The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-11

than 25 per cent of the income the South derives
from its agriculture.
'Diversifcation has been found necessary for
home needs for soil Improvement and to supply
rapidly growing industrial market. 1t is being
recognized to greater degree than ever before
that the progress of agriculture and industry must
go hand in hand. Agricultural raw materials being
in constantly increasing demand for manufactured
products, as the work of the chemist and engineer
opens up new avenues of wealth creation there is
provided valuable addition to the farmers re-
turns.
1.-THE rapid development that has come about in
the manufacture of pulp and paper from Southern
pine has created source of income of great value
to the farmer. Pine of size necessary for the
purposes he grown in ten years or less, and the
mills located in various states while owning large
timber acreages, afford ready market for pine
timber at paying prices to farmers over a wide
area.
Modern forest practice is being introduced
everywhere in the pine belt. Replantng has been
carried onto degree that has placed the suppliers
of seedlings behind in their orders. Education is
being carried forward that fire, the great hazard
the forester faces may be controlled.
"More than 500, 600 has been invested in
the last two years in mills to use pine wood for
the manufacture Of paper and pulp.
Mills under way for the manufacture of
newsprint, which through Dr. Charles II. Herty's
interchangeable labor is equal to any newsprnt now
manufactured The utilization of the South's re-
sources to supply the publishers of America who
now buy from Sl75,000,000 to 5000, 1000, 900 worth
of wood pulp from foreign countries will keep this
market at home, adding to the wealth of our citi-
zens and the employment of labor This is only one
phase of what chemistry is doing in the South.
at is not generally known that in the Southern
states there is manufactured more than 20 per
cent of the blasting powder and high explosives
made in America. Nor is it generally known that
the South, heretofore said regarded as an agli-
cultural area, has nearly rs per cent Of the manu-
featuring establishments Of the United States.
THE South manufactures in its 478 fertilizer
factories 70 per cent of the dollar value of fer
tilizer produced in America.
"In reviewing the contents of the pages which
follow, there is disclosed such wealth of facts
about the South's steady progress throughout the
years of depression, it is impossible to deal with
them all because of space limitations in this fore
word.
"To the Investigator who will consult the tables
in this volume there will be found vast fund of
information about what has been accomplished
Here will be found the growth in life insurance
placed in Southern companies and their invest
mentS in the South, the encouraging activity in
iron and steel, Southern production for months
past being the bright spot in the steel industry;
the progress of aviation; the increasing of
natural gas; the more than 80 per cent increase
in the value of sulphur produced (the South sup
plies the entire production of the United States) !;
the remarkable growth in oil production in the
Southern states where new fields of magnitude
being developed.
Foreign trade through Southern ports has in
creased consistently during the past five years.
Last year the total commerce passing in and out
through Southern ports reached dollar value Of
$1,475, 624, 5S2, which was an increase over the
year preceding of 20 per cent. Exports totaled
for 1887, in dollar value, $1,O6l, 042S5 or ap-
proximately 30 per cent Of the total exports OF
the United States Imports through the Southern
ports amounted to S4l4,5Sl73l, an increase Of
nearly 33 per cent over the year before.
"In new construction the South made its great
est record in 1886, when total of nearly $1,000
900 900 reached in buildings, roads and streets,
and industrial and engineering projects. In that
year contracts We're placed Tor industrial plants
costing more than $322,000,O00. The year 1887
registered decline to $223947 900, which was
not unexpected in view of the conditions existing.
Of all the contracts placed however industrial and
engineering projects amounted to SO per cent of
the total which is larger proportion of the total
amount given out to contract than that registered
in the year before.
Nineteen thrty-seven showed material ad-
vance 1886 in general private buildings for
apartments and hotels banks and Offices churches,
dwellings and stores The gain was nearly so per
cent over the preceding period, the figures being
Sl26 900, 900 in 1886 and $3.50, 600. 900 in 1887"
Knoxville (Tenn) Journal.