The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-11

/ and the derivation of alcohol. acids
and other by-products. In the ter
ritory, about 1875 miles wide, and en-
bracing about 90,000.000 acres OF
! land extending from the Chesapeake
| basin to the Rio Grande. Is the main
/ source of the supply of naval stores
/ of the country, having an annual out
put valued at more than $2o,000,OO0.
! Steel vessels for war or for COM
! merce are built at two or three points
( in the South. There are locomotive
! works and car shops, rolling mille
and blast furnaces, foundries and ma
chine shops and stove factories. and
plants making bottling, filtering, fer
/ tilizer mixing, gas-producing. hosting
mining. mixing, recruiting. refrigerat-
ing, transmission. woodworking, ciga-
rette. cotton gin. cotton mill. cotton
oil, dyeing. drykiln, flour mill. grain
elevator, ice, laundry, oil and coal
washing, stone cutting and other ma
chinery. axies, boilers, gas pumps,
iron roofing. nails. wire, piping. iron
Z rails and steel rails, sashweights.
structural iron, tinplate, tubing and
tools, the distinct manufactures OF
! iron and steel in the South number
f! ing more than 100 Diversification
in this field has advanced much more
rapidly. comparatively. than the pri-
mary industry OF making pig-iron.
The output, however. of pig-iron has
increased since 1900 from 2,642.720
tons annually to 3.2Ss.907 tons, or at
the rate of 243 per cent.
/ Coke-making in the South has a
better record, the annual output hav-
/ ing increased from 5.s3S.6l2 tons to
s,1s9.4 28 tons, or at the rate of 39.e
/ per cent. The difference in the rates
OF increase Of pig-iron and coke is
accounted for by the shipment to other
parts OF the country of coke made
lin the South especially In West Vir-
( gnia, which is the center of the great
est deposit OF coking Goals In the
world. a region containing IS per
! cent OF such Goals in the country. In
spite of that, West Virginia is not
obtaining the best results from Its
{ coking Goals. Last year 1i,s34,251
I tons of Its coal were converted into
7,750,000 tons of coke. or something
more than one-sixth OF the total out
put of coke in the country. But OF
4 the total coal of the State used for
/ this purpose 100000 tons. or nearly
lsS per cent. were carried to other
States to be made into coke. This
situation suggests untouched posi- bill
tiles in West Virginia, not only In
| coke making. the gas. quite a con-
1 sideration when the coke Is made
near a city finding use for the gas in
illumination and power, Is a minor
factor in West Virginia. with its vast
stores of natural gas. and. moreover,
I the opportunities for iron and steel
! plants at tidewater where the fuel
]! and the fhnx may conveniently meet
Iron ores brought from abroad may
create an Irresistible demand for the
looking Goals of West Virginia and
, Kentucky, and. perhaps, other States
But there would still be the call for
more iron and steel manufacturing in
those States and in other interior To-
calities.
/ Ranking next in the South to lum-
Der in the value of its products IL
1.-THE cotton goods industry. Coincide nj
with the expansion in the iron indus
| try. In the revival OF manufacturing
energies in the South in the eighties,
was that OF the textile industry, which
j had been almost paralyzed by the war.
Textiles though. as was to be expected
/ in the section Of the country monop-
olizing cotton growing. have differed
/ from iron making. in that they have
maintained a constantly accelerattng
rate of advance. Mills OF the South
are now producing q hundred differ
ent kinds Of spun, woven and knit
goods, and their equipment Is being
! enlarged steadily. Sixty-fire per cent
or S.h1I,254 of the 13.12e.000 active
spindies. added to the cotton mills OF
! the country since 1900 has been in
stalled in the South, increasing the
number there from 4.467.3S3 to H.
/ 97s.637. or at the rate OF 1908 per
Icent Speed in increasing the South
ern loom equipment has not been
quite as great. although the additions
number l53.4s4, or 40.3SS more than
the total in 1900, showing an increase
OF 1857 per cent. These spindies ano
looms consumed in the season ended
August 81. 1914, 1.450.000, goo pounds
! OF American grown cotton, while the
mills in the rest of the country con-
| sumed 230,00o,00e pounds less. In
1900 the mills in the rest of the coun-
I try consumed 3l7,s13.000 pounds more