The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-03-01
A new SOUTH INDEED.
SPLENDID HISTORY or PROGRESS de-
SCRIBED BY MANUFACTURERS
RECORD.

Few people realize the splendid
progress made by the South in latter
years.
In it's thirtieth anniversary issue
the Manufacturers Record says:
In the past so years, with its popu-
lation increasing in number by A.
434,975, the South has
Added $3,068, 100000 to it, capital
invested in manufacturing.
Increased the value Of its farm
lands and their improvements by &c.
758,91O,O00 and the area of it, i'm
proved farm acreage by 72,OO6,S25
acres.
Cut 352, 721, 900, 900 feet of lumber
Harvested 30,5O3, 1926 900 bushels Of
leading grains, Of which PASS, 309,-
900 were corn, 1910, 258,000 oats and
2,948, 1858, 900 wheat, in addition to all
the rice grown in the country, now
averaging from 100000 to 100000
900 bushels year.
Marketed 288,588,439 bales of cot
ton, increasing the annual production
from 5,761,252 bales to 12,120,O95 bales
ia the season ended August 81, 1911,
and to more than 100000 bales in
the present season.
Added $93,2OO,00O to the capital in-
vested in cottonseed-oil mills.
Made 63,16S, 900 tons of pig-iron and
14O,000,000 tons of coke.
Mined 1,523,OO0,000 tons Of coal
Dug 121 100000 tons OF iron ore.
Sold 37,700,000 tons of its pebble
and rock phosphate.
Produced 715,000,00O barrels Of pet
roleum.
Increased it's capital in the textile
industry by $274,000,000, representing
1O,649,832 more spindles and ~, 432
more looms than it had in 1880, which
are using 1901, 256,456 more pounds of
raw cotton now than then.
Swell the resources OF it, national
banks by $1,731, 1OO,168, their capital
by $1S2,964, 900 and their individual
deposits by $8S4,303,9S7, with individ-
ual deposits in other of its financial
institutions increasing in the same
time by $1,066, sos, 458, total increase
of such deposits in all banks of ST.
$4,000, 445.
Constructed 64,O37 miles Of rail
road i'm addition to double tracking
several thousand miles.
Spent $1,000,000,000 upon it's COM
mon schools
Sent through it, ports to foreign
lands merchandise valued at $685.
10000 and received through them
from abroad merchandise valued al
$2,014,671, 812.
It's exports have constituted near
ly 35 per cent Of the total exports OF
merchandise from the country, ind
OF that total 1921, 639, $3.50, or nearly
25 per cent, represent the value OF
the exports of raw cotton alone. The
value OF those cotton exports was ST.
949,261 900 greater than the value Of
the worlds output or gold in the 81
years, and the value of the 80 cotton
crops, with their seed, which was
SIS ,514, 0O0,O 900, was $5,001 $50 ,15S
greater than the worlds production
of gold and silver in the same period
Though there has been compare
lively, little change i'm the proportion
ate exports Of cotton, the difference
being only that between 68 per cent
of the total American crop in 1886
and GAL ler cent in 1911, there has
been a radical shift in the relative
positions Of the Southern mills and
of those in the rest of the country
Tn the period under review mills in
the rest OF the country consumed 81
916,938 bales Of the commercial crops
and Southern mills 37,532,673 bales
But whereas in 1880 he $4,000 bales
consumed by Southern mills were
but little more than 10 per cent. OF
the American consumption of cotton
in 1911 Southern mills used 54.2 pei
cent of the American consumption
meanwhile having used in three other
years, more cotton than the mills in
the rest of the country.
Tit il not surprising that such
achievements have been recorded in az
addition OF 1928, O00,0 900 to the esti-
mated true value of Southern proper
ty, that increase actually being in
amount $2,163,O00,0O0 greater than the
wealth Of the whole country in 1856
and nearly twice the value of South
ern property in 1880.