Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-13

purchases made by Scotch or English Syn
dicates in the South and West, the sales ag
gregating many millions of dollars. OF
this the South is getting the largest share,
and from it is making the largest profit.
Appended we furnish some proofs.
| Notes of Progress and Growth.
The sum of So, $50, 900 is now invested in
the manufacture of iron in the Birmingham,
Ala, district.
In the ten years, from 1870 to 1880, the
value of the silk production of the United
States rose from $12, 210, 662 to 1924, no.
463.
The pillow factory at Chattanooga, Tenn,
is stocking up for the spring trade. A very
large number of plows will be manufactured
in the next few weeks.
/ The Pulaski cotton seed oil mill at Haw-
kinsville, Ga, has commenced operations.
The mill offers fl teen cents per bushel for
200, 900 bushels of cotton-seed.
The first sawmill in Polk County, Tex,
was built in November, 1880. Now there
are fifteen mills, ranging from Indifferent to
fair, as regards their construction and Ca
pacity.
Griffin, Ga, has the largest peach orchard
in the South, containing 1000 trees and
covering most of 600 acres. On the same
farm are 4, 900 grated apple trees and 1000
/ pear trees.
The Spoke and Handle Company of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, is making from $50 to IT'S
dozen handles of various kinds per day.
The full capacity of the works is about $50
dozen per day.
Hardwick's spoke and hub factory, at
Dalton, Ga, recently turned out 1920
| spokes in a little over three hours AS
soon as the machinery can be placed in po-
sition, the works will average A. 900 spokes
per day.
The Rock City Stove Works, of Nash
vile, commenced stove making January 7,
1880, making four stoves per day. Their
output for the month of October, 1882, was
| o32 Stoves complete, packed ready for
| shipping, besides q considerable amount of
other goods.
The Tennessee Lumber Company (E. D.
Albro Co., of Cincinnati propose to
erect new saw-mill with capacity of 40
600 feet day. Band saws will be used,
and walnut and other fine timber will be
chiefly cut.
At Maryyille, East Tennessee, there is a
factory which manufactures buttons of
mussel shells gathered from the various
rivers. These buttons are said to be very
| fine and give much satisfaction. The de-
mand is fully equal to the capacity of the
mill
| The coal fields of Alabama cover 10, $50
| square miles, and the coal is all bituminous,
but differs widely in quality. The best
coal In the State, and in fact IN the United
States-being fully equal to the English
| camel coal--is the Montevallo coal.
Birmingham, Ala, is a city of IL, 600 in
habitants and is fast becoming the pitts
burg" of the South 1t is said that within
radius of eight miles, taking the heart of
the city as a center, 5000 men are en-
ployed in furnaces, mills, foundries and
machine shops.
There are 1852 carriage and wagon shops
IN the United States, with capital of $685.
DOC, 900, paying ST., 000,000 annually to
1900 employees, who turn cut an annual
product of $50, 900, 900. The annual out
put of wagons and carriages in America is
about /, 200, 900.
The Nashville Cooperage Company,
which has been in successful operation for
| some months past, has increased it's capital
from $50, 900 to $780, 900, and proposes to
enlarge its facilities for turning out its pc
| culiar line of work to the full extent of the
| increasing demands of the market.
The Southern Wire Works, at Chattanoo-
| ga, Tenn, are now under Roadway and are
manufacturing about 2, 900 pounds of barb
ed wire per day. They have only two ma
| chimes IN operation at present, but they are
contemplating putting in several more to
meet the growing demands of the trade.
All the machinery of the Sandusky Spoke
! Company, at Chattanooga, Tenn, has been
placed in position. The output of the
works for the present will be about 5000
spokes per day, but the capacity will prob
ably be doubled early next spring. The
factory will give employment to fifteen or
twenty men.
The output of the Tennessee Coal, Iron
and Railroad Company for the month of
October foots up as follows: Coal, TAO
cars, 10, 041 tons; coke, 724 cars. 9, 498 tons.
This is an increase over the preceding month
of exactly 200 tons. The demand is in ex-
cess of the power to supply.
Giles pipe factory, at Chattanooga,
Tenn, is rapidly filling the large order for
pipe for the Knoxville water works Va
rious matters have delayed them, and it
will be very difficult to complete the order
by January LIST, as contracted, but it will
probably be done. They have received
tenders for several large orders, but all have
| been rufused
MIR. w. B. Cox, late of Lebanon, Tenn,
has contra ted with Messrs. E. B. Durham
d Co., of Richmond, Ind, to saw 2, 600, 900
feet of black walnut, which they recently
bought in Franklin and Lincoln Counties,
Tenn, and jackson County, Ala All the
walnut is cut, and 5000 feet are already
delivered at the mill site.
The Matthews cotton mill, at Selma, Ala,
| is to have its capital stock increased to
100000. The mill is in very prosperous
condition. 1t is the purpose of those in
charge of affairs to build another mill in
addition to the one already in operation,
and to make more and greater variety of
goods, such as checks and plaids.
Messrs. Prewitt, Spur & Co., of Nash
vile, after closing down their mill as they
thought till next season, have started up
again and are now saving 300, 600 feet of
popular, which will employ their fine mill
for few days. They have also completed
an additional warehouse for the accommo-
dation of their large woodenware depart
| ment.
Amoug the manufacturing establishments
of Meridian, Miss, are the Southern Stand
ard Press Company, manufacturers of cot
ton-presses, cane mills, egc.; the sash and
blind factory and plaining-miIl of j. M.
| Williams; the Meridian Foundry, Machine
and Boiler shops of Williams & Briggs, and
some smaller concerns, all in active and sue
cessful operation.
Tecumseh Furnace, Alabama, which
made the remarkable record of seven years
one month and eighteen days run on one
heat (tfe longest period ever reached in
| the United States>, has resumed blast aver
aging thlrty-four gross tons per day of No.
l and foundry charcoal iron. When full
blast is given it is expected it will average
forty tons per day.
Scarcely less remarkable than the increase
of cotton manufacturing in the South is the
rapid development of the mining interests
| of this SECTION Since the hnorn of 1870 N,