The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-11-04
GRENADA. MISS. NOVEMBER 4, 1906.
THE SouTH'S PROGRESS
A Striking Illustration Of its Great
industrial Development in
Every Line.

and business Office of the Manufacture
er'S Record, covering the entire Sec
ond floor of the Merchants National
Bank Building, which we're thrown
open to the public today, attracted
J, general attention and admiration.
These offices, comprising fifteen rooms,
averaging nearly 400 square feet each
are divided by heavy plate-glasS par
iltlonS and doors, giving for so large q
space unique and striking appear
ance. A double wainScoting about
four feet high!iS so arranged that both
the sasheS can be dropped into it and
the entire space thrown into one great
room. The frontage is 12O feet on
water street, running the full length
Cf the square, with South street (Bal-
tlmore'S Wall Street'O at one end,
and Commerce street at the other.
| The splendid granite fire. proof build
ing has only two stories, the lower
floor being occupied by the Mer-
chants Bank, the largest national
bank OF the city, and the second
floor by the Manufacturers Record.
The opening Of these offices, which
in appointment and furnishing are
probably the finest editorial and bus
| ioeSs Offices Of any paper in America,
emphasizes the marvellous industrial
development Of the South, OF which.
for nearly twenty-five years, the Man
utacturerS Record has been the
worldwide recognized exponent, In
! 1882, when the Manufacturers Re-
cord was established by Richard III.
EdmOnds, its editor and manager, for
, the express purpose Of advocating the
| material upbuilding Of the South, that
section had scarcely begun to show
! aay signs Of awakening from the over
"helming destruction of the war.
Largely stimulated by the unceaSing
and inspiring work OF the Manufac-
tCrerS Record in trying to quicken
the people Of the South into greater
effort for the advancement Of their
own section. and at the same time to
attract the business world S attention
t. the unequalled combination of ad-
vantageS OF that section for the in
yeStment OF capital and the develop
mont of manufacture, the South is
NIX everywhere recognized as the
..mQn center o. industrial. railroad
and financial activity.
When the Manufacturers Record
was started the South was producing
about 400. 900 tons Of pig iron a year;
it is now producing about $500, 600 |
tons, or nearly as much as the entire |
output. .U the United States in 1880. |
Its bituhinOuS coal output, which was |
then about . 6, 200, 900 or 1000, 600 |
tons is now 20, 900, 900 tons, or 30
000.0 tons more than the bitumi-
nous coal output of the entire cOun-
try in 1880. At that time the South
had about go, 900 cotton spindles, rep
reScnting an investment or S2l ,000,-
600; it now has 100000 spindles
with over 5000, 900, 900 in cotton man.
ufacturing. The capital then invest
ed in manufacturing was S257, ,OOO.-
600, and the value Of manufactured
products S457, 100000, now the South
has invested in manufacturing largely
over 81, $50, 900, 900, and the value of
manufactured products is over 81, ,6OO,-
100000. Railroad mileage has in
creased from 20, 200 to nearly 10000
miles, and the value of the South's
agricultural products from $500, ,000,-
600 year to 81, 700, 900, 900.
These are but few indications of
what has been accomplished in South
ern development. They do not, how
ever, begin to tell the full story. All
that has been done is simply begin
Ling. During this period OF marvel
lous industrial and agricultural prog
ress the total population Of the South
has increased about 60 per cent, but
the total value of Southern products,
agricultural and manufactured, has
trebled. having advanced from Sl, lOO,-
900, 900 to over 50, 500, 900, 900. Yeti
all that has been accomplished Is SIM
ply to clear the way for future ad-
So far the South has
simply been getting out OF debt, accu-
experience and capital and
for the real work Of materi- {
al upbuilding. Commenting on this {
the Manufacturers Record, I
to which we are indebted for these fig
ureS (for the Manufactures Record,
by the way, has for the last 20 years {
kept up what in effect is a census bu-
reau of Southern induStries), makes
the statement that within 1.-THE next I
ten years the material advance OF the
South in wealth and industry will far
exceed all that has been accomplished
n the last twenty-five years.
Not only has the Manufacturers :
Record with unceaSing and tireless =
energy been pressing upon the worlds |;
the resources of the South, :
but it has labored in every line of :
thought to give life to it's motto .
The development of the South {
means the enrichment Of the nation. +"
1t has recognized that the develop
nent Of the South not only means the
of the nation materially,
put that it means broader national e
spirit and closer acQuaintanceship s
If the people of sall sections. In this S
way it has become medium of COM .
among all, until it is al e
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