The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-02-16
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
Annual Blue Book for 1911 Publish
ed by Manufacturers Record.

Annual Blue Book for 1911 fuDiISh-
ed by Manufacturers Record.
| All men of affairs who wish to
have in form handy for ready refer
ence the facts of what tie south mas
done in the past 80 years, what 1t is
doing now and what il possesses for
greater doing will find them in the
| Manufacturers Records "Annua,
Blue Book of Southern Progress
for 1911. This pamphlet of GA pages
is the most compact aud convenient
source OF information. abou. mate'-
| ial development in the south THAI
has ever been given to the pubic. 1t
| is the stasitcial epitomc of the past
and present of the south, and bris-
| ties with information about the ele-
ments of certainty as to the south's
great future.
In this comprehensive volume are
| the records showing that II cities in
| the south each now having a popu-
lation of more thames, 900. have in
the past 80 years increased their ae-
| gregate population from 1868
| to 3,570,770 or by nearly 1877 pei
cent, an index to the growth OF in
dustries in the south, that of $1,000
| 900 estimated horsepower in South
ern 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 s1.761 100000 the
value of the gold and silver produc-
| ed 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 N
| the same time. The cotton crop, with
its seed, now approaches $1,000
| 100000 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, $730, 100000,
| for instance being the value OF l.
100000, 900 bushels of cereals har-
vested in 1910 Comparison of the
progress of the south and that OF
the country marks the industrial ad-
vancement of the SOUTH shown IN
more active cotton spindles in the
south now than were in the whole
country in 1880, in a greater cut OF
lum Der in the south by more than
5000 100000 feet, in pig iron pro-
duction and in petroleum output
nearly equal the country's 80 years
ago. and in the greater amount by
80 900, 900 tons of coal mined. In
crease in 80 years in railroad mill
cage from 20,612 to 1907 miles, |
in the value of exports from $500 |
900 900 to $62S,000, 200 and in re- |
sources of national banks from |
$171,0O0,000 to 81 81, 900, 600, 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 III
this issue are the figures of livestock
in the south, while to all the statis-
tics of the A southern states have
| been added, where possible, the fig
| ures of Oklahoma and Missouri,
witho 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 gen
orally the latest and most authorita-
tive figures available have been
used and, where estimates have been
made, the effort has been to give
conservative results.
For nearly thirty years the Manu-
facturers' Record has published as
quickly as they have become accessi-
BILE. the magnificent facts of south
ern 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 elab-
crate summaries. which have carried
to the four quarters of civilization
the knowledge about the south which
has been so effective in Fastening its
material development Coincidently
the Manufacturers Record has furn
| ished in printed matter IN the
personal correspondence TO
| thousands of statesmen, educators,
| business men. newspapers and maya
zines similar material for orations
| essays. editorials and other articles,
| in the desire to neglect no opportun-
| itv or means of furthering the work
| and keeping the south and the rest
| of the world informed of the vast
| possibilities within the area stretch
| ing from Maryland to Texas.
This pamphlet contains the cream
of all these efforts. Copies of the
| annual Blue Book of Sou thern