Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-11-07
.South's Industries
Show Big Growth
Now Producing In Manufactured Com
modities AS Much AS Whole u. S.
Outside Twenty Years Ago

ATLANTA, Nov. 7-Industrial de-
velopment in the South has expanded
so rapidly during the last score of
years that this section of the country
is now producing i'll manufactured
commodities as much as was produ-
ced in the whole country, excluding
the south, two decades ago, according
to business statisticians here today.
This progress it is shown began in
1880 when the South had barely re-
covered from the destruction OF the
Civil AYR, but made slow movement
until 1900 Considering conditions at
the beginning of the period Of develop
ment, manufacturers here declare the
industrial progress OF the south has
been more rapid than that of any 9TH
er section,
Starting at the ground, as it WERE
20 years ago, the South's industrial
production attained the huge total of
ten billions of dollars a year in 1920
and the manufacturing plants repre-
scented a capitalization of seven billion
dollars.
Considering the last twenty years
as a completed period, let us contem-
plate the development to be made dur
ing the next twenty years, said an At
lanta manufacturer. At the beginning
of he last twenty year period there
was practically nothing. At the be-
ginning of the present twenty-year
period there is a capitalization of seven
billion and an annual production of
ten billion, amounts equal to the capt.
talization and production of manufac-
turing plants in the whole country
exclusive of the South twenty years
ago.
Should the development of the pres
ent period be comparable in ratio with
that of the past this section Is to I'M
dergo a transition such as no other
country in the civilized world has ever
experienced. And that is possible.
What has been done has been only on
the surface Of our reserves.
We are still shipping the bulk of
our materials-Cotton, iron, and other
ores, lumber-to northern states and
foreign countries for manufacture in
to products. When all the South's
raw materials are being turned into
finished products in Southern plants
the enormous manufacturing totals of
today will appear as small in compar-
iSon as the totals of twenty years ago
with those of 1920.
From many sources come reports |
of expanding activity in Georgia in
dustries, according to reports receiv- |
ed by the industrial department of the
Georgia Railway and Power Co.
Feeling confident of the continued
high price of cotton and consequent
business activity, a group of business
men OF Rome, Ga, have organized a |
new cotton mill with a capital stock
of 100000
Other cotton manufacturing centers
IN the state, such as West Point. Col
umbus, La Grange and Gainesville. re-
port plants running full time West
Point reports day and night operation
and manufacturers who few months
ago could not use II cent cotton are
now demanding it at 20 cents
Quitman Mills at Ouitman Ga re. /
Gently changed hands and will from
now on, manufacture cotton fabric
for cord tires, being affiliated with the
interests owning the Mason Tire and
Rubber Company of Kent, o which
comapny will be the largest consumer
of the mills product.
At Brunswick, Ga, the states sec
ond new port, the Yaryan Rosin and
Turpentine Company is resuming full
operation after being closed down ev-
cry since last February.
Garment factories are running over
time to fill their fail orders. Several
canning factories have resumed oper-
alton and others are being built; and
some wood working plants are running
day and night to fill their orders, and
for the first time in ten years Savan-
nash's rice mill is going at a 1000
bushels day capacity.