Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19
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 1ndustry-Widc Mar.
ket for cottonsecd Oil.

More money has been made in the
Southern States in the last twenty
years than will be made in the next
fifty 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 nov 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 its iron interests,
rapidly spread to all Of the collateral
iron industries, including machine
shops and foundries, stove factories.
steel plants and hardware factories.
The 5000 new industries which have
sprung up during the past year include
fertilizer and phosphate works, wood
working factories, furniture, vehicle,
agricultural and miscellaneous works;
textile. flour and cotton seed oil mills;
gas and water works, telephone sys-
tens, electric light and power and ice
II cold storage plants; canneries and
hundreds of miscellaneous plants.
Nearly every Southern State has i'll
creased its railroad mileage during the
past year and every Southern harbor
has largely increased it's export trade.
Alabama has shipped 1000 tons of
iron IL day. month after month, and
the ports of New Orleans, Norfolk. Bal
timore. 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
1t will Till, although last year over
100000 spindlcs were added to the
equipment of Southern mills, i'll which
$5.HD0,OC0 sought new Investment.
Nearly 81, OOO,OOO went into the cotton
seed millS-for American cotton oil
finals Il market i'll every civilized coun-
try-and $5,OOO,O00 is being put into the
iron and steel industries of Alabama
and millions into those of Tennessee
and Virginia. Rich i'll natural re-
sources, with splendid water powers
still u%ndeveloped and almost unknown,
welcoming capital and Hospitality well
coming the investor from the North,
the South is having II wonderful awak-
ening, and it requires ut cunning eye
to perceive that it is on the road to I'M
measured and im~measurable wealth.
General Wilson, the Secretary of Agri-
culture, has called attention to the fact
that the agricultural wealth of the
South would be vastly increased il its
products were diversified; that, favor.
ed as it is by conditions of climate and
soil, ii can find nm enormous market in
the North for its early vegetables,
spring lamb, young chickens and other
commodities which, in this luxurious
day, find u 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 at the low
est cost. Fruit culture and the culture
of nuts find their best opportunities in
the Southern States. There is every
thing, in fact, in the South to sustain
IL large population in comfort and with
less hardship than must be encounter
ell in almost any other section of the
world.-Leslie's Weekly.