The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-27
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Amazing Progress That One Gener-
alton Has Witnessed.

alton Has Witnessed.
In the last thirty years the popu-
lation of the south has increased
IT'S per cent, but during the same
period the capital invested in manu-
features increased $50 per cent, the
value of mineral products 1880 per
cent, the output of coal 1900 per
cent, the value of farm lands and
buildings 305 per cent. the resour-
Ices of national banks S91 per cent
and the expenditures for common
schools 525 per cent. These figures
indicate something of the amazing
increase in agriculture, in manufac-
lures and in banking capital as
compared with the increase in pap
ulation.
The value of farm products in the
south in 1880 was $756,0o0.000.
Last year the amount was over 3d.
1000, 100000, and was greater by
$500, 900, 900 than the value of all
the farm crops of the United States
as late as 1890.
ut value Ol tApoit 10 lloiii SOaeA
ern ports last year was s747,000,-
00f; as compared with 1857, o00,-
| 900 for the entire country in 1890.
In 1890 the corn crop of the coun-
TRY was 1,4S9,000.0o0 bushels.
while the corn crop of the south in.
1910 was 1870, 900. 900 bushels. 1t
| is true that the corn crop of the
country in 1890 was less than the
average, but these figures give an
idea of the rapid development of
corn growing in the south, when in
! one year it could produce as large
as even small crop of the entire
country in 1880.
| The population of the sixteen
southern states is 100000 while
that of the United States in 1880
was 100000, but the capital In
vested in manufacturing in the south
is now $4,000, 1000, or $500, 900
! % more than the total capital in
vested n manufacturing in the
United States in 1880.
The south now has 1000, 900
iuOlt tOIlOA SPihoiCo thui Nit VI
ed States had in 1880. The value Of
! it's mineral products last year was
1869, 100000, or s5,000,000 more
than the total value of the mineral
products in the United States in
1880.
Last year the south mined u.s.
| 100000 tons of coal, while in 1880
the United States mined of bitumi-
nous and anthracite coal only H.
$4,000 tons
Possibly the most striking Illus
tration of the increasing wealth OF
the south is that, though it's popu-
lation is 100000 less than thai
iof the United States in 1880. the in
q dividual deposits in its Eationa
banks exceed the individual depos
tits In the national banks Of tn
United States in 1880 by $4,000
i 1000.
5 The south now spends for CON
{ mon school education over SIS, 900,
GOO, ar little more than the tota
expenditures of the United States il
1880 for common schools.
These facts merely show what the
south has achieved in things that
can be expressed in figures. They dc
not however, show the gain that
has been made in the accumulated
experience, in the momentum de-
veloped, in the worldwide recogni-
ton achieved of the south's amaz-
ing resources and of the almost lin
itless field which it offers for the
investment of capital, whether that
capital be money, or brains, or
Drawn.
! The south is indeed the nations
greatest possession; greatest in the
material wealth to be achieved,
greatest in the influence which its
geographical location, its domsna-
| ton of the worlds cotton trade and
| its enormous resources of coal and
iron and other minerals will give TO
lit in world commerce; greatest in
the strength of its Anglo-Saxon civ
| ilization and the influence that this
will ultimately have in shaping the
destiny of the country.