Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-17
STILL GREATER
o,,clu TuRE AID MANUFACTURE r
ING DEVELOPMENT OF THE
SOUTH IN ALL LINES.
ro,derful as Has Been the Accom-
,lishmsnt. Still More Is to Come
With lsthmian Canal.

Baltimore. July 11-Throushout the
|ata mere is general activity in eT-
k line Of industry and III evt:y dire
bn are seen sisns e Increasing di=
lrsity in manHfaetu. es and also IN
kyiculture. In covering the progress
l. that section tie Manufacturers
ecord recently reported tie aid
|yeopment of large bodies oi Farming
kd in Louisiana in conjunction With
|e remarkable advance i'm riee
lowing mat state and also in Tex
I'm district which fifteen yeas ago
|arcely produced pound OF freight.
ld which was so unfavorably regard
| by the Southern Pacific railroad
LAT its officers refused to build a
btion. believing that the settlement
that section was impossible, here
le now 10000 to $4,000 western peO-
E, in addition to great many south
hers, who have been dawn to the
|me region by the remarkable devel-
3ment of the rice industry, based on
! st irrigation plans. which assure
abundant supply of water at all
hsons.
Rice and Oil.
I'm that district 5000 Mccormick
hpers were used last year in cutting
Be. which is harvested like wheat
the west, and out of that same
fritory, too poor fifteen years ago
justify even small depot, the
Puthern Pacific railroad last season
fuled 10000 carloads of rice. This
Feat development, taken with the
IT'S of southwest Louisiana and south
|st Texas, is emphasized by the state
ent by an officer of the Southern
felfic road, that the railroad pas
|nger receipts at Beaubont now av-
|age $4,000 month, against 500
month three years ago, and also
the fact that number of COM
|hles have recently been organized
with a capital stock of $4,000. 900,
other with capital stock of $4,000
D. for the purchase of immense bod
OF land aggregating in the lat
case 100000 acres, which will be
Eeloped with great irrigating canals
utilized for the growing of rice
other agricultural products. So
i've IS the development in that sec
mat immigration offices are to
opened in Honand and Japan.
|h another section of Texas the
ach and packing industry is assum-
large proportions, and in one or
ato Oh 10000 acres is now being
eioped, with many smaller ones in
same territory. At the other eX-
P1le south Of the Norfolk-Virginia
1chihg district is burdening the
'iiodos and steamship lines with
e'ioi nous crop of potatoes, which
reported as bringing prices high
'hah Tor the last eight or ten years.
tween these two points, Virginia
u Iexas, there are everywhere seen
Sns OF an increasing diversity g
.icoitural interests, even if the de-
'op"ent has not yet been quite so
'uouhced as at these two points.
1 Building Many Mills.
~ ufhlhg from agricultural to man
(turing interests, progress in ev-
direction is even mole pronounced
'''o'ee' N, c., people, with their
ana outside capital, have organ
100000 cotton mill company
'uilo plant with $4,000 spindles
- maklng fine-grade goods.
nc gainesville, Ca, Cotton Mills
1pahy' recently demolished by a
ao' mas let the contract for re-
0'hs' and will have $4,000 spin
. while the Clifton company of
'ahourg has also let the contract
ne reconstruction Of it's mills