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

twice as much as the output of all
the gold mines i'm the world for the
same year.
1t is a fact that the South is pro-
ducing 100000, 900 bushels of grain
a year.
1t is fact that the total value of
the agricultural products of the South
this year will be 81, 400, 600, 900,
which is equal to the total agricul-
tural output of the United States in
1890, when the population of the
country was $4,000, 900, while the
populat ton of the South at present
is 81, 100000.
1t is a fact that such remarkable
agricultural advance proves the ag-
ricultural capabilities of the South
and the activity and energy of the
farmers of the South.
1t is a fact that the Rothschilds and
other English financiers in connec-
ton with leading New York financial
people are building at cost of sever
al million dollars great steel plant
in Alabama which will employ about
$500 people, and that one of the as
sociates of the Rothschilds who re-
Gently visited the South. in referring
to the resources and progress of this
section, said to the Manufacturers
Record:
81 am astonished beyond words
to express. ! have visited California
and Canada, but have never seen
anything to equal the great develop
ment that is going on in the South. I"
1t is fact that the South has 3d.
900 square miles of bituminous coal
lands, as against 1900 in Great
Britain, Germany, France and Aus
tria combined.
1t is fact that the South is now
mining over 90,0OO,000 tons of
bituminous coal year, as compared
with 100000 tons, the entire
bituminous coal output of the United
States in 1880.
1t is a fact that according to Offici-
al records the South has more iron
ore than foreign experts claim for all
of Europe.
1t is a fact that the United States
Steel Corporation, having already
invested $50, 900, 900 in alabama, is
carrying out vast improvements. in
Guiding the building of "a $4,000, 900
steel and wire plant, storage reser-
voir lake for the use of its own works
to hold 2.500,O00,O0O gallons Of
water. coke-oven plant to produce
5000 tons of coke per dav. and Other
undertakings which will add i'm.
mensely to the prosperity OF the
whole South.
IL is fact that the United States
Steel Corporation is handling a large
part of its export trade in steel rails
through its Alabama plant, and that
it is now filing an order for 10000
tons of Birmingham-made rails fol
shipment via southern ports to the
Argentine and Brazil republics.
1 1t is fact that Birmingham-made
steel rail has no superior in the Unit
ed States.
| 1t is fact that southern cotton
mills are now consuming 2,500,00C
bales of cotton year, or as much al
all other mills in the United States
are consuming of Sou thern grown
cotton.
1t is a fact that the South is pro
ducing nearly one-half the sulphur o
the world and is absolutely dominat
ing the worlds sulphur trade.
| 1t is fact that phosphate rock
the foundation of the great fertilizer
industry, is found in larger quaint
ty and under more advantageous
conditions oil mining than elsewhere
in the world. and that the rest of thu
world must largely depend upon tb'
South for its supply of phosphate
rock.
1t is fact that over 40 per cent o
all the standing timber in the United
States is in the South.
1t is a fact that a southern por
outranks all other ports in the Unit
ed States in export trade except New