The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-03-16
THE SOUTH IS NOW BOOMING
RESOURCES or OUR SECTION


Course Of an Extended Trip-IIt
Does Not Believe That Any Other
Section OF the World Has so Many
Notwithstanding Advantages.
Baltimore Sun.
Mr.. John f.. Scarlcs, the wcll-knowr
New York linancier, was in Baltimore
for awhile yesterday, on his way back
to New York after five weeks trip
through the Southern States. On the
trip Mr.. ScarlcS was accompanied bv
his son and MIR. Richard II. ltdmonds,
Of BaltimOrt, editor Of the Manufacture
crs' Record.
Mr.. Scarlcs is dcvoting his attention
to the dcvclopmtn n; OF tLon~hnndlng
methods, and to 0Lhcr Southern inter
csts. More than fifty Southern cities
were visited and about 1000 miles
Travelled by the party. Starting from
New York on ~ private car, they went
TO Chicago, thence 10 ST. Louis, Den.
vcr, Colorado Springs, through Okla.
homa aud tho Indian Territory to
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tcnncs-
sec and TO Little Rock, Ark. From
this point thcpnrty visited Alabama,
Georgia and the Carolinas, making
gusta, Atlanta, Columbia, Charlotte,
Norfolk and Newport News. Repre-
sentative business mCm iiUt the party
wherever they stopped, and I. number
OF receptions and dinner parties were
given in their honor.
"Thc South, said Mr. Scarlcs in ar
interview with u reporter Of The Sun
"has for ten years been passing through
an cXEcrim gntal p.riod, in which th,
mcttlc Of tho people and the inhcrcn,
strength OF it's position have been un
! dcrg0ing test. Both have stood the
ordeal and demonstrated to tho busi
ness world the sOundDess OF tho whole
Southern situation. The South is a
country OF such remarkable natural
advantages that it would seem to offer
the broadcast opportunities for cxtun-
eivc operations IN the development Of
its mineral and timber wealth and the
extension OF It's railroad facilities.
When the very remarkable com
binatiOn OF advantages POSSESSED by
, the South IN coal, iron, timber and
cotton, without counting nll OF the less
, striking resources Of ph0sphatcs, mar
bic, GRANTEES, Nc, Is taken into nc
count, | can readily believe, as Mr..
IiumOundS has often said to me, that
there is no other country in the world
which can duplicate its wealth. Othcr
countries have some Of these advan-
tagcs; s0ms have iron and coal, some
have timber, some have marbles and
GRANTEES, but | believe it is fair to say
that no other region 0: the world has
them all concentrated in such wealth
creating magnitude as the South
"Givcn these resources, and with &
favorable climate and Is product. c
soil, both OF which the South cnioys,
there ought not TO be any limit to tho
possible profitable development OF thai
country. II England could create it,
enormous industrial interests, bascC
largely on imported cotton and iror
ore, and spending, rs she does, about
$I1O,OCO,OOO year for foodsLutrs ; /
New England, with but few natura
advantages, could, by the great cncrg,
OF It's people and the force Of circum
stances, BALD up It's marvellous indus
trial prosperity, based upon imported
coal, imported iron and imported cot
ton, what may VIC not expect OF tn
South now that it has fairly onterc
upon the broad development OF it
mineral wealth and its cotton and lum
bcr manufacture