. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. place of the slow and painful methods withwhich our forefathers gained their education. II. THE NATION OF TO-DAY. The New South.—The period since the close of the CivilWar has been marked by a change in the conditions of theSouth that is almost revolutionary in character. Here,where formerly almost the sole mercantile products werecotton, tobacco, and naval stores (tar, turpentine, etc.), to-day there is a highly diversified industry and promise ofgreat future prosperity. Agriculture is still the leadingpursuit, but
. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. place of the slow and painful methods withwhich our forefathers gained their education. II. THE NATION OF TO-DAY. The New South.—The period since the close of the CivilWar has been marked by a change in the conditions of theSouth that is almost revolutionary in character. Here,where formerly almost the sole mercantile products werecotton, tobacco, and naval stores (tar, turpentine, etc.), to-day there is a highly diversified industry and promise ofgreat future prosperity. Agriculture is still the leadingpursuit, but it has greatly widened in scope ; iron, coal, andphosphate rock are largely mined, cotton- and iron-mill?have become numerous, and an immense lumber industryhas been developed. ^ The railroad mile-age is five times asgreat as in 1860, andin almost every re-spect marked prog-ress has been this diversityof interests the cot-ton crop has more than doubled since 1860, and the cotton-seed, which was once thrown away, now yields large quan-tities of valuable An Irrigation Canal. 540 STAGES OF PROGRESS IN THE UNITED STATES. The New West.—The West has been settled with phe-nomenal rapidity and become immensely productive. Itstwo great industries are agriculture and mining, but thesehave been remarkably developed. Five of the Western Statesyield more than half the vast corn crop of the United States,and six States nearly half the wheat. The gold and silverproduct is unequalled in any other part of the world, whilecopper, iron, and various other minerals are largely pro-duced. In addition to these sources of prosperity, naturehas provided vast areas of timber, and grazing for mightyherds of cattle and sheep, while the production of semi-tropical fruits in California forms a great and increasingsource of wealth. Progress in the North.—While the South and West havebeen thus progressing, the North has moved on unceasinglyin the lines already indicated, and has mani
Size: 2113px × 1183px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookpublisherlondo, bookyear1915
