The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-06-12
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Some Pointers from Over the Sunny South
Land.
ALABAMA.

The Gadsden furnace at Gadsden
have just added two new boilers.
Jackson & Bro, Wetumpka, will
add new machinery to their lumber
mill.
An English syndicate with capital
of 100000 will develop rich mineral
lands III North Alabama.
New mines are being opened up in
Tuscaloosa county, near Clements
station, on the Alabama Southern rail-
road. A shaft has been sunk to a
depth of 162 feet and 4-foot vein of
superior cooking coal struck. A large
force of men are at work and several
more shafts will be sunk.
FLORIDA.
The shipment of lumber from Fer
nandina for the past month will
amount to about 100000 feet.
The Baldwin vinegar factory at
North Gainesville has begun work in
time to utilize large part of the
strawberry crop.
The Peace River Phosphate COM
pany has purchased new driving ma
chinery and can handle twenty tons
of rock per hour. The company ex-
poets to add other machinery.
A fertilizer factory will be estab
lished in Santa, Rosa county, by
Fleetwood & Tee of Milton, if the
farmers will agree to purchase 200
tons of guano for fall planting.
De Leon Springs company, of De
Leon Springs will increase their capt.
tai from 100000 to 100000. They
will establish water works in connec-
ton with their hotel.
A stock company of $4,000 at
Rainbridge, Ga, have purchased a
Campbell cotton compress, with w.
M. Blount presidents W. A. Dickin-
son treasurer, and Sig. Nussbaum
secretary.
! TENNESSEE.
Whites foundry, at Dayton, is turn
ing out large amount of work and
are about full with orders.
Jackson Milling and Manufacturing
company, Jackson, have shut down
for the summer months.
The stave factory at Dyer is about
ready for action, and has good outfit
OF machinery and will employ a great
many hands.
A number of improvements are be-
ag made to the plant of the Harvest
Stove Manufacturing company at
South Pittsburg.
Duncan, Hughes & Hillman, South
Pittsburg, have recently added two
small saws aud turning lathe to their
saw and planning mills.
The South Pittsburg pipe works, of
South Pittsburg, shipped the first solid
train of twenty-five carloads of cast
iron pipe ever shipped by any single
southern factory. 1t was sold to
Philbin & Jackson, water works con-
tractors, Nashville, Tenn, for Fort
Worth, Texas-about 500 tons. This
company will send other solid trains
one for Denver and one for Boulder,
Colo.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The alliance are to build ware
house and probably cotton oil mill al
Bamberg.
A fertilizer factory will be operated
at Newberry, in connection with a
cotton seed oil mill.
An electric light company with 6
capital stock of $4,000 has been in
corporated at Rock Hill.
The Anderson water works are being
pushed rapidly, and will be completed
in few weeks.
Electric light plant, water works anC
street railway are to be established al
Blacksburg.
The new electric light plant al
/ Spartanburg has been completed ant
is operating satisfactorily.
A valuable deposit of lead has beer
7 discovered on the land belonging to
DR.. ]. P. Latimer, in Laurens county
: about twenty-eight miles from Green
vile. A syndicate is now negotiating
7 for the purchase of these lands with 8
J view to developing their mineral re
= sources. In addition to these minera
deposits, valuable water power OF
t Reedy river adjoins the above named
property, which, if properly utilized
may result in untold wealth. Heav,
| timber also abounds on the place.
GEORGIA.
Hartwell will probably have cot
ton factory soon.
The Dawson Investment compan,
! has been organized.
A machine shop is being established
9 in Macon for general repair work.
A rich tin mine has been discovered
in Cherokee county, about forty mile
: from Atlanta. The silver veins rul
parallel to the tin veins, Of which boil
are very rich in quality.
!. Macon will have mammoth tin
, ware mandatory. The capital stool
may be $250,000. The members O
= the Macon Hardware company are tn
main movers in the scheme.