The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-08

vance proves the agricultural capabil-
tiles Of the South and the activity and
energy of the farmers of the South.
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
Southwestern cotton.
The South is now spending 500 900.
600 in building cotton mills.
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 over 1OO,.
100000 tons of bituminous coal output
of the United States in 1880.
According to official records the
South has more iron ore than foreign
experts claim for all of Europe.
Leading English financiers in con.
nection with New York CAPITALISTS
are building at a cost of several mil.
lion dollars a great steel plant in Ala
bama which will employ about $500
people, and that one of the leading
English bankers interested in the en-
terprise. who recently visited the
South, in referring to the resources
and progress of this section, said the
Manufacturers Record:
II am astonished beyond words IN
express. | have visited California
and Canada, but have never seen any.
thing to equal the great development
that is going on in the South"
The United States Steel Corpora.
ton, having already invested about
$5O,0OO,000 in Alabama, Is CARRYING
out vast improvements, including the
building of a $4,000, 900 steel and wire
plant, storage reservoir for the use
of its works to hold $500, OOO, 900 gal
Ions of water, a coke oven plant to
produce 5000 tons of coke per day.
and other undertakings which will add
immensely to the prosperity of the
whole South, and result in making
Alabama one of the worlds greatest
iron and steel centers.
The United States Steel Corpora
ton is handling a large part of it's ex-
port trade in steel rails through it's
Alabama plant, and that last year it
sold 10000 tons of Birmingham-mad
rails for shipment via Southern ports
to the Argentine and Brazil.
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 mere
advantageous conditions of mining liz
the South than elsewhere in the world.
and the rest Of the world must largely
depend upon the South for its supply
of phosphate rock.
Over 10 per cent of all standing tim.
Der 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
and many other things.
With a population less by 100000
or 100000 than the total population
of the United States in 1860, the
wealth of the South is $4,000, 900 900
greater than the total wealth of the
whole country in 1860.
The marbles, GRANTEES, building
stones and clays of the South are I'M |
surpassed in quality and scarcely |
equalled in quantity elsewhere in
America, furnishing a limitless field
for development work.
The South offers greater advantages
than any other region in Aemrica;
that apple-growing in the South is as
profitable as apple-growing on the Pa
cific Coast; that the production of
oranges, grape fruit and early vege-
tables in this section offers better op-
portunities for money-making than
similar industries anywhere else in
the United States.
These facts are at last beginning to
make their impression upon the peo-
pie of the whole country, and that
over 100000 Northern and Western
people are pouring into thu South.
This vast host is only the advance
guard of mighty army of people
who, realizing Southern opportunities,
are coming into this section because
they find it more inviting for home
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