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Show SOUTH GROWIMRICH WONDERFUL PROQRES8 MADE IN ' RECENT YEARS. Population and Value of Products Show Enormous Gains Manufacture Manufac-ture Industries Being Established In all Parts of the Country the Figures. Tho progress of tho south during recent years Is ono of tho wonders of tho ago. Between 1880 and 1900 tho population of tho south lncrcasod Horn 10,369,960 to 23,648,404 or 44 per cent, but In tho same period southern agricultural, manufactured and mineral min-eral products Increased In vnluo from 1,134,B8C,229 to 2,844,C4G,440, or 157 por cent. Fnrm values grow from S2.290.3C4.321 to $3,951,C31,C32. Farming Farm-ing Is Improving, as Is shown by tho fact that, whllo tho ncreago In wheat Increased In tho two decades but 12 per cent, tho crop Increased 82 per cent, Tho average per aero is nearly two bushels higher than tho averago for tho wholo country. Tho corn, hay and oat crops about doubled, and tho cotton output Increased over 99 per cent. Tho valuo of tho crop of cotton In 1900, seed Included, was J550.000.000. Tho rlco and Bugar crops much moro than doubled, and tho product of southern tobacco Is 70 por cent of that of tho cntlro Union. Tho rural population Is accordingly fairly prosperous, and Its gain in numbers between 1S90 tnd 1900 was much larger than that of all tho rest of tho United States. 1880 thoro wero 1C1 cotton factories; factor-ies; In 1900 thoro woro 400. Botweon 1890 and 1900 tho south gained 2,747,-839 2,747,-839 cotton spindles, against a gain of but 2,172,410 in tho north. In tho samo period tho capital In cotton manufacturing Increased from $53,-000.000 $53,-000.000 to J124.000.000. But oil mills, furnaces, rolling mills, furnlturo and other woodworking mills have also sprung up as If by mnglc. An cpltomo of tho manufactures of tho south shows 92,522 manufacturing establishments estab-lishments In 1900, with a capital of $1,111,088,852 against 43,725 establishments establish-ments In 1880, with a capital of J251.692.038. Tho valuo of product has grown from J445.572.4C1 to Jl,-419,001,873. Jl,-419,001,873. Tho mining output In 1900 was J115.352.763 against J17.807,-646 J17.807,-646 In 1882. Tho lumber Industry has also increased phonomenally. This industrial progress has re suited largely from tho expansion of tho railway systems and tho improvement improve-ment of harbor facilities. Southern ports havo Increased their exports since 1880 by 99.5 per cent, this being a sequel of tho lnc .aso of southern railway mileage from 21,612 miles to 52,594 miles, a growth of 143 per cent, against tho growth of but 98 per cent In tho rest of tho Union. |