Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-04-28
CONDENSED FACTS
ABOUT The SOUTH
Baltimore, December 1909, Show
ing Great Wealth of This Coun-
try.

NY.
This year the South s cotton
crop will be worth not far from
81 ,000,000,000 or twice as much
as the output of all the gold in
the world for the same year.
The South is producing $780,
100000 bushels of grain a year
The total value of the agricul-
tural products Of the South this
| year will be So, 550,000,000, which
is more than the total of the ag-
ricultural output Of the United
States in 1890, when the popula-
ton Of the country was 63,OOO,-
900, while the population of the
South at present is 100000:
Such remarkable agricultural
advance proves the agricultural
capabilities of the South and the
energy Of formers Of the South.
Southern cotton mills are now
consuming 100000 bales Of cot
ton year. or as much as all 9TH
err mills in the United States are
consuming of Southern grown
cotton.
The South is now spending
$20.000,000 in building cotton
cotton mills.
The South has $4,000 square
miles of bitrlminous coal lands,
as against 1900 in Great Britain,
Germany. France and Austria
combined.
| The South is now mining over
10O.000,000 tons Of bituminous
coal year. as compared with AZ,
100000 tons, the entire bitumin-
Gus coal output Of the United
States in 1880.
According to official records the
south has more iron ore than for
eign experts claim for all Of Flu
rope.
The United States Steel Corpor-
alton. having already invested
about $50,00O,000 in Alabama is
carrying out vast improvements,
including the building Of a So
100000 steel and wire plant. Il
storage reservoir lake for the use
Of it's own works to hold 81, 800
100000 gallons Of water, a coke
oven plant to produce 5000 tons
of coke per day. and other under
takings which will add immense
~ to the prosperity Of the whole
South, and result in making Ala
bama one Of the worlds greatest
iron and steel centers.
The South is producing nearly
one half the sulphur of the world
and is absolutely dominating the
world s sulphur trade.
Phosphate rock, the founda-
ton of the great fertilizer indus
try, is found in larger quantity
and under more advantageous
con ditions of mining in the South
than elsewhere in the world, and
that the rest of the world must
largely depend upon the South
for it's supply of phosphate rock.
Over 40 per cent of all the
standing timber in the United
states is in the South.
No where else on earth are
found the same country the foun-
dations Of all great manufacture
ing interests-cotton, coal, iron,
lumber, phosphate rock. oil, sui
phur. gas, water powers and
many other things.
With a population less by g.
100000 than what the total popu
lation of the United States was i'll
1860, the wealth Of the South is
S., 00O,000,00O greater than the
total wealth Of the whole country
in 1860
The marbles, GRANTEES. building
stones and clays Of the South are
unsurpassed in quality and
scarcely equalled in quality else
where in America, furnishing a
limit,ess ield TO" development
work.
The South offers greater advan
tages than any other region in
America that apple growing in
the Soutl is as profitable as apple
growing on the Pacific Coast;
that the production OF oranges,
grape fruit and early vegeta bles
in this section offers better oppor-