Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-10-25


esting figures upon the mining, man
ufacturing and agricultural resources
of the South, have recently been COM
piled by the Manufacturers Record,
and will shortly be made public. The
statistics are unusually interesting,
especially to those interested in the
growth and development~ f the South,
and their publication expected to
awaken renewed inte. in this por-
ton of the nation The figures have
been gathered at great expense and
after a careful investigation of each
subject treated, and are authoritative
in every respect, each 81 ject being
handled by experts and the inviting
field for investment in the South IS
shown. together with the many advan-
/ tages to be secured there by capital
invested during the present period OF
rapid and spectacular development
The South is the nations greatest
asset. Undeveloped or developed to
limited extent only, it is neverthe-
| less the foremost asset of the ma
ton. 1t is true that the South has
made marvellous progress in agricul-
ture. in manufactures and in mining,
but comparing what it has done witt
available means and with what its re-
sources justify, it is still an undevel-
oped asset, with almost infinite poten-
tialities for national enrichment.
Its resources for agriculture, for
manufactures and mining, for diversi-
fed business interests, are almost
without limit. Their full development
would add immeasurably not only to
the wealth and power of the South, but
to the wealth and power of the United
States, making this country dominant
in world affairs, not by the might OF
armies and battleships, but by the
commanding influence of its business
I'd financial forces.
Having these resources in soil and
climate, in minerals and timber, in
water-powers, in geographical loca-
ton, and having begun their develop
ment the time has come when the
outh and all the people interested in
! is advancement, as we'll as all who
are interested in the nations advance
ment, should take hold of the situa-
/ ton with broader vision of what can
lie achieved. The South has five times
as much coal area as Pennsylvania,
and yet Pennsylvania is mining twice
as much coal as the South. The South
/ has ten times as much coal area as
Great Britain, but Great Britain is
mining twice as much coal The South
has three-fourths of the coking coal
and of the United States, but one lit
lie district in Pennsylvania is produc-
ng 100000 tons of coke every year
as compared with 6,740,000 tons made
in the South.
The South has vast stores of iron
ore hard by it's coking coal fields.
Pennsylvania, which hauls nearly all
of it's iron ore 1000 to 1900 miles, is
making three times as much pig iron
as the South, and nine times as much
steel.
The South produces about three
fourths of the worlds cotton, but it
has less than 10 per cent. of the
worlds cotton spindles.
The South has 1896, 900 of capital
in it's national banks. The United
States has four times as much, or a
total of over 100000.
The South is producing 1,25O,O00,00O
bushels of grain. This could be dOu-
bled, to the profit of the South and
the country at la1 ge.
This section ships $1O0,000,00O of
early fruits and vegetables to the
North and West The time is rapidly
coming when outside sections will need
four or five times as much of these
products from the South. There is no
limit to the extent to which the South
can increase it's fruits and vegetables
For instance, there is one little area in
Florida of 10000 acres under cultiva-
ton which yields annually about 3,
900 carloads of fruits and vegetables
IN the immediate vicinity, entirely IN
cultivated, there are 100000 acres f
land which could be made to equally
az we'll.
4 The resources of this section in coal
and iron ore, cotton, sulphur, oil, nat
iural gas, cement rock, phosphate rock,
granite, marbles, soil, climate and
other things form combination for a
greater and more diversified manufac-
turing and agricultural prosperity than
that of the entire country at present
without taxing its soil or it's natural
resources for manufacturing.
These natural resources are like the
hurried talent-worthles unless they
re utilized. We are, as a leading cap
Ii'alist recently said, sleeping on bill
lions of value, but these billions yield
nothing of employment or profit to
their owners, to the South or TO the
nation until touched by the wand of