The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01
THE SOUTH'S MILLING
sURpRrsrNG UNEMPLOYMENT or IM- fl - PORTANT INDUSTRY.
Marufneturera and Trensportatton In terests Have Ce-operateA and HufIt Up Business to
 Huge Figures.
Advertiser Bureau. 5of Fourteenth Street. N. w..

| Advertiser Bufeaus sa 'Vi ~ Washington. Aug. si. The surprising development of the South as a grain producing section. miiiinr miin Y industry, nyaf is shown by the stas tistics in the report of the Census Bu- reau of the Department of Commerce.
 Farm lands have been steadily devel- oped until today there are in the South, according to the bureaus report, s,liO 1 milling establishments occupied m ern farmers into Hours of various kinds This Is an increase of 2.72s mills dur ing the decade ending 1900.
 In other words, the South, In order to handle her own grain and receive the benefits of the business resulting from Its production. has been building at mlls present s h there is over I ss5 ooo in- vested in the grain milling industry alone. Tn 1890. the mills of the south annnaily purchased sseoopoe at tbe sna of total of over 7s.ooo. .ooo bushels.
 The amount gsid to the , fsrrners aaa nen f1r fT 1900 1t~was sss. 100000. The value of the products in 1890 was s52.00o,0o0 and in 1900 s7a.ooo.ooo.
 stronger to manufacture Southern grown grain Into It's various products Tn Southern territory instead of snip
  allowing them to reap the reward of the Southern farmer.
 This development in grain milling in the past ten years = has been sinn simost en, en- consists in making what are known as milling in transit rates: Early in the history of the production Of. of nour iS the miller situated at an inland point could not compete with the terminal miller at the seaport if 1t were neces- grain shipping station to his mill, plus the freight on this -four from this mill to the terminal market, since this sum the grain from the grain shipping sta ton direct to the terminal market. E In other words. the miller located at to tfdmna m in S1 ons direcs se .hipment RS coaid sell his grain more cheaply at that point than the inland miller. who found Tt sna two to hrss Gs hs
 In their efforts to build up the coun- try. mills. the railroads. several years ago. sstabiished the milling in transit the country miller to stop the grain in transit at the point where his mill Is located. mill the grain Into flour and terminal market at practically no greater charge than would be made if the grain were transported without break from the originating point to the
 Through these milling in transit rates" more than from any other cause, has come the tremendous devel- opment Of tfe South as grain and grain products producer.
 Charles Frank H. B1odgett. a mer- chant of Janesville. Wis, during the recent hearings, described the econ omy advantages and the practical ne- cessity of milling. in transit rates against Government rate-mal1ing, since this would necessarily abolish milling in transit rates" The point, as ex- plained by Mr. Blodgett, was that al- though no one was injured by these Commerce Commission, If given the rate-making power, would be forced to abolish them upon the complaint of a terminal miller; so that, should the Government take in hand the business country, 1t would mean destruction to the country miller.
 The South is not ordinarily thought of as an important grain producing or milling section in comparison with the soethern % mIiers @ at pfsssnt Dwsner taRs st fro% Southern farmers over 72,000,000 bush els of grain The milling industry ex- pends in the South $66,000, ,00O annually South material worth over &73,O00, 900 without considering bi-products.
 These figures afford a striking exam pie of what has been accomplished in one of the minor" industries of the Southern States through the intelligent the transportation interests. We'll in- formed Southern business men say that the industry will expand to many times its present proportions If it is left to its free development. without Government interference.