Excerpt from Georgia

If one will give free rein to the imagination and picture the future of a section that contains one-half the iron ore of the United States, nearly three times as much coal as Great Britain, Germany and Pennsylvania combined, which dominates the phosphate and sulphur trade of the world, which has much of the richest oil territory known, which has one-half the standing timber of the country, which produces all of the rice, most of the tobacco and adds to these eight hundred million bushels of grain per annum.

Then remember that it holds a world monopoly on cotton production and is rapidly becoming a great textile spinning section - every dollar of gold annually mined on earth is not sufficient to liquidate the South"s bills against Europe for cotton - then think of the vast water powers, the splendid rivers, the great seacoast with magnificent harbors and expanding commerce, and you will gain but a faint conception of the future of the "New" South - the Great South. "New" in the sense that its vast possibilities and undeveloped resources have but recently begun to be exploited to the world.

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