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VOLUME 27
"TIE SUNRISE OF THE SOUTH"
manufacturers record paints brilliant future for the south
phrophetic Vision of Great Editor The Greatest Era In History of The South
At Hand—Urges Southerners To Remain At Home—Facts And
Figures Tell of Great Growth In The Last Few Years.
Since 1867 the South has mined
31,000,000 tons of phosphate rock.
In the past century the South
has mined 1,675,000,000 tons of
coal.
Since 1859 the South has pro
pped 365,000,000 barrels of pe
troleum.
Since 1880 the South has cut
270,000,000,000 feet of lumber.
In the past ten years the South
has raised 112,500,000 bales of
cotton.
If the South had given . away
to other sections ail the phosphate
rock, the coal, the lumber and
the petroleum that it has produ
ced in the periods mentioned, or
all of the cotton, with the seed,
that in has produced in the past
ten years, its loss would not have
been as great as- that which has
come to it through the migration
toother sections since 1865 of
2,500,000 of its natives. It rais
ed and educated this vast army
of people, only to see them after
reaching the productive age leave
home and give their energy to the
upbuilding of other sections. Its
life blood was drained to enrich
other regions.
The latest available figures
show that of 15,757,318 white na
tives of the South living in the
United States, but 12,625,208, or
80 per cent., are in the State of
their nativity: 1,786,189, or 11
per cent., are living in other
Southern States, 1,247,121, or 9
percent., are in parts of the
country other than the South.
At the time of South Carolina’s
beginning the commercial pro
duction of phosphate rock condi
tions in that State were such as
to discourage young men of ener
gy and ambition. There was a
pall upon most opportunities.
When West Virginia became a
pioneer in the South in petroleum
production with its output of
120,000 barrels in 1876, and when
Alabama about the same time
nearly doubled its coal output in
one year, the pall was beginning
to lift, though not sufficiently to
check the movement popula
tion bound outward from the
South.
That pall has passed forever.
Not only is there every reason
why the more than a million ex
iles should come home, and not on
ly is there no reason why a South
erner should seek opportunities
outside the South, but there are
mighty reasons why millions of
thrifty men should become South
erners by adoption.
In the past 25 years the pro
gress of the South on nearly all
lines of human endeavor has been
short only of the marvelous. But
it almost is nothing compared
with the advance that the South
is yet to make before its vast
Possibilities have been thorough
ly developed. In that develop
ment are myriad opportunities
lor millions of Southerners in ev
ery direction.
Since 1880 the value of the
Southern farm products has in
creased from $660,000,000 to
$2,225,000,000, or by 237 per
cent. Millions of acres of fertile
soil are still to be brought under
the plow, and millions now tilled
are to become greater producers.
Of the 516,000,000 acres of land
in the South, 281,000,000 are
wooded, 23,000,000 of them be
ing of a non-agricultual character
in the Southern Appalachians.
Of 338.000,000 acres in farms,
but 117,000,000 are improved.
If half of the unimproved acre
age should be brought under cul
tivation, the annual agricultural
output of the South would ap
proach $5,000,000,000 in value.
Therein is the opportunity for
2,000,000 farmers, representing
a population of 10,000,000. Scat
tered over the South are 55,000-
000 acres of wet lands, the great
er portion of which is reclaimable
and when reclaimed will add
$3,500,000 to the permenent
wealth of the South and give, it
an additional farm acreage with
an aggregate area about one and
a half times as great as the total
area of the six New England
States.
For these three basic indus
tries the South has wonderful
resources of raw material. Its
forest area of 223,000,000 acres
constitutes about 41 per cent of
the total forest area in the Unit
ed States. It is producing in
commercial quantities 50 of the
leading minerals of the country,
and its wealth in that particular
is suggested by the fact that 184
different minerals in North Caro
lina and 111 in Texas have al
readv been discovered. 01 its
original supply of 494,199,000,000
tons of coal it has mined but
1 675,000,000 tons, and has hard
ly begun to utilize vast deposits
of lignite lying under 6000 square
miles of territory in Alabama,
6000 in Arkansas, 8800 m I^ us '
iana, 7500 in Mississippi, 1000 in
Tennessee and 55,000 m eAas.
The annual value of the South s
mineral production has increase
from $13,818,000 m 1882 to
$287,000,000. . ~
Today’s aggregate production
in Southern manufacturing, agri
culture and mining is moreMha
$5 000,000,000, and some of the
bss’fS
” At the present rate of increase
the South's wealth should w,th
in th next 50 years, approacn
SBO 000 000,000. Butthemcrease
Sbeat i much greater rat
enougUnten to
setitsoppUtunities.i.tcanbe
given its proper equ,pment
The sunrise or aie
great chance is upon u.^.
8 The South is to become the
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1909.
market-garden for the United
States, with much to spare for
the rest of the world. When its
best lands for that purpose have
been occupied, its $100,000,000
annual business in trucking will
approach $1,000,000,000.
In its billions of tons of coal,
its other billions of tons of iron
ores, its phosphates, its granites
and other minerals, its forests
and other sources of material for
industry it offers bargains to the
first comers, to their children and
to their grandchildren. Why
should not men of Southern
birth enjoy their heritage?
The advice of Gen. Robert E.
