The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-12
GROWTH OF SOUTH
ENORMOUS WEALTH AND IS STILL
Week's Review Of Industrial Activity by the Manufacturers' HecOrd--
 Ten Per Cent. Increa6e In N Population.

t. isais is.as ssl. ssI %ssI The r !, ~Go1sidsIation s of lncrsasIns wealth a ooo.oeo worth of farm products now ease ysa sSd 100000 worth of mineral products. such annual productivity, now aggre- Eating about s4.4ss.ooo. 900. accounts nts in the capital of national banks in the South in six years and an annual increase of s4o,ooo.ooo or s5o,ooo, 900 ings and private banks and loan and trust companies in that section. and the general progress has an expres- ted to. by railroad construction, every mile of new track stretching. toward great lumber tracts or toward depos- als. or bringing. closer to markets vir- gin agricultural sections, being Just that much power added to productiv-
 Tn 1908, s.o55 miles were added to the south's mileage. 2s.7 per cent. of the total addition since 1900, and bringing the total to. 64,o35 miles mileage of the whole country in 1860 and within less than 30,000 of the to- tai mileage of the country in 1880. Texas alone has S.soo miles more & rai,, U, 1850. and during the past year 1t led in increase in the South s10 miles, the State nearest to it in new construco. 1. ton having been Louisiana, with 4iz miles. Arkansas ranked third In new mileage. the promise of an enormous advance in the farther South. but it is almost equally ,signifcan,t, to ,op note te North Carolina and 216 in West vir- velopment in those States.
 summarizing farm activities, em- in cr raj nrarficallY eV- cry crop grown in the country, m ad- dition to crops exclusively Southern. manufacturing energies with 262 or the represented in the South. mineral pro duction in which the South Is to be- come more and more dominant. es- pecialty as to coal and petroleum and which the cut of the South Is about country. railroad building. foreign commerce. etc, magnificent display
 in six years, with an increase In the population of about 3,400,00O or something more than ten per cent: It's farm products by s72s,000,00o or fifty-sexen per cent. and the value Of it's manufactures $761.oo0,o00 or hftys two per cent. It has added S,4sS. 900 srindles to its cotton mill outnt. an increase of fifty-five per cent: and its mills used in 1906 about 2.375,0O bales of American cotton, or forty-etght per cent. more than in 1900. In the SIX duction has increased by ss6,00o, tons. or thirty four per cent. its coal pro auction by 34,202.000 tons, or sixtg- nine per cent; the value of exports 4! it's ports $177,o00,00e. or thirty-eight per 9cent., though it furnishes more merchandise for export than 1t handies through it's own ports, and in that time it's railroad mileage has increased by I1,441, or nearly twenty-two per cent, and the assessed value of Its property by $2.4S0,00O,0O or nearly forty eight per cent.
 With all this money-making going on. it Is not surprising that the Soutn IS spending millions of mopey Tor im- provements of many knds. Counties are building better roads. better brid- ges, and better school houses.
 ..Municipalities are erecting modern public buildings. installing water works and sewerage systems and using ups to date methods and materials in im- proving streets. Railroad operations are double-tracking their old ines and extending new ones. are building handsome passenger stations, increas- ing terminal facilities and adding to rolling stock. Individuals are devo- ting their earnings to improving their | homeS in town or country, or in ouild- | ing new ones, in enlarging barns, Tn l buying stock, farm fmpiemets ana machinery in installing fencing and | in adding to the machinery for man.
 "These investments are likely to | increase during the coming year and | to keep pace with the increasing earn | ing capacity of the South. They are perity that Is adding every day of | the year about $7,2S0,000 to the wealth | of the South and which has brought that wealth close to s2o.o0O,0OO.oOo.