The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-09
NEW ENGLAND AN INSPIRATION.
A Rock Bound Soil Which Furnishes .
 Lesson to the South.

A Rock Hound Soil Which Furnfshes Q Lesson to the south'
 Manufacturers Record.
 New England buying its coaa m VT einia, West Virginia and Maryiano, ns iron fin Alabama, Virginia and Pennsyl- vaniat mitch of it's timber in the far South. all of its cotton in the South, ex- oept a few thousand bales in Egypt. ana l It's foodstuffs in the West, has develop ed an industrial life and general wealth which should be tremendous inspiration to the South. With an area of only 62, 900 square miles ana pop ulation of $500, ,000, against an area or S27,000 square miles and population of ga, ,OO0, 900 in the South, New Engiano on its barren, rock bound soil has cre- ated industrial interests prooucIns nearly $2, ,000, 100000 year, against sl,- 400, 1000, ,000 a year for the entire south.
 Massachusetts alone, with an area or only 5000 square miles, or nearly one fourth the size of South Carolina, one of the smallest Southern States, has an industrial development which until a few years ago equalled that of the en- tire South, and even today, with all the advance which the South has made in cotton mill interests, Massachusetts still has more cotton spindles than the fourteen Southern States.
 These facts are not presented as criticism of the South, for conditions which have prevailed in the past were
 mainly responsible for the backward-
 ness of the South's industrial life as compared with that of New England and the Middle States, but they are
 given as, a suggestion to the South of
 the illimitable possibilities of the fu- ture. With more iron than all Europe possesses, with one-half of the stand ing timber of the United States, with coal estimated at forty times as much as Great Britain ever had before U mined a single ton, with 80 per cent. Of the worlds cotton production, with practically unlimited stores of oil, with
 a fertile variety of agricultural pro- ducts, and with a uniform rainfall, the South holds possibilities for manufac- turing such as has been vouchsafed by nature to no other country on earth. Pennsylvania has developed its enor- nous wealth out of its coal and iron and oil interests; New England laid the foundation for much of its vast wealth in the manufacture of cotton goods,
 and Great Britain has created its wealth on coal and iron and turning our cotton into finished products. The Northwest grew rich on timbefs The South com
 hines--and the South alone of all coun- tries in the world has this combtnation
 --all raw materials possessed in part
 only by all these sections. It has pos-
 abilities for industrial development
 such as no other section or~no other
 country can duplicate. Even if New
 England had had great natural re- sources, what 1t, as one of the leaders
 In American industrial development, has
 been able to accomplish should be an inspiration to the South; but what New
 England has accomplished without hav- ing natural resources should be still greater inspiration to the South. In order that by the story of what other
 sections have done the South may gain a new conception of its own unlimited possibilities and may come to learn that the field for It's development is
 broader and more inviting than that of
 any other country on earth, The Manu- lecturers Record begins in this week's s | issue a series of letters dealing with
 the material upbuilding of New Eng land. The general aim of these let ters will be to cover broadly the ma- | teria1 advancement of New England as
 an inspiration to the South