The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-09
THE SOUTH.
Items and improvements in Various
Sections of the Southern
States

A flour mill will probably be bui
e III Warrior, Ala.
A fertilizer factory is talked of
e MonteZuma, Ga.
A flour mill will probably be bui
at Corning, Ark.
Palatka, Fla, will establish an art
fetal stone factory.
Maryville, Tenn, will soon have
chair mandatory.
. A foundry company is being organ
lied in Athens, Ga.
A fortune awaits a good upholtsere
at BrooksVille, Fla.
A woodenware factory is to be erect
ed at Columbus, KY.
A new mill, to cost $15, 900, will
erected at Marshall, Mo.
The coal fields Of Arkansas cove
an area of 1900 square miles.
Five new tobacco factories ar
being built at present, at ReedsYille
n. G.
Mining is being actively pushed il
the new gold mines in Murray Coun
ty, Ga.
Tennessee has 10000 square miles O
timber land which is as yet PRACTICAL,
untouched.
The first coffee raised in the United
States was grown on the Elanatet
River in Florida.
| Camphor trees are growing thriftily
at Quincy, Fla. The plants were OBJ
tanned from Washington.
The Richmond & DanvilIe Rail
road Company will build $4,000
depot at Charlotte, n. q.
Florida has built more miles of
railroad during the past year, than
any other Southern State.
The South Carolina Legislature has
appropriated 1000 towards the COM
pleUion of the State House.
A new broom-handle factory is to
be established in Gadsden, Ala; ca
pacity, 5000 handles per day.
There is no law in Arkansas for the
adoption of heirs. A bill has passed
the House curing this defect.
It is reported in NatcheZ. Miss,
that foundry and agricultural i'm
PIGMENT works will be started.
NJ. Connell, Charleston, has estab-
of pine oil under the Stanley pat
ents.
A Woodenware mandatory will
be started in Columbus. Miss. An
iron foundry will probably be erected
also.
The Oothcalga cotton mills at
Adairsville, Ga, have resumed opera
lions, and are now running on full
time.
The largest bridge in the world
crosses Lake Ponchartrain at New
Orleans, and is twenty-five miles in
length.
The United States is the third silk
manufacturing country in the world
Its annual production is worth $780,
100000.
The Agricultural and Mechanical
College, Auburn, Ala, will put in ma
chinery for practical work by the
students.
Large and valuable deposits of mer-
camille mica have been discovered
twenty miles north of Santa Fe, New
Mexico.
1t is reported that two millions of
dollars of New England's money was
invested in North Carolina gold mines
last year.
The finest granite in the world, ex-
cept Texas, is that of South Carolina,
and 1t is being used to pave the streets
of Charleston.
The Bellemont Cotton Mills, lat
Sumpter, S. c., have been re-organ-
lied, and the application for a new
charter has been granted.
A Northern company, with cap
ital of $2o0,000, has purchased the An
thony Shoals, on Broad river, in Ell
bert County. Ca, with the purpose of
erecting large cotton factory.
The despised milkweed can be used
to advantage at the present time. Its
seed yields a finer oil than linseed, its
gum is as good as India rubber, and
its floss resembles Irish poplin when
spun.
A letter from Spartanburg, S. G.
says that the cotton factories in that
State are all running on full time, and
there is a fair demand for goods,
There is no probability of single
hours suspension during the year, ex-
cept in some of the very small mills
that generally stop during the sum-
mer. Col. Walker aid DR.. Fleming,
of the Pacolet Manufacturing Com
pany, say that they have now cotton
on hand for five months. They are
running on full tine, and everything
is working well about the machinery.
They are hopeful as to the results of
the new year. They do not apprehend
a suspension on account of depres-
sion IN business.
In answer to an inquiry Of Brad
streets as to the prospects OF the Ma
son cotton picker, the secretary OF
the company controlling the machine,
Mr.. j. K. Blackman, Estates that the
machine will be placed in the market
in time to be used on next seasons
crop. Mr.. Blackman further states
that during the season just closed ex-
periments have fully demonstrated
the practical success of the machine.
From trials made with the har-
yester it has. been found
possible to pick 1856 pounds
of cotton per hour with the help OF
one man and mule. During the
present winter certain changes will
be made in the machine, which it is
expected will increase its capacity and
greatly enhance its value. The point
is made that even if the proposed
changes do not increase its capacity
one machine is capable of doing the
work which it now takes thirty-fve
hands to do.
Says the Toledo Bee:
There seems to be a growing dislike
among the Democrats against Presi
dent Cleveland's administration, anC