The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
SOUTH'S PRESSING NEED
 IS MORE WHITE CITIZENS
sss. .42s; in 1900 it had grown to s188.-

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 saS 42s; in 1900 it had grown to $1ss.- l 114.524 r..
 Yet all this is but a slight begin | ming. The vast natural resources of
 the South have been but lightly touch 1 ed In considering the possibilities of l the future, we must keep in mind the ! fact that the resources, the supply of the raw materials, of most of the in-
 dustrial nations of Europe, have been we'll nigh exhausted. The production Of coal, iron and steel in Great Britain has been stationary for some years; Germany owes her position as a man ufacturihg country mainly to superior | technical skill in the utilization of 1 domestic and imported raw materials. The states north of the Ohio river with
 the exception of West Virginia, have indeed drawn heavily on their supplies
 of wood, coal and ores. Not so with
 us.
 ...:+ Products of Ene South. -
 Of the total area of the Southern
 States, but 166.O61 square miles are under cultivation. Notwithstanding this
 the cotton crop has brought, for the last five years, on an average of $500 100000 a year to the Southern farmer In cash. In 1900 the yield of wheat was 9S,S5S,SS6 bushels; Of corn 476.655. sos bushels, of hay 3,73O,O53 tons; of oats sS,99S,246 bushels; in 1903 the South produced 656,650,221 pounds of tobac- co; of rice 250,2S0,227 pounds and the shipments of fruits and vegetables in 1904 yielded our farmers over $20O,- 900, OOO,00.
 More than one half of the present wood supply of the United States is found in the South. The coal and iron gore deposits beneath our hills are so abundant that the sales-price of pig iron at Birmingham, Alabama. controls the iron and steel markets of the coun- try.
 In estimating the potentiaIities of the South, four other factors must be taken into consideration. These are power, transportation rates, open rivers and harbors all the year round and the close proximity of the Panama Canal Cheap coal means cheap motive power for railroads and for manufacturing establishments. The water power of the South Is so vast that no mind Is ca pable of estimating 1t. our large rivers. emptying into the Atlantic and into the Gulf of Mexico, with fnnuemrable falls and an abundant flow during the whole year, can furnish sufficient cleo tFical power, heat and light to supply all the Southern States for domestic. manufacturing and transportation pur- poses. This power Is sure to be de- yeloped in the future
 Our rivers and harbors are never ice-bound. New Orleans today outranks New York City in the export tonnage of grains. The grade from the Miss issippi Basin to the Gulf Is so highly favorable that shipping by rail is drawing more and more this way With the opening of the Panama Canal. our Southern seaports will become the n- poTlums of the worlds commerce.
 Few Alabama's In World.
 The South stands today recognized by the world as that section which of all others in this country, or else where. has the greatest joteutialities out of which to create wealth and i'm the development of which to give em- ployment to people" J. Stephen Jeans. or London Secretary Of the British Iron Trade Association, said few p9llul 7ul ol lsiA D L9lJg 'osr sIEsf States: T know of no section in the United States with the cup of blessings fresh from natures bands, so oyer flowing as the Southern States. There are not many Alabamas in the world. there Is no other in the United States.