Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1883 — SOUTHERN PROGRESS. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN PROGRESS.

Remarkable Increase of Material Wealth. [From the New Orleans Ttmes-Democrat.] The Times-Democrat presents this morning a complete review of all the South, from the Potomaoand Ohio to the Gulf and Kio Grande, in the form of interviews with the Governors of the States of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. The assessment rolls have just been completed in most of the States, ' which enable us to show in undisputed figures, in dollars and cents, the exact growth of the South since the oensus was taken. This showing is far more flattering than we imagined a few weeks ago; is almost startling in the wonderful growth of wealth: , 1883. —: . State. Assessment. Tax rate. Alabama $ 155,009,000 6)6 Arkansas..... 128,00#,000 7 Florida 56,000,000 6 Georgia 325,000,000 2)6 Kentuckv 374,554.979 4)6 Louisiana 201,790,723 6 Mississippi 132,000,000 216 North Carolina 200,000,000 2 4-5 South Carolina 130,rti0,000 5 Tennessee 252,589,873 2 Texas 538,000,000 3 Virginia 332,000,000 5 ' Total $2,824,934,575 4)6 , 1879. s State. Assessment. Tax rate. Alabama $ 117,486,581 7 Arkansas /. 85,892,541 . 6)6 Florida 29,471,618 7 . Georgia 235,660,530 5 Kentucky 318,037,875 4)6 Louisiana 158,687,195 6 Mississippi., 106,594,708 3)6 North Carolina 156,000,000 2 2-5 South Carolina 132,237,986 6M Tennessee 223,211,345 l Texas 304,470,736 6 Virginia 316,576,822 6 i Total $2,184,227,547 6 1-12 This is an increase of $640,707,028 in four | years, an average of $160,17i6,757 a year. How rapid is the growth of the South is evidenced by the fact that the increased assessments over 1882 amount to $253,000,000 — nearly the value of the cotton crop.