Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-11-28
THE SOUTH COMING MTo ITS OWN


new and powerful ally itself for the renewed
souh Chicago Tribune regarded by many the greatest
newspaper United States the world pledges itself to the
great development Immediately
ahead Hereafter stint its publicity of the truth re-
gardng our southern country that just have been dis
covered by nation which regards almost too
good be true.
Chicago Trbunes part the wonderful exploitation and
development acknowledged by all who familiar
matter large share of the credit for the settlement
of the lands reclaimed by irrigation belongs One of the
potent agencies that has set motion toward that end is
Chicago show founded by the Tribune in 1905 and it is
quite possible that displays that show this
year year been directly responsible for the tribune
turning its energies Dixie he Tribune realizes that the
for the development of the SOUTH says that
remafkng direct powerful force the
upbudng community publicity that tells the truth The
Tribune policy declared and its position defined striking
editorial published of November 5 which 1T spoke
of .the renewed south the remarkable economic
under the western hemisphere this
great phenomenon which illustrating the splendid
practical energies the courage the faith the efficiency the indus
try people, the great growing and thriv
ing business empire" Ae
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ss oa' THAI sn me s sonth stu: 6sefv rising
the civil The renewed south
the sndOf opportunity
The Trbunes editorial was inspired directly by interview
with Senator Fletcher president of the Southern Commercial
Congress published IN its preceding days ISSUE
Senator earnest believer the south
national Importance The congress which ne heads mas
two general make the south itself appreciate It's
own negently and second to sweep msap
regarding the south out of the minds of the nation
and the world
interview which the Tribune prominent display
pointed that the south exces IN nine
navgabe water rainfall wet
growing forests and numerals he recalled how
loss of three and half billion dollars
worth property oneenth of its population mo people
ever suffered history and survived said he mo
more stupendous problems faced people in the world
than resored said h and the
property valuations increasing amazingly each day
He pointed the south is the of the worlds cot
supply which it has practical monopoly unpossesed by
the its grain and supplies which face growing
world competition The real awakening of the south just be-
ginning said Senator Fletcher Out of six hundred and twenty
million of land in what is called the SOUTH not twenty-five
under cultivation The lands are the lowest priced
and productive be found the continent In area
large the British Isles Germany France Switzerland Aus
tra and Italy all combined the south has population of twenty
eight millions against two hundred and thirty millions IN the
named Senator Fletcher described the ouths vast
and its big increasing manufacturing interests
three million dollars being invested in cotton mills alone
thousand miles of coast line full of harbors OF
entyeven thousand miles of navgabe rivers in the whole
thousand in the south The great Appa
with its natural basins for holding
rainfall tenmon horse power of which not
beng utilized The south rainfall
fifty twelve and thirteen inches in the emard
west The possesses hundred varieties of so and hun
dreds of incredibly rich land capable of
drainage and cultivation.