The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-24
INDUSTRY IN SOUTH
WONDERFUL FUTURE D EvELOP-
 MENT IS AHEAD.
Growth of Iron and Coal Production of North and West to Be Sur
 passed in Southern

NOrdm Mm0 W&HG ND DC SWr~ passed in Southern
 States.
 Baltimore, Md, Nov. 23.--(Special) --In summarizing industrial potential-' ities of the south The Manufacturers Record in this weeks issue says;
 'sTwenty-five years ago. or, to be exact, in 1880. the United States made s,s00.000 tons of pig iron. Its pro- auction this year VIII be 2S,OD0,oVV tons, or over. Within the same time, the production of coal has advanced form 7I, ,0O0, 900 tons to 400,0O0,000 tons
 'sThe development of the coal and iron industry, end in this, of course, Is included steel, has been one of the marve1s of the worlds history. The creation of wealth brought about by this vast expansion in metallurgical interests has been so stupendous that it's magnitude can scarcely be grasped- Millions on top of millions and hum dreds of millions piled on hundreds of millions can alone tell the story or the fortunes which have been made fin the production of coal and iron and steel and the wealth created thereby through the advance of cities and States based on the great staples. Tt has been said there are over for ty fortunes, of over $50,o00,0o0 each, in Piftsburg alone. But even this statement scarcely conveys an ade- quate meaning of the almost limitiess wealth which has come through the utilization of the ores of the Lake su- perior region and the coal of Penn sylvania. As often stated in The Man ufacturers' Record, the capital invest cd in manufacturing in Pennsylvania, and this would not include the fortunes which have been made by Pennsyiva- mia people through their ownership of ore lands tn the Lake Superior dis trict and coal lands in West Virginia, but simply the capital actually invest ed in industries within the limits of Pennsylvania---is $2,000, 100000 against l $I, 500. .000, ,000 for the fourteen South ern States, difference in favor of Pennsylvania of $4O0,00o,o0o. All the manufacturing progress of the South. great as it has been, is more than duplicated in the capital invested and the value of the product of that one State.
 PonssbiIIties Of south.
 "This however, is but an indication | Of the linitless possibilities ahead of | the South. In this section. which has more than twice as much coal as Penn sylvania, Great Britain and Germany combined, the three greatest coal pro- | to say, has one.half as much iron ore as the entire country, can be duplica- ted all the iron and steel and coal business not only of Pennsylvania, but of the whole North and West
 The wealth which has enriched that | imperial State will be more z than matched by the wealth which is to be made through the development of the coal and iron and steel interests of the South. This section is today pro ducing very nearly as much pig Iron as the United States made in 1880. It's production of coal largely exceeds the l total coal ouptt of the entire country at that time. The iron output of Ala bama today rivals that of Pennsyiva- ! mia in 1880.
 Considering the great increase in population and the vast expansion in the iron industry which is now in progress, it ought to be entirely with in the range of possibilities for the coal and iron interests of the South to make as much progress within the
 next fifteen years as the coal and
 iron interests of the United States have made within the last twenty-five years. .
 Almost visionary as this may seem today. it is not beyond possibility. The
 world is moving with giant strides; in
 dustria1 forces mightier than man has
 ever known before are concentrating
 in the South. The people in this sec-
 ton themselves do not quite compre-
 hend what is before them. Distance,
 to give the right perspective, is al-
 ways needed in order to gain a bet ter conception of any great under
 taking or of the capabilities for ad- vancement of any section. ,-.
 Pre-eminent In Cotton.
 Rarely does the local man grasp the things at home Bound by the environment of his life, he Is not often
 able to take that boarder view of the
 worlds affairs in the movement of
 which his section or his country is to
 iron and steel people of other sections have a far more accurate conception of the future of the South in iron and
 steel and coal than the Southern man
 himself.
 50 1t is in cotton. the strategical
 value of which in the worlds financial
 and industrial affairs. the South has not yet comprehended. This, next to iron and steel, the dominant industry
 of the world, Is pre-eminently. for the
 present and for the future, a South
 ern asset. It has no rival worth con-
 siderng. As the South practically
 monopolizes the worlds cotton produc-
 tion, it can as population increases du-
 plicate the worlds cotton manufactur-
 Ing.
 And then in cement, an industry
 gowing with greater Tapidity than was
 ever made by any other great interest
 in the country, the South has almost Unlimited capabilities Experts say
 that good locations for cement produc-
 tion to the best advantage are almost as rare as good locations for an iron furnace but of these good locations the
 South has many; and in this industry.
 which may yet almost, if not quite, l rival in extent and in wealth created
 out of it, iron itself, the South has
 the opportunity for almost unlimited l growth. Everywhere concrete con- Il struction Is advancing and cement