The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-19
The Manufacturers Record Gives Out Interesting
 Figures
PRODUCTIVITY OF
 SEVEN BILLIONS
Comparison of the South Today With Conditions in 1880 Is One of the
 Marvels of American ' Civilization

Baltimore. February 1s.-sspecial)-- The Manufacturers Record in its Thir- tieth anniversary issue says:
 In this year, 1912, less than half country since the close of four years devastating war and only 30 years re- moved from the days of revival of its energies, the 16 states of the south, including Missouri and Oklahoma, are annually
 Using S,ss7,ooo.ooo manufacturing capital in producing goods to the value of $3,s00. .000. .o0o.
 Yielding ss,oo0, 100000 in agriculture from lands valued, with their necessary building, at ss.s71, 100000.
 Cutting 2l, 900. 900 .ooo cubic feet. board measure, of lumber to the value of S45o, 100000.
 Deriving $s7o,ooo.Ooo of wealth from mines, wells and quarries.
 Employing s1s.oO0oo0 of capital in salt water and fresh water fisheries that bring in $20,ooo.ooo.
 Enormous Productivity
 Here is productivity aggregating nearly s0o,o0o.oo0 year. A few of It's items show its diversity and range They include
 s295,0O0.o00 invested in cotton mills with 11,sss,sss spindles and 2Ss,1se looms, consuming 1,143,03s.ssS pounds of cotton.
 ss7.ooo,ooo invested in cotton seed oil mills having crude products valued at s145,O0o,000
 100000 tons of pig iron from the furnaces
 9Ooo,oo0 tons of coke turned out from the ovens.
 15,00o.000 bales of cotton valued with the seed at ss75,o0o,0 ,00o
 1,273,S37,000 bushels of corn, wheat and oats valued at $500, ,000,0 900.
 s45,0o0,000 of the products of the sugar cane.
 2S.0o0,00o bushels of rice.
 s1Oo.O0o,oo0 worth of fruits and veg etables sold in northern and western mark cts.
 s70,oo0,0o0 of tobacco. \ 115,o00,0o0 tons of bituDinous coal
 s5.oo0,000 barrels of petroleum.
 5000, 900 tons of iron ore.
 2.700. 900 tons of phosphate rock.
 300,00o tons of sulphur
 375,00o tons of lead and zinc.
 The south's railroads have an ag- gregate length of ss,eo3 miles
 In national banks, with s236,s5ss $50 capital. have sl,s25.ds4e27 aggregate resources ana FS3t,4Zc,Dlu iHu1Nluudl deposits, while there are s1.1st045,9 ,949 such deposits in state and private banks, savings banks and loan and trust companies.
 Southern Ports
 Through southern ports pass s747.- s22,S4S of exports in foreign trade, or more than third of the total ex- ports of the country and of that total more than two-fifths originate in the south.
 The value of exports in the past fiscal year from one southern port, ranking in exports next to New York, was more than twice that of exports from all the Pacific ports of this coun- try and s23.O00.000 more than the value of their combined exports and imports The $2,140,000.000 of individual de- posits in it's banks. the s3,397 000. 900 invested in manufacturing and the SS,- 971 ,000, 900 invested in farm lands and buildings constitute something more than half the true wealth of the south, $27,500, 100000.
 In some lines the south has pro duced more in a year and in some less than the amounts named in these con- servattve estimates of the production in 1911; for instance the cotton crop, with seed, of the season ended Au- gust 31, 1911, having been worth S1- 0SO,00 1000, as compared with the SS75,- 100000 value. of the much larger crop being marketed Enormous many of these amounts are. their real significance ap- pears only in comparing them with production at other times in the Unit ed States as whole. The present wealth of the south ia &11, 1000, 100000 greater than the wealth of the country In 1880. though the south's population now is only 1,606 500 greater than the countrys was then. The near equality in the numbers of the populations emphasizes the fact that the south produced last year PAL = 3s5.000 more bushels of corn than the country harvested in 1860.
 Comparison Significant
 Even more significant. perhaps. is compa arison of the south today with the country in 1Ss0
 Its manufacturing capital Is s510,- o00. 900 greater than capital so invested in the United States in 1880.
 Its investment in farm lands and buildings Is within sl,226,000. 900 of such value in the whole country in 1SsO although the area of improved farm land in the south Is no. 0.7S9,000 acres less than the 28A771 GOO of such acres in the whole country 32 years ago.
 It's lumber cut, now more than half the annual cut of the country. Is B. GOO, 00000o feet greater than the coun- try's in 1880.
 It's agricultural products are worth at least ss0O,o0o,0oo more than the country's in 1880.
 It's cotton crop. with seed. in the season ended August 31, 1911. had q value more than twice as great as the value of the output of all the gold mines of the world and s457.352397 greater than the combined values of the ouputs of the gold mines and sil- Vcr mines of the world in the calendar year 1910. The raw cotton exported In that season was worth Si22,6aG,S65 more than the gold produced in the calendar year.
 There was difference in favor of the south of nearly s5.o00.ooo in value between the country's mineral produc- tion in ss0 and the south's in 1910.
 In 1910 it's coal output had great CT value than the output of all the gold and silver mines of the country. and the south mined moro bituminous coal than all the bituminous and an- tnracite coal mined in the United states in 1884, and it's 1911 output of pitumninous coal was nearly three tmes that of the country's in 1880.
 About the same record has been made m tho production of petroleum. the oil