The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-03-06
NEW ENGLAND vlslToR or Tie
W. FUTURE or THE new
SOUTH, n.

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house last week asltcd me what
thought of the South in the future
i went 10 my table and dug out z
paper a few days old and showed
MIN a paragraph from Washington
that said:
According to a preliminary ,pli
iletin issued by the Census Bureau
today the value of manufactured
production Of the factories OF North
Carolina for the year ended Deem.
Dor 30, 1904 has Increased 81 per
cent, as compared with tbs products
II the year 1900"
This Is a surprising growth Of in
:dustry, and the figures are more
eadily understood when 1t is known
hat for the whole United States Sae
ate ofincrease, as shown by the last
census. was only SO per cent. in 9
period Of ten years. North Carolina
at the present time IS increasing the
product Of her fartorles nearly twice
Is fast in four years as the average
increase through out the United States
N ten years or to get it all to ten
year periods, the factories Of North
Carolina are expanding four and q
half times as fast as the average 81
the growth of the factories Of the
whole country. In the last census pc
Rod, while the average increase Of fac.
tory product Of the United States was
30 per cent, the increase in North
Carolina was 1856 per cent. None Of
the Northern States made such an
Increase, and no other State In the
Union except Colorado made an equal
stride, except some Of the small
States like Idaho, where the addii
lion Of a single mill and product Of
q fe wthousand dollars wort. makes
a big result in the State output.
At the rate the factories VI North
Carolina are expanding, the State,
which, at the last census. stood ;wen.
t,,eighth among the manufacturing
States Of the Union, will stand Of.
teenth. This is making allowance for
the average increase to continue in
the other States, as it has done IN the
ten years Of the census period.
There is no reason to doubt that the
rapid growth Of the North Carolina
factory Will be continued long be-
You'd the end of the pres mt census
period, for the influences which are
setting the State on its progressive
march are just now becoming active.
First Of ali It is the enormous dc
yelopment OF water power that Is
,oing ahead with remarkable swift.
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ness. Hardly a week goes by With
out seeing some new instaIIment Of
power ready for utilization Mt mill
town or factory center. The big
powcr schemes are going forward at
a swift gait, the open winter being
narticulsrlyy Tayornbly But the on.
GRAFTON OF the factories already built
arc having startling effect also.
The cotton min that has beer built
Is earning dividends Several hun.
dred mills in tho States are nlatiing
fortunes for the stakeholder. One
big mill in a neighboring county, Of.
ter paying its dividends, has built an.
other bg plant out Of its surplus. In
consequence the people Of North Car:
ollna are becoming prosperous. They
have the capital to invest in more new
factories, and they are doing it on
scale that the North cannot real.
lie.
The cotton crop Of the South this
year Is worth more than a billion
dollars, That puts money in tie banks,
and capital is at hand to further the
expansion Of industries OF every sort.
North Carolina has begun to recover
properly from the terrible desolatioa
which followed the civil war It has
been a long hard pull, compelling the
most rigid economy and often severe
privatIon. But tho new condition has
been attained. The State finds itself
with capital to develop It's resources,
and ut the same time with vast
amounts Of capital flowing this way
from other cources looking for the
opportunities that abound in every
county,
The development Is net confined
to any one section or To any one In.
dustry North Carolina is following
the course that madb Ohio in some
respects the most self dependent
State Of the Union. Years ago ohio
began ID build factories, AT Spring.