The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-13

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this remnrkables Increase, three or
four hundred million dollars was due
to the Increase IN cot ton, the balance
to diversified agriculture. THAT sec.
ton is now raising over SOO00o0Ul
bushels of grain a year. II 1T lis becotn-
ing the market garden and the orchard
! for the entire country. AS ILLUSTRATING
the growth in trucking 1t may be said
that the Norfolk aistrict during the
present yenr Will handle about ss15,-
10000 worth Of fruits and vegetables
raised around that city. rhis busi-
ness is so vast that the daily ship
ments are running from 10000 to 4O,-
QUO packages (barrels and boxes per
! day., recurring daily steamships to
New York and Baltimore, and steam
ers nearly every day to providence,
Boston and elsewhere, to handle the
water borne STUFF while the railroad
shipments Of trucking are So heavy
that about week or ten days ago
one railroad carried North from Nor
folk nearly 500 carloads in one day.
Through the industrial development
of the South is but In Its infancy, that
section is now mining more than twice
as much bituminous coal as the United
States mined in 1880, or 00,O0O,O0O
tons n year against 42,000,O00 tons for
the whole country at that time 1t is
making nearly as much pig iron as the
United states made in $780, It35Sis
consuming more cotton and producing
more oil and more lumber. II is cotton
mills are now consuming overftwof and
II half million bales of cotton a year,
or about the same amount Of Southern
grown cotton as New England Is TAX.
Ing, having once or twice consider
1t, IhT Ma frtf mr. f{r,,,
of New England mills, as they will
probably do this year. .
with three times as much coal area
as Great Britain, Germany, France and
Austria combined, with over 40 per.
cent. of the standing timber OF the
United States, with iron ore in keep
ing with its vast coal resources, with
a practical natural monopoly OF the
worlds cotton production, with water
powers sufficient, If fully developed, to
create power equal to that now re-
CURED to run every wheel that turns
on rail or in factory In the United
States, with variety Of soil unsur-
passed for every kind of agriculture,
with climate ranging from that Of
the high mountains Of North Carolina,
almost identical with that Of Canada,
to that of the Gulf coast, the South
has marvellous potentialities, tho de-
velopment of which has only begun.
It's resources make the South II ma
3tional asset, the utilization Of which
VIII enormously enrich the whole
country"
There has been much complaint in
recent years about the South in
craftsmanship. and many cruel cont
parsons have been made between the
South of the present day and the
South Of the ante-bellum period in the
politics of the country Mr.. Edmonds
has given the secret away. Tho South
is getting rich Instead OF going into
partisan politics its strongest and
most effective young men have gone
into business. This was the idea ex-
pressed by John Shelton Williams in
his recent very able address at the
| University of South Carolina, and at
| ter a little while the men who have
/ made the South of the present time
will be the men whom the South will
press into service to care for its grow
ing Importance as the greatest pro.
ductive asset of the Nation.
1 Come South, young man. and come
quick. Come back home, wanderers
wherever YOU may be; there is some
thing here for you to do and fortuna
and fame awaiting you; those wht
have stayed behind and worked III
the Situation for you, and mad
'|3your burden light, will not count tina
|3against you, but will kill the fattc.
calf for you and put rings on you
fingers and bells on your toes just II
show you that the lost has beef
/ found.