The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-01-16


Sulpher mined. from $50 tons to
$4,000 tons.
Lumber cut. from 3,S1o,0o0,000 feet
to 21,6O0 100000 feet.
Coke made, from $4,000, tons to
100000 tons.
Pig iron made, from $4,000 tons
to 100000 tons.
Cottonsecd products, from $C.797,'
900 to $4,000, 900.
In 1850 a few cubic feet were the
measure of the natural gas produced
in the south, and the lead and zinc
derived there were Of small quantity.
In 1912 the section yielded 100000
tons OF the $4,000 tons primary lead
produced in the country. and $4,000
tons of the 1924, 900 tons OF zinc spelt
er produced from native ores. and its
80 ,000, 100000 feet of natural gas con
sttuted nearly SO per cent. OF the
total production in the United states.
Consequent upon this expansion in
productivity or contributing to il has
been increases in:
Number of spindles in cotton mills.
from 6S7 1000 10 II. 900, and number
of pounds of American cotton spun
increased from 111,777,000 to 1,s30,-
600, 600.
Lengths OF railroads, from 24,Soo
miles to $4,000 miles
Value of merchandise exported
through its ports from $264,90G,000 to
$S22. 2S7 900
Resources of national banks, from
$194,0S4000 to $2.15G,778.Ooo,
Individual deposits in National
banks. from $73.125,O00 to $1062, 90,
900.
Individual deposits in other institu
tons, from $117,440,o00 to $l,34o,oo0.
900.
One of the most striking measures
of this advance by the south is to be
had in comparing the section today,
with it's population of 34,000,000. oc-
cupying an erea of 945,088 square
miles, and the whole country in 1880,
with its population of 100000 and
its area OF 2,954,159 square miles
17,00e. 900 more population than the
south now has and an erea more than
three times as great. This comparison
shows that the south has quite az
much capital invested in agriculture,
800, 100000 more capital in factories,
/ 100000 more spindles and $4,000
more looms in cotton mills, $1,000,
900 greater national bank resources
and $1SS,000,OOO more individual de
posits in those banks than the whole
country "a years ago; it is making
nearly as much pig-iron and moro
than twice as much coke, has within
COO miles of the same length of rail
roads, is mining nearly twice as much
coal. and handling for exports mer-
chandise having value within 49,,
100000 of that of the whole country
in 1880.
If so much has been accomplished
in such a short time without trench
ing seriously upon many of the re-
for further achievement, what
may not be expected Of the future?
And this question looms larger as
one remembers that the work of the
it were, a kind of reaching into the
bursting with wealth,
while failing to appreciate fully it's
value because OF its very abundance.
1t is for the prophet in action, the
engineer, to answer, the word engi-
neer being used in it's broadcast sense.
He ought by this time to be fairly
familiar with the material which is to
engage its activities and the wide
field in which they are to be eXerted
for the welfare of the world.
What diversity of hill and dale
and plain and plateau. of mountain
and valley, of forest and field, Of
brooks and fountains and depths of
water the $4,000 square miles of the
south present! In it's eastern portion
is one of the great ribs of the world
the mountain system dominating the
Appalachian territory
from Wheeling, W. Va, to
Ala, and having an aver
age width Of about 200 miles. Within
it's area of 10000 square miles is en-
braced more than halt the aggregate
area of Maryland, Virginia. West Vir-
ginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ten
nessee, South Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama. In the western portion,
across the Mississippi, are the Ozark
lifts in Missouri and Arkansas and
the Cordilleran peaks of Texas. The
500 feet of Mount Mitchell, In West