The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-02-09
AN EPITOME OF SOUTHERN PRO-
GRESS.
Annual Blue Book for 1911 Published
by Manufacturers Record.

All men of affairs who wish to have
in form handy for ready references
the facts of what the South has done
in the past 80 years, what is doing now
and what it possesses for greater do
ing will find them in the Manufacture
ers Records Annual Blue Book of
Southern Progress" for 1911. This
pamphlet of ga pages is the most COM
pact and convenient source of infor-
nation about material development in
the South that has ever been given to
the public. 1t is the statistical cpl
tome of the past and the present OF
the South, and bristles with informa-
ton about the elements of certainty
as to the South's great future.
In this comprehensive volume are
the records showing that Al cities in
the South, each now having a popu-
lation of: more than 5000 have in the
past 80 years increased their aggre-
gate population from 1,5O6, 915 to $500
ITO, or by nearly 1877 per cent, an index
to the growth of industries in the
South, that of 100000 estimated
horsepower in Southern streams only
about 1000, 900 horsepower has been
developed, and that the value Of the
cotton crop of the South in 10 years
has EXCEEDED by more than $1,761,00O,-
900 the value of the gold and silver
produced by all the mines of the world
in the same period, while the value
of exports of raw cotton has exceeded
the vaule of all the gold mined in the
same time. The cotton crop, with its
seed, now approaches $1,000, 900 900
in value a year, and yet that amount
is less than 40 per cent of the total
value of. all agricultural products Of
the South, O,000, 900, for instance,
being the vaule of 1,104, 900 900 bush
els of cereals harvested in 1910. Com
parison of the progress of the South
and that of the country marks the in
dustrial advancement of the South,
shown in more active cotton spindles
in the South nov than were in the
whole country, in 1880, in, a greater
cut of lumber in the South. by more
than s. 600, 600, 900 feet, in pig-iron pro-
duction and in petroleum output near
ly equal the country's 80, years ago.
and in the greater amount by 3O,0O0.-
900 tons. of coal mined. Increase in
80 years in railroad milage from 3d.
612 to II, 1907 miles, in the value, of x
ports form $265 600, 900 to 1928, 000,-
900 and in of national banks
from $171, 900, 900 to $1,371, 100000, are
among other items treated in the
blue Book of Southern Progress"
by States and in comparison with the
rest of the country.
Among the special new features in
this issue are the figures of livestock
in the South. While to all the stat
istics of the IA Southern States have
been added where possible, the figures
of Oklahoma and Missouri. without.
however, including them in the
Southern totals.
For each of these 16 States and the
District of Columbia is presented a
seperate table summarizing the facts
of 80 years set forth in the topical
tables. In the statistics generally the
latest and most authoritative figures
available have been used and, where
estimates have been made the effort
has been to give conservative results.
This pamphlet contains the cream
of all these efforts. Copies of the
Annual Blue Book of Southern Pro-
gress'' can be had of the Manufactr-
ers Record of Baltimore for 25 cents
each.