The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-11
south BOOMING
AS: NEVER I: R| BEFORE B / {. |
Hum Of Prosperity Everywhcre
and6A1l8Li Of Trade
4 fs5. Expanding.
FARMERS HAVING FAT YEAR
Great Industrial ActivityHRcp
ed From All Sections Of
United States. Ell


BMLT1MoR11, Md, September lo.-
the South tho .atnnufaciurers' Rec
ON al our history there was never
before q time when everything was az
mess. To-day the farmers in MI Soc
ons ds and ms not only
class, having large accumulated EARN
,lngs they enter hcancw crop year with
the assurance OF tho largest aggregate
Commanding Il good price, Win an
equal assurance that the cotton crop.
which In value will rank as one OF the
best ever sold, giving to Southern farm
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. n
ProsperttylG
"Colncidcnt Will, this agricultural
known in Iron and steel. Cation man
ufactiIring and numbering interests VIC
with iron and steel IN prosperity. Rail-
roads arc crowded to the limit OF their
capacity, and now rolling stock and thou
sands OF miles Of new :, lines are re, needed zee
3portntion. Railroad earnings nrc incrcus-
Ing at such rate that new records are
being made every month. Wherever ono
turns the same conditions prevail In
tho coal and iron sections Of the South
there Is great rush OF business and
Investment md, anyone studying the
Tennessee Virginia and Alabama might
he Justified in imagining that here In
deed. is ccntcrlng the hr7adost possible
development OF tho South, md In con.
FOR forgetting that North Carolina alono
is devclonIng al the present time, water,
powers which IN the nESresnta VIII rlymi
active Industrial cen,ers; that new rail.
roads .de,fopinE In E1st tern car ron ~
timber properties in the. enhancement
opmcnt Of facilities for export trade.
And the North Carolinian stndying these
conditions might be excused y ne a altlos'
Il. not equal prosperity. And when we
turn from the central S so /. ,oI 10 $ onG
indian Territory and Southern Missouri
ali send IN tales OF activity, Of the In
coming OF new settlers. OF heavy invest.
mcnts md new enterprses 90 o. ne~ ,o uru
ar factory and Office buildings. OF new
railroads. and everywhere thr2ugnontt
that region come s,IfIes >, ~, ~ one think
thas Ptharo indeed. was the great center
ri southern nctlvItyif YOU Ind not, hcnrd
Of North Carolina and virginia ana hen-
fIcky. Tennessee md Alabama.
Fever of Expansion.
"r,,k about yellow fever, tho real great
,o,,a Lar r II Is sprcad,ng all over tho
so,,th-the fever ten times more active
thnn yellow fevcr--'s the fever OF m
dustria EXPANSION and BUSINESS 9nssr r is
ity bnt Il u s y the blood ana quick.
cninr the pulse OF the whole soutn ,,,,,diin.
one which brings no languor ~ ,is s m"Hl.
for II IS free from any poo'' - z
'nnut In thinking OF the prosperity. 9.
the South we must not 1nrs Combined l to
prospe anton r spreads from the T.
1 5nrS st to thc pac'flc from the Lakes 10
the Rio Grnndc Nor e ,n II gamma ana MEXICO
10 vi rlvinE us 4 lively race In indnstri,n!
a nrt,vitv y. and when we look out over I'm, mo
broad world we see nnt no On s'f the Contrary
trin, as eirns of industrial advancement
everywhere In Germany; ~ nnrnvnmcn n
France there is , stnaay and ,(I'p When we
N M ,he e. the Inc Orient we find = condition,
,rbich bafIles all human cnlcpint io1' , mmn
! thn study Of which opens um UNI. El'' f,,,,i,
! Of possibilities beyond our uo''''' = 800
grasp Is indeed mn insnlring study to ,ake
, survey OF the worlds business o a soon
aMsii ~ y condition, and he who Is fortn.
s nat. enough 10 live for 70 Or 20 yeapts
| longer e VIII see az, an an no man
50 wonderful 4eIduy dare 1na' ATTEMPT to
f ~GSla for however Mo,1 h
night b. the n'otGn draw w Of the = comm" s
be compeI,TrdH no regarded as but the
y Wid dream cam Of visionary en.hMs!as.:
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