Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1883 — SOUTHERN PROGRESS. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN PROGRESS.

i. Remarkable Increase of Material Wealth. [From the New Orleans Times-Democrat;] The TirfiM-Democrat pregejitf. this morning a complete review or all the South, from the Potoraacand Ohio to thejGulf and Rio Grande, in the form of interviews with the Governors ■of Ibe- 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 fig- ! ores, in dollars and cents, the exact growth iof the South since the census was taken. ■ This showing is far more flattering than weimagined a few weeks ago; is almost Startling in the wonderful growth of wealth: , ISB3. « State. Assessment. T«x rate. Alabama .zn. $ 155JZ>0,«)0 6J£ ' Arkansas 128,000,000 7 : 1 lorida 56,000,000 6 Georgia 325,000,000 2’6 Kentucky 374,554.979 Louisiana 201.7*>,723 • 6 Misrissi] pi WpxJft.ooo 2J4 North Ca.olitia acnjjoo.OM) 2 4-5 South Carolina I3O.(XC,OOO 5 Tennessee 352,589,873 2 Texas 538,000,000 3 Virginia 332,000,000 5 T0ta15?,824.334.575 *54 . 1879. — x State. Asses ment-. Tax rate. Alabamas 117,4- ,581 7 Arkan-as BJ.’-.:>.-,’41 854 i Florida 20,471.618 7 Georgia. ...Vl., 235,65'.530 5 ■■.Kcntiieky... 315,<>::7,875 45£ Louisiana, 158,787,135 6 E Mississippi.-....: 1(*5,?-94,7C8 354 North Carolina 156.teU.000 2 2-5 Soiith Carolina..,.t 13>,237,986 6« Tonies see. 223,211,345 1 TexaX... 304370,736 5 Vftginfit 315.576,822 6 This is increase of $640,707,02.8 ft*, four years, an average of $160,176,757 a year. How rapfli is the growth of the South is evidenced by\he fact that the increased assessments oveXlß62 amount to $253,C00,000 nearly the va’ue’W the cotton crop.