The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-20

England people in considerable numbers
opposed 1t and threatened to destroy 1t,
and the noise and gases frighten and in
Jure their cattle. When the first iron
plows wers used like people protected
that the iron would poison the soil. So
they threatened to cut the first telegraph
wires that were strung. The first sew
ing machine they insisted on smashing.
A mob was formed to run from the state
the first man who sold coal in Philadel-
phia. The Mccormick reaper. invented
by Virginia farmer, was condemned be-
cause it ratified the heads off the wheat.
Coming down to a later date and more 10
the point, it is reported that so wise a
statesman as Henry Clay said that to
construct a canal at Soult ST Marie was
almost as Idle as trying to build one to
carried by a single horse and cart When
the enlargement of the canal and lock
was made in 1881, increasing the depth
to is feet, 1t was generally thought that
they were large and deep enough to take
/. care of all the traffic that could possibly
find its way there. for the next one humid
red years. We know that five or six
years after that they were found made
quate to accommodate the enormous in
crease Of shipping using that route, and
1t became necessary to enlarge the lock
and deepen the canal to the capacity of
twenty-one feet at a cost of $4,000, 900. 90.
] believe the depth is now 25 feet and it
is claimed that more than forty-four mil
lion ttons of freight were shipped thru
the 800" Canal last year. saving the
nation two hundred and fifty million dol
we are making progress. We are liv-
ing at time when the Lusitania out
days, four hours and twenty-one minu-
ties.
OF course. there will be DIRECTORS to the
project herein discussed. There will be
people opposing the main idea and then
opposing each detail. Pessimists will rise
up and condemn the whole scheme. 9th
ers will refuse any encouragement Some
will stagger at the expense. Others will
predict all sorts of difficulties. We reply
tIgnf crFV0
that interest and fascinate Americans.
Large enterprises are the kind worth
while LEU, Undertaking 5It These are the days
dent Roosevelt said about the Panama
Canal-"Of course we will encounter diff
culties. No difficult work was ever ac-
complished without meeting difficulties"
When this government took control, the
map of Central America was changed.
When this government takes charge
OF the building. of an, intercoastal canal
reaching from Massachusetts Bay to the
Rio Grande, with deep water from the
Gulf to the Lakes, in dead earnest, the
people all over America will look upon
this flag with. increased devotion.
To the, pessimistic and Indifferent. we
point out that the gross receipts of the
Government in 1891 amounted to $4,777,-
600, and the expenditures were s3,790,-
600. In 1902 the former were 1851, 730, 600
and the latter $559. 240, 900. The appro-
priations by Congress within the last
three years. from the public treasury
have been, in roupd figures. S3,42s, 600, 900.
a sum absolutely beyond the calcula tons
of our forefathers, and which gives an
'dg Tb OF v fhe sr9wr hai Of this eo1ntrY
erty of the United States in 1850 was
$12,159,6l6,O5S, and in 1906 it was, in
round figures, Sill. 900, 900 900. The as
sessed value of alI property in the South
ern states in 1860 was $500, 1870. S1S and
in 1906 II was $S.o25. 050, 496, while the
more than SIC, 900 900. 900. nearly IS 600
100000 greater than the total value of all
the. property in the entire country in
. 20 in -a1 civ
has been at the rate of $4,000. 900 a day
The South, with a population of 26.O0O.
600 against population of 81, 200, 600 in
the rest of the country in 1880, has more
capital invested in cotton mills than the
rest of the country then had, it produces
twice as much bituminous coal as the
three times as much coke and 5000, 900
barrels of petroleum more than the rest
000, 900 barrels. The value of the farm
products of the South is some $3.50. 600 :
600 greater than the farm products of the
rest Of the country in 1880, being over
$4,000, 100000. The value of the Souths
exports in 1905 was greater than that of
the rest of the country in $780, being
$642. 600 900. The lumber output of the
South In 1906 was valued at $500, 900. 00O.
The value Of the naval stores over s2o,
100000, while, IF during the last six
years Europe could have gathered to-
gether every dollar of gold produced in
to the the sonfS X Would sfr have and hpps Snort
$500. 5000 of paying it's debt to the
South for raw cotton alone. The value
Years. o was S. iSOT The he lsSS
raw cotton during that time brought back
In gold or credit to the United States
over 81. 0O0, 100000 to say nothing of eX-
seed products
the Manufacturers Record in August,
p, 1907. said
Contributing directly and indirectly
about forty per cent. of the merchandise
ND
ing about thirty-six per cent. of that
trade thru its own ports the South made
a marked advance last year in COM
merce, OF export merchandise produced
exclusively by the South, raw cotton, rep
resented S4oi,005.921: cottonseed oil SIS
6Is,5a0; cottonseed meal and cake, $13.-
oIS10o. naval stores. S2O,O75.5S5, and
phosphate rock s7,91s,9S3, a total of $3.50
TAI. 1859 OF export goods produced in
other parts of the country, as well as in
the South. the latter's estimated share
wasi Petroleum. $40 900. 900: timber and
tcBacSo SIS 600 Goo 09 pTovis ions
S29000,OOO; grain. $4,000, 600: coal, SIS
100000; cattle, SIS, OOO 900; and fruits. So
100000 or total of $214. 900. 900 To these
totals should be added about S25 OO0. 600
representing the South'S share in exports
OF manufactures of iron and steel, of
manufactures of wood. of manufactures of
leather, and other articles originating
primarily or secondarily in the South. and
there is grand total of 1894, 600 600 as
the share of the South in the $1.743, S64 500
or exports from the whole country Com
posing the fiscal years of 1905 and 1906.
the value of exports from southern ports
increased from $685., 4S1 ,202, to 500 ,0S2. 1868,
or by SSS,95l ,561, equal to 15.5 per cent.
and from all other ports from 1864, OSo 464
10 $llOl,S4l,7S7 or by S13S. 751 ,273. equal
70 las per cent. Comparing 1901 and
1915, the South makes even a better COM
paIauNe showing for in the five years the
increase In values of exports was at
southern ports from $52S 6S4. 706 to S642,-
O5z''o5, or by l13,54S. 057, equal 10 PA
per cent. and from all other ports from
3s59,oS0,2S5 to $1.101, SSI.7 S7. or by $142,-
70. 90, equal to l4.9 per cent
The total increase in assessed value OF
properly IN the United States from 1870
TO 1890 was S71S3. 900. 600 being an aver
aSc increase during that time for every
seven weeks of l.000, 600. and this last
amount Is enough to build the Florida
As shown by the Census returns. the
IRON production of the South was in 1880
I346li tons; in 1890 917. 529 tons in 1906
iron.
The increase in coal was as follows:
In 1850 90 $3.50 tons. in 1890. 1888 -
tons. In 1906 the output of southern
\ mines was 34.O00,000 tons. while in 1886
was ~. 600 0O0 tons
In 1850 there was "a. S5S miles o. rail
ways i'll operation IN the South and in
1890 these had increased 10 40 361 miles
and i'm 1907 TO $4,000 miles and the total
mileage in the whole country being now
about 100000 miles.
There was a gain in the assessed value