Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-03
NOTES OF PROGRESS.

slothful and iud fferent.
NOTES OF PROGRESS.
THERE are seven saw-mils at work in Dyer
county, Tenn.
A BARREL factory ia to be established in
Savannah, Ga.
CARVING woods: Pear, box, lime tree, dog
wood and ebony.
NEwBERRY, n. c., has subscribed $4,000
toward 4 cotton-mill.
ST. CHARLES parish, La, has a steam moss
pickery in full blast.
THE furniture factory of Northport, Ala,
cannot keep up with orders.
LARGE quantities of East Tennessee Mar
BILE is being shipped to Boston.
THERE will soon be three cotton seed OIL
mills in and around Cheraw, S. G.
THE tough woods are beech, elm, lignum
vitae, OK, walnut and horn beam.
AUGUSTA, Ga, is making direct shipments
of -four and other products to Europe.
THE elastic woods are ash, hazel, hickory,
Lakewood, chestnut, yew and snakewood.
A CHICAGO firm contemplaies establishing
a ,poke and handle factory at Florence, Ala.
SCENTED woods: Camphor, cedar, rose
wood, sandalwood, sasssfras and satinwood.
UNION CRY, Tenn will soon have brick
machine running. Its capacity will be 3d.
600 per day.
In Lake Charles, La, there is a shingle
factory that turns out 10000 bundles of
shingles daily.
The reorganized Kentucky FUrniiure Com.
pany, OF Louisville, have $4,000 Of their
stock subscribed.
ALABAMA coal mines are being worked to
their utmost capacity. The demand for the
coal is enormous.
THE Georgia Pacific road has been graded
to Coosa river, and will cross il about twenty
five miles below Gsdsden.
NEARLY 100000 barrels will be needed
to carry the truck raised around Norfolk,
Va, TO market this season.
A LyNcHBURG, VA, firm has received an
order for lot OF smoking tobacco direct
from the Sultan OF Turkey.
A PLANNING MILL and furniture factory
are among the latest and mot successful en-
| terprises at Greenville, S. c.
APARTY of capitalists, hailing mostly from
Michigan, are prospecting for investments in
timber lands south OF Montgomery, Ala.
AN Augusta (Ga.) mechanic contemplates
| establishing a mandatory of wooden bowls
and, dishes such as are used in grocery stores.
EIGHTY FIVE thousand barrels Of turpen-
| tine and 304, 900 of resin were the receipts
of naval stores during the year 1854 at Sa-
vannah, Ga.
IT is proposed to establish a cotton-ssea
oil mill in Columbia, S. c., with capital OF
s35, 600, of which $2l 900 will be expended
tor machinery.
THE Sweetwater (Tsnn) Ax-h,ndle Fac
| loat Sat- 10
The company are james Carter, S. B. Cooke
and W. 3. Lenoir.
Mr.. FRANK H. MoULToN, who is about
10 establish hosiery factory at Columbia
| s. c., has just purchased $40, 900 worth oil
machinery at Philadelphia.
THE Pascagoula (Miss) Ice Company are
! making preparations 10, can oysters, toma.
toes, figs, okrs, ETC., thus offering a home
market for fruit and vegetables.
AT Hope, Ark, a company is putting ~
buildings and machinery for the manufsc
ture of refrigeralors and wooden cutters
No wonder immigrants flock 10 Arkansas
A SPOKE company has shipped $50 ,OO(
spokes from Kimball, Page county, Va, anC
have 100000 yet to chip. The company ha
expended nearly $4,000 in that neighbor
hood.
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machinery from the North at one Augusta
Ga, cotton mill within one week gives nm.
idea of the amount of mschiuery now com
ing South.
TEE output of coal at the mines of thu
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
at Tracy City, for The month of Febru ar'
was coal, 1850 tons; coke, Sl21 tons; total
20,990 tons.
The lumber business OF Georgia has be
come one of the largest and most lucrative
industries in the State. Northern companies
have recently purch ased extensive tracts o
timber land.
| A COMPANY has been incorporated in Bir
mingham, Ala, for the purpose of manufac
turing iron paint from the red iren ore
which are to be found in the greatest abund
ance in that section.
THE Union City Manufacturing Company
of Union City, Tenn, a few days ago re
ceived an order by mail from the State o.
Texas for $4,000 worth of spokes, hubs, fell
Ices and wagon gearing.
THE hoop business of Piedmont, Va, ha
become very extensive in the last year o.
two. One man has shipped 100000 hoop
from that and other stations in the cou all
during the present season.
The wood of the sAilanthusD tree, unfor
tunately, has proven unfit for making furni
ture.@ After thorough experiments m ds
with il, it was found hard to work, and thsr
would not retain lie shape.
A NEW road is projected frem Birming an
to Mobile, Ala, which will tap the Goa
centers of that State, and make Mobile
great coaling station. Engineers are already
in the field locating the route.
THE Union City Manufacturing Company
of Union City, Tenn, has, within the pas
three weeks, paid out to timber owners il
Obion and adjoining counties nearly $4,000
for timber; snd still they want more.
THE Brierfeld (Ala) Saw aud Lumber
Company, managed by L. NJ. johnson, h ave
a mill with a capacity of from 1900 to
$1,000 feet of Lumbar per day, and is KEEP
bHsily engaged 10 filling the many orders
ahead.
Mr.. KNIGHT, superintendent Of the Ma.
giunis Cotton Factory at New Orleans, make:
| the prediction that in twenty years all the
| mills of the United States producing plain
brown cotton goods will be located at The
| South.
MEssRs COBB & Co., of Little Rock, Ark.
| are manufacturing the lumberman's locomo.
tive, for hauling logs to the mills or train
roads. This is an invention of their own
and claimed TO be just what has been long
| needed.
| Mr.. WEST RoUNsAvILLE, who is working
| up subscriptions for a new cotton factory in
Rome, Ga, has already secured $4,000 in
that city and vicinity, while Boston capt.
talist has offered $50, 900 provided $4,000 is
raised in Rome.
The Jones Creek oil " ii, in Dickson
county, Tenn, has been Lease By company
| for a term of twenty years, srd will be
worked very soon. The qualify of the oil is
said 10 be excellent. The we'll will be sunk
600 feet deeper.
DANDRIDeE, Tenn, has an agricultural
implement manufactory. The country round
about is covered with excellent timber for
making these indispensable articles of hus-
bandry, sni 1t is proper that they should be
utilized al home.
| ARRANGEMENTS are now being made IN
| Flor da to manufacture strong and dura.
BILE commercial fiber from the yucca, other
wise known as beargrsss, Adams needle or
Spanish bsyonet. The plants are very CON-
mon in that State.
THE aggregate amount OF capital invested
| in the city OF Atlantis, Ga, since the cotton
| exposition was held there in 1881, is about
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