The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-12-09

fact that the railways have seen to it
that every cotton mill located on their
lines has had such freight rates as to
enable its products to meet those of
rival localities in competing markets on
at least equal terms. The rates on cot
ton goods from Atlanta TO New York
may be cited as an illustration of the
way in which reductions lave been made
for the benefit of the Southern mills. In
1876 cotton goods were carried from At
lanta to New York at first-class rates
$1.45 per hundred pounds. In 1880 tho
classification was changed to fifth class,
cutting the rate from Atlanta to New
Nork to 60 cents per hundred pounds.
The present rate is SIS cents and the
rates from other points in the South to
other competitive markets have been cor
r~espondingly reduced. An excellent IL
lustration of the way in which the
Southern roads nave looked after the in
terests Of the Southern manufacturers
of cotton goods is afforded by a compar-
ison of the rates from Atlanta to Boston
with the rates from Boston to Atlanta.
The rate on cotton piece goods from At
lanta to Boston, rail and water, is IS
cents q hundred pounds, and a%ll-rail, SIS
cents. The rate from Boston to Allan
ia, rail and water, is "A cents, and all
rail 76 cents. 1t is this adjustment OF
rates that email 'es Southern manufacture.
ers to sell their goods in New England.
What is true of Che cotton manufacturing
idustry of the South is also true of the
many other industries that nave been so
rapidly developing in that section of the
country, and much the same story might
be told of the growth of the iron and
steel business, the development of the
lumber business, of the furniture man |
ufacturing industry. of coal mining, OF
quarrying, and of many other of the
more or less important industries OF
the South, each one of which has been
dependent upon the wise and far-seeing
management of the railways for its sue.
cess.
The railways Of the South rave not
been content to simply foster the growth
of existing enterprises in their territory.
They are constantly striving to multiply
the number of establishments engaged in
existing industries and to introduce en-
tirely new ones. For this purpose each
of the principal railway systems of that
section maintains a department devoted
exclusively to the work of developing and
increasing the prosperity of the territory
alcng its lines. 1t is the business OF
these departments to bring to the at
t~eltion of men in all parts of the United
States the agricultural and industrial adj
ysniages Of the South. If, for instance,
a capitalist or a group of CT pitalists con.
templates the establishment of a new
cotton mill or n new iron and steel in
the agents of the Southern rail-
roads are at hand with full information
rs to the advantages of different points
their lines. If a farmer in the
North or West, attracted by the greater
profits to be realized from agricultural
pursuits in the South, wants to move to
that section, he will find each of the T
great railway systems ready to give
information as to numerous tracta ,
of land that are on the market in MANY
separated localities. If a man
in the South has a farm, a factory or
any other kind of property for sale, he
Will find in the nearest railroad an agent
will undertake to bring him a pur- ]
Some of the amount of work that is
constantly being done for the de-
velopment of the South by the land and
department of the railways
IAN be obtained from a few figures relat- I
ing to only two of the great railway sys- :
TENS of the South. In his recent annual
to the stockholders of the South
ern railway, President Spencer said:
Along the lines of the Southern Railway
Company during the year ended June so, !
i905, there were completed and put in
,naro4.a1 1c @4x+.1o ILL cl--
actories, 80 iron industries, 6 tanneries, |
Y stone q%uarries and coal mines, II
seed oil plants, S fertilizer works I
md more than 500 smaller industries. 4
over $50 previously existing plants were 4
enlarged during the year AMI 81 new in :
were under construction at the h
lose of the year. immigration to and 4
he investment of foreign capital in the !
e~rritory served by the Southern Rail /
way ~Company's lines during the year ex- 4
any previous year in the his \
DRY of the company" The testimony I
f Mr.. Robert Gates, of the Industrial 6
immigration Department of the Louis s
lille & Nashville railroad, before the :
Committee last spring, showed q
hat during the year 1904, through the I
of the industrial agents of that
DAD, there were located along its lines a
otal of sos industries, with capitatl ag-
regating $15,491, 300. In the same yea.
here We're located along the lines OF ,
his road 1,150 families of 4,11O persons ]
'hese families had purchased $685. c
cres of land. 1
One of the results of the encourage
lent of agricultural immigration into
ne Southern States is the gradual divid-
lg up of the farming lands into smaller
oldings, resulting in more intense and
lore profitable farming. The reports
f the United States census confirm this
satement and show that the number of
,rms in the Southern States is ~increas.
g more rapidly than in other parts of
he country. During the period covered
y the last census the number of farms
the States south of the Ohio and Pc.
,mac and east of the Mississippi in
'eased "a per cent. as scompared with
Sc per cent. for the country at large
nd the farm era increased 3.3 per cent,
impaired with a loss of 81 per cent. for
lie country at large. Since 1900 this
ovement of immigration onto the farms