Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-01

turers. New factories are being built, new |
industries projected, mines opened on lands |
purc5 ased with 8 view to the value of the |
timber and of new agricultural pursuits. |
There is everything TO encourage the peoSle |
Of the South, and nothing 10 make them |
afraid. They have all the means in abund- |
ance 10 accomplish destiny rich in results |
for the highest forms ef civilization.
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Evidences OF Progress tn the Field and |
the factory. |
DANDRJDGE, Tenn, has an agricultural |
implement manufactory.
FIFTY THOUSAND DoLLArs has been raised |
for the erection OF a rolling-mill in Atlanta, |
Ga.
A REMARKABLY rich vein of ore has been
struck in the Gold Valley Mine, in Rowan
county, n. c.
THE city assessors of Atlanta report that
the assessed value of real estate shows an In
crease of over 100000.
VARIOUS enterprises are talked of in
| Claremont, Va, prominent among which are
| a canning and shoe factory.
THE Rogers Lumber Company, of Georgia,
is now saving bill of 100000 feet of lum-
| Der for the Ohio Falls Car Company.
The Nicholas slate quarry, in Bucking-
ham county, Va, has recently been pur
| chased by Williams q Co. for $4,000.
BENToNvILLE, Ark, wants a barrel fac
| tory. Several thousand barrels are shipped
| into Bepton county every month from out
side.
THE South Tredegar Iron Works, of Rich
mond, Va, have erected all the n cessary
| machinery Tor Lighting their buildings with
| electric light.
THE capital stock of the new cotton fac
| tory to be erected at Peach Stone shoals, Ga,
will be S65O,0O0. Yarns and ginghams will
! be manufactured.
A COMPANY has been formed in Louisville,
| KY, with 81 100000 capital stock to manu-
| facture automa attic train signals, invented and
patented by w. w. LsGrande.
A MILLION feet of black walnut timber is
| to be shipped from Guadalupe county, Tex,
| TO England. Men and teams are now en-
| gagged in getting out the logs.
The Bynam Manufacturing Company,
| Pittsbcrougb, n. c., are about putting in
| looms, and wall convert their product into
cloth instead OF selling it, as formerly.
AN immense bed of phosphates has been
| discovered in Brunswick county, N c., on
| the line of the Carolina Central railroad and
about eleven miles from Wilmington.
A SPOKE company has shipped $4,000
spokes from Kimball, Page county, Va, and
| have 100000 yet TO ship. This company has
expended nearly 1000 in the neighborhood.
| The broom-hsndle factory of A. J. Pratt,
Whiteside, Tenn, is doing very good busi-
ness. The handles, which are made of pop
lar, are turned out at the rate of $500 per
day.
The Pratt Ssw-mill Company, on the
| North and South road, in Alabama, has con-
trscted to furnish 100000 feet of yellow
pine lumber for the Louisville Exposition
building.
The Howard OIL Company, of Dallas,
| Tex, one of the largest establishments OF
the kind west of the Mississippi river, en-
ploy $50 hands, and have a capacity of 100
tons of seed day.
The Parkerzbu rg Chemical Fiber Compa-
nv, of Petersburg, w. Va, have reorgan-
ICED, and after fitting and improving their
| plant, are now turning out five tons OF dry
wood pulp per day.
| A COMPANY has been organized by several
Middle Tennes see gentlemen for the working
| of 1900 or 10000 acres of rich mineral
| lands lying in Bledsoe county and no great
distance from Pikeyille.
| MANY millions of feet of oak timber are
annually shipped from North Carolina to
the Clyde, In Scotland, by Messrs. George
and William Donaldson, Scotcbmen, doing
business in Richmond, Va.
| THE building of the Chattanooga, Tenn,
steel works has been commenced, and will in
a month be ready for the machinery, which
| Mr.. John Leighton the president, is now
purchasing in Philadelphia.
| A MISSISSIPPI man has discovered that an
| excellent quality of sugar can be made from
| sweet potatoes. If this proves true, a new
use has been found for one of the best and
most prolific of American products.
