French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-19
TEN BILLION DOLLAR CONTRFBU.
TION TO q. s. FROM THE SOUTH.
southern States Empire Of Wealth;
Last Years Farm Products Valued
at Nearly Five Billion Dollars.

The general public thinks about the
Southern States as q big, bountfful
farm. And it is. Its farm products
In 1916 amounted TO the stupendous
sum. of 1850, 600. 900. But
The trnthTof the matter is that the
contributes annually over $10,-
0~00s000,000 towards the country's
wealth. Because
The South Isl vast empire Of prec-
ious minerals. 1t is a mammoth
stretch of valuable forests. 1t is a
maze of rivers, lakes bays and CULTS,
swarm1ng with fish, oysters and CLAIMS.
It is dotted all over with live, growing
towns full of big factories and mills
running full time and overtime, with
important ports that exported $1,137,-
S91.807 worth of merchandise in 1916
nearly half the export volume of
New York, one Of the great ports of
the world. The South is a dominion
of IS 600, 900 people, a large portion OF
whom are classed as wellrto-do, if net
wealthy, rolling in prosperity to an
extent they never enjoyed before
For instance, the value of manufac-
tured products in the South, accord
ing to the latest reliable statistics
amounted to the colossal sum of 49,
696 ,502, 006, an increase of IL IL per
cent since 1909 and $1,406 362, 900
more than the Southern farm product
for that year! And these are not war
inflated figures, mind you! The Euro
pean war started in 1914, but it had
not then made any material dent upon
our manufacturing production.
The factory output the same year
of one Southern State alone, Missouri
totalled $63, 952, 00e-millions of dol
lars greater than the manufacturing
production of either of the great New
England States of Connecticut, Yer
mont, Rhode Island, New Hampshire
or Maine.
OF 81 useful minerals used in the
United States every n of them is
mined in the South except platinum
and borax. Nine are produced no
where else in the country besides the
South. The South's mineral produc-
ton in 1914 was $465, 100000 and min
eraligists say the are so
vast the surface has barely been
scrathed!
The present proved coal reserves in
the Southern States are figured at
$780, 600. 900 900 tons, or 25 per cent
more tina nthe most thorough explora-
ton of European countries has dis
closed. West Virginia has a greater
coal area than Great Britain nd Ger
many combined. Kentucky has
enough coal at present rate of con-
cumption to furnish the whole world
withthis fuel for generations to ONE
Alabama has demonstrated her abil-
ify f0 "onnfoPfnrn MIC iron mira
cheaply than any other locality on
earth. The South possesses so per
cent of the total iron resources of the
Nation and her production of pig iron
in 1914 was valued at $27, 900 ,0OO-a
mere hint of her possibilities. In the
Birmingham region coal and iron lie
side by side and no higher grade of
steel is manufactured in the United
States than that made from Southern
iron.
The South is equally fortunate in
endless stores of sand, gravel and
building stones, Georgia marble.
which represents over $1,000, 900 in an
nual production, and ranks with tho
most beautiful in the world, is known
everywhere. New York Stock Elk
change the beautiful home of the
STA4 a Il LOI COMPANY IA AkAHdOAPAAGS
.le Corcoran Art Gallery in Washing
ton and other great ediffces arc built
OF it.
FortWtwo per cent of lead and Al
per cent of zinc production Of the
United. States comes from the South.
The SOuth's output in 1915 was valued
at $6S, 900, 900.
They even mine diamonds in the
C0uKA 81 &hn ovEon% 4F QE Qn0 Worth
per week-best South African quality
lin Pike County, Ark!
Louisiana has put the United States
on the sulphur may of the world. OF
327,0 900 tons mined in this country in
came from the South:
In petroleum the Southern States
stands close to the front. Their out
put in 1915 was 50 per cent Of our Ma
tional production and amounted to
118, 00o, geo barrels. Old and gas go
hand in hand. The South leads I'M
production and value of its natural
gas. It's output in 1915 brought $49,-
000. 000-more than half the amount
realized from natural gas in the Unit
ed States.
The counties of Saline and Pulaski
In AAAh4onS p4ONuSG0[" L91OaeOV PSA
cent Of the worlds supply Of alunai-
num-, amounting to $16,0 1000.
Some Cf the greatest clay industries
of the country are in central Georgia.
The finest fish and oysters In the
world come from Southern waters and
the fishery and fish fertilizer industries
Of the South run annually into mil
lions Of dollars.
The annual cut of Southern lumber
/ sabout $3.50, 900, 900. It's yellow pine,
known all oversthe world, is as great
a Southern monopoly as cotton. Not
only have forests of the South given
much to the upbuilding of the country,
but its naval stores are enormous The
value of theses, 968,000 gallons of
furnenfina and 1883 900 barrels of