The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL NOTES.


Alabama has six cotton seed oil
mills.
Knoxville will soon have $780,
600 cotton factory.
Coal has been discovered in Choc-
taw county, Mississippi.
The mineral land business is as
Stunning large proportions in Walker
county, Ala.
There is now stored in the enor-
nous warehouse of the Huntsville,
Ala, cotton seed oil mills, not less
than $4,000 worth of cotton seed.
One hundred and sixty acres of
land will be given to the person Sc
curing the largest number of articles
for exhibition at the Florida state
fair.
Mrs. Garfield owns an interest in
the Beaver Dam gold mine in Mont
gomery county, N. c., and will
probably visit the county this sum-
mer.
The Georgia agricultural society,
at its annual session in Augusta the
14th of February, was decidedly in
favor of planting more corn and
less cotton.
The North Carolina car company
has been organized with capital of
$4,000. The company will have its
works in Raleigh, and will engage
in the building of railroad freight
cars.
1t is the intention to start the
Exposition mills at Atlanta with
ten thousand spindles. to be lncreas-
| ed to twenty thousand, and with
from all the spindles employed.
All OF the factories in Prattville,
Ala, are running with full force,
and making a handsome profit.
These factories are permanent insti.
buttons. The buzz of the saw and
the running of various machinery
can be heard at all times during the
day.
Major E. G. Gordon has deter
mined to establish large tannery at
Decatur, Ala, and has already taken
preliminary steps to put the enter
PRISE in operation. For the present
$25, 900 will be invested, which will
be increased as the business de-
mands it.
The new cotton factory now build
ing at Lowell, N. c., will have H..
600 spindles, which capacity will
subsequently be doubled. The
building will be 600 feet long when
completed, and 1000 hands will be
employed. Mr.. r. Y. McAden is
the owner. -...--
The aggregate assessed value Of
all the real and personal property in
Aiken county this year Is $4,881 $50
an increase of $35, 100 over the valu
alton of the previous year. The
personal property is assessed at So,
598, 1863, and the real at $2,283, 091
Factories are the basis of all this
wealth.
The Swedes and Danes are colon
izing extensively in Florida. There
are some nine hundred of them il
Orange county, and more coming
Many of them are already proprie
tors of large orange groves, and are
so prosperous and satisfied that 9th
ers are encouraged to try their luck
there, and in northern Georgia
where the climate is more agreeable
to them.
Some few months ago, Major Pc
tiers and Colonel Sloss, of Birming
ham, Ala, purchased piece of min
eral land in Murphree's valley, fol
about $1,000. On the 14th ult. deco
of sale was sent for record to thu
probate judge, showing that Majol
Peters had sold one-half his interes
in said mineral land to the Birming
ham coal, coke and iron company
for $4,000.
Sixteen furnaces in Wythe, Vir
ginia, turn out the finest quality o
charcoal iron. The Wythe lead ant
zinc company ship 5000 tons of leat
annually, and large product o
zinc ore is shipped to New Jersey
Other companies manufacture Yin,
orspelter. The annual consumption
of plaster from the beds of Smith il
1000 tons, with only two bed
worked. Other deposits are mor'
valuable than those now accessible
by transportation. The deposit o
rock salt at Saltville is IT'S feet thick
While these mineral treasures ar
only beginning to be developed.
Nearly, or quite ten millions o
dollars are invested in orange cul
ture in the state of Florida, and We
the production is but six per cent
of the total annual consumption o
this fruit in the United States
Orange county, to the south of Lake
George, has attracted more capita
in the venture of orange growing
during the past five years than any
other portion of the peninsula. l
is below the twenty-ninth parallel
and secure from frosts. Two mar
row gauge railroads connect the in
terror towns with swift steamer
upon. the st. Johns. and frui
generally reaches the packing
houses for shipment north in gooC
order.