The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-03-29
IHE HATfIESBURG news

SIS tons to 5,796,OOo tons, or at the
rate of 1859 per cent.
Mined Al, 100000 tons of phosphate
rock, increasing its annual output from
2t1,377 tons to 100000 tons.
Produced SO2,2O0OO0 barrels of pc
troleum, increasing the flow from 49,
600 barrels to S4,SO0,0O0 barrels.
Increased it's annual production OF
natural gas from a few million cubic
feet to 100000, 100000 cubic feet, near
" ~ per cent. of the total output of
the country.
Changed radically the status of the
sulphur market of the world by ex-
plotting beds of nearly pure sulphur
and increasing the country's output
from a few hundred tons to nearly
100000 tons year
Brought within its limits the cen
ter of world production of lead and
zinc,
Become the main source in this
country of bauxite for the manufac-
ture of aluminium.
Increased the annual value of its
mineral production from $1S,226,OOO to
1885, 700 900, or at the rate of 2Ol6.2
per cent, compared with rate OF
3S1.5 per cent. in the rest of the coun'
try.
Harvested 81, $4,000 bushels OF
corn, wheat and oats, and advanced tc
an annual production of ,4O4,2OO'OOC
f bushels of grain.
Marketed 3O5,OOO,OOO bales of cotton
more than doubling the annual croI
= of the staple. involving the production
: since 1880 of 12O,OO0OOO tons OF cot
tonseed.
Expanded it's annual production O
rice from 2,254,OOO bushels to $4,000,
600 bushels.
Increased up to 1910 its agriculture
capital tits investments in lands
buildings, implements and live stock
from $2,762,O77,OOO to $10,961,S66,OOC
or by $3.50, $4,000 equal to 1868 pc
cent, while the rest of the countr
had an increase at the rate of 22l.
per cent. there being a like divergenc
in favor of the South between the rate
of increase in the value of agricu
tural products.
Cut 81, 100000 feet of lumber
increasing the annual output from 3
500, 100000 feet to 10000, 100000 fee
or at the rate of 426.3 per cent, an
marking an advance in the annuf
value of forest products from SIS
21500O to $685., $4,000, or at the rat
of 767 per cent, against an increas
in the rest of the country at the rat
Of only 744 per cent.
Made 66,222,SSS tons of pig-iron, il
creasing the annual output from 44S
97S tons to 3,O54,9SO tons, Or at ii
rate of 1904 per cent.
Made 145,94O9O5 tons of coke, 1
creasing from 374,OOO tons to 7,974,OO
tons, or at the rate of 2032 per cent.
Added 11,172,OOO spindles and 90
500 looms to the equipment of its &C
ton mills, the annual consumption
the staple by them increasing fro
111,770,0 900 pounds, or less than Is p
cent. Of the country's consumptio
to 1919, 100000 pounds, or more thu
half the country's consumption.
Practically created the cottonse'
crushing industry, now having an a
nual output valued at about $4,000
OO0
Developed it's Portland cement Of
nut into an industry of 100000 b;
rels annually.
Multiplied its capital invested
manufacturing more than ten tim
from s35O,OOo,OO0 to 9,5O0,ooo,O0O, a
the value of its manufactured pr
ucts more than six times, from $6I
$40, 900 to s3,9OO,OOO, 900, or at the RI
of 526 per cent, against an incret
in such value in the rest of the CO
try Of 1924 per cent.
These notable developments cal
for the building of 66,O64 miles of r
road, an increase at the rate of ~
per cent. compared with 92,66S n
mileage in the rest of the country