The Florence tribune., 1899-09-23
MONEY IN THE SOUTH
Opportunities for Making It Almost
 Unlimited.
Improved Industrial Conditions of the Last Twenty Years-The
 Crx Is Now "GO SOuth,.
 Young Man.
More money has been made in the

More money has been made in the southern states ii tfe last g years than
 win be made iR the next 90 years in Cuba, Pofto Rico OF the Philippines, and ehe 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 wiI shortly make the Rorld p4ica of s5eal
 The s5uths industrial luiion, which began with the development of it's iron interests, rapidly spread to all of the collateral iron industries, including ma
 chine shops and foundries, stove fac tories, steel plants and hardware fac tories. The 3,0oo new industries which have sprung up during the past year include fertilizer and phosphate works, woodworking factories, furniture, vehi- cle, agricultural and miscellaneous works; textile, flour and cotton seed oil mills; gas and waterworks, tele- plione systems. electric fight and power and ice and cold storage plants: can neries and hundreds Of miscellaneous plants. Nearly eTeTy southern etate has increased its railroad mileage dur ing the past year and every southern l.a1bor has largeiy 7 increased it's export trade
 Alabama has shipped LOCO tons of igon day month after month, and the ports of New Orleans. Norfolk, Balti- more, Pensacola. Brunswick and Mo bile are shipping American products direct nd by the shortest route to many foreign cou ntfies. Inc develop nent of he iron industry in the south is in its infancy and in the Hlanu flic- ture of textiles that section of the country has not begun to take the rlace it will ttlE although last year o9cr 3S0.- l0U spipdies were added fo the equip ment of southern mills, in which s5,- e9eee0 sought aeHv investment. Nearly lssf. .9a3,eD0 went into the eottonseed a5ills-for American cotton oil finds market 5n every eivilized couatE'Y--;.nd s5,Go9.oa5 is being put in fhe iresl ard
 ted IAa Alanazaa aga B i lions intv those fl Tennessee ana Fir- ginia Feh n turat resources. with
 eiaH HE towers stiH undegei- eped and almost unknown, welcoming capital and hospitably welcoming the investor from the north. the south is having wonderful awakening, a64 il requires no cunning eye to perceive that it is on the read to uameasured and immeasnrable wealth Gen. Will son, the secretary. of agriculture. las
 just called attention to the fact that the | agricultural wealth of the south would be vastly increased if it's products were | diversified; that, favc-od as it is by conditions of climate and soil, it can find an enormous market in the north
 fer it's early vegetables. spring lamb, I young chickens and other eommodi- ties which, ill this luxurious day, find a 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 greatest l abundance and at the lowest cost. Fruit culture and the culture of nuts 1 find their best opportunities in the southern states. There is everything, l in fact, i'll the south to sustain large 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 go south, young man!-Leslie's Weekly.