Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-07-09
Industrial Development Of the
South.

Baltimore Manufacturers Record July 3. 's6.l
The past two weeks have witnessed
the organization of enterprises that
are destined to have a far-reaching
influence upon the future of the
South. Two enterprises, for which
the preliminary arrangements have
been consummated during that peri
cd, claim pre-eminence in importance
over anything that has been reported
in the south for long time. One is
the establishment by the Roanc Iron
Co., Of Bessemer steel works at Chat
tanOoga, to turn out $50 tons of rails
a day, the vast importance of which
to the industrial interests ofthe South
can hardly be overestimated the 9TH
er is the signing of contract by
Enoch Ensley, the president of the
Pratt Coal " Iron Co, and other
leading iron men, to complete the
Birmingham & Sheffield Railway
and TO build l00-ton furnace at the
latter place. The building of this
road will result in a great develop
mcnt Of almost unlimited coal and
iron resources as yet practically un-
touched. The work of Mr.. Ensley
and his associates will probably fully
equal in Importance the establish
ment of steel works at Chattanooga.
In addition 10 these two great un-
dertakings, there have been large
number of other enterprises organ
lied that will largely add TO the pros
perity of the South. AT Newports
News, Va, the tide-water terminus
Of the Chesapeake u Ohio Railway,
arrangements have been completed
for the construction of a dry dock
that will involve the expenditure of
probably $4,000, and may result in
establishing and immense iron ship
building yard. A 100000 company
has been organized at Calera, Ala, to
build all iron furnace and charcoal
works. At Chattanooga the Lookout
Rolling Mill will invest $4,000 in
building wrought iron pipe works,
which will be the only establishment
of the kind in the South. Among
other important enterprises reported
in our Construction Department dur
ing the two weeks under review,
there were in Alabama a knitting
factory, three large saw mills, cot
ton compress, cheese factory and
coke works; in Arkansas, $4,000
lumber mill company, $4,000 stave
factory, two smelters, one of so tons
capacity.a large gold mining com
pany, water works company, fur
niture factory, a saw mill, planning
mill and acooperage factory; in Flor
ida, canning factory, 100000 gas
aud electric light company, two saw
mills, a planning mill and brick
works {; in Georgia, paper mill, ex-
tensive improvements to cotton
mill, a grist mill, shingle mill, stavC
mill and saw mill III Kentucky, coke
works, $4,000 coal mining company
a $4,000 tobacco factory, and $780,
600 put into new stone quarries; il
Louisiana, a $4,000 mining company
and rice mill in Mississippi, $751;
900 water works and brick works il
North Carolina, a shoe factory, cot
! ton mill, grist mill and a $4,000 fur
niture factory; in South Carolina
$4,000 improvements made to ONT
cotton mill, and about the same OIL
more to another, $4,000 TO $4,000 ii
fertilizer works, furniture factory
two flour mills, and the rebuilding O.
: . a sash and door factory and turpen
tine distilerics in Tennessee, mar
, BILE quarrying company, dynamite
!, factory, an ice factory, large broom
factory, cotton batting mill, .floul
mill, and several saw mills in Texas
a 100000 oil and cotton company, {
$l50,000 flour mill and elevator,
: compress, water pipe foundry, ant
J two water works companies; in Vir
: ginia, stone quarry, gold mine,an,
y the rebuilding of two mills; and il
: West Virginia, a $4,000 saw mil
9 $4,000 gas works and coax works
q and a 100000 company which vii
:" probably built cotton gin factor
i either in Atlanta or Chattanooga. A
= a summary of what has been report
U ed during the last two weeks, thi
: statement shows that the industris
Q development of the South is littl
:, less than marvellous.