The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-19
ALLIE OF PREDICTS.

Total South ssl7, $50, OF s1,4s6. 9,4so
LOUISIANA LED.
The ANALYSIS shows that the average rate
Of increase Of capital in the South dur
Ing the ten years was 7o.1 per cent, and
that this rate was exceeded III eight
States, with Louisiana. leading with 2Za5
per cent. Louisiana led also in the actual
| increase of capital, SIS,3S0,li3, though
MARYLAND led in the amount OF capital
invested in 1900, slss, 422,26o. The average
rate of increase in the value Of products
in the South was 500. which was ex-
ceedetl by nine States, North Carolina
leading with 1875 per cent. and Maryiand.
leading in actual increase with $1o,9lo,3si-
1.-THE marked differences says the
Manufacturers Record, between the &C
tual increases in Maryland, SI05t0,S9 and
in North Carolina, .S54, 54l, 213, in .compari-
son with the difference, Alb and 1875, i'll
the percentages of increase in those two
States, respectively, or the Slight. dit
ferences between the actual increases in
Kentucky, sS7,s1O,212 and in Georgia,
$37, 49,, 5o7, in comparison with the rates
| Of increase in those two States, % and 6tS.
must be taken into consideration i'll estl-
mates Of the advance of separate SOUTH
ern States in comparison with each other
The reasons for this appear when the
totals of the South are compared with
the totals for other groups OF states OF
for separate States elsewhere
WEST OF MISSISSIPPI.
..Tn ten States west Of the Mississippi
River, for which census figures are avail
able. the value OF products ranged in 1860
from st.64S675 in Nevada to $l72, l29. S9S IN
Kansas, The increase in capital Invested
from S1sS 74l i73 TO s301.7S3. $50 or e,es2,-
$50, was less than one-third OF the IN
crease OF that in the South. and the IN
crease in the value Of products from
1901 TAI 42S to s5i9 24s.S1a or s21. SolSa1. was
less than one-half of that i'll the south.
while the percentages of both increases
In the West s2.S and la.4. respectively,
were in advance OF the Southern percent
ages.
illustration in another direction is
offered in the exhibit of four New Eng
land sta tes-Connecticut. New Hampshire.
Ehodc Island and Vermont. They III
creased their capital from. S46o626,3tS 70
SEAT ,a4s or SIS, 3322 600, equal to S9.1 ana
the value Of their products from l4,9ti.-
GOT to s7l3, 214.50I or s19S 26s,9 G3, equal to
SS,4. The capital OF these four States IN
1863 was more than half of that OF the
South, and the value OF their products
was nearly half the value CT the Southern
products.
.Thc combined capital OF sixteen States
! outside the South and four Territories
increased from s502, 7.6ST to 81. 049, 200 9fe.
or s347 13S33 60 equal to 4o.4, and the value
! of their products from s90i592, 113 to sl,3S1,-
7as. chs, equa. to 53.S per cent, the actual
increases and the rates being below those
OF the South, while the increase OF COM
biped capital in thirty States, including
those OF the South, four Territories and
the District of Columbia, from s1.3sJ, s55Ss,-
SIT to 81 .n2 81 G5o. or Ss12, 60I,512, was but
,-t,s
with the 15.1 per cent. of the South. and
the increase in the combined value OF the
PRODUCTS from 81, 81, S2l,2c0 to s., SIS 41s,1H.
or s., 036, 500 Oh, was but 56.s per cent.
also less than that Of the South.
GRATIFYING. ADVANCE.
Though two Or three of the Southern
States have, DOT made the advance in
nlarufactur,r g, in comparisons with 9th
ers OF that section. Justified by their
possession % great stores OF raw ma
tsri,l tile South, as a whole laT made
gratifying advance; but it has by no
means come up to 1ts capabilities in that
respect This will be more :p,.ar:nt
Whor. the figures for such great o:nnufac-
turing States as Massachusetts, Now
= crk,5 New Jersey, Pennsyl ianlc, ohio
anu Illinois are made public. These
+ States contributed more thar half to Tie
total value, S9.373. 49, of tbs products
of The United States in 1880 During, TIE
nre, ious decade the rate Of increase in
the country was 120 per cent. for capital
end 60 per. cent. for the value OF. pr.,duc.s
The value Of the South's products was
less than the tenth of the. fetal Of lie
whole country in 1890. with q t-v notable
exceptions in the South and especially
in the Territories and adjacent States
where great percentages marking en-
trance upon the industrial stage, stand
far compare lively small actual Increases.
there has been i'll the past ten years q
general decrease in the rate of advance.
both il capital and in the value OF FRO
ducts. in the States OF which the figures
have been announced. Taking, Tor in
stance. three States in which nlanrfac-
lures are of -Connscticut
5 4 ode Island and Iowa-ths percentage
Of Increase IN ca tai fell from 81 to sc
IN ne first and in value OF products ad-
Isyances from d to 42.1 in the lirst ard
tel from s. to- g 9 in the second, and
from sis to g. S in tho third
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