The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-02-02
For tile Year Showing Prog.
ress Of Southern States in
NagiousW Ways.

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All ga Oh affairs WHO Wish to
have inbtoFVt handy for ready refer
enee fats % what the South has done
4 in the q5years, what II is doing
nov atdTwhatsit possesses for greater
doing WIN ind them in the Manu-
factursgs Records Annual Blue
Book Is Southern Progress for 1911.
This pamphlet Of 81 pages Is the
most con1pnct and convenient source
Of information about material de-
yelopment in the South that has
ever been given to the public, 1t is
the stBistical epitodhe OF the past
and present Of the. South, and bristles
with Information about the elements.
Of certainty as toathe soqth's great
future.
IN this comprehensive volume are
the records showing that Al cities in
the South. each now having popu-
lation Of more than $4,000, have in
the last 30 years increased their ag-
gregate population from 1,5O6915 to
S.57O,T70, or by nearly 1877 per cent,
an index to the growth of industries
in the South, that Of 100000 esti-
mated horsepower in Southern
streams only about 100000 horse
power has been developed, and that
the value Of the cotton crop Of the
South in 10 years has exceeded by
more than $1,761, 100000 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 value
Of all the gold mined in the same
time. Tho cotton crop, with its
seed, now approaches 100000, 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, $7SO,OOO,OOO, for instance,
being the value Of 1O4,OOO,OOO BUSH
els of cereals harvested in 1910.
Comparison of the progress Of the
South and that Of the country marks
the industrial advancement Of the
South, shown in more active cotton
splndles in the South now than were
IN the whole country in 1880, in a
greater cut of lumber in the South
by more than 5,OOO,OO0,OOO feet in
ipfg-iron production and in petroleum
output nearly equal the country's 80
years ago, and in the greater amount
by 30,0Oo,0OO tons Of coal mined. In
crease in 80 years in railroad mileage
from 2O,612 to 71,9O7 miles, in the
value of exports from 1865 ,OOO,O to
S62S,0OO,O00 and in resources of nat
ional banks from 100000 to ST.
S71,OoO,ooO. are among other items
treated in the Blue Book of Southern
Progress" by States and in compari-
son 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 statis-
tics Of the IA Southern States have
been added, where possible, the fig
ures Of Oklahoma and Missouri, with
out, however, including them in the
Southern totals.
For each of these 16 States and the
District of Columbia is presented a
separate table summarizing the facts
of 80 years set forth in the topical
tables. In the statistics generally
the latest and most authoritative fig
ures available have been used and
where estimates have been made, the
effort has been to give conservative
results.
For nearly thirty years the Manu-
featuring Record has published as
quickly as they have become acces-
ible the magnificent facts Of Southern
achievement, upon which these latest
and most up-to-date statistics are
Based and has in addition issued from
time to time more or less elaborate
summaries, which have carried to