The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1885-08-20
The Record Of a Week.

The RECORD OF a week.
According to the Baltimore Mdnu-
tactuyeys' Record, the last month Of
Summer shows in its opening week
very promising condition of affairs in
the industrial growth of the South.
AS week after week passes by with
steady Improvement in the prospects
for magnificent crops in the South,
there is a decided change for the
better in the outlook for increased
activity in trade and inancia! circles.
1t is now almost assured that the
yield of the two great staples. cotton
and corn, will be the largest ever
produced, and while business men
are disposed to wait a few weeks
longer, until the crops are beyond
the possibility Of damage, yet there
is already an Improvement notlcea-
BILE. The prospects could hardly be
more encouraging than at present for
the South's entering upon an era OF
the greatest trade and industrial pro-
gress ever seen IN that section. In
the list of new enterprises for the
past week, as published in the Man,
utacturerS' Record of August s, there
is a 100000 company organized in
| Montgomery, Ala, which has already
purchased an immense tract of land
running up into the thousands OF
acres-in and around Calera, Ala,
with the intention of developing its
vast mineral wealth and Of building
up another manufacturing town in
the State; in North Carolina there
has been sale Of large body of
wood land at reported price of
I al out S25O,O00. the purchase having
: been made for the purpose of cutting
!, the walnut ON it. while in Tennessee
~ one tract of land of 1000 acres and
re one of 5000 acres Of pine land have
aAbeen sold sopaTties 20 lntsad Z.
ic erect saw smrills;a $500, ,00J eompan::
~ u. has been organized in Washington
h D. c., to furnish heat and power: aDc
e negotiations are now pending fol
their plan; West Virginia has s55,
i 600 coal company that has purchased
e mining property and will prepare
- - to put out 800 tons Of coal day, q
=, $4,000 boom and lumber company,
d and $4,000 company to manufac'
k ture metallic roofing; machinery has
le been purchased for the cotton seeo
y oil mills to be built in Waynesboro
~ and Athens, Ca, and in Atlanta an
re- immense fertilizer factory is being
" put up; company has been organ
to lied in Tennessee to work tie litho
a. a. graphic-stone quarry in Arkansas pre-
he he yiouslv mentioned; a $4,000 cope
at mining company has been organize
ef- in Maryland, and $4,000 ice man
IT'S ufacturing company in Florida
w. ra ground has been purchased at New
in. nort News, Va, for extensive aspl
as alt works, involving &n investmel
cs, reported ats175,O00; Brunswick, ia
'uI has contracted for gas and waite
10 10 works; q site has been secured
,er. Louisiana for an extensive tile ia
md tory; a New York cigar manufacta
en- inc firm are negotiating for the r
,wes' w moval of their factory to Jackso
" Vile, where they would employ 81
hoe or 400 hands, while of -four mill
lies lumber mills and grist mills there
is quite a large number reported. II
IS. ses Camperdown Cotton Mills, of Gree
;4S 4e Vile, S. c.. have been purchased 1
nto $50, 900, mainly by local capitalist
,wn headed by Col. H. 2. Hammett'
nts very successful cotton manufacture l.,
the Sufficient cash commercial caplt'
anu ba .hont $4,000, will
,ast put in, and the mills will again
S of started up. This purchase oemo
le- strates that those best able to Juo'
I leH are still willing to back their 1aith
40, M Southern cotton mills with their mo
Gus ey. In addition to these enterprise
ant there are in prospect a Soo'ooo 10
lers mill and a $4,000 soap factory
90 90, Alabama, a car-wheel foundry
This Texas, an ice factory in Nortn Cai
nds lima. &c.
has -~~~--
tied Hint to Wives.