| Show SOUTH'S WONDERFUL RESOURCES Mr Richard I D. D Edmunds th the thi editor of the Manufacturers Manufacturers' Manufacturers Manufacturers' Man Man- Record of Baltimore in a speech before the southern so society in Boston last spring sprin in the course ourse of hi his address said to hi his southern fri friends nd H You You all had better come conic home What he meant was that the resources resource of the south promised thorn better hetter returns and swifter fortunes than they the would obtain in the north He pointed out that n according cold ng to the the the- reports of the Un United ted States geological survey there is of iron in the south t ten len en billions of or tons or about five fi times as much as tho known ore supplies of the thc Lake Superior region or 01 as ns much as that region and all Europe combined contained He lie predicted predicted pre pre- also that within thirty years cars the iron in the Lake Superior region will be exhausted and the south will have practically a monopoly of the thc demand de dc dc mand inand unless other sources are discon discovered red Sho She has I moreover square miles of coal depo deposits which is nearly 30 per cent in excess of the entire coal area of Europe She Sho has also remarkable developments de dc- de- de of petroleum and one of her greatest assets assets assets as as- sets is horsepower available for the whole year ear in the Appalachian ranges Then for the past five years ears the south has produced a arear year rear of cotton so mu much h of which goes goe to the tho marl markets of Europe that if it were possible to gather annually annually annu annu- ally every ounce of gold mined on e earth rth and pour it into tho the south the same would still fall short by bj of paying parin Europe's indebtedness to this section for cotton Then the south raises bushels of grain annually The culture of fruits and vegetables is advancing at a rate that makes the profits it seem fabulous The fruit of Florida returned to the acre onions in Texas are arc worth 1000 an an acre and rico in Louisiana makes the thc land worth an acre which twenty years ago could have been bought for 25 cents Hence his appeal to absentees as follows The south calls to you ou It calls with deep earnestness Come home It promises you yon a wider field for capital capital capital cap cap- ital for mn muscle and for brain than any other equal area on earth and it calls you ou not only by reason of what it offers in material possibilities but because in iu shaping its destiny it needs the hearty cooperation cooperation cooperation opera co tion of those who broadened by travel and study and the intermingling with the tile people of sections sections sec see are arc the better prepared to help formulate and aud carry to fruition the policies which make for ethical and religious as well as for material advancement Come home |
