The age-herald., 1901-11-21
Open the Warrior.

| @-- H4SSaeSaAb tAG dppOiutccS Ol ene South the Louisville Courier-Journal says:
 John P. Williams, president of the Buffalo Iron Company, in a recent in- terview published in Nashville, com mented upon the fact that not much success has attended endeavors to To- cate new iron fields outside of the Southern States. At present those of the northwest are ample for all needs, but the demand must grow and new supplies be sought. Mir. Williams is quoted as follows:
 John P. Williams. president of the Buff falo Iron Company. in recent interview published in Nashville, commented upon | the fact that not much success has at tended endeavors to locate new Iron fields outside of the southern states. At present | those of the northwest are ample for all needs but the demand must grow and new supplies be sought. Mir. Williams is quoted as follows:
 The Superior fields should be exhaust ed by the end of twenty years, and we may rely confidently upon the fact that the south will then become the iron cen ter of the world, and under such condi- tions the value of the mineral lands in the south and Tennessee will be enhanced more than a man can now dream of. Iron and steel today comprise the biggest of the worlds industries, and there is every reason to believe that it will increase with the years. In view. of the fact that other fields may become exhausted in a comparatively few years, 1t is not un- reasonable to phophesy that the iron busi- ness of this section will expand to such vastness as will make it the leading in- dustrial section of this country
 It Is doubtful that the Lake Superior | fields will be exhausted so soon as twen- | ty years, but that is not necessary for the development of those in the south. Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas all have vast deposits, which must soon be more extensively worked. A rail mill is about to be opened at Ems ley. Ala. the first enterprise of the kind in the south, but with all the natural advantages offered by this favored sec- ton many more should follow. The Re- public Steel and Iron Company is con- templatirg a million-dollor steel plant, and in a few years there ought to be many more of such enterprises. Unnum- bered millions will then be dug out of the earth, and even if the south does not l Lox t1 trA, o1 1foro of fhn 1t should become richer in manufactures than it has ever been made by its cotton and sugar plantations.
 It is doubtful that the Lake Superior fields will be exhausted so soon as twenty years, but that is not necessary for the development of those in the South. Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas all have vast deposits, which must soon be more extensively worked. A rail mill is about to be opened at Ensley, Ala, the first enter prise of the kind in the South, but with all the natural advantages offered by this favored section many more should follow. The Republic Steel and Iron Company is contemplating a million dollar steel plant, and in few years there ought to be many more of such enterprises. Unnumbered millions will then be dug out of the earth, and even if the South does not become the in dustrial center of the world, it should become richer in manufactures than 1t has ever been made by its cotton and sugar plantations.
 The one thing needed to place in the very heart of the cotton States the finest opportunities of coal-mining and iron-malsing is an Open Warrior-a river open the year round to slack water navigation: If the Courier-Jour nal will promote and hasten that event, we will promise it speedily al it anticipates as to iron and coal 1T the South. An appropriation of al least a million dollars is needed thil winter, and an united South could pro cure twice as large an appropriation Such an appropriation would bring slackwater navigation to the lower edge of the coal fields, and the com pletion of this great national worl would be in plain sight. An Oper Warrior is distinctly a part of the na tion's export trade, and an appropria tion for it is therefore absolutely na tional.
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