| thcm-the old gentleman was something Of
Il scientist and an interchangeable student.
! He had a very excellent knowledge of
practical geology among his other accou}-
tssi-tI4lAntA- e,.d Iissinlc his annual hunting
trips in and about what is now Birmiu--
! ham, he became convinced that there was
Il most remarkable deposit of coal and iron
! right there together. with limestone rs
| n close negnbor, To make sure. however
he got the best practical coal and iron
expert New York could furnish to come
| down and examine the great deposit that
| he-Powel-had found He did 50. and
| fully confirmed the gentleman in his views
Colonel Powell lhereupon established
| what is now Birmingham and brought
! what is now Birmingham and bought
! 81. 200 Birmingham and the coal towns in
| Alabama have been made by southern
| genius and energy and the ability to con
! duct practical affairs of great magnitude.
| The three greatest min" owners at Biz
| nlngham are Colonel Powell, John {.
| SlosS and Colonel Johnston. They pay
| every Saturday night 5000 Workmcn-biack
and white aIlke-Who are employed in their
| mighty furnaces and rolling mills. These
| three men are all OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES III thc
! ronfc,trate army and in their works
men, black and white, are wage carners
| thing one never sees IN Pennsy !yama
/ iron mill or NINE. In fact, ''nlgger
/ can't get job at any factory or furnace IN
| IltsburE. not even IN the great and good
! Carnegle4 Stupendous coke works. Ilr-
/ bingham was lncuhated and mad" what
! it is by southern brains and wealth.
Did ever the agricultural part of any