The Red Cloud chief., 1901-03-29
THENEW CENTURYSOUTH
FACTS PROPHETIC OF THE COM.
MERclAL RISE OF DIXIE.

The Remarkable Industrial Achieve
ments of the Last Eight Yesrs-AtIan-
tic and Gulf Ports That Are ProHting
by the Growth Of Commerce.
The half of the continent lying south
Of the Ohio and Of the Platte is loom.
ing up as an unconquerable trade mag
nate, with probably unshakable deter.
mination to do business on the near.
est salt water. The Southern States.
In their remarkable Industrial achive-
ments Of the last eight years. are
more than reinforcing the territory
OF the Mississippi and Of the Red
River OF the North. Between the iron,
coal and timber Of the South and the
agriculture Of the Southwest there has
arisen a spontaneous interchange that
seems to grow by Its own force. The
cotton mills below the Mason and
Dixon line. contrary TO former custom,
send their output straight to the dry
goods and denim merchants Of the
Mississippi and the Missouri instead
Of the regions dispatching their or
ders to Boston and New York. Wagons
from Georgia are making their way
into the farms of Oklahoma and Ar
kansas, while Kansas City 1our and
st. Louis corn, Kansas City hides and
st. Louis shoes go as far as North
Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. Coal
and Iron from the vicinity OF Birming
ham 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 fortify its position as the principal
manufacturer in the United States OF
car furniture, of street cars, and the
like.
Since the Spanish war has brought
the trade with the West Indies into
prominence the heavily capitalized
and determined Illinois Central has
been seconding the efforts Of the peo
pie 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 ex
! tent the pressure of this movement
has been felt among the South Ameri
can firms whose headquarters are al
New York. Mobile, as the terminus OF
| the Southern Railway, and as the
nearest seaport for the iron industries
| Of Alabama, Is growing In the volume
and variety of its articles OF com
merce. Pensacola is strengthening al
one of the principal ports for thu
tramp steamship traffic In the Soutl
"a traffic which went to New iorl
and Boston. Philadelphia and Balti
more before the awakening of thu
South and the pcrfecting of the rail
road lines.
| Again, along the Atlantic coas
north from Florida to the Chesapeake
Bay. Brunswick. In Georgin, is be
coming the largest shipper of hard
wood lumber. Charleston and Savan
nah and carrying cotton manufaC
lures. furniture. etc, to Europe, Sout
America and South Africa. At MOI
folk Is harbOr naturally the strategi
point for the trade Of the whole SOut
Atlantic slope. Five or six railroa
systems concentrate In the city, an
1t has recently been fixed upon by
number of cooperating railroads as
live stock shipping centre. With New
port News. Ii drains the coal and iro
fields of West Virginia, Southwestern
Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. tn
commerce of Newport News itself az
vanced from S3,25OO 600 In 1885 to S2s
100000 in 1899.
Over on the western boundary
the Southern States Memphis move
along swiftly with its lumber mil
and it's Interstate traffic, justfying Il
assumed name. ''the Gate City, an
practically completing Gordon or
tive. advancing cities around the are
In which was waged the civil strife
the sixties. All these cities are COZ
petitOrs of the North and East. The
: are carrying business toward Il
South and West. Where the Stat
in the vicinity OF st. Louis and IA
, sas City lack manufacturing esta
lishments to support their position
jobbers, these communities supply q
, lack and Join forces in the Gulfwa
l tendency and In the tendency tOwa
the South Atlantic. Where the Stat
In the vicinity Of Atlanta or jacks
may lack In the staples Of the soil, Z
n West supplies them. The geOgrapl
o OF 1t all is against New York.--Arth
y 1. street, in Ainslee's Magazine.