Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
CAPITAL is POURING IN
Manufactures Start Up and Agricul.
ture Growing Fast.
CITIES INCREASE AND IMPROVE
Land and Industrial Agent Rich
ards Gives Statistics of What
Is Occurring in Dixieland.
BY WILLIAM Z. CURTIS.

BY WILLIAM z. CURTIS.
written for The Star and the Chicago Record
Herald.
The most remarkable development OF
mechanical industries In the country dur
ing the last few years has occurred In
the southern states.
During the past ten years more tnan
s6Oo. 100000 of capital has been invested
In manufacturing enterprises on the line
OF the Southern railway and Its lease
lines alone. Probably as much more has
been invested In other parts of the south
The Industrial department of the South
ern Railway Company, in charge of NJ
v. Richards. keeps tab on every new en-
terprise and Is responsible for the exist
ence of many of them. ! have no doubt
the Illinois Central, the Louisville and
Nashville and other railroad companies
which have similar agencies could tell
quite as marvellous story. and, If the
increase in the agricultural industries
were added the total would astonish a
great many people.
During the year just closed the sum of
SIO4 1S6.O51 was invested in improvements
along the line of the Southern railway
and its leased branches. The value of the
tory-cotton. corn, wheat, hay. oats. to-
hacco potatoes fruit. vegetables, ETC.
was nearly $500, OOO, 600
II is interesting to know that during
the year 1909 the of 81 $40. 115 was
expended in the erection of new churches
In that section: So, So, go was spent for
new schools: $40. 27O.s1s for new business
structures; So 936 for new residences.
At the same time the amount expended
for public improvements was $685., 391 on
the streets; $3.50. 2sS on sewers: $780,
2o4 for water works and water supply of
towns and cities
These figures show In the most conclu-
sive manner the growth of the south in
wealth and ability to make needed i'm
proNements as we'll as the continued ex-
pansion of its business.
Industries Making Cities Grow.
Memphis has become the greatest CEN
ter of the cottonseed oil industry, which
is new development of the last twenty
five or thirty years. In 1880 the total
value of the products from cottonseed
was less than 100000 In 1909 the to.
tai surpassed eighty millions.
Dallas has become the greatest marke
for the distribution of farm machinery in
the world.
Galveston has become the greatest cot
ton market in the world.
st. Louis handles more shoes than any
other city in the world.
Buffalo handles the most grain, and
Portland, Ore, the largest amount of
lumber.
More steel rails are made i'm Pittsburp
than in any other city in the world The
daily product would lay twelve or fifteen
miles of track.
Fall River produces the largest amount
of cotton cloth.
Detroit makes the largest number of
automobiles of any city in the world
haYing twenty factories, which turned out
about $12.OOO,OOO worth Of machines last
Near. Detroit is the home of the adding
machine also-the mechanical computer
which is now so common in banks and
counting houses. They are almost as
necessary as the cash registers which
come from Dayton. Detroit is also the
largest producer of medicine and phar-
maceutical preparations in the world
Philadelphia is second.
South Bend produces the largest num-
her of wagons; Moline, the largest num-
Der of plows; Quincy. ILL.,, the largest
number of omnibuses; Paterson, n J.,
the largest amount of silk fabrics, and
Trenton the largest amount OF pottery.
Peoria's Spirit Tax.
Peoria makes more spirits than any
other city in the world, and pays between
thirty and forty million dollars in taxes
to the federal government every year
more than twice as much as any other
city in the country. except New York
Louisville sells more whisky and more
tobacco than any other city
Minneapolis makes more -four than any
city in the world, an average Of 5000
acres of land to grow enough wheat to
keep the twenty-five Minneapolis mills
running for a year.
There are forty-three furniture factories
III Grand Rapids. which employ 1900
skilled workmen and produce more fur
niture than any other city in the world
Land Agents Observations.
NJ. v. Richards. land and Industrial
agent of the Southern railway, who for
twenty years has been engaged in work
for the development of the industries and
farm lands of the southeastern states
and who has kept close track of the
growth Of business in that section, has
this TO say regarding the south:
1t is interesting to note the greatly
increased attention that is now paid by
people In other sections to the develop
ment in the south. Leaders i'm many lines
of industry have long been aware of this
steady development; now there is very
general comment regarding it,
The periodical press, which, as 1t
seems to me, Is seldom a pioneer in dis
covering new topics of interest. has re-
industrial advance in that section as a
subject worth handling. Our own corre-
spondence, which has jumped up much in
the past few months. without any special
publicity work on our part, is a marked
evidence OF the place the southern states
is occupying in the minds of the people in
all portions OF the north
I'm his Pittsburg Lincoln day speech
Speaker Cannon. referring to the great
expansion of the country since Lincoln S
time, said: In the last decade that section
THE south) has had the most remarkable
development that has been recorded by
the census offlce-greater than New Eng
land, greater than the middle Atlantic or
the middle states, and even greater than
the west. Furnaces and factories sprine
into existence as IL by magic
Development in Southeast
This development has been along all
lines and throughout nearly every section
Of the south. In our own particular Sec
ton, the southeast, the manufacturing
and mining industries have grown the
most. When 1 first took up the work of
development for the Southern railway.
in 1894 there were only about l. 100 OO)
cotton spindles south of the Potomac and
Ohio. with an investment of perhaps $685.
10000 Today there are over II 600. OOO
spindIes, and in textile plants $500 900. 600
are invested
Our annual Textile Directory will
show about 800 textile plants with