The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-09
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
THIS IS NOW A $3, ,ooo, ,ooo, 900
 SECTION.
Value of Its Agricultural and Manu- factured Products Now Annual
 ly Aggregating Nearly That
 Sum-Analysis of Reports.

Baltimore, Aug S-(Special )-The Man tfacturers' Record has made a critical analysis of the census bulletins, which enable it to make for the first timo an exact statement of the development of the agricultural interests of the South in connection with review of the industrial the South is now a s. ,00O. 600 section, the value of its agricultural and manufac- tured products now annually aggregat- ing nearly that sum.
 q Between 1880 and 1900 the total value of Southern agricultural, manufactured and mineral products increased from $1,134- 5So.29 to $2,s44646, 400. or 157 per cent, while during the same period the increaes that period the capital invested in man ufactures increased from 257,24i,564 as the total of ls60 to $1 ,155 002, ,36S in 1900, a gain of $S95, ,204, or S4S per cent. In the same -'-e the value of manufactured products 1C ceased from $457, ,454. TT in lS60 to $1,- 4t} S43,177 in 19o0. gain of $l, ,006 1sS, 400 or
 n per cent. In agricultur the value of
 frm .property. in the South increased
 of $1.661 ,267, ,311. or 72 per cent while
 value of farm products increased from l.1a, ,452 to A.2n ,654.273, a gain of $6ll,- .l.r s21, or 92 per cent.
 crease in manufacturing capital was $104.- 40i.S76 in Maryland, Louisiana being sec ond with $101, ,621, ,&6, Texas third with Georgia fifth with s6s 117,246, North Caro- lima sixth with $es, S,255, and Alabama seventh with $60. .7t2.073. In agricultural advance. Texas led with an increase in the value of. farm property. of .So6, ,Ss1, ,so9, while Louisiana was second with gain of $121 766,359, Kentucky third with $112,- 342.G4 Georgia fourth with $SS, ,2l6,329, Mississippi fifth with $S2, ,204, 759, Arkan- sas sixth with $2, ,636, 424, and Tennessee seventh with $S1, I45, ,633
 The rate of increase in the capital in- vested in manufactures in the South during the twenty years from 1880 to 1900 was 34S per cent, while during the same period the rate of increase for the United States was 252 per cent; and in the value of products the rate of increase in the South was 220 per cent, whereas the rate of increase for the United States was 142 per cent.
 Thus both in the capital invested and in the value of products the rate of in- crease in manufactures in the South was much greater than that of the country at large. notwithstanding the enormous expansion of the industrial interests of the United States during the two decades under review.
 During the same twenty-year period, the value of farm property in the South showed gain of 92 per cent, while the total gain of the farm property of the United States was 67 per cent, the value of farm products for the South showing an increase of 92 per cent, compared with a gain for the country of 113 per cent.
 In studying these figures. which show the very remarkable advance of the South only point in them in which the South did not more than keep step with the growth of the country being in the value of farm products), we should take into the South by the war and its subsequent poverty. leading 1t of necessity when it was able to resume farming operations to devote itself almost exclusively to the