The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-07-08


iel Dannenhauser to three years and
eight months in the state prison
CD.
Industrial Development of the South.
Baltimore Manufacturers Record,
The past two weeks have wit
messed the organization of enter
prises that are destined to have a
far-reaching infence upon the fu-
ture of the south. Two enterprises
for which the preliminary arrange
ments have b9en consummated dur
ing the period, claim prominence
in Importance over anything that
has been reported in the south for a
long time. One is the establish
ment by the Roane Iron Co., of
Bessemer steel works at Chattanoo-
ga to turn out $50 tons of rails a
day, the vast Importance of which
to the industrial interests of the
south can hardly be overestimated;
the other is the signing of con-
tract by Enoch Ensly, the presi-
dent of the Pratt Coal & Iron Co.,
and other leading iron men, to com
plete the Birmingham & Sheffield
Railroad and to build a I0O-ton
furnace at the latter place. The
building of this road will result in a
great development of almost unlim-
tied coal and iron resources as yet
practically untouched. The work
of Mr.. Ensley and his associates
will probably fully equal in impor-
lance the establishment OF steel
works at Chattanooga. In addi-
ton to these two great undertakings
there have been a large number of
other enterprises organized that will
largely add to the prosperity of the
south. At Newport News, Va, the
tidewater terminus of the Chess-
peake & Ohio railway, arrangements
have been completed for the con-
struction of a dry dock chat will
involve the expenditure Of probably
100000 and may result in the es-
tablishment there of an immense
iron ship building yard. A $780,
600 company has been organized at
Calera, Ala, to build an iron fur
mace and charcoal works. At Chat
| tanooga 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 week under review,
there is in Alabama a knitting fac
tory, three large saw mills, cotton
compress, q cheese factory and
coke works; in Arkansas, a $4,000
lumber mill company, a $4,000
stave factory, two shelters, one of
so tons capacity, large gold min
ing company, water works compa-
ny. furniture factory, a saw mill,
a planning mill and a cooperage fac
tory; in Florida, a canning factory
a 100000 gas and electric light
company; two saw mills, a planning
mill and brick works; in Georgia, a
paper mill, extensive improvements
to cotton mill, a grist mill, a shin
gle mill, stave mill and saw mill; in
Kentucky, coke .works, a $4,000
coal mining company, a $4,000 to-
bacco factory, and $4,000 put into
new stone quarries; in Louisiana, a
$4,000 mining company and a rice
mill; in Mississippi, $4,000 water
works and brick works; in North
Carolina, a shoe factory, cotton
mill, grist mill and a $1,000 furni-
ture factory;in South Carolina, 500
600 imprey ements made to one cot
ton mill, and about the same or
more to another, $50, 900 to $40, 900
in fertilizer works, furniture fac
tory, two -four mills, and the re-
building of sash and door facto-
ry and turpentine distilleries; in
Tennessee, a.marble quarrying COM
pany, a dynamite factory. an ice
factory, a large broom factory, a
cotton batting mill, a flour mill, and
several saw mills; in Texas, a $Ioo-
600 oil and cotton company, a
100000 flour mill and elevator, a
compress, water pipe foundry and
two water works companies; in Vir-
ginia, a stone quarry, a gold mine,
and the rebuilding of two mills;
and in West Virginia, $4,000 saw
mill, $4,000 gas works and coke
works, and a $1,oeo,ooo company
which will probably build a cotton
gin factory either in Atlanta or
Chattanooga, AS a Summary of
what has been reported during the
last two weeks, this statement shows
that the industrial development of
the south is little less than marvel