The age-herald., 1899-11-05

crate at profit, it follows that when thera is general revival of Industrial enterprise and renewed investment In manufa acturing
 establishments, such a place or section must still be better location for new plants, and must command the support of the far-sfghted investor. Th esouth showed during the hard times that it had pre- eminent advantages for a great many lines of manufacturing over other sections of the United States by keeping up to large de- gree steady industrial development, in spite of low cotton and a scarcity of money, and now, In revival of industrial enter prises, ats development cannot but be pro-
 portionately greater than during the past few years. The things necessary to make sure of this increased development is for steady and intelligent work to make known tn advantages of the different localities of tn esouth for various lines of industries, ready and active co-operation of local en. terprises and capital with outside capita1 and spirit of encouragement on the part
 of the people with al lthe industrial estab- lishments which go to build up the commu- nity and to advance It's interests.
 The great railroad systems of the coun- try are intimately associated with the in- dustrial development of all points their lines. The Southern railway system is most intimately concerned in the development of the territory through which its lines run. It has paid special attention to the build- ing up of the cities and towns 1t reaches and the development of the agricultural re-
 
 Great Southern road it Is the great indus trial line of the south. It reaches from the important gateways of domest tic and for- eign travel and traffic to the principal in- dustrial and commercial centers, to the fine fruit raising, stock raising, grain, cotton, tobaccoand truck growing sections of Dixie Land It can be said to be the industrial line of the south as by far the greater pors tion of the important. industrial enterprises are located on its lines. The cotton industry sa 1,,,k fos, aN1A Af 4Uaa t1on rtara Al and development of manufactures along it's lines. In 1890 there were in the eight south- ern states in which the Southern railway has lines, in round numbers, 1,500, 900 spin dies. In 1894 the date of the organization of the present Southern Railway company, there were 23O0,000 spindles, of which ,400-s 0o0 were on its lines. On the first of last January there were about 100000 spindles in the same states, of which 2,5O0,0o0 were on the Southern railway, showing that the great growth of the industry In the south has been along the lines of this system. This is so for the two reasons that the ter- ritory which the road reaches has so many natural and other advantages for textile manufacturing, and that the company's pol icy has been such that it has worked con- stantly to develop this and other industries in the communities 1t serves.
 How the Southern Helps
 The Southern Railway company fosters industries along its lines in two ways. It furnishes the best and cheapest means of reaching markets or supply points and the best facilities possible for the prompt hand ling of traffic at initiatory and terminal points. It also through its industrial de- pertinent, carefully studies the conditions of industry in the south and in the country generally, the advantages of the particular communities along its lines, keeping in touch with the commercial bodies and with the people of such communities; constantly works to bring to the attention of manufac- turers an dinvestors and of home-seekers the opportunities and advantages its terri tory possesses and in all possible ways aids in the establishment of new factories and in the settlement of colonies. In the last fiscal year of the Southern railway more than 200 families from the north were set tied along the line of the road; over 100000 acres of land were sod-to these settlers while there was invested in manufacturing enterprises and in the enlargement of old n,ants several million dollars. These set tiers and the new industries were pretty generally distributed along the road in the different states of the south.
 The Various Industries
 The industries which have had the great est growth in the south in recent years and
 along the lines of the Southern railway sys-
 tenn are the textile, iron and steel, furni- ture-making and other woodworking indus tries, oil mills, plants using iron and steel canning factories etc. For all these indus tries there are special advantages to be found in the south along the Southern Sys- to.n. The earlier growth of the textile in- dustry largely confined to the Carcli- nas and those states are still Tar In the lead in the number of cotton mills and In tfe spindles at work. New mills are being l adt | in both the Carolinas but the indus- | try is becoming more extended over the south the development in Alabama and l Georgia being specially noteworthy in the | past two years There is much investiga- i tion now into the southern conditions by l northern mill men, and southern capital and 1 enterprise is alive to the importance Of the 1 milling interest, and the future develop l mept is to be as great as that of the im- mediate past. Not only will cotton mills | te built right along, but the knitting fn- | dustry will follow it, and the silk mills will c1me
 Of the future of the iron and steel indus 1 tries in the south there can be but one opinion. Around the blast furnaces and l mills will grow up great plants of various kinds. using both iron and steel. There is | a big future for many southern plants mak- l ing machinery of different kinds for use in other southern industries
 The vast forests of hard wood in the l south along the Southern railway should ,, bring to it's territory large numbers of | woodworking plants which are now making l many northern communities prosperous, l simply because they will find nearly all conditions mere favorable for them In this section. The head of a furniture plant Of | | representative of the Land and Industrial | Deparment of the Southern railway that his company bought more of it's supply of l lumber in the south. and at that time it had I a car on the way from Alabama on which 1 the freight would be $150 It is good to find | A market for Alabama lumber in the north | or elsewhere but it would be better-and l it will come-that the lumber be made into l chairs and desks and such things in Ala | bama and the finished product shipped to l 4l,a +l,a ofstjn nf # ha l foreign markets.
 l The south is the best section of this eoun- l try for the raising of fruits and vegeta bles, l and the canning industry is to be one of its most profitable industries-one that will | support large population. There has been | a good deal of interest taken in the es- tablishmenlt of canneries in Alabama of | late Another industry which will doubt