The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-02-07
INDUSTRIAL WORK
IN THE SOUTHERN
STATES PAST YEAR
ALL LINES OF HUMAN ACTIVITY
REPRESENTED IN THE RE-
PORTED LIST.
Tennessee Comes Sixth in List of
States In Number of ltems-F'or-
ida Took the Lead Considering the
Population.

The wide sweep of Industrial, lail-
road and financial activity through.
out the South is family indicated in
the fact that during 1912 the Manu-
facturers Record in its construction
department published 57,686 items
bearing on the construction and f.
nancial activities of this section.
Every item had in it something of
interest and value to many thousands
of people, There is scarcely a line
of human activity not represented. 1t
would be difficult to find any business
man, whatever the character of his
work, whether he be a manufacturer,
merchant, railroad operator, prcfes.
sional man, farmer or day laborer,
who could not have found in these
items facts of great importance. For
| these items represented the experdi
ture of many millions of dollars in
every line of construction work.
There was thus created through
this work employment for many
| thousands Of people, for the day Ia
| borer, the mechanic, the engineer,
| the architect, the contractor for the
| man who makes and the man Who
sells machinery and supplies of ev-
, cry variety, from the dealer in office
supplies to the builder of the heaviest
machinery.
In this great list were over 81 600
items. There were 1872 bearing on
bridges, culverts and viaducts; 1896
dealing with electric plants; 466 with
drainage and irrigation operations;
1872 with coal mines and coke ovens;
543 bearing on ice making and cold
| storage plants; 1114 on land develop.
ments 522 on motors and garages
1890 on road and street work; 1854
on waterworks; sol on textile mills,
and $40 on wood working plants.
These are but indicative of the nun.
Der of items an the wide variety, as
illustrated in the table herewith
Texas led with 1894 items; Nilsson.
ri followed with 1854; Georgia came
third with 1906; North Carolina
fourth with 1857 Virginia followed
with 1891, and Tennessee came close
behind with 1887. Florida reported
2942 items, and Alabama 1922, the
great iron and stee Estate of the
South falling short by 20 items of
Florida AS Florida's population is
only about 100000, the general activ
ity of that state which enables il to
report so large a number of enter
prises is worthy of special considera
ton Kentucky, a state of almost in
finite potentialities, rich in minerals
in timber and in soil, which should
have been one of the leaders in in
dustrial activities, had 1913 items Of
more than 600 less than Florida
| MISSISSIPPI, state OF great pOSSlDll
tiles as yet but dimly appreciated by
it's own people. was, with the excep
ton of the District of Columbia. the
lowest on the list, with1733 items,
These facts ere worthy of study
They illuminate the whole industrial
and business situation through the
South. They should encourage thu
states which have made such sp,en
did showing to still greater activity
and they should stimulate the states
which have not yet measured up t.
their opportunities to do greate
things, and to make their develop
ment commensurate with their re
, sources. ..s. .s. ..ss..a
Considering population Floridi
takes the lead. This is especially in
teresting in view Of tn efact that dur
ing the last decade the population Ii
Florida increased more than AZ pc
. cent, against an average of IS pc
cent in all the Southern states.