The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-03
The Southern Developments

Oh XTTANOOGA, Tenn, Dec. Is
The issue of the Tradesmen, of JAN
uary l, will contain list of every ID
dustrY established i'll the southern
states in 1888, also every one enlarged
and all projected. Among the leading
branches of industry the following are
noteworthy:
The total number of agricultural
implement works built and projected
during the year was S-two in North
Carolina, two in Arkansas and one
each in Alabama, Georgia. South
Carolina and Tenpessee; breweries-
in Georgia, each in Alabama, Ken
lucky. Tennessee and Texas;
90 brick wOrks-16 in Alabama,
each in Georgia and Tennessee and
the remainder scattered throughout
the other states; 3 bridge works.
each in Tennessee. Texas and West
Virginia.: boot and shoe Factories
in each Alabama and Arkansas, ] in
each South Carolina and Texas; u car
works. in West Virginia, in Geor-
gia, and each in Alabama, Arkansas,
Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and
Texas; 81 canning factories, event Y
divided over the south; 81 cigar and
tobacco factories Carolina
leading with s.; I63 cotton and wooden
Aiabama Is, Arkansas 3, Fleri-
da 5, Georgia SO, Kentucky 4. Louisiana
6. Mississippi /, North Carolina II South
Carolina 10, Tennessee II. Texas 8,
Virginia 10, West Virginia 2. electric
light works 74-17 in Texas, IL in Ten
nessee. 8 each in North Carolina, Mis-
sissippi and Kentucky, the rest scat
tering; flour mills l03-Tennessee lead
ing with 81, Texas %, Kentucky 10;
foundries and machine shops 145-
Alabama %. Georgia %, Kentucky and
Tennessee IL each, Texas u, Virginia
and West Virginia each 10; there were
80 blast furnaces projected during the
year, in Alabama, 9 in Georgia, in
Kentucky. 10 in Mississippi. 6 in Ten
nessee. each in Texas, Virginia and
West Virginia; brass works 4-3 in
Georgia and l in West Virginia; ice
factories SOL in Georgia, in Ten
nesse, Z in Alabama and
the remainder in other states:
the total number OF mining and quar-
rying companies organized during the
year was 217. Alabama a, Tennessee
20, Kentucky 2S, Georgia a, West Vir-
ginia %, Texas 90. Virginia IA, North
Carolina II. Arkansas II. South Carroll
ma H.. Street railways, SIT in Geor-
gia, Is in Tennessee and the balance
equally distributed among the other
states; wood working establishments
4S3-Georgia 95, Alabama 81, South
Carolina 46, Arkansas SO. Kentucky So,
Texas %. Mississippi %, Florida %.
In addition to the above the miscella-
neous Industries established and pro-
jected during the year aggregated 533,
Texas leading with 66, Georgia "a
| Tennessee 50, Alabama 81, Virginia
SO, Louisiana 81. The total number of
railroad companies organized III the
south during the year was 245-Ala-
bama leading with 80, Georgia S.
Tennessee 81, Texas Is, Arkansas and
Florida each %, Kentucky 10, Virginia
IS, West Virginia 8, Louisiana and
| Mississippi each 8, South Carolina 6.
North Carolina 5; natural gas and oil
companies II. oil mills 81, rolling
mills Z.
The Tradesman in its review will
say that the figures do not say much
about what has actually been built, as
they indicate the wide diversity and
unmistakabIe drift of enterprise and
endeavor in southern states and
demonstrates the rapid strides that
section is making toward becoming
| the manufacturing region, which its
| abundance of resources has fittel
/ If for