The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-06-29
MONEY TO BE MADE.
OPPORTUNITIES IN THE SOUTH
ARE UNLIMITED.
Wonderful Development of That Part
of the Country Consequent Upon the
Rise of Its Iron Industry-Wide Mar
ket for CottOnseed OH.

More money has been made In the
Southern States in the last twenty
years than win be made In the next
I Nifty years in Cuba, Porto Rico or the
| Philippines, and the chances for
money. in the South have only
commenced. The price of iron for the
world Is now made at Birmingham
Ala, and that city will shortly make
the worlds price OF steel. The South
Industrial evolution, which began Win
the development OF It's iron interests.
rapidly spread To all of the collateral
iron industries, including machine
shops and foundries. stove factories,
steel plants and hardware factories
The 1900 new Industries Which nave
sprung up during the past year include
fertilizer aud phosphate works. wood
working factories. furniture. vehicle,
agricultural and miscellaneous works;
textile, Hour and cotton seed cal mills
gas aud water works. telephone sys-
TENS. electric light and power and lee
and cold storage plants; canner'es anu
hundreds of miscellaneous plants
.NEhliA GNtIl obulHGIh 80
creased its railroad mileage during the
past year and every Southern harbor
has largely increased its export trade.
Alabama has shipped 1000 tons OF
iron a day. month after month, anu
the ports OF New Orleans, Norfolk. bal
tlmOre, Pensacola, Brunswick and Mo
bile are shipping American products
direct and by the shortest route 10
many foreign countries. The develop
ment Of the iron industry In the South
Is In its infancy and in the manufac-
ture OF textiles that section or the
country has not begun 10 take tile place
IL will I'LL, although last year over
$780, 900 spindles were added 10 the
equipment of Southern mills, In which
81, 100000 sought new investment.
Nearly 100000 went Into the cotton
seed mills-fOr American cotton oil
finds II market In every civilized eoun-
try-and $1,000, 900 is being put into the
iron and steel industries OF Alabama
and millions into those of Tennessee
and Virginia. Rich In natural re
sources. with splendid water powers
still undeveloped and almost unknown,
welcoming capital and Hospitality wei
coming the investor from the North,
the South Is having u wonderful awak-
ening, and 1t requires no cunning eye
to perceive that 1t Is ON the road TO I'M
measured ana Imnaeasnrabls wealth
General Wilson, the Secretary or Agrl-
culture. has called attention to the fact
that the agricultural wealth OF the
South would be vastly Increased II It's
products were diversified; that, favor-
ed as II is by conditions OF climate anu
soil, II can find an enormous market III
the North for its early vegetables.
spring lamb young chickens and other
commodities which, In this luxurious
day. find a ready sale In every city.
The canning industry can find no bet
ter location than In many of the South
ern states. where fruits are raised In
the greatest abundance and ut the low
est cost. Fruit culture and the culture
of nuts And their best opportunities In
the Southern States. There Is every
thing, In fact. in the South to sustain
n large population In comfort and with
less hardship than mist be encounter
ed In almost any other section OF the
world.-Leslie's Weekly.