The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1903-06-05
DREAMS OF WEeLTH
MORE THek REALIZED
Magnificent Statistics of the South s
Strides in the Triumphs of
Peace

Aspecial edition of Harper's Weekly
contains the following magnificent,
glowing and inspiring statistics con-
corning the south.
Speaking of which, Dixie" an At
lanta newspaper, says that John
Temple Graves contends should go into
every southern scrapbOOk, and he
part of every sOutherner's equipment
for service in the forward movement
of the times.
Listen to this song of industrial and
commercial triumph:
At the commencement of the year
Of 1908 the wealth of the south was as
great as that of the entire United
States in 1860, and all this has been
created since the close of the civil
war.
There are now over one thousand
two hundred million dollars of south
erD capital invested in manufacture
ing enterprises alone, and the an
nual output of the same exceeds one
thousand five hundred million dol.
lars.
The south produces seventy-five
per cent of all the tobacco raised in
the United States.
Tire annual product of the cotton
fields is more than ten million bales,
against half that quantity twenty
years ago, With twenty-five million
dollars invested at that period, she
manufactured less than two hundred
! thousand bales of her own cotton.
! Today, with one hundred and fifty
million dollars of invested capital,
she is manufacturing more than one
| million Ave hundred thousand bales.
In 1880 she had only forty cotton
seed oil mills, with capital of three
million five hundred thousand dol
lars. Today she has more than five
hundred cottOnseed oil mills, with a
capital of nearly fifty million dollars
and product of about one hundred
and twenty-five million dollars. The
annual consumption of cOttOn-seed
by these mills is about two million
five hundred thousand tons.
She is producing two hundred mil
lion bushels of grain more than she
was twenty years ago.
Her agricultural products exceed
in value those OF 1880 by more than
six hundred million dollars.
There are twelve million dollars Of
capital invested in the rice industry,
which was only in It's infancy twenty
years ago.
The south produced IN 1901 over
fifty three million tons of bitumin-
Gus coal, more than eight times the
output of the entire country in 1860.
Her annual pig iron product is
about three million tons, and is more
than three times the output of the
entire country in 1850.
Twenty years ago she had but little
more than twenty thousand miles
of railway, today she has fifty-five
thousand miles. In 1900 there were
but four hundred miles of street rail-
ways in the entire country; now the
south has about three thousand
miles.
The output of the furniture indus.
try in 1902 exceeded fifteen million
dollars, and large quantity Of it
found its way to Grand Rapids, also
to Europe and Australia.
Within twenty years the south has
added seven million spindlers 10 her
mills, while the addition in al. other
sections of the United States has been
only two million spindles.
In 1900 the petroleum output Of the
whole country was only five hundred
thousand barrels; now the south il
marketing over twenty million bar
rels a year, tile output being limited
only by transportation facilities.
Hot Weather werknesS.
If you feel tagged out. liatless and