Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-08-06
50,000,O00 MORE GAN FIND WEALTH.
 HEALTH IN SOUTH
Louisiana Senator Shows Growth and Opportunities
 of Southland.

of the United states Dy Senator Joseph E. Ransdell, of Louisiana, in discussing the agricultural bill, now pending. Senator Ransdell is presi- dent of the National Rivers & Har- bors congress, member of the South ern Commercial congress, and is an authority on facts concerning the re- sources and opportunities of the South He has endeavored to have the South know itself, and to have the South known.
 In the address he brought out force ably the rapid growth of urban as compared with rural population, de- claring it to be a serious menace, as the consumers are increasing very much more rapidly than the producers. He also shows that the United States is losing in emigration to Canada about 100000 of people per year, who are carrying with them an estimated wealth of S120,OO0,000 The remedy suggested for the cure of these evils is emigration to the South.
 "Is the South healthy place to live?" he asked. Answering affirm atively, he gave forceful exposition of climatic and health conditions, which show that taking the entire year, one can enjoy more physical comfort in the South than in any other part of the country under conditions of health certainly as good as in any other section. He declared that "me terological maps and records demon strate that there is in the South a greater number of growing hours per year in combination with greater average annual rainfall and in combi- nation with a greater variety of soils than any other part of the United States"
 Cotton No Longer King.
 The South has been regarded as a purely agricultural country, devoted mainly to cotton. Both ideas are shown to be fallacious by interesting statistics proving that the manufac- lures of the South, aggregating four billions in 1915, exceeded by over 400 million dollars the entire output of agriculture in all it's branches. Cot ton was shown to have value of 750 million dollars last year, while the total agricultural wealth was $500 millions. The South has not been re- garded generally as corn country, but it's corn crop in 1915 was valued at 786 millions or 36 millions more than the value of the cotton crop, and marvellous yields of over 200 bushels of corn per acre were produced by a number of Southern boys.
 "In 1915 the grain in value of all farm crops in the United States over 1914 was 526 millions. Of this gain 317 millions, or little over 60 per cent, was in the South. Remember, the South occupies only on-third the total area of the country, and thls one third produced 60 per cent of the agrl- cultural increase. In other words, the South is advancing three times as fast agriculturally as the rest of the na- ton. Nor is this increase due to cot- ton. The 1915 cotton crop was valued at 75O millions, while the value ot d. versified crops, such as gram, sugar, hay, tobacco, vegetables, frults, ana so forth, and exclusive of live stock' was $1,957, ,OO0,000, or two and one half times as great as cotton. II we include live stock the total value or all southern farm products, eXcluslve of cotton, was $2,S50, 100000 in a9io, or nearly four times the value ot the cotton crop"
 Live Stock Industry Grows. Cattle, hogs, and live stock ot every kind, were shown to be Tn most prosperous condition and many iacts adduced to prove that the South ot1efs superior advantages in live stoch, especially cattle and hogs. senator Ransdell stated that with the eradlca- ton of the cattle tick that IS belng stamped out under government super vision, the South will become the live stock center of the nation. A wonderful showing was made 1' TOT minerals Until very recently; tns mind of the inquirer about the oouth reverted almost entirely. to raw COL ton, but last year the mineral dn outpuI was valued at about $500, O,0OO,ooo or two-thirds the value ot the coCCoh
 crop, and in many of the more lmpor- tant minerals the South leads the ha, tion. Of the 57 useful minerals mlneu in the United States every one IS pro, duced in the South except boraX ana
 platinum, and to make up for these two not produced, nine, namely phos- phate, bauxite, manganese, sulphui' S.hozonite, zircon, barite, fuilers earln, and nearly all the mica and pyrlte are produced nowhere outside the South The South is indeed mineral emplfe' "In 15 years the number of southern banks quadrupled, while their depositss increased from about three-quarters ol billion to nearly three blillons These figures show that the SouII now has banking resources as gfea, as the entire country had as late aS 1884,"
 Room For 50 Millions More.
 Referring to the Southern Commer'
 cial congress, organized in 19oo' t(
 make the South know, he said: IT, "This organization has done nople :1l
 and patriotic work, which IS or m
 calculable benefit not only to the South, but to the nation, justifying It. slogan: "A great nation through greater South One of it's princlpa
 achievements was its pioneering ane