The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-26
A 81, 600, 900, 900 SECTION
Ten Years of industrial Development Of the
ooutn. as>onoWn by census .rlgures.

of their products from a0i,E92,iI3 TO
ii 3yi .s,645 equal 10 5o.S per cent, the
actual increases ana the RACES beng De
low those Of tbe sou.h, whlic ms ~
crease Of comD.ncu capital in thir.y
otalcs. inciuung Ihoso of the South,
four Territories ana The DlstrcL OF Col
urlais. from S4,oeu6So,5H tc a-,-p-, sii,1?.
Of $e4- vGi.Oi2. was put oi.o per cent, wnicn
snUuid pc compared with the i1.l per cent.
Of the Suu,h. and The increase In the
combined vaIue of the products from
>S-Ic 20 to s2,SSS,=lS,l4l, or u, 900 os.s 4i,
Was but o6.6 per cent. also less than that
A BIG ADVANCE.
Though two or three of The Southern
States have not mace the advance III
manufacturing, in comparison with Oilers
OF that section, justified by their pos
session OF great stores or raw material,
me SUutn as u wnoIe has made a gratl-
flying advance: but it has by no means
come up to its capabilities in that re-
spect- This will he more apparent
when the figures for such great manu-
featuring Sta-css as Massachusetts. New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, ONO
ana Illinois are made pubic. The states
contributed more thai half TO the totaI
value, 50 81, 437 22S3, OF the products OF the
Initgd safes in 1890. During the pre-
yious decade the rate of increase IN the
Country was 12G per cent. Tor capltdi
and 60 per cent. for The value OF products-
Tho value of the South's products was
less than the tenth OF The total OF me
whole country in 1890 WITH Il Lew
notable exceptions in. the South, and
especially in the Territories ana az
jacent States, where great percentages,
marking entrance upon the industrial
stage. stand for comparatively small
actual increases, there has been IN the
past ten years a genera! decrease III hi2
rate of advance, both in capital ana IN
the value of products, IN the states OF
which the figures have been ahnouIceo.
Taxing, for instance, three states III
which manufactures are of Importance
Connecticut, Rhode Island and Iowa
the percentage of increase in capital fell
frD,1l 81 to $50 in the first, from - TO
45.S in the second, and from 133 to 81 in
the third, and in value of products ad-
vanced from 81 to 42.1 in the first, ana
fell from 81 to 29.G in the second, and from
rs to SIG in the third.
ONE HUNDRED PER CENT IN
CREASE.
These changes may not be typical O.
The general tendencies in their respective
sections but it is hardly TO be expected
hat the rate Of increase in the whole
country should have been as great as
during the decade ending with ls5e, as
the percentage of increase must Almost
necessarily deciea with the growth OIL
The magnitude of manufacturing IN
IcrestS Judging, however, by the totals
OF the States Or which reports have al
..a,lv been la4le by the census, it seems
probable that the capital invested pe'
tween 1880 and 1860 Will show an increase
OF about loo i,el cent, and the value of
products OF about 5J per cent. But even
st this rate OF growth (and these are
purely estimates based on the returns
from the States already mcnuoned) the
total growth Of the manufacturing in
terests of the country during the last
ten years is amazingly great. THESE es-
Inmates would Indicate that the amount
OF capital invested in 1900 in all manu-
featuring interests was somewhere about
SI2 300 600 600. and the value of the prod
lIcts about S14.5G0 p00. 600. These are, OF
course the merest kind of tentative fig
ures anu they are mentioned to show
that the relative position OF manufacturing
III the South and in the rest OF the coun-
try does not seem to have changed
materially, in spite of all that the South
has accomplished in the last decade.
Notwithstanding our unmatched resources
and the progress which we had made up
10 1890 which ought TO have given us
the opportunity Of very far exceeding
eur relative manufacturing industry as
compared with the total OF the country,
The present figures indicate that while we
have probably fully kent abreast of the
general industrial development OF United
States we have not accomplished quite as
much as we ought 90 have done. and this
fact should snur the South to greater en-
denvors to use its vast resources for its
best advantage