The manufacturing output is increasing with marvelous rapidity, but it is increasing in other sections of the country as well.
Although the South was credited in 1914 with an increase of nearly 72 per cent in the value of its products during the decade, its proportion of the total value of products in the United States as a whole increased only from 12.8 per cent in 1904 to 13.1 per cent in 1914.

The section is still far from equaling or surpassing other sections except in the manufacture of textiles..