Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-01-30
WILL LEAD UNION Ii ITS WHAT SOUTH WILL DO SAYS WRITER AFTER IN
 SECTION TOUR. Will Be the Greatest Industrial and Agricultural Center in the
 Country.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Jan. 50 0=J Bowie, of Washineton. D. C.. | news 1 paper man who has been touring the south for several months, was here l this week and expressed surprise at l the development and progress of the l entire south. Mir. Bowie said while in
 this city:
 ] During the last few months 1 have 1 travelled in nearly all of the south
 ern states, and on every hand can be l seen wonderful and conclusive signs l of unprecedented activity and enter 1 prise. Everywhere will be found evi l dences of prosperity. and fully agree With Morris K. ,Jessup, president of l :he New York chamber of commerce. 1 lfhcn he recently said that the souh was the future industrial Eldorado l of the world.
 Places that but few years ago
 were barren fields and smokeIess towns are now thriving centers of commercial and industrial activity.
 Not only are northern and eastern capitalists coming to the south to in
 vest their millions, but the native
 southerners who left home years ago
 to seek their fortune in the golden
 west are returning to their southern homes to invest their western-made
 wealth. Still q better sign of the south's great future is found in the fact that Horace Greeley's famous ad- vice of Young man, go west has been modernized by eastern capital lsts, so that the advice you hear now
 i'll New York financial centers is Young man, go south. Another healthy indication of the south,s sub
 s1atial future is the fact that the
 great throng of the desirable class of
 immigrants that has been nocking
 West-an element that has been pre-
 dominating factor in developing that
 country-is now turned southward.
 q found everywhere have been ill the south a great scarcity of labor Particularly so is this the case as re- gards farm labor. In every state
 have visited l was informed that it
 was impossible to obtain labor to eith- CT SOW or harvest the crops. Tn s idle of desirable immigrants that is 1 now moving toward the south will fill the farm-labor want column, be- lieve. The good class of foreign inn migrants makes good farmers This has been proved wherever it has To-
 cated.
 ''To the railroads is due great
 Geal for the south's advanced position in the industrial world. The southern roads are doing valuable work in ad- vertising the south through their pas senger and industrial departments. Especially is this true of the Southern railway. M V. Richards, in charge of
 the land and industrial department of the Southern, recently told me that
 in 1905 close to s3OO,0OO OOO had been
 invested along the line of the South ern in manufacturing enterprises. He
 sa q also that hundreds of farms along tho system had been sold to northern
 and eastern farmers and that he ex-
 pected to see in the near future the
 south not only lead in the industrial
 field, but become the greatest farm ing section in America. Mr. Richards is endeavorine to get the best class of immigrants 10 locate in the south and he said that practical results of this effort had already been material ized in the form of number of tn s class of imn1igrants already locating in the south"