The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-29

About the Prosperous South
Forty Facts Showing That 1t Offers Greater Advantages
Than Any Other Region in America---LOu-
isiana Its Banner State.

York, and that the trend of foreign
commerce through southern ports is
increasing more rapidly than else
where in the country.
1t is fact that the greatest rail-
road builders of America are strain
ing every nerve to extend their lines
To the centers of Southern activity
and to reach southern ports in order
to win strategic positions in this Sec
ton, which they recognize is to be
the center of the worlds greatest in.
dustrial interests.
1t is fact that nowhere else on
earth are found in the same country
the foundations of all great manu-
featuring interests-cotton, coal, iron,
lumber, phosphate rock, oil, sulphur,
gas, water powers and many other
things.
1t is fact that the marbles, gran
ates, building stones and clays of
the South are unsurpassed in quality
and scarcely equalled in quantity
elsewhere in America, furnishing a
limitless field for development work
1t is a fact that the South offers
greater advantages than any other
region in America; the apple-growing
in the South is as profitable as ap-
ple-growing on the Pacific Coast;
that the production of oranges
grape fruit and early vegetables in
this section offers better opportuni-
ties for money-making than similar
industries anywhere else in the United
States.
1t is a fact that these facts are at
least beginning to make their impress
sion upon the people of the whole
country, and that over 20O.OOO
Northern and Western people are an
nually pouring into this section, at
present mainly into Texas and Flori-
da. but with an increasing movement
into every other Southern State.
1t is a fact that this vast host is
only the advance guard of mighty
army of people who, realizing south
ern opportunities more than the peo-
pie of the South themselves, are COM
ing into this section because they
find it more inviting for home max
ing, for agricultural opera tions, for
industrial pursuits. for health aud
climatic advantages than any other
region of America.
1t is fact that southern railroads
must spend $4,000, 0OO, 900 in 10
years to provide facilities needed in
southern growth.
1t is fact that what is probably
the most comprehensive and remark
able warehousing system in America
is being developed ina southern town,
and is. in part. already in opera ton.
1t is fact that the South il build
ing two OF the most remarks BILE rail-
roads ever constructed in America.
and that one of them is the most
unique ever built in the world.
1t is fact that the South il now
spending $20.00O,0OO in building
cotton mills.
1t is a fact that good roads, which
mean more for agricultural prosperi-
ty than anything else before the pub
lie. are being built all over the South
as never before at a cost OF many
millions of dollars.
1t is "a fact that all Of the present
development of the railroad and in
dustrial work in the South is only
the revival Of what was being done
prior to 1860 on q relatively still
larger scale, which shows the Unborn
trait of southern people to turn to
industrial interests.
1t is fact that the South lost by
emigration between 1865 and 1900
about 100000 of its own white
people, and this was far greater
loss than the ruin and destruction
4 by war.
1t is a fact that this drain has
largely stopped, and that southern
men and boys are now finding more
avenues OF employment at home than
elsewhere.
1t il a fact that the tide OF invest
ment Of American and foreign CAPT
tai and the movement OF population
is turning southwark as never before,
and that wonderful things are in
store for this section.
1t is a fact that with a population
less by 5000. 900 or Loco. 900 than
what the total population Of the
United States was in 1860, the wealth
of the South is IS, 600. OO0, 900 great
err than the total wealth OF the whole
country in 1860. r. "A
1t is fact that these things should
be known to every man aud woman,
every boy and girl in the South, that
they may have a better appreciation
of the possibilities Of their own coun-
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