Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-09-14
SOUTH BOOMING
AS MEYER BEFORE
Hum Of Prosperity Everywhere and All
Lines Of Trade Expanding
FARMERS ARE HAVING A FAT YEAR
Great Industrial Activity is Reported
From All Sections of the United
States.

DdlClmOre, Mo-, OepCeIHDeI IL WiIH
special reference to prosperity in the
South the Manufacturers Record says:
"In all our history there was never
before time when everything was as
favorable as today for guaranteeing a
really marvellous expansion Of business.
Today the farmers in all sections are
prosperous, and not only practically
free from debt, but as class, having
large accumulated earnings, they en-
ter the new crop year with the assur-
ance of the largest aggregate grain and
grass crops ever produced, commanding
a good price, with an equal assurance
that the cotton crop, which in value
will rank as one of the best ever sold,
giving to Southern farmers for this
staple alone $500, OOO,O 900 or more. The
farmers are indeed having their fat
years, and in the abundance of the
present they can only be thankful that
the lean years are so far behind as to
be almost forgotten.
PROSPERITY EVERYWHERE.
"Coincident with this agricultural
wealth is the greatest expansion ever
known in iron and steel. Cotton manu-
featuring and numbering interests vie
with iron and steel in prosperity. Rail
roads are crowded to the limit of their
capacity, and new rolling stock and
thousands of miles of new lines are
needed to meet the pressing demand for
transportation. Railroad earnings are
increasing at such a rate that new
records are being made every month.
Wherever one turns the same conditions
prevail. In the coal and iron sections
of the South there is great rush OF
business and investment, and anyone
studying the coal regions of West Vir-
ginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia
and Alabama might be justified in i'm
agining that here, indeed, is centering
the broadest possible development OF
the South, and in contemplating this
one might be excused for forgetting
that North Carolina alone is develop
ing at the present time waterpowers
which in the aggregate will rival that
at Niagara. that towns scarcely known
few years ago are becoming active
industrial centers; that new railroads
: developing in Eastern Carolina and
Virginia will spend from $1,000, 600 to
$40, 900, 900 in the building, equipment
and purchase of established lines and
timber properties, in the enlargement
of present operations and in the devel-
opment of facilities for export trade
And the North Carolinian studying
, these conditions might be excused II ne
almost forgot that across the line III
; South Carolina and Georgia there is al
most equal if not greater prosperity.
; And when we turn from the central
South to the Southwest, Texas and Ok
lahoma and Indian Territory and South
ern Missouri all send up tales of activi-
ty, of the incoming of new settlers, OF
E heavy investments and new enterprises,
= of new and more costly dwellings, of
5 new and larger factory and office build
: ings, of new railroads, and everywhere
throughout that region come stories Of
r hum of prosperity which would make
: one think that there, indeed, was the
r great center of Southern activity if you
f had not heard of North Carolina and
Virginia and Kentucky, Tennessee and
Alabama.