The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-05
ONE YEAR TIE SOUTH.
4 Wonderful! Record Of Progress and
Prosperity.

BALTIMORE, December 29.--The
Manufacturers Record will publish
this week its annual review of the
industrial growth Of the South for
1887, which is in many respects the
most remarkable year in the history
Of that section, as more was accom-
plished for the progress and pros
perity of the whole South than ever
before in the same length of time.
From Maryland to Texas the pro-
gress was remarkable, covering al-
most the entire range Of industry,
and there is scarcely single line Of
manufacturing or mining business in
which the number of new enterprises
reported during 1887 is not more than
twice as large as in 1886. OF the
fourteen Southern States there are
only four in which the capital in
vested in new enterprises was not
double the amount invested last year.
While the number of new furnace
companies increased from %, in 1886,
to 20 in 1887, the number of machine
shops and foundries increased from
IS 10 103, and miscellaneous iron
works. rolling mills, pipe works, &C..
from Sc to II; so that the increase OF
enterprises to consume pig iron was
much greater than Of furnaces to pro-
duce it.
MISCELLANEOUS FACTORIES.
Agricultural implement factories
increased from II to 25,shour mills
81 to l35, furniture factories % to
55, gas works 24 to IS, water works
40 to IS, carriage and wagon facto-
ries 16 to A, electric light works "a
to SO, mining and quarrying enter
prises ia to 562, cotton mills 9 to
II, wood working concerns AS to
726, ice factories so to 95, canning
factories IS to 81, brick works So to
169, cotton congresses 19 to 35, cot
ton seed oil mills 4 to IS, natural
gas companies 81 to So, and miscel-
laneous enterprises 419 to 9l3. The
total number Of 1887 was 3,430
against 1915 in 1886.
CAPITAL INVESTED.
The amount of capital, including
the capital stock of incorporated
companies organized during 1887,
was Alabama s47 1882, 900, Arkansas
S24,466,0O0, Florida S2,7o6,OO0, Geor-
gia Sl5,367, 900, Kentucky S4O,053,'
900, Louisiana sS,2lS000, Maryland
s15,lS7,00o, Mississippi s4,Tl,00O.
North Carolina s9;:T67s6e0, South
Carolina $3,S95,G00, Tennessee $780,
$4,000, Texas sl6,430,000, Virginia
S23,255,000, West Virginia $780,
900. Total $256,29S,000 in 1886.
COTTON MILLS.
Ia cot on manufacturing there has
been great activity and seventy.seyen
new have been projected, many of
them being now under construction,
which is the largest number Of new
mills ever reported in one year. Cot
ton mills are reported as having
largely over-sold their production,
and many old mills are being en-
larged to meet the demand for their
goods.
DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRY.
The increasing diversi6cation of
Southern Industries is illustrated in
the fact that Alabama alone secured
during the year the location of FIVE
large car.building plants, two at De.
catur and one each at Birmingham,
Admission and Gadsden. The An.
niston works will cost Sl,000,000,
employ 1000 mechanics, and will
turn out twenty complete cars day,
from freight to passenger. parlor and
sleeping cars. The entire work,
from making the wheels to uphol.
stering. is to be done in these shops.
One Of tie car plants at Decatur is
being built by the Louisville and
Nashville Road and the other will be
the large works now at Urbama,
Ohio, which are to be removed to De-
catur. In the building of rolling
mills, pipe works, machine shops and
foundries the same activity is seen,
while furniture factories, agricultural
implement works, flour mills, gas and
electric works, canning factories,
woodworking establishments. &C.,
are being started all over the South.