Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05
PERMANENT SOUTHERN DEVELOP
MENT,

MENT.
The real and initiative development
I of the resources of the South has just
been begun, as is interestingly pointed
our in a recently quoted article in the
Manufacturers Record The perman-
ent development of resources. instead
OF the hasty and speculative eXploita-
ion of them in the manner which has
characterized so much of the growth
Of this section up to the present time,
is what will make the South a greater
and Weather part Of the country than
lever,
Much of the growth of this section,
/ up to date, as is true of any sectioa
where there were almost unlimited
natural resources, has been conducted
/ in such a manner as to make the great
est possible returns in the shortest
/ time There has been tremendous
waste Connected with it. 1t has been
speculative rather than economical. As
the possibilities for speculative eN-
ploitation have about disappeared g
sane and more rational method of pro-
duction is fast taking its place. The
methods of permanent development are
careful, thorough and more helpful,
though they may not present sucA
broad cnacIrIative features
The manner in which naval stores
operations have been conducted gives
an idea of the excessive waste that
has accompanied certain kinds of de-
velopment. 1t is true that when a
country is young, such methods are
necessary at first to insure a strong
impetus of growth. But it is just as
true that after the first stages have
passed, the methods of more rational
development must as surely supplaAt
the others. 1t is gratifying to know
that the South has reached the period
where the latter methods have begun
to prevail
AS the article referred to expresses
It:
Now, men are thinking about eftic-
iency instead of discovery, about meth
DDS instead of opportunity, about in
tensive cultivation of that which is at
hand rather than taking up new quar-
ter sections, about developing placer
and dredge mining in place of pros
pecting for loose nuggets of metal,
about economies of production and
better methods of selling and distri5
utmg as we'll as the building of new
factories, a great industrial reyolu
ton is in progress. 1t involves more
particularly problems of economic |
production and distribution. The !
rise of this spirit has given New Eng
land its second opportunity, and as it
becomes more imperative this section
will again be esteemed for that which .
it can offer in enterprise and thrift.
There has always been a westward .
migration in the South as in the
North, tho with less reason. But It's
influence is still felt in the inclination
to move on to new fields instead of in |
telligently making the most of the
wonderful opportunities at home
There is, however, a great awaken
ing in the South on that point. The
reclamation to agriculture of the most
productive kind of wet lands in half a
dozen states; the interest taken in the
utilization of cut-over pine lands and
the gradual turning from one money
crop, like cotton, tobacco or sugar, to
diversified farming and truck growing,
are manifestations of the new spirit |
that is bound to develop on agrees
siveness and variety in industry in the
South we'll equipped as to natural re-
sources for an enormous expansion in
Municipalities which New England will
be obliged to seize with difficulty in It's
section"