Show rapid progress Pro oress being bo made by the south I 1 the Pro process giess of the south during recent years Is one of the tho wonders of the age between 1880 and 1900 the population of the couth south increased from to or 44 per cent but in the same period southern agricultural manufactured and mineral products product a increased in value from to or per er cent ceal farm values grew from to farm ing Is improving aa as Is shown by the fact tha the while the acreage in wheat increase in the two decades but 12 pr cent the crop increased 82 32 per cent the average per der acre to 1 nearly two boushele higher than the average for the whole country the corn cori bay and oat crops about doubled and the cotton output luer increased eased over 91 per cent the he value of the crop of in 1900 seed need included was the rice aud sugar crops muc much h more than doubled and the product of southern tobacco Is 70 per cent of that of the entire union the rural population Is in fairly prosperous and its go gaa in numbers between 1890 and t nd 1900 was much larger than that of all the rest of the united states there were cotton factor lee ies in 1800 1000 there were 00 between lieta in 1890 and 1900 the routh gained 2 2747 coton cotton spindles against ft a gain of ii 10 but tit in ili tho the north in tho I 1 same tho the capital in cotton increased from 53 to but oil mille furnace furnaces rolling mills furniture and oth rood woodworking working mills hove have aleo adso sprung up a as 1 it by magic an epitome of the manufactures of the south shows manufacturing lish ments in 1900 with a capita of at against establish mente merits in 1880 with a capital of at the value of product haa has gro il from GI to 1 ft the mining output in 1600 was against la 1882 the lumber industry has aleo also increased phenomenally thie industrial promo pr osiee ss haa has re largely from the expansion of ar the railway systems and the improver i of harbor facil itter southern i porte ports have increased their export exports since 1880 by 99 6 per cent this being u sequel of tho the increase of southern ou thern railway leage from milea miles to miles a growth of per cent against the growth af but 98 per cent li la the rt rost of the union |