. The Southern States. rchants with plenty of capital,lead by the Inmans, the largest cottonhouse of the United States, who do abusiness of a quarter of a million ofbales yearly and twenty millions of dol-lars. Close to coal, and with cheap railcarriage everywhere, Atlanta is makingher cotton plants pay well enough towish to duplicate them, while her rivalsof half a century, with their handy water A PEACHTREE STREET RESIDKNCK. power, are satisfied to stand still. Thisresult shows both her enterprise andadvantages. Four cottonseed-oil mills ot largecapacity, with $950,000 capital, work550 hands
. The Southern States. rchants with plenty of capital,lead by the Inmans, the largest cottonhouse of the United States, who do abusiness of a quarter of a million ofbales yearly and twenty millions of dol-lars. Close to coal, and with cheap railcarriage everywhere, Atlanta is makingher cotton plants pay well enough towish to duplicate them, while her rivalsof half a century, with their handy water A PEACHTREE STREET RESIDKNCK. power, are satisfied to stand still. Thisresult shows both her enterprise andadvantages. Four cottonseed-oil mills ot largecapacity, with $950,000 capital, work550 hands to make the oil and as manymore to buy the seed, at a cost of $900,-000 for the 60,000 tons used in the sixmonths season, and the product sells for$1,250,000. This industry is daily becoming moreimportant as new uses of the cottonseedare developing, which make it more\aluable than as a fertilizer, giving itconstantly growing price, and Atlanta,from its geographical position in thecotton reyion, is becoming the cotton-. seed-oil centre of the South, east of theMississippi river. And this powerfulfact is drawing to Atlanta the .Southernheadquarters of other large oil compa-nies of every sort, and making Atlantaa great Southern distributing point foroil as for everything else. Not satisfied to buy her vehiclesabroad, Atlanta has eighteen flourishingcarriage and wagon factories, besidesagencies for the large concerns of theNorth, West and South, which use$300,000 capital, work 200 hands andturn out $2,800,000 products of the bestkind, equal to any outside goods infinish and better in strength and du-? rability. Considering that everv ele-ment for this industry—the wood, theiron, the leather, etc., are within easyreach, of the best kind and inexhaust-less quantity, it is no wonder thatsuch progress has been made in thisbranch of manufacture, and that ithas such a future here. The richmen drive superb carriages made hereby home labor wholly out of homematerial. Nine furniture fact
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