Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-03-06
GOTH CENTURY SOUTH.
Facts Prophetic of the CONNER
cial Rise in Dixie.

Clll ESlSS III OiAlts
The half of the continent lying
south of the Ohio and of the Platte
is looming up az an unconquera-
BILE trade magnet, with probably
upshakable determination to dc
business on the nearest salt water.
The Southern States, in their re-
markable industrial acLi Lievements
of the last eight years, are more
than reinforcing the territory OF
the Mississippi and of the Red
River OF the Moth. Between the
iron and coal and timber of the
South and the agriculture of th'
Southwest there has arisen spon-
taneous interchange that seems to
grow by its own force. The Gotten
mills below the Mason and Dixon
lint, contrary to former custom,
send their output straight to the
dry goods and denim merchants
of the Mississippi and the Mis-
souri,, instead of the regions dis
patching their orders to Boston
and New York. Wagons from
Georgia are making their way into
The farms of Oklahoma and Ar
kansas. while Kansas City -four
and ST.. Louis corn, and Kansas
City hides and St. Louis shoes 60
as far as North Carolina and east
ern Tennessee. Coal and iron
from the vicinity of Birmingham
and Knoxville are taking the con-
tracts for the building of the steel
freight cars to ply on the Southern
roads. St. Louis has long since
made use Of the hard woods of the
South to fortifyit its position, as thr
principal manufacturer in the
United States of car furniture, Of
street car and the like:
Since the Spanish war has
brought the trade with the West
Indies iatopromiuence, theeheav-
lily capitalized and determined
Illinois Central has been second
ing the efforts of the people OF
New Orleans to make that point
the principal port of entry for
trade with not only the adjacent
islands but with South America
To some extent the pressure Of
movement has been felt among the
Soath American firms whose head
quarters are at Me- York. Mobile.
as the terminus of the Southern
railway and as the nearest sea port
for the iror and industries of Ala
bama is growing in the volume
and variety of it's articles of COM
merce. Pensacola is strengthen
ing ss one of the principal ports,
for the tramp steamship traffic in
the South-a traffic which went tc
New York and Boston, Philadel-
phia and Baltimore before the
awakening Of tie South and the
perfectipg of it's railroad lines.
Again, along the Atlantic Coast
north from Florida to the Cbesa-
peake Bay, Brunswick, in Georgia
is becoming the largest shipper of
hard wood lumber. Charleston
and Savannah are carrying cotton
manufacturers, furniture, ETC., t6
Europe, South America and South
Africa. At Norfolk is harbor
naturally the strategic point for
the trade of the whole South At.
iantic slope. Five or six railroad
systems concentrate in the city
and it has recently been fixed upol
by number of cooperating rail-
roads as livestock shipping GEN.
ire. With Newport News, it drains
the coal and iron fields of West
Virginia, southwestern Pennsyl-
va1ia and eastern Ohio. The COM
merce of Newport News itself ad-
vanced from $a,2EO,OOO in 1856 to
s2S,400,0o0 in 1899.
Over on the western boundar,
of the Southern States, Mem 2hi>
moves along swiftly with its lun:.
ber mills and its interstate traffic.
justifying its assumed name, ''the
Gate City," and practically COM
pleting a Gordon of active, advanc-
ing cities around the area in whieh
was waged the civil strife of the
sixties. All these cities are COM
petitors Of the north and east.
They ale carrying business toward
the south and west. Where the
states in the vicinity of st. Louis
and Kansas City lack manufactuI-
ing establishments to support
their position as johbers. these
communities supply the lack and