The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-06-23
THE INDUSTRIAL SOUTH.

"atheru industries, and the con
Insnts and predictions are hignl
Iavorsble. - A.
The New York Sun, never u
warm friend of this Sectlon' NJ
|bist to say for us:
The rapidity with which oapl''
mourning into Southern mani
|.cturers is enough to make tn
professional Bryanites and COO
|lsrs of calamity in that regio
hi and groan. The Manufac
|orers' Review recounts some 0
he industrial improvements pro
pcted in the last two weeks. Ii
Ieorgis and South Carolina new
Dtton mills and additions to ole
has and the development 0.
|ster power are the usual story
otton mills to cost from $40 0o(
j 100000 are to be erected il
hese states, in which small mills
I've been paying enormous profits
4 Georgia, at least, much of the
uital for the new enterprises
bmes from the crackers them
lives. Banks are springing up
the smaller towns. In Green
bod, Palmetto village, a fire
surance company with a capital
100000 has been organized.
tom time to time we read OF
ew England cotton manufactures
hO ore gong 10 move I'd lhe
Suth.
LIN Tennessee a $500, 1000 cotton
In is to be built in Chattanooga
+ b o disused mill In Memphis is
be set to work. Coal mines are
bilding. Same story in Ala
ma, where the Birmingham dis
ct is booming vigorously, Iron,
Del and cotton mills all busy and
" ones coming So it goes
foughout the south. Lumber
lls, Sawmills, oil mills, sugar
lis mills Of all sorts, grinding
! getting ready to grind. Tech
eally, the Mississlppians abomi-
te trusts, but they show no nor
fsat the plan of u cotton seed
combination to build a $780,
refinery in one of their towns.
Texas, as any reader of its
hntry weeklies knows, every
Ice that thinks even tolerably
Il Of itself is bowling for q mill.
ttOn mills and oil mills are
Poting up. In spite of their
narkable legislatures the dwell
beneath the Lone Star are
hing to take all the root of all
they can grub up.
he Boston Globe is equally |
ppllmentary, and romarks that
Increase Of the price of raw
ton has added 5000, 900, 900 to
wealth Of the south in a single
|sOn.
recent article IN The Scien- |
+ American says:
Although u healthy competition
y arse, no serious antagonism
anticipated between the indus |
y interests of the north and |
Ptn' The outcome will un-
pOtedly simply be that the en-
'nce OF the south into the arena
cotton manufacturing will
ing about a readjustment of
Puuclng centers. 1t is apply |
|nted out that as our textile
|Oufacturing grows, 1t is fast
POmlng separated into distinct
|SSeS' each class starting about
pc special place. Thus Fall
Ferl leads in the manufacture of
|u's' Providence is the center
;. !ne worsted industry. New
'uiord sets the standard in finer
'''e cottons, and Lowell in coars-
goods New England is COM
year by year us a whole to
y counts. As long as no other
''of The United States was en-
Keu In manufacturing coarser
JUS New England retained
grasp In that field, leaving the
y !, make to foreign looms. But
!" year sees a finer product from
|" England looms. Climatic
'autages over the south in the
''n'lal degree of humidity will
'Sys be in favor of New Eng
ID.
,.a''ern papers commenting on
'0e 0tterances saw that the two