Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-21
WE NEED MANUFACTURES.

1 County Chamber of Commerce has
gone on record as being in favor ami
proposes to foster manufacturing en-
terprises for Americas and this Sec
] tion it will not be amiss or out OF
place to make few comparisons. To
say that Georgia has s25S,O0O,00O in
vested in Manufacturing enterprises
conveys but a vague idea as to her i'm
portance as manufacturing state,
: nor does it count for much unless we
can arrive at some intelligent under
standing as to how this will compare
with what other states have invested
aud at the same time study the facts
ir connection with the population, the
area of territory, natural advantages,
etc.
In recent issue of the Manufactur-
ers Record we find the following COM
parive figures which should prove eye
openers to the people of the osuth and
especially Georgia, the grand old en-
lpire state of the South. She possesses
perhaps more natural advantages for
manufacturing enterprises than al
most any state in the Union. The fig
ures referred to are as follows.
In 1914 Connecticut had invested in
manufacturing total of $G20, 1874, 900.
The increase in the five-year period
from 1909 to 1914 was greater by S22,.
100000 than the total of capital in
vested in manufacturing in Missis-
Isippi 1t was greater by $4,000, 900
than the aggregate manufacturing cap
ital of Arkansas.
The magnitude Of this industrial de-
Velopment in Connecticut is seen in
the fact that it is $159,o0O,00O greater
than the combined manufacturing cap
ital of Georgia and South Carolina,
and is $84,0O0,O00 greater than the to-
tai manufacturing capital of North
Carolina and Texas.
These simple facts, striking as
they are, can be better understood
when it is remembered that the total
land area of Connecticut is only 1920
square miles, while the land area of
Georgia is 5s,725 square miles, that of
South Carolina 3O,495 square miles
and that of North Carolina 4S,74O
SQUARE miles, while Texas is simply
too big to talk about, with it's more
than 100000 square miles. But area
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Connecticut has a population of l..
100000 only.
Connecticut had invested in its fac
tories in 1914 more than $500 per
capital for its entire population while
Georgia in 1914 had only 092 per cap
ita, or but little more than one-sixth
os much per capita as Connecticut.
Rhode Island is smaller than many
of the counties in the South. tbs total
land area is 1867 square miles. It
hight be cut off of any one corner of
almost any state in the South and
the rest of the state would never know
that it had been lost, so far as area is
concerned. But Rhode Island had in
1914 a manufacturing capital of $780,
$4,000, though its population was
only 100000.
Rhode Island, with an area Of lit
tie more than 100 square miles, and
with population of only 100000, had
$46,Oo0O00 more invested in manufac-
turing than Georgia, with its 5S,OO0
s',uare miles and its 100000 people.
1t had $1O1 100000 more money in fac
tories than South Carolina with over
10000 square miles of land area and
a population of 100000. North Car.
DINA is accounted one of the prosper.
GUS industrial states of the South but
though it is 4S times as large as
Rhode Island, and though it's popula-
ton is nearly four times as great, it
had in 1914 s51, 100000 less capital In
vested in manufacturing than that tiny
little state of New England.