Show TilE NEW SOUTH Tlio Washington Critic refers to the Report parts of the Bureau of tatis tics in connection with its refercmc to the remarkable progress of industrial enterprises in the ten States of Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Tennessee and Kentucky facts and statistics are grouped together showing a greater comparative advance in nearly all branches of productive Industry especially in manufacturing and for utilizing the vast deposits of iron and coal in those Slates than in any other section of the country The details de-tails Homo of which were published in lie nr IOCItAT a week or two since afford n startling and encouraging re elation ela-tion of the exhaustless material resources of the Southern States Capital and labor la-bor have transformed wilderness places Into busy and profitable hives of industry Tho magnificent waterpowers and forests for-ests hitherto largely unproductive have been improved and levied upon the sleeping mineral treasures havo been unearthed railways have been built largo and neglected plantations have been cut up into small farms and cultivated culti-vated by their owners virgin and rich soils have for the first time been turned up to the sunshine and the rain and respond In golden harvests for the laborer and towns and cities have sprung up as if by magic Capital is still pouring pour-ing into these favored States and recuperative recuper-ative energy goes on from conquering to conquer Tho experiment of free labor is n success and the New South is in industrial accord with the more frigid North and the fertile West |