Lee to a party of young South
erners at the close of the war is
worth repeating now. One of
the party recently told me that
they called on General Lee'and
said to him:
“Your name has carried us in
to many places where we did not
want to go. Fow we want to
take your n?me with us where
we are going, and we have come
to ask for your autograph on
these photographs. ’ ’
General Lee, in reply, said:
“If my name has carried you,
as you say, into places into which
you did not want to go, I want
you to be careful not to carry it
into any place where I would not
want it to go. Where are you
going?
“One said that he was bound
for Mexico, another that he was
looking to the far Southwest,
and the others to distant sections
because they felt there was no
opportunity for them at home by
reason of the destruction caused
by the war.”
General Lee said to them.
“As soldiers you served your
state faithfully; you did your
duty; you risked your lives in the
service of your country; but your
state needs you today more than
it needed you in war. It has
hard problems to settle. Its
business interests have been de
stroyed, and for these very rea
sons it seems to me your state has
a right to ask you to stand by it
in these days of trial and to help
to rebuild its fortunes. Consider
whether you do not owe to your
state, under these conditions,
the same devotion to it, the same
self-sacrifice that you gave to it
at the call of war. ’ ’
The brave words of Robert E.
Lee in 1865, were a patriotic call
to duty. In the wreck and ruin
about “him it would have been
hard for him to prophesy the
greatness of the South today.
Now, it is not only the duty of
young men of the South to stay
at home, but it ought to be their
amoition, so that they may share
in the big doings of the tuture
and the great achievements that
are to be the South s.
The development of the South
should be led by the men of the
South. They should enjoy its
fruits to the full.
PROGRESS MAKING STRIDES IN
CIRCULATION AND BUSINESS
II IS THE ONE PAPER OF THE WHOLE PEOPLE
Has Largest Circulation of Any Paper Published In
Butts County—New Machinery Installed—Over
Two New Names Added To The
List In Past Few Weeks—Clubbing Offers.
The Butts County Progress, the Tri-Weekly Constitution, Uncle
Remus Magazine and Southern Ruralist from now until November
15 for only fifty cents.
This is the gaeatest clubbing offer of the year.
It is a winner.
During the last few weeks the Progress has added more than
two hundred new bona fide subscribers to its list. This gives it the
largest bona fide circulation of any newspaper published in Butts
county.
There is a reason for this. The Progress is a paper that the
people like. It is a paper for the whole people, clean, aggressive,
wide-awake and stands for the upbuilding of this section.
Go in a hundred iowns in Georgia today and you will hear the
people say: “We need a live up-to-date paper to pull for this sec
tion. Nothing helps a town like a live newspaper.” In the Pro
gress the people of Jackson and Butts county have such a paper and
nobody has been heard to complain about this section not being
properly aPvertjsed.
New machinery is being in
stalled. Within the last few
weeks anew and modern ‘ ‘Ad
vance” power paper cutter, op-
erated by hand or power, has
JSH BA been installed. The is here
with shown. “I think to put up
w kh ie j°b wot 'L Jackson has
IB had to contend with for the past
few years shows that we are loy
al and believe in paronizing home
industries all right, ” saida citi
-9 zen the other day.
Progress job work gives satisfaction.
There has not been a kick.
When you patronize the Progress you help yourself. It is the
paper that is pulling for you, working for you. It is the best pa
per the people of Butts county have ever had.
“Nothing succeeds like a square deal.”
COMMISSIONERS DECIDE TO
BEAUTIFY COURT LAWN
At the last meeting of the
County Commissioners a resolu
tion was passed favoring the sell
ing of the fence around the
courthouse square. The fence
will be sold to the highest and
best bidder. The matter was
placed in the hands of Mr. J. H.
Carmichael who will receive all
bids. It is said the fence will be
sold very cheap and anybody de
siring a fence for a cemetery or
for a yard can doubtless secure a
bargain.
The court house lawn is to be
beautified and walks will prob
ably be laid around the court
house from the different entran
ces. The selling of the fence and
the work of laying the walks is
conditional upon the removal of
the hitching posts by the city.
At present the hitching posts
and conditions arising therefrom
are unsightly and decidedly un
healthy. It is for hygenic pur
poses that the posts are to be
moved.
It is proposed to make the
court house lawn one of the
prettiest in the state. This can
be done at a small expense.
A TREAT FOR MILITARY BOYS
On Tuesday night the Jackson
Rifles were given a pleasant sur
prise by Mr. D. F. Thaxton, the
genial and popular proprietor of
the Jewel Bottling Works, who
entertained the soldier boys with
coca colaand cigars. If there is
anything a soldier likes more
than another it is a cool drink af
ter a hard drill and then a good
smoke after the drink. It was
hot Tuesday night. The boys of
Companv A. enjoyed the treat to
the fullest degree and went back
to the drill loud in praise of Mr.
Thaxton’s hospitality.
NEW ONES
They are still coming in. Here
are just a few of the new ones:
Mrs S M Herring, Quitman, Tex.
R Park Newton, Jackson,
R A Wilson, Jackson No. 1
W H Robinson, Eldred, Fla.
O A Thaxton, Norman Park, Ga.
G W Wyatt, Jackson No. 1
Akerman&Akerman, Macon, Ga.
Sam Norris, Jackson No. 7.
A L Wooten, Indian Springs;
W M Preston, Jackson No. 2
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