Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-09-23
The South is Great.


vile Monday representing Harper's
Weekly, and engaged in preparing
data for special Southern edition
of that paper, gave a reporter for
the Greenville News number of in
teresting facts.
AT the beginning of the year 1908
the wealth of the South was as great
as that of the entire United States
in 1860, and all of this has been
created since the Civil War. There
are now over one thousand two hun
dred million dollars of Southern
capital invested in manufacturing
enterprises alone, and the annual out
put of the same exceeds one thous-
and five hundred million dollars.
The South produces rs per cent
of all the tobacco raised in the
United States.
The annual product Of the cotton
fields is more than ten million bales,
against about half that quantity 20
years ago. With twenty-five million
dollars invested at that period she
manufactured less than two hundred
thousand bales of her own cotton.
To-day, with one hundred and fifty
million dollars invested capital, she
is manufacturing more than one mil
lion five hundred thousand bales.
In 1880 the South had only forty
cotton seed oil mills, with a capital
of three million five hundred thous-
and dollars. To-day she has more
than five hundred cotton seed oil
mills, with capital of nearly fifty
million dollars, and a product of
about one hundred and twenty five
million dollars. The annual consump-
tion of cotton seed by these mills is
about two million five hundred
thousand tons.
The South is producing two hun
dred million bushels more grain than
twenty years ago.
Her agricultural products exceed
in value those of 1880 by more than
six hundred million dollars.
There are S12,0O0,OOO of capital
invested in rice industry, which was
only in its infancy twenty years ago.
The South produced in 1901 more
than 100000 tons of bituminous
coal, more than eight times the out
put of the entire country in 1869.
The annual pig iron product is
about 100000 tons, and is more
than eight times the output of the
entire country in 1860.
Twenty years ago the Southern
States had but little more than 90
600 miles of railway ; to-day there
are $4,000 miles. In 1890 there
w re but 400 miles of street railways
in the entire country; now the
South has about 5000 miles.
The output of the furniture in
dustry in 1902 exceeded $15,00O,OOO
and large quantity of it found it's
way to Grand Rapids, also to Europe
and Australia
Within twenty years the South has
added 100000 spindles to her mills,
while the additions to all other sec
tions of the United States has been
100000 spindles.
In 1900 the petroleum output of
the whole country was 100000 bar
rels; now the South is marketing
over 20,000,000 barrels a year, the
output being limited only by trans
portaLion facilities.
Since 1890 the capital invested in
manufacturing has increased in the
South 348 per cent against an in
crease of only 252 per cent in the
entire country. The increase in the
value of the products of the South
has been 22O per cent against 142
per cent in the nation. The increase
in value in farm property has been
90 per cent in the South and only
67 per cent in the United States.
More than one half of all the
standing timber in the United States
is in the South.
About rs per cent of the worlds
cotton is raised in the South
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