Hillsboro recorder., 1888-01-12


Total. .....................$2 256,29s,0OO
against $129, ,226, 900 in 1885. In cotton
manufacturing there has been great ac-
tivity and seventy-seven new mills have
been projected, many Of them being now
under construction which is the largest
number Of new mills ever reported in one
year. Cotton mills are reported as hav-
ing largely over-sold their production,
and many old mills are being enlarged to
meet the demand for their goods. The
increasing diversifcation of Southern in
dustries Is illustrated in the fact that Al
obama alone secured, during the year, the
location Of five large car building plants,
two at Decatur and one each at Birning-
ham, Admission and Gadsden. The ARnis-
ton works will cost $1,000, 900, employ
1000 mechanics and will turn out twenty
complete cars day, from freight to pas
senger, parlor and sleeping cars, the en-
tire work, from making wheels to the
upholstering, to be done in these shops.
One of the car plants at Decatur is being
built by the Louisville & Nashville rail-
road, and Tho other will be large works.
now at Urbana, Ohio, which are 10 be
removed to Decatur.
A tabulated statement shows the prog.
ress Of industrial development in 1887 in
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas, Virginia and West Virginia, as
follows: Agricultural implement facto-
ries, %; breweries, 8; bridge works, 8;
car works, %; cotton and woolen mills,
l47; electric light works, 98; flour and
grist mills, III; foundries and machine
shops, 1S4; blast furnaces, 73; gas com.
panies, 81; glass works, "a; ice factories,
so; mines and quarries, 504; natural gas
companies, lis; oil mills, 45; pipe works,
4; potteries, 10; railroad companies, 202;
rolling mills, stampmills and smelters, 43;
steel plants, 10 {; street railways, i52; water
work, $40; 1856; wood working establish
ments, miscellaneous, s64. There were or
ganized: -.....
In Alabama-7 agricultural implement
works, bridge works, car works, is
cotton and wooden mills, AZ foundries
and machine shops, 83 blast furnaces, 43
mining and quarrying companies, II nat.
ural gas companies, 2pipe works, Al rail-
road companies, 18 electric light works,
1O4 wood working establishments and
i52 miscellaneous industries.
In Arkansas car works, z cotton and
woolen mills, 2 blast furnaces, 50 mines
| and auarries, 40 railroad companies and
As stamp mills and smelters. IN the last
named branch, Arkansas also takes first
/ place.
In Florida-9 tobacco factories, 4 cot.
ton and woolen mills, 80 railroad compa-
mics, II water works, 4e wood working
establishments.
In Georgia--7 agricultural implement
works, "a cotton and wooien mills, 10
| blast furnace companies, 2 glass works,
gS mines and quarries, 3s railroads, 90
street railways and % wood working es.
tablishments.
In Kentucky cotton and woolcn
mills, 4 blast furnaces, 35 mines and
quarries, 81 natural gas companies, Q tool
works, water works and ~ wood work
ing establishments. -.
In Iouisiana---3 cotton and woolen
mills. 1 blast furnace, 0 mines and quar-
ries. q on mills, Q distiIlerics, 8 potteries
3 rice mills, 5 sugar mills and % wood
working establishments. ~
In Mississippi-S cotton gnd woolen
mills / blast furnace, mines and quar-.
rics, 3 railroads, Is wood working sstab'
lishments and 2s miscellaneous.
In North cgolina--ie carriage and
wagon works, % cigar and tobacco facto.
ries, 90 cotton and woolen mills tthe state
leading In this branch), 81 -four and grist
mills, rs ice factories, 80 mines and quar-.
ries, ~ milroads, Q street railways and
az wood working establishments.
In South Carolina--21 cotton and
wooden mills, 10 mines and quarrics, 9
water works, 1 rice mill, 9 railroads and
/ IA wood working establishments.
/ In Texas--s car works, 2 car wheel
works 10 cotton and weolen mills, 90
electric light works, 81 -four and grist
mills (Tesas leading the South 10 this
branchI. % foundries and machine shops,
/ IA Ice factories, Al mines and guarries, Q
natural gas companies, 2 oil mills, ~ rail-
ways. % water works, 81 wood working
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