The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-01-05
Progress OF The South.

The Manufaeturs Record of Baltimore
in its current issue publishes its annual
review of the industrial growth of the
South for 1887, which it says was in many
respects the mos. remarkable year in the
history of that section. as during it more
was accomplished for the progress and
prosperity of the South than ever before
i'll the same length OF time. From Mary
land to Texas the progress during 1857
was remarkable. covering almost the en-
tire range of human industry. and there is
scarcely single line of manufacturing or
| mining business in which the number of
new enterprises reported during 1887 Is
noG more lian twice as large as IN 1885,
VI the fourteen Southern States there are
only Tour IN which the capital invested in
ne" enterprises was not double the amount
invested last year. The number of new
enterprises organized or established during
1887 was as follows:
Iron furnace companies, 30 machine
shops and foundries. 1903: agricultural i'm
plement factories. 25: flour mills 135.
cotton mills, II; furniture factories. IS:
gas works, 80; water works, IS: carriage
and wagon factories. "A: electric light com.
paniss, So; mining and quarrying enter.
prSes, 562; lumber mills, including saw
and planning mills. sash and door factories
staye factories, &C., 726: ice factories. So;
canning factories, 80; stove foundries. A.
brick works, 1859: miscellaneous iron works,
rolling mills. pipe works, &C., Il; cotton
congresses. 36; cottonseed oil mills, IS;
natural gas companies. So: miscellaneous
enterprises not included in foregoing,
939-total ,43O. as compared with total
of 575 during 1856.
While The number of furnace companies
increased from IS in 1856 to 80 in 1887. the
number OF machine shops and foundrieS
increased from 6S to 1903, and miscelan-
eous iron works. rolling mills, pipe works,
&C.. from 26 to II. so that of enterprises
to consume The pig iron the increase was
much greater than of furnaces to produce
it. Agricultural implement factories in
creased from Ii to %, flour mills e2 to 1885,
furniture factories % to SO. gas works, "a
to So water works AZ to IS, carriage and
wagon factories 16 to A, electric light
works "a to So, mining and uuarrying en-
terpriseS ia to 562 cotton mills to "a,
wood working concerns AS to 1875. ice fac.
tories 80 to &c. canning factories 13 to 80,
brick works SO to 1885, cotton congresses i3
to 36. cOttonseed oil mills 4 to IS, natural
gas companies p to SO, and miscellaneous
enterprises AIS to 939.
The amount of capital, including cap
ital stock of incorporated companies or
ganiZed during 1887. was:
Alabama, $47, 1882 COO; Arkansas, $24,-
1865 900; Florida. 81 7S6 600; Georgia, $l5,-
36l 900: Kentucky, $40. 053 600; Louisiana.
SS.2lS 600; Maryland. SIS .1S7 900: Mssis--
sippi. $4,77l 900; North Carolina, Sc, 1877,
900: South Carolina, So. 895. 900; Tennessee.
$50, S6l 900; Texas. $16, 43O, 900; Virginia.
so, 255, 600; West Virginia, $8.266, 900;
Total. $3.50, 29S, 900. as against total. OF
$129, 226, 900, during 1886.
The lncrSaSe in Maryland was sc, 427 900.
and in Virginia S14,741 ,00O
In cotton manufacturing there has been
great activity, and II 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
oyersold their production, and many old
mills are being greatly enlarged to meet
the demand for their goods. The increas-
ing diversfication of Southern industries
is Illustrated in the fact that Alabama
alone secured during 1887 the location of
five large building plants, one at Ann
ston to cost 81, 100000 and to turn out 90
complete cars a day, from freight to
passenger. parlor and sleeping cars, the
entire work from the wheels to the up
holstering to be done in these shops, while
the large car plant now at Urbana, Ohio
will be removed to Decatur. where the,
Louisville and Nashville Railroad is
already erecting car works. In the build
ing OF rolling mills. pipe works, machine
shops and foundries the same activity is
seen, while furniture factories, agricultu--
raj implement works, flour mills, gas and
electric works. canning factories, wood
working establishments. &C., are being
started all over the SOUTH