Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-30
GREAT PROGRESS
It is Today the Most Promising Area
of The Republic.

II Wv eA
tive of the South's phenomenal pro
gress since the war, and the exhibit
| which he makes will doubtless prove
an eye-opener, even to the South her
self.
Neither the capitalist in search of
q field of investment for his money
nor the immigrant in quest of a home
for his children can do better than to
act upon the recommendation which
the Baltimore editor makes in this elo-
quent plea.
For the South is today the most
promising area Of the whole republic.
Mr.. Edmonds estimstes the value
of last years. cotton cop. at $1,000
OOO, 900, a sum equal to twice the out
put of all the gold mines in existence
for the same period of months.
The annual yield of grain is fixed
in round numbers at 6~OO,00O,0OO BUSH
els.
Says Mr.. Edmonds:
"Southern cotton mills are now
consuming 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 has $4,000 square miles
of bituminous coal lands, as against
$1,000 in Great Britain, Germany,
France and Austria combined.
HThe South is now mining over
113,OOO,GOO tons of butuminous coal
a year, as compared with 100000
tons, the entire bituminous outppt OF
the United States in 1880.
According 20 official records, the
South has more iron ore than foreign
experts claim for all Of Europe.
"The South is producing nearly
one-half the sulphur of the world,
and is absolutely dominating the
worlds sulphur trade.
phosphate rock, the foundation OF
the great fertilizer industry, is found
in larger quantity under more adj
vantageous conditions of mining in
the South than elsewhere in the world.
cover 40 per cent Of all the stand
ing timber in the United States is
in the South.
"Nowhere else on earth are found
in the same country the foundations
of all great manufacturing interests
cotton, coal, iron, lumber, phosphate
rock, oil, sulphur, gas, water powers
ond n,anv other thinus
"With a population less by 3,O00,-
600 or 100000 than the total popu-
lation of the United States. in 1860,
the wealth of the South is $6,O00,OO0,-
600 greater than the total wealth OF
the whole country in 1860.
"The marbles, GRANTEES. building
stones and clays of the South eIe un-
surpassed in quality and scarcely
equaled in quantity elsewhere in
America, furnishing a limitless field
for development work.
"Southern railroads must spend
So, 900, 900, 900 in ten years to provide
facilities needed in. Southern growth.
Cali Of the present development
of the railroad and industrial work in
the South is only the revival Of what
was being done prior to 1860 on a
relatively still larger scale, which
shows the Unborn trait Of Southern
people to turffto industrial interests.
"The total value of the agricul-
tural products of the South last year
was $2,55O,OO0 900, which is more
than the total of the agricultural ont
put of the United States i'll 1890,
when the population of the country
was $4,000 900, while the population
of the South at present is 27,500,OOO.
"The United States Steel Corpora.
ton, having already invested about
$5O,0OO,OO0 in Alabama, is carrying
out vast improvements. including the
building Of a 100000 steel and
wire plant, a storage reservoir lake
for the use Of its own works to hold
$500, 100000 gallons Of water, a coke
oven plant to produce 5000 tons Of
Of coke per day and other undertake
ings which will add Immensely to the
prosperity Of the whole South.
"a Southern port outranks all 9TH
er ports in the United States in ex-
port trade, except New York, the val
ne of it's foreign exports and imports
being $1S5, 600, 900, or $27,O0O,GOO in
excess of the total foreign exports
and imports of all Pacific coast ports
combined.
"Great drainage undertakings are
now being carried out in the South,
retaining wet or overlooking lands,
and making susceptible to cultivation
some of the richest lands in the world.
Much of this easily reclaimed land
has a soil not surpassed, if equaled,
in the world for fertility and depth.
Through the utilization Of such land
the wonderful development of rice
growing in Louisiana was made pos.
sible, and the hundreds Of millions OF
values thus created will be more than
duplicated by further drainage opera
tons"
Last year, it is stated, 100000 per-
sons moved into the South from 9th.
er sections, and facts and figures like
the foregoing need only to be given
proper currency to u%nloose the golden
tide Of prosperity upon Dixie land.
COTTON CROP OF 1909 SHORT.