The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-01-12
ONE YEAR AT THE SOUTH.
A Wonderful Record of Progress and Pros.
perity.

perIty.
BALTIMORE, December 29.-The dan.
ufacturers' 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 &C.
complished for the progress and prosper
ity of the whole South than ever before
in the same length Of time.
From Maryland to Texas the progress
was remarkable, covering almost the en-
tire 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 invested
in new enterprises was not double the
amount invested last year.
While the number of new furnace
companies increased from %, in 1886, to
80 in 1887, the number of machine shops
and foundries increased from eS to 103,
and miscellaneous iron works, rolling
mills, pipe works, &C., from Sc to IL; SO
that the increase Of enterprises to con:
sumo pig iron was much greater than Of
furnaces to produce it.
Agricultural implement factories in,
creased from II to 25, flour mills 90 to
1876, furniture factories % to SIS, gas works
"a to 35, water works 42 to Ss, carriage
and wagon factories l6 to A, electric light
works 81 to SO, mining and quarrying en-;
terprises 174 to 562, cotton mills 9 to ~,
wood working concerns 44S to 726, ice
factories so to 96, canning factories l3 to
80, brick works SO to 169, cotton COM
presses 13 to 96, cotton seed oil mills 4 to-
is, natural gas companies 81 to So, and
miscellaneous enterprises 419 to 913.
The total number of 1857 was 3,430
against 1875 in 1886.
The amount of capital, including the
capital stock of incorporated companies
organized during 1887, was: Alabama
S47,9S2,oOO, Arkansas s24, ,466,O0o Flori. !
da s2,7s6,O0O, Georgia SIS, ,361 900, Ken
lucky s4O,053,OoO, Louisiana sS,21s,0O0,
Maryland s15,1S7OOO, Mississippi 81
771,OOO, North Carolina S, ,767, ,OGo, South
Carolina s3,S95, 900, Tennessee S35, 1861, -
600, Texas SIG, 100000, Virginia s2s, ,255, g.
600, West Virginia sS,766,OOo. Total
s256,29s,ooo, against s129,226,ooo in
1886.
In cotton manufacturing there has been
great activity 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 having largely oversold their
production, and many old mills are being
enlarged to meet the demand for their
goods.
The increasing diversi6cation of South.
ern industries is illustrated in the fact
that Alabama alone secured during the
year the location of five large car-build.
ing plants, two at Decatur and one each
at Birmingham, Admission and Gadsden.
The Admission works will cost 100000, /.
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 upholsteriDg, is to be done in )
these shops. Ono of the car plants at 8
Decatur is being built by the Louisville
and Nashville Road, and the other will
be the large works now at Urbans, Ohio,
which are to be removed to Decatur. In
the building of rolling mills, pipe works.
machine shops and foundries the same 4
activity is seen, while furniture factories, b
agricultural implement works, -four mills, I
gas and electric works, canning factories, a
wood working establishments, Sc, are
being started all over the South.