The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-13
THE SOUTH is
RICHLY ENDOWED.
Materials in Abundance for Varied
Industries.
MOST RAPID DEVELOPMENT e
Notwithstanding the Great Progress
that Has been Made the South
isonly III the Pioneer Stage
Of Manufacture.

BALTIMORE, April 12.-Special.-In
spite of what has been accomplished IN
Southern development and of the mag
nificent record now being made, the Man
ufacturers Record, in a broad survey OF
the situation this week, takes the ground
that the best is still ahead. il says The
South is endowed as is no other country
in the world with materials upon which
to found the greatest variety of indus
tries, and with conditions which favor in
dustries OF the highest class. Coal as
representing cheap power and iron as rep
sreSenting cheap machinery, whether i
be in wheels in a mill or a locomo tive on
the rails over which the locomotive haus
trains. are the great fundamentals of mod
ern energy applied to the creation OF
wealth. Nowhere else in the world can
good coal be mined or iron or ste.l be
made at so low a cost as in the Southern
States. This has been demonstrated. The
coal lies in the earth SO accessible that a
third of the work necessary in England
will bring the coal TO the breaker in this
country. And iron lies alongside the coal.
Zig iron is giving way to steel ibillets.
#BflletS will. become rails. bars. plates,
angles; later on tools and cutlery and all
the higher forms of iron and steel can
7be made. With cheap power and cheap
machinery the wonderfully varied mine
raj wealth OF the South can be worked
up. so can the enormous veal tn Of TIM
Der.
COTTON MANUFACTURE.
las for cotton mills, the South is NOV
ing rapidly. But by and by the mountain
gorges of the Western Caro1inas and Viz
GINA and OF East Tennessee will hold
cotton mills wherein, because of a steady
shumidityEof the atmosphere, finer fabrics
than Manchester, or France, or India, or
New England ever dreamed of can be
made.
...The South is really only in the pio-s
.neers stage of cotton manufacture In iron
and steel, in Woodwork, in brick, tiles,
pot terry, porcelain, glass, metal work.
chemicals. and industrial products of all
sorts But she has a founda ton for. won
Sderful variety and unlimited quantity OF
Industrial productions, and at a lower
cost than other parts of the world can
hope for. That being true, the world Will.
seek out her veal TIL, capital will follow
the scientific and skilful labor that Will
be attracted by the natural wealth as IT
becomes known. The South cannot do
bet fer than la OK every 1ansof bility and
Integrity who comes along vi III t1n nj
edge. skill and industry, to- turn oSac-s
count any part of the ma tural WealthIof
the land. Every 4ittie shop THAI prospers
grows to a big one.and draws population
& Of 3 the most desirable kind, telligent,5
indus trions, capable of great product ton
of wealth from natural resources The
south will hold aernuch sdenser popula-
1tfnnso,n ITS farm lands tina n the North.
where grains and grasses max the great
sn,,rtncipal crops The industria area of
the South the 1nou ntainS sountryw srs-:
~ ain "a SD tense "a popula ton as any region
ia Ia world 'hessl mit5i tsconld sustain