Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-12-04
FACTS ABOUT THE SOUTH.

The report the other day that Bird
S. Coler, SO ding power in New
York politics, had gone to North Car
olina to advance certain commercial
and industrial interests, is but another
straw that shows how the wind is
blowing these days.
The growth and present develop
ment of the South is almost beyond
belief, but facts are stubborn things
and the Manufacturers Record thus
summarizes what the South is doing
at this time:
This year the South's cotton crop
will be worth not far from 81, ,OO0, ,oO0,-
600, or twice as much as the output of
all the gold mines of the world for the
same year.
''The South is producing 10000, ,0O0
bushels Of grain a year.
"The total value of the agricultural
products Of the South this year will be
$2,400, ,000,0 900, which is equal to the to-
tai of the agricultural output of the
United States in 1890, when the popu-
lation Of the country was 63,0OO,000,
while the population of the South at
present is 27,5o0,000.
''The South has $4,000 square miles
of bituminous coal lands, as against
1900 in Great Britain, GERMANY
France and Austria combined.
'The South is now mining Ger v90,-
100000 tons of bituminous coal a year
as compared with 100000 tons, the
entire bftuminous coal output of tn
United States in 1880.
According to official records the
South has more iron ore than foreigl
experts claim for all Of Europe.
The United States Steel Corpora
tion, having already invested abou
$4,000, 900 in Alabama, is carrying ou
vast improvements, including til
building of $3,0OO,OOO steel and wir,
plant, a storage reservoir lake for th
use Of its own works, to hold 2,500.-
100000 gallons OF. water; coke oveL
plant, to produce 5000 tons of cox
per day, and other undertakings whic'
will add immensely to the prosperit
of the whole South.
''The United States Steel Corpora
tion is handling large part of it's ex
port trade in steel rails through its
Alabama plant, and it is now filing All
order for 10000 tons Of Birmingham
r1ade rails for shipment via Southern.
ports to Argentina and Brazil
Southern cotton mills are now con
Stunning 100000 bales of cotton a
year, or as much as all other mills in
the United States are consuming of
Southern-grown cotton.
THE South is producing nearly one
half the sulphur of the world, and is
absolutely dominating the worlds sui
phur trade.
phosphate rock, the foundation of
the great fertilizer industry, is found
in larger quantity and under more ad-
vantageous conditions of mining thai
elsewhere in the world, and the rest
of the world must largely depend up
on the South for its supply of phos-
phate rock.
"Over 40 per cent. of all the stand
irg timber in the United States is ir
the South.
"a Southern port outranks all other
ports in the United States in export
trade except New York, and the tren1
of foreign commerce through Southern
ports is increasing more rapidly than
elsewhere in the country
The greatest railroad builders of
America are straining every nerve to
extend their lines to the centres of
Southern activity, and to reach South
ern ports in order to win strategic po-
sitions in this section, which they rec
ognize is to be the centre of the
worlds greatest Industrial interests"