The Saluda cotton factory, Lexington
county, S. c., received an order recently for
trial lot of its yarns for export to China,
| with which country the Southern cotton
mills are developing fine trade.
WITHIN radius Of five miles of Crystal
| Springs, Miss, there are 100 acres In straw
berrie', eighty-fiye in Irish potatoes; 100 in
tomatoes; ten in onions; 100 in peas; lbs in
beans, and about 1000 in peaches.
The Newport Lumber Company, of New
port, Ark, has rebuilt its saw and planning
mill. Il has daily capacity of $4,000 feet,
having eighty-horse power engine to drive
the machinery. Twenty men are employed.
A SCHEME is on foot that promises early
| and large operations for the development: of
the mineral wealth of Bledsoe county,
Tenn, and also the building OF the long
expected railroad from Victoria to Pikeville.
AT present, in the vicinity OF Mobile, there
are 1900 acres planted to early cabbage, while
the tirea planted TO early peas, tomatoes, etc,
far exceeds that amount. The products OF
that region find market In st. Louis and
other Northern markets.
ONE soap manufactory, one cracker manu-
| factory, one cotton-press msnufsctory, two
sash and blind manufactures, one brick and
| tile maHufscory, aud one cotton compress
company have been organized at Montgom-
cry, Ala, within the last sixty days.
A BED of coal six and half feet thick,
| two and half miles long and half mile
wide, h s been opened on PEAKS creek, Pu-
| laski county, Va, about two and half miles
| from the Norfolk and Western railroad.
Fossil iron ore is found on the same tract.
ONE of the largest land transactions ever
consummated in Mississippi was made last
week by Messrs. Robinson & Lacey, of New
Orleans, for an Eastern syndicate, when they
completed the entries for $4,000 acres of pine
| lands, located in the southern part of that
State.
SAYS the eminent Prof Cook, who is a
recognized authority on bee-culture: "The
secretion OF honey is SO rapid that consider
| it almost impossible 10 overstock any partic-
ular locality" This Is especially trne in the
sunny South, where flowers bloom peren-
nially.
THE Department of Agriculture of North
Carolina is Offered as follows: Montford
| McGehee, commissioner; ?. NJ. Wilson,
State chemist and director of experiment
station; S. G. Worth, commissioner of fish
| and fisheries.
| A SYNDICATE has obtained control of some
5000 acres of land near Covington, Va, on
| which there are immense beds of iron ore,
| said TO be exhaustless and arrangements are
being completed for reaching the tract by
standard gauge railroad to connect with the
| Chesapeake and Ohio.
The manufacture of phosphates is an i'm
| portant industry along the south Atlantic
| coast, Charleston, S. c.. being the head
| quarters Of the trade. No reason in the
world why the South should not manufacture
enough fertilizers for her own use and to
supply the foreign demand.
| Now comes the Admission factory and ships
1000 bales OF cotton goods to China to make
baggy breeches for the heather. The South
proposes not only to squeezs the PurItans
| out Of the West, but the Britishsrs out of
| the East. The South is getting hoggish
| about the business, and We are glad of il.
| Mr.. DANIEL DEsNErT comes out in his
| department of the PicayEae with a strong sp-
| peal to the people OF the Gotten States to
| plant the sunhoweF, of which 100 bushels of
| seed per acre may be gathered, (which
| make an excellent oil, and is, moreover, the
best poultry food known as an egg-producer.
| COLUMBUS, GA, has among its many in
dustries a sash, door and blind factory. The
| proprietor runs hrst-clsss saw and planning
| mill in connection with the above, and turns
out large quantities of lumber. 10 close
| proximity to the great yellow pine belt, Co.
lumous offers rare facilities for the lumber
| trade.
A -rr- Nfr-1 L L.,