The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-09-06
SOUTHERN FACTORIES.
Advantages offered by the South
to the Cotton Manufacturer.

to the Cotton Manufacturer.
The Louisville Courier Journal
and Memphis Commercial, sound
the keynote to the industrial out
look in the Southern states, by pre-
senting to the manufacturing world
a few facts concerning the advan-
tages offered by the South, over the
North and East, for the manufac
ture of cotton fabrics In this con
nection the Courier Journal says:
"In thejdevelopment of the cot
ton industry the South should com
mand the world. The worlds con-
sumption of cotton is steadily in
creasing. Ithas increased 80 per
cent, within ten years, and the
Southern States of the Union pro
duce about 60 per cent of the en-
tire amount. This consumption
must go on increasing, and the
South may yet, by careful agricul-
ture, immensely increase its yield,
but it is in the manufacture of cot
ton goods that the futurs holds out
greatest promise, There is no rea-
son why the South, the greatest
cotton field in the world, should not
surround the fields with mills for
spinning the cotton into fabrics and
become the leader of the world in
the manufacture of cotton goods.
Capital can earn larger dividends in
a cotton mill in the South than it
can earn in a cotton mill anywhere
else in the United States, 1t is no
longer an experiment In this field
the South's opportunities are un-
equalled. "
Commenting on the above the
Commercial has this to say: 'The
demonstration of this advantage
has already been made at various
points in the South. 1t is now hop
ed that skilled operatives will see it
to their benefit to enter the cotton
kingdom. We want to manufac-
ture the finest grades of cotton
cloth, OF course this will be done
within a few years, but the manu-
facturers who will undertake the
fancy product will gain in profit and
prestige if they will erect the nee
essary mills at once. There are to
be no more tariff reductions. The
revolution has happened. Even if
the Republicans should return to
power in 1897, they would not re-
establish protection. Whatever
will be done will be in the nature Of
occasional specific amendments, but
as we have said, there is bound to
be three years of entire rest from
serious tariff disturbances. There
fore now is the time to invest and
to lay the foundation Of a fortune
by placing factories near the fields
of raw MATERIAL whether it be cot
ton, iron, wood or what not"
Referring to the above, from a
local point of view, we would sug-
gest that no other town or city, of
like size, III the several states sur
sounding, presents more favorable
field for industrial enterprise, of
whatever kind or character, than
our own city, Texarkana, whose eX-
cellent railway facilities and neigh
boring water ways, offer unexcelled
transportation for manufactured
products, to every portion of the
country. In other respects our city
is equally well equipped for an in
dustrial center Situated, as it is,
in the midst of a fertile farming
country, surrounded by almost in
exhaustible timber belts, rich min
eral regions, and blessed with
never failing supply of water, with
immense coal beds within easy
reach, TeXarkana is almost without
an equal in this opening contest for
increased industrial interests, and
will be found at the van of lesser
Southern cities, in the race for in
dustrial supremacy, which ere long
will open throughout the entire
South, especially in the cotton pro
ducinr regions thereof.