The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-12-07
A THANKSGIVING INVEN-
TORY.
Great Things Along the Line OF
Industrial Progress Which the
South Has Done and is About
to Do.
ChArlatte Observer,


facts Of Southern progress since
1880, when it was enabled to re-
sumo it's normal career, and of
its material resources still to be
thoroughly developed, makes it
impossible for the South's
Thanksgiving celebration to be
condensed into the one day set
apart by the civil authorities.
Things that have been done are
broadly suggested in the follow
ing figures of increases on vari-
GUS lines in the past twenty-eight
years:
Population, from 16, 369, $50 to
26, 1884, 705, or by 10, 464, 745, equal
to 63.9 per cent.
True value of property, from
81, sos, 900, 900 to $40, ,073, 686, PIG,
or by $12, 568, 696. PIG, equal to
167 per cent.
Capital in manufactures, from
$257, PA, 564 to So, 100, 600, 900. or
by 81, 842, 755, 1856, equal to 1855
per cent.
Products of manufactures, from
$457, 454, TIT to $500, 900, 900, or
81, 142, 545, 223, equal to 568.9 per
cent.
Capital in cotton mills, from
$21, 600, 900 to $266, 100000, or
by S245. 500, 900, equal to 1859 per
cent.
Active spindles in cotton mills,
from 667, 754 to 10, 443, ,761, or by
9, 776,O ,OO7 equal to 1864 per cent.
Active looms in cotton mills,
from IA, 1923 to 222, 539, or by 2O8,-
ZIG, equal to 1853 per cent.
Cotton used, from 108, ,694, 889
pounds to 1,O59, ,519,893 pounds,
or by $50, ,825,0O4 pounds, equal
to 875 per cent.
Capital in cotton-oil mills, from
I$3, 100000 to $90,00O,00O or by
$86, 200, 900, equal to 2268 pei
cent.
Pig-iron produced, from 397,.
301 tons to 3,445, 221 tons, or by
3,047, 920 tons, equal to 767 pc
cent.
Coke made, from 372, 1876 ton'
to 1889, All tons, or by 8,917,
OBS, equal to 1894 per cent.
Value of lumber products
J from $39, 600, 900 to 1855. 900, 600
or by 1926, 100000, equal to SO
per cent.
, Lumber cut, from 3, 40, 294, 90
, feet to 19, 303, 983, 900 feet or b.
l Is. 1913, $780, 900 feet, equal to 46
| per cent.
Value Of farm products, from
$3.50, 900, 900 to So, 225, 600, 900, 0
by 81, ,565, 900, 900, equal to %
per cent.
= Bales of cotton raised, fror
5, 723, 934 to 1882, 966, or b
1859, ,O32 bales, equal to IS pc
cent.
Value of the cotton crop, nc
including seed, from $312, 3O3, OO
to $614, 034, 900, or by $301, 731,
900, equal to Sc per cent.
: Corn, wheat and oats raised
from SIT, 1923. 440 bushels to 8l8
318, 900 bushels, or by 240, 789,
$50 bushels, equal to Al pc
cent.
Value of mineral products
from $13, ,816, $50 to $286, ,818, 341
or by $273, 900, Alt, equal to 1877
per cent.
Coal mined, from 6,O37,0C
tons to 94,829,835 tons, or b
88, ,792, 1872 tons equal to 1470 pc
cent.
Iron ore mined, from 842
454 tons to 6,316, OPT tons, or b
Sab, 573 tons, equal to 649 pt
cent.
Petroleum produced, fro
$4,000 barrels to 27, 239, 057 ba
rels, or by II, 900, 600, 057 barrel
, equal to 15, 118 per cent.
Phosphate mined, from 100
1853 tons to 1888, 1913 tons to z
062, 435 tons, equal to 1881 p'
cent.
Railroad length, from 20,6
8. miles to 81, 181 miles, or by 4e
500 miles, equal to 221 per cen
Exports from Southern port
a from 1854, 905, ,753 to $648, 09S
715, or by 1888, 1872, 1852, equal
h I45 per cent.
Aggregate resources of natio
n al banks, from $171, 464, 172
81, 100, III, 1888, or by 1928, IS;
666, equal to SAL per cent.
Capital of national bank
from SAG, ,688, $50 to 1852, SIS
23O, or by $115, 1863, 300, equal
248 per cent.
Individual deposits in natior
banks, from $64, 733, 249 to $53
277, ,537, or by 1856, 544, q
equal to 721 per cent.
Deposits in State banks, sa
ings banks, private banks a
: loan and trust companies, fr'
f $83, 444, SIG to 1924, 752, 437,
by $541, 307, ,861, equal to 649
cent.
Expenditures for comm
Y schools, from SO, 796, O40 to Sc
~ 6S7, ,625, or by $27, 881, ,575, eq
to 285 per cent.
This record of achievement
as nothing compared to what
=, South is yet to do in realiz
fully it's vast potentialities.
begin with, it's area of 806,
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