The Growing South

A birds eye view of progress and of room for growth resulted recently when a photographer flying out of Charlotte, N. C., took pictures of some of the recently completed industrial plants along Southern Railway lines in North and South Carolina. He took pictures as well of sites served by Southern that are available for development.

The photographer could have used other cities as bases and covered other states with much the same results. Progress and growth along the Southern are by no means confined to the Carolinas.

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Shelby, N. C.

Report follows report from government agencies, from investment advisers, from business expansion studies made for national firms, from everyone who has any occasion to interest himself in the future economic pattern .of the United States. And each, in one way or another, has occasion to borrow a thought that Southern Railway System has put forth in its advertising for many years.

This is, of course, that those charting the future of business and industrial growth should "Look Ahead Look South."

Bowater Carolina Corporation Catawba, S; C.

For example, a very recent report issued by the United States Department of Commerce shows the South leading the national rate of growth average during 1960 in 29 of the 34 major measurements used in its study.

And Southern can report that in 1960 along its lines the growth rate could be called phenomenal. This despite the fact 1960, at least during its latter half, was not notable for national business optimism. Growth along our lines in numbers of projects and investment announced for plant and warehouse construction was the greatest for any year since 1956.

Fiber Industries, Inc. Earl, N. C.

Duke Power Company Belmont, N. C.

Water, the Southern, and room for industry.

Union Bag Camp Paper Corporation Wellford, S. C.

Springs Cotton Mills Bleacher Grace, S. C.

Owens Corning Fiberglas Corporation Aiken, S. C.

Collins & Aikman Corporation Albemarle, N. C.

New plants go up on sites like this one.

Greenwood Mills Ninety Six, S. C.

Usually, it is only people in the near neighborhood of a new factory or warehouse or great electric generating plant who can really appreciate the meaning of the development. Few have a real sense of the cumulative effect of such developments as they are occurring in hundreds of locations. Tables of statistics help in understanding but rarely inspire a real sense of progress for any except the statistically minded.

The Growing South-Along Southern Railway System Lines

Here, then, in pictures, is a sampling of what can be seen in the growing South. And of its room for further growth.

A sampling, too, of the results which come when the Southern dedicates its efforts cooperatively with the communities and states it serves to bring about growth.

Industrial parks are popular. This one is at Charlotte, N. C

Landrum Mills Landrum, S.C.

Kohler Company Spartanburg, S. C.

Electronic Accounting Card CompanyHigh Point, N. C.

Otemstrand Research Center Research Triangle of North Carolina

Western Electric, Inc. Charlotte, N. C.

Southern Screw Company Statesville, N. C.

Broyhill Furniture Factories Taylorsville, N. C.

Room for industrial growth

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Brook Cove, N.C.

And a challenge, too, which our railroad is meeting to serve well tire needs of new industry and business ,for transportation services. To serve them well as it has long served the needs of older industries.