Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-21

the canning factory mentioned last week.
II. B. Warren can give information.
The boom Is here; not speculative
land boom, but wave of industrial pro-
gress which is sweeping over the whole
South The list OF new enterprises given
| in this issue of the Manufacturers Re-
cord has never been equalled before for
diversity and Importance and for the
wide extent of country covered. Every
state in the South is fully alive TO the
Importance of industrial development,
and the progress made during the first
two weeks of the year is simply astonish-
ing. This progress, too, is solid and sub
stantiaI There is no speculative booming,
but simply a most remarkable. growth
in every section of the South. The most
condensed summary even of the largest
new enterprises reported in the Manu-
facturers Record since the first of Janu-
ary. and entirely emitting many others
of much importance, such as electric
works, furniture factories, saw and plan
ing mills, ice factories, etc., shows a
rate of progress greater than ever seen in
the South before. Gate City, Ala, is to
have a new furnace, and arrangements
have been about closed for great
steel operations at Birming-
ham. Senator Brown of Georgia
has organized a 81 900, 900 company
for coal and iron developments, and to
include his present mines and furnaces; in
Louisville a $3.50 900 brewery company a
500 200 machinery company, $500 ZOO
railroad supply company, and $50 1000
cotton mill supply company have been
organized; at Waco, Ky, sos 900 pot
terry and pipe works company has been
established; $3.50, 0G0 quarrying COM
pany at Havre de Grace, Nd; a $50 900
tinware factory, Dallas, Tex; a $500 900
coal mining company in Virginia to OPP
crate in West Virginia; $500 1000 and
S100 600 coal mining companies in West
Virginia have been incorporated; a sec
ond furnace viii be built at Roanoke,
and work has already commenced on it;
Douglasville, Ga, is to have a $50 200
cotton mill; Emerson, Ga, $40 900
malleable iron company; Rome, a
$40 900 rolling mill; Newport, Ky.
$500 900 electrical supply COM
pany; Shreveport, La, $50 600
brewery; Rockingham, n. c.,
$50 200 wooden mill; Corsicana,
Tex, 500 900 coal and iron company;
Lynchburg, Va, zinc works; Eufaula,
Ala. cotton-seed oil mill; Macon, Ca,
5000 900 cotton-seed oil mill, to be one of
the largest in the country, and enlarge
ment of one now in operation at cost
of 1925 900; new $500 900 gold mining
company in Alabama is being organized
and is ordering extensive machinery;
Sheffield is to have a wooden mill, ma
chine shop and wood working factoryg q
$500 900 cotton mill will be built at
Mammoth Springs, Ark; an Atlanta
company has been incorporated with
capital of $3.50, 600 to build machine
shops, the buildings alone to cost S70,-
600; Lexington, Va, has organized q
$500 900 company to build d furnace near
there, develop an industrial town, etc;
Milledgeyille, Ca, will build $50 600
cotton seed oil mill and S12 600 ice fac
tory; Americus, q $50 900 ice factory;
Florence, Ala, a $50 900 shoe factory
and Lumber City, Ga, $4,000 ship
yard.
AS record of industrial progress COW
ering only the new enterprises reported
i'll the Manufacturers Record since jan
uaTy this is q wonderful list, but it does
not begin to include all. 1t is simply d
summary of the leading ones designed to
show the wide diversity of the enter
prises and the general activity through
out the South, that it may be seen how
solid and permanent is this growth
During the great boom of 1867 the chief
activity was conferred in Alabama and
in iron and coal. Now the boom that is
coming covers the whole South, and in
cludes almost every line of human indus
try. We are just at the beginning ofran
era of tho greatest activity which The
South has ever seen.