Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15

Now, let's dwell a little while on
the industrial achievements or tne
South, and / prophesy that In the
course of human events this will yet
become the wealthiest and most rich
ly blessed spot on the globe.
The greater part of the increase IN
the South has come since 1900, ana II
has been much greater relatively than
the increase in the rest of the country.
Great Percentage Of Gain.
with about one third OF the total
population of the country between
1900 and 1914. the increase has been
at a rate greater than 1870 per cent
in capital greater than 230 per cent
in aggregate resources, and greater
than 21O per cent in individual de-
posits for the national banks or the
South, while for those in the rest oil
the country the increase has been less
than 81 per cent in capital, less than
1913 per cent in aggregate resources
and less than 143 per cent in individ-
ual deposits. The aggregate resources
of the national banks are now greater
by S36,870, 104 than the aggregate re-
sources of all the national banks OF
the country in 1880. or the tota-'
50, 759, 000,0 estimated value OF ag-
ricultural products in the country IN
1918, the South yielded $3,534, O0O'OoV.
or nearly 81 per cent. The value OF
the raw cotton exports in 1913 IS
$40. 600. 900 greater than the value OF
all the gold produced in the world in
that year.
And now of our Georgia Where
does she stand amid these master
niece industrial strides Of our section
and country at large?
T. The Empire State.
We people of Georgia have long
been complimented by applying TO
Georgia the entitlement, THE Empire
State of the South" indeed, she is
worthy of this designation. Georgia
has the largest area of any State east
of the Mississippi River. OF the
crops raised in Georgia, cotton Is the
most important. This State stands
second to Texas in the production OF
this staple. In our. congenial climate
and on our productive soil cotton,
corn, wheat. oats, sugar cane, wafer
melons, peaches, apples and many
other foodstuff articles are produced
in abundant quantities.
The State is rich in mineral prod
ucts, both as to variety and as to
quantity in which many of them are
found. 1t has marbles of the highest
rank for building purposes, and prac-
ticallv Of unlimited extent; fine gran
ties in equal abundance, granite
mountain near Atlanta known as
Stone Mountain. being classed as one
of the greatest granite beds known in
the world. We have a coal bed OF 10
square miles. There are important
gold deposits in many of our counties
and mining has been carried on 1or
almost a hundred years. The first
gold coins in 1929 were from Georgia
metal
Georsia's Rapid Progress.
The industrial development of
| Georgia has made rapid progress and
covers a very wide range of DIVERSE
| fed manufacture Our State has
! more than 100000 spindles and 49,
| 600 looms. The rapidity of its indus
trial development is illustrated in the
| fact that it's factory products in
creased from $1O6655, 900 in 1900 to
$245, 100000 in 1912
The progress of the banking inter-
ests of the State are indicative OF
| the general progress and prosperity
| of Georgia. The total bank deposits
| of the State rose from s22,000,000 in
1900 to $4,000, 600 in 1912.
| AS a grand total will cite you to
the astounding figures that from the
| factories of Georgia in 1912 there was
derived $245, 900 900; from our farms,
1853, 220 900; from our forests, $685.
632, 900, and from our mills, $6,000,000
making total gross income Of $780,
| S52, 900
| The Manufacturers Record has said
of Georgia: "She has great resources
in soil, climate. water power, timbers,
| GRANTEES, marbles, clays and other re-
| sources, offering an almost unlimited
field for industrial and agricultural
expansion"
Isaiah on Georgia.
Georgia Is a very substantial part
Of our glorious Southland, and a
writer has quoted from Isaiah, the
| Prophet, the following language con-
| corning the South: EVERY valley
| shall be exalted, and every mountain
and hill shall be made low, and the
crooked shall be made straight, and
the rough places made plain, and the
parched ground shall become a pool
and thirsty land springs Of water;
habitations OF wild beasts, where each
lay shall be grass; the wilderness and
! solitary places shall be glad for them
and the desert shall rejoice and bios
som as the rose, and a highway shall
be there and a way"
Then the writer adds to the proph
ecy the following thought: IF Isaiah
were on earth to-day he would I'M
| doubtedly be a great engineer. and il
he and Moses could compare notes
they would be obliged to confess that
the constructive work forecast by the
one would bring the greatest returns
for the benefit of mankind IL exerted
in the goodly land pictured by the
other, as he encouraged the children
in the Wilderness and that the South
most aptly fulfills the description OF
that goodly land"
Land for All Ages.
To this | may well add the beauti-
full suggestion of Richards H. Ed
monds: ITO the young and to the old
to the hustling active man who wants
to join the development Of the most
richly endowed country on earth, to
the middle-aged or aged man or WON
an who wants to spend the latter
years of life away from the blizzards
and the killing cold of the North and
West, the South bids a hearty well
come. with the assurance that the
experience Of the tens of thousands
who have already come is a guaran-
tee that millions Of others could come
and find health and happiness and
prosperity here"
When the mind undertakes to grasr
the vastness OF our country in area
In natural resources, in population
in productiveness and in all that goes