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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1912
Page
4
The Southern Railway System signals cooperative development across the Southeast to aid farmers and attract capital. It emphasizes education, local partnership, and mutual prosperity, arguing railroads grow traffic and earnings only after communities prosper.
The piece emphasizes Southern efforts to develop agricultural resources through local farmers education and improved farming practices. It notes cooperation from the United States and State Departments of Agriculture, land and industrial departments, experiment stations, and model farms in the region. It recounts Dr. S A Knapp's planned lecture series and the spread of agricultural bulletins to farmers.
The Southern Railway System leads rural development by expanding agricultural and mineral resources, providing farmer education, and coordinating with industries. It ships beef cattle via the Southern Railway lines and plans growth through district population, resource use, and cooperative efforts in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and beyond.
The Southern Railway System promotes cotton culture in Alabama and Mississippi amid boll weevil pressure. It operates a Good Roads program with public road demonstrations, cooperates with state and federal agricultural offices, and runs farm development trains to aid diversification, dairy, and livestock efforts.
The annual Southern Railway report credits industrial and agricultural growth in the Southeast as key to the company’s strength. It notes diversified farming, livestock and dairying expansion, and Cotton culture efforts to shield farmers from boll weevil damage. The Land and Industrial Agent program coordinates offices from Washington to St. Louis and London to promote locations for factories, settlers, and markets along the railroad lines.
Southern Railway displays farm and orchard products at the American Land and Irrigation exposition in New York. The booth features cotton tobacco grains and fruit with a large map and colored photographs. M A Hays of the Southern Railway lectures daily with 159 new slides. Highlights include double track lines Lynchburg to Chattanooga and improvements along lines from Atlanta to Asheville and Macon to Knoxville.
The Southern Railway System invites cooperation from people along its lines to advance its territory. It will provide assistance and welcomes input from individuals and businesses to solve development problems and build up Southeast communities. Communications should be sent to M. W. Richards in Washington, D. C., or T. O. Plunkett in Chattanooga, Tenn., for Queen and Crescent Route areas.
Communities along the lines served by the Land and Industrial Department show investments of 400 million dollars in industry from 1900 to 1910. Dresden hosts the ongoing building of what is described as the world's largest radiator, designed for a 300 horsepower airship motor and fabricated entirely of aluminum.
The Southern Railway promotes Southeast resources with extensive fair and exposition exhibits focused on agricultural and educational content. It details state fairs, New York City exhibits in November, and broad publicity through The Southern Field, pamphlets for homeseekers and manufacturers, and targeted ads in North American and European publications.
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