Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-03-19
STATE IDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Natural gas will soon be in use in
Louisville, Mt. Sterling and Glasgow.
At the latter place two strong wells
have been sunk within six miles of the
city and $40 600 has been subscribed
to lay apipe line for the purpose of
heating and lighting the city. A
similar find has been made near
Mt. Sterling.
Several new oil wells have been
sunk in Barren county and efforts
are being made to establish great in
dustry at Glasgow for the utilization
of this valuable product.
Mrs Mary A. Peyton has started
hustle factory Ia Paris which ia turn
out 500 dozens bustles per week.
Tha business men of Paris have
started movement for the building
of an opera house based upon prin-
ciple which If pursued in the other
towns in the State would result in
the course of few years in the cstab-
lishment of many profitable and i'm
portant enterprises. They have Or
ganized stock company on the
Building Association plan, the shares
being assessible at the rate of $5 per
month and with the proceeds Of the
sale of stock the opera house will be
built. The same principle could be
applied to cotton and wooden mills
and other manufactures which
would do well in great many Ken
lucky towns.
In 1888 there were 100000 BUSH
els more Of coal mined than In 1887
and the prospects are very bright
for large increase in the product
during the present year. The value
of coal mined in Kentucky has treb-
led since 1880 and now amounts TO
nearly 100000 tons annually.
Rice Il Co., who established Q to-
bacco factory in Hopkinsville a year
ago have been so successful that they G
ire now enlarglng their works con-
'iderably and will diversity their !
Geo. A. Collett Is about building at e
Green the largest brick kiln !
yer established in Kentucky. 1t y
viii supply brick for the round
louses of tho two new railroads 4
'bo ut to be built though that city
nd for the numerous new residences
nd business houses which will be
rected during the year. h,
A canning establishment that will di
mploy two hundred hands Is now an VI
ssured fact at Elizabethtown, where IA
.ock to the amount of 5000 has o. .,
cen subscribed and the business put 40
charge of Baltimore man. It of
ill be In operation during the COM m
lg season. si'
G. W. Rodsbaugh, of Marysville. de
hio, has located at Richmond where
conjunction with John Donelson w
, will establish big carriage facto- OH
More than $l00000is being exFend- thi
in Richmond in the erection of pri- fro
tie residences. III
Waterworks are to be built at
lssellville, Georgetown, Richmond
ID Glasgow.
A large number Of German immi-
ants entered the State last week,
d will settle near Milledgeville. in of
ncoln county, in the vicinity OF W,
iich there are already two Austrian H'
lonies, which have been very sue 10
'sful and profitable. The opportuni- 10
9 for fruit raising and truck farm IL
< in Lincoln and Hardin counties 10
0 exceptionally fine, and in few 4 ~
ars this section could be made 7
long the most valuable in the state. 7
The Henderson wooden mills pay out I
average Of $4,000 yearly to girls u,
no operate their sewing machinest, q
hich give an idea Of the extent OF
Q wooden business In that thriving an,
d rapidly growing city. pri
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