Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-08-14
The Record ola Week.

According to the Baltimore Manu-
facturcrs' Record, the last month of
summer shows in its opening week a
very promising condition of affairs in
the industrial growth of the South.
AS week after week passes by with a
steady improvement in the prospects
for magnificent crops in the South,
there is a decided change for the bet
ter in the outlook for increased activ-
ity in trade and financial circles. 1t
is now almost assured that the yield
of the two great staples, cotton and
corn, will be the largest ever produ-
ced, and while business are disposed
to wait few weeks longer, until the
crops are beyond the possibility of
damage, yet there is already an i'm
provenent noticeable. The prospects
could hardly be more encouraging
than at present for the South's enter
ing upon an era of the greatest trade
and industrial progress ever seen in
that section. In the list of new ell
terpriscs for the past week, as pub
lished in the Manufacturers Record
of August 8. there is a 100000 COM
pany organized in Montgomery, Ala,
which has already purchased an i'm
mense tract of land-running up into
the thousands ofacres-in and around
Calera, Ala, with the intention of
developing its vast mineral wealth
and of building up another manufac-
turing town in that State; in North
Carolina there has been a sale of a
large body of wood land at a reported
price of about $250,000, the purchase
havin been made for the purpose of
cutting the walnut on it, while in
Tennessee one tract of 1000 acres and
one of 5000 acres of pine land have
been sold to parties who intend to
erect saw mills; a 100000 company
has been organized in Washington,
ID. C., to furnish heat and power, and
negotiations arc now pending for their
plant; West Virginia has IA $4,000
coal company that has purchased Il
mining property and will prepare to
put out 800 tons of coal day, $780,
600 boom and lumber company, and
$4,000 company to manufacture
metallic roofing; machinery has been
purchased for the cotton seed oil mills
to be built in Waynesboro and
Athens, Ga, and in Atlanta an i'm
mense fertilizer factory is being put
up; a company has been organized
in Tennessee TO work the lithograph-
ic stone quarry in Arkansas previous
ly mentioned a $4,000 copper min
ing company has been organized in
Maryland, and a $4,000 ice manufac-
turing company in Florida; ground
has been purchased at Newport
News, Va, tor extensive asphalt
works, involving an Investment re-
ported at $4,000; Brunswick, Ga,
has contracted for gas and water.
works a site has been secured in
Louisiana for an extensive tile factory
New York cigar manufacturing
firm are negotiating for the removal
oftheir factory to Jacksonville, where
they would employ 300 or 400 hands
while of flour mills, lumber mills and
grist mills there is quitea large NUN.
Der reported. The Camperdown
Cotton Mills, of Greenville, S. c.,
have been purchased for $4,000
mainly by local capitalists, headed by
Col. III. p. llammett, very success
ful cotton manufacturer. Sufficient
cash commercial capital, stated to be
about $4,000, will be put ii, and the
mills will again be started up. This
purchase demonstrates that those bes
able to judge are still willing to bach