Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-01-10


II the progress Of industrial enter
priscs IN the South during the year
which ended last midnight. Some
If the splendid furnaces at Ensey
City. Besschorj Hadsden, Pulaski,
Birmingham and elscwhere, which
are destined to play such an impor-
tant part in Sou,hcrn industrial his
tory, went INTO blast dhrlng the lat
Ter part Of tslh year, while many4
others are hvafly ready TO start up
with tie Opening of the new year.
New coal sI'ntg TO stpply the ever
increasing demand for Southern coal
have Beef opened in Marylaudj Is
tho yirgihias, IN North Carolina. in
Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama,
Georgla; Arkansas and Texas, and
the output for 1883 wac far beyond
the production Of any proceeding
yeat, while 1889 will Show as great
u growth in the amount of coal
mined bset 1888 as it Will in pig
IRON making over last year. Cottor
mill bpilding has Been attives and
thd the year has witnessed great
expansion Of that industry. IN every
line of manufacture, covering the
widest diversity Of pFodatton, in
ralrcad CONSTRUCTION, in the opening
of iron and coil and precious metal
| mines, ia the utilization Of all the
vast natural resources 81 this won
derfully Blessed section, and the
progress was not only rapid, but II
| was solid and snbsstatial. Local
booms are lost 10 the general de-
velopment Of tha @hoie South. and
the wide diversity Of this industrial
Eadvance. Hh,th lneIudea in its scope
1.-The greatest range Of industries
Efrcm The making ofpins 70 the build
tsn;,s e lceaaes,vss.a,s asaa dsaaee
steamships, from the production o
tbrooms to the manufacture of pianos
i from the the digging oftbe ore to th'
working of steel and from the cut,
Ling of the tree to its fashioning into
almost every line of wood-w orking
trays, furniture of all kinds, botf
fine and PLAN, or cars, both frcigh
and passenger.
/ Glass factories in Alabama and
Georgia have proved that the South
can make lis own glass. Car works
in twenty or twenty-five places and
Locomotive works in Richmond and
Roanoke demonstrates that the
South can make It's own cars and
I locomotives ut e lower cost than
they can be made in the North OF
hWest. Furniture and carriage fac
tories Hover the South are begin
ming to snpply the home demand
while canning factories are saving
Hundreds Of thousands OF dollars TO
the Sonlh. No where else IN the
woald is tho raw material for almost
.evory line Of gnanufac1ure 50 abun0
dant as ii the. Sonth, and scarcely a
week paasca without come industry
entirely naw tp, this section being
1organiaod 70 sarn this raw material
linto wealth, while Of enterprise in
established liaes of industry many
lare daily started. ls So
/ tur,ns the year 1888 36lS new
lindustrml enterprises were started
against $3.50 in 1887 and 1878 IN
1885. The, amoant OF capital invest
ed was sIes, sol 900 Of which Tenn
essee contributed s11,l5a,ooo, Mis-
sissippi sl,9es,O0o and. Arkansas
ss,t18,o00. Alabama heads the list
with s2s, ,4l's,ooo. ,a
In the last three years 1928 new
enterprlses have been maugurated
E'q the South, md this. epumerapop
does not encluds hundreds ofsmallel
tones nor the enlargement of plants
already established. Truly the. south
is becoming the wonderland Of the
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