The Irish standard., 1899-04-29
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Industrial opportunitie. Are Now
Far Ahead of Those In
In the Went

More money has been made in the
southern states in the last 20 years than
will be made in the next so years in
Cuba. Porto Rico or the Philippines, and
the chances for money-making 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's Industrial evolution, which
began with the development of it's iron
interests, rapidly spread to all of the
collateral iron industries, including ms
chine shops and foundries, stove fac
tories, steel plants and hardware fac
tories. The 5000 new industries which
have sprung up during the past year
include fertilizer and phosphate works.
woodworking factories, furniture, vehi-
Gle, agricultural and miscellaneous
works; textile, flour and cotton seed
oil mills; gas and waterworks, tele-
phone systems, electric light and power
and ice and cold storage plants; can
ncries and hundreds of miscellaneous
plants. Nearly every southern state
has increased its railroad mileage dur
ing the past year and every southern
harbor has largely increased it's export
trade.
Alabama has shipped 1000 tons Of
iron day, month after month, and the
ports of New Orleans, Norfolk, Balti.
more. Pensacola, Brunswick and Mo-
bile are shipping American products
direct and by the shortest route to
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 of the
country has not begun to take the place
it will fill, although last year over $780,
300 spindles were added to the equip
1nent of southern mills, in which S.
100000 sought new investment. Nearly
81 ,0O0,0OD went into the cottonseed
mills--for American cotton oil finds O.
market in every civilized country--and
S5ooo,Ooo is being put in the iron and
steel industries Of Alabama and mil
lions into those of Tennessee and Vir-
ginia. Rich in natural resources, with
splendid water powers still undevel-
oped and almost unknown, welcoming
capital and Hospitality welcoming the
investor from the north. the south Is
having wonderful awakening. and it
requires no cunning eye to perceive
that it is on the road TO unmcasured
and unreasonable wealth. Gen. Will
son, the secretary of agriculture, has
just called attention to the fact that the
agricultural wealth of the south would
be vastly increased if its products were
diversiicd; that, favored as it is by
conditions of climate and soil, it car
find an enormous market in the north
for it's early vegetables, spring lamb.
young chickens and other commodi.
ties which, in this luxurious day, find
ready sale in every city. The canning
industry can find no better location.
than in many of the southern states.
where fruits are raised in the creates
abundance and ut the lowest cost.
Fruit culture and the culture of mute
find their best opportunities in the
southern states. There is everything,
in fact, in the south to sustain Il arge
population in comfort and with less
hardship than must be encountered in
almost any other section Of the world.
| If you seek new fields of opportunity
60 south. young man!-Leslie's Weekly.