Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-03-01
THE WEALTH OF THE SOUTH.

The southern states are not only coming into
their own in the shape of material growth and
but are talking about it very con
No longer is their light hidden under
a bushel The press of the south is telling the
rest OF the world what has been done in the last
generation and the story is convincing many Of
the shrewdest Judges that south Of Mason and
Dixon line lies the land of opportunity.
In considering the progress the south has
made in the last generation it must be remem-
bcred that its people impoverished by
war and unable to get credit in the money
tiers Of the country and the rest Of the world
The tide Of immigration never flowed freely in
its direction and for many years the burden of
taxation was felt severely because it lacked in
tlustrial enterprises that would benefit by high
tariffs Slowly but surely the south made its
way into the industrial field and it completes
on even terms with the north and east in many
important lines of manufacturing. AS a producer
only of materials for others use the south
made little progress. but, with the introduction
Of manufacturing it has become rich almost over
night. The relation of the to the other will
always be a matter of dispute among theorists but
the hard fact that factories and widely distributed
wealth have come to the south together is the
argument that eonvinees practical men.
For fifteen years after the the
south stood still. Most of its factories were of
merely local Importance and it had to sell its
the total capital invested in manufactures was
$}29.000000; in 1911 it was 1897 100000, gain
of almost a thousand per cent I'm 1880 the south
sold nearly all its cotton crop of SOL 900 bales
its mills taking on Y about 10000 bales but in
1911 its mills consumed 10000 bales out of
19lO-l9l1 crop of than l2000000 bales
Its production of cotton had grown hundred
and ten per cent and its mill consumption nearly
thousand per cent. In cottonseed. practically
waste product IN $50, the south has discovered
mine Of wealth. The total value of the output
Of the cottonseed mills in 1880 was less thar
seven million dollars; and in 1911 il was $145,
100000 a gain of more than two thousand pei
cent
Much has been said recently of the growth
Of the coal and iron business Of the south The
value Of mineral products has risen from some
eighteen million dollars in 1880 TO 100000. 00C
in 1911. The most striking gain has been mad,
N petroleum the production Of which has riser
from 10000 barrels in 1880 to S5000,000O bar
rels in l9ll The south now has some of tn,
largest producing wells in the country. anC
Pennsylvania. Ohio and Indiana must give plac,
to the south and to California
One Of the most spectacular developments o
very recent years is the mining of sulphur il
the Mississippi delta Hitherto unsupported de-
posts OF sulphur We're discovered in eNplOra
iort boring for petroleum. and a method Of min
ing absolutely new To- the world was develope,
e. meet the conditions Live steam Is forced
down into the sulphur far under the surface
melting i and forcing It 10 the top in o highl,
purified state ready far the market
FERTILIZERS have become one ~ the leadin,
southern products and the farmers 81 that see
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