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

was in power pretty wei all lne Time
Now. let's dwell little while on
the industrial achievements of Tne
South. and | prophesy that in tue
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
rhe South has come since 1900, and it
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 23O per cent
In aggregate resources, and greater
than 20 per cent in individual de-
posts for the national banks of the
South, while for those in the rest OF
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 indlVld-
ual deposits The aggregate resources
of the national banks are now greater
by $36,S70,104 than the aggregate re-
sources of all the national banks OF
the country in 1880. Of the tota''
SO, $50, 100000 estimated value OF ag-
ricultural products in the country IN
1913. the South yielded 1854 600, GOD.
or nearly 81 per cent. The value OF
the raw cotton exports in 1918 is
IS14O. 0OO. 600 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?
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, water
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. It has marbles Of the highest
rank for building purposes, and prac-
tically 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 161
square miles There are important
gold deposits in many of our counties
and mining has been carried on for
almost a hundred years. The first
gold coins in 1929 were from Georgia
| metal
Georgia's Rapid Progress.
The industrial development of
| Georgia has made rapid progress and
covers a very wide range of diversi-
| fled manufacture. Our State has
! more than 100000 spindles and 40
! 900 looms. The rapidly of its indus
| trial development is illustrated in the
| fact that it's factory products in
creased from $106, 900 in 1900 TO
| 245,000,0 900 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 $22 100000 in
| 1900 to $75.0O0,000 in 1912.
As grand total ! will cite you to
the astounding figures that from the
! factories of Georgia in 1912 there was
! derived $245,000,000 from our farms,
! $3.50. .000: from our forests, $780,
go, 900. and from our mills, $6,O00,00O.
making a total gross income of $500.
| $50. 900.
The Manufacturers Record has said
of Georgia: She has great resources
| in soil. climate, water power. timbers,
! GRANTEES, marbles. CLAWS 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
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:
! haDitations 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 mere and way.
| Then the writer adds to the proph-
ecy the following thought: IF Isaiah
were on earth to-day he would un-
| doubtedly be a great engineer. and if
! 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 If exerted
in the goodly land pictured by the
| other. as he encoura ged the children
in the wilderness, and that the South
most aptly fulfills the description of
that goodly land"
Land for All Ages.
To this l may well add the heauti-
| full suggestion of Richards II 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 wom
an who wants to spend the latter
| years of life away from the billiards
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 thousa nds
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 gra sn
| the vastness of our country in arae
! in natural resources in population
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