Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-03

results have hecome an incentive t.
peach culture in many other parts %
the State.
When the pioneers entered Ken.
lucky, with their axes they literally
hewed out a commonwealth. The
fertile farms which their sturdy work
cleared lessened, OF course, the area
of the forest lands, but Kentucky to-
day is by no means a treeless plain.
Indeed, the State is well-timbered,
and every species of tree known to
her latitude is found in abundance.
The raw material is thus offered for
large wood manufacturing indus
try. At present the value of timber
floated to market in rafts and shipped
by rail represents many millions of
dollars annually.
The States mineral resources i'll
clude coal, iron, zine, vast beds of
onyx, clays for the manufacture of
all grades of pottery, and valuable
quarries of sandstone and limestone.
The output of coal in 1897 was 3,2OO,-
900 tons, only one other Southern
State and four in the entire country
producinga greater amount. Much of
the bituminous coal of the State is of
n superior quality for cofing pur-
poses, the production of coke for 1897
reaching 10000 tons.
In manufactures the State is on the
threshold of splendid period of de
velOpment. Much has already been
done in many lines, but when the
possibilities are considered it seems
only a beginning. With coal to feed
the fires of her factories, with her
hills yielding the best qualities of
iron ores. with forests growing tim
Der for every variety of woodwork
ing, with her production of one
quarter Of the worlds supply of to-
bacco, and with a splendid system of
and railways for trans
porting the abundant raw materials
to factories and their finished pro-
duet to market, Kentucky possesses
every essential to Industrial great
ness.
But this greatness is by no means |
only in prospect; much of it, in fact,
i'm the manufacturing of furniture
and agricultural implements, large |
;plustry l., ,Ira,lv thriyipO In tho
of tobacco and cigars
the State is fast coming to the posi-
ton to which the primacy in the pro-
of raw material entities her.
AS has already been stated, she now |
leads in the production of whisky. |
There are in the State several large |
cotton and woollen mills whose sue
cess clearly indicates what may be |
in the development of this
line of manufactures.
But Kentucky has not allowed her.
Self to become engrossed with the \
creation of wealth to the exclusion |
Df the cultivation of the mind. She |
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schools. In 1897 she was providing
for 136, lO9 of her children,
for which she was paying over s3,-
OO,OOO. On teachers salaries alone
the sum reached the large total of
s., 500, 900. At the head of the school
system is her State University at
with which the graded
schools are federated. There are al
50 many other institutions of higher
among them being George
town College, Central University,
Center College and the State Agri-
and Mechanical College.
The cities of Kentucky are among
the most progressive in the South.
They are centres of enterprising ac-
tivity and have always been Il strong
factor in the development of the
States resources. Their citizens
have been quick to perceive Ken
tucky's natural advantages and
ready to take the lead in improving |
them. Kentucky's cities have also |
famous as centres of u charm
ing hospitality and of all the graces
Of social life.