The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-11
NUMBER 2S.
EHE SOUTH GROWING.
FIGURES OF THREE MONTHS MARVEL
Gus PROGRESS.

Nearly 500 New Enterprises Organized
Against GOO for the Same Time Last Year,
and Brighter Prospects Ahead.
The Chattanooga Tradcsman re-
ports for the second quarter of 1890
the organization of 1,493 enterprises
i'll the Southern states, against, 600
in the corresponding quarter of 1889
and 719 III the corresponding quarter
OF 1888. These reports are compiled
from carefully prepared statistical
reports sent the Tradesman from ac-
curate sources from every point in
the Southern States.
During the quarter just ended
three agricultural implements fac
tories were established, five barrel
factories and five brewerics. Forty
one brick. works were commenced
against eighteen in the same quarter
last year, and one new bridge works
was established i'll Kentucky. Six
boot and shoe factories were estlb.
lished, and ten car works, five i'll Ala
bama, three III Georgia and two i'll
South Carolina.
UTILIZING SMALL. FRUITS.
The disposition of the South to
utilize small fruits is evidenced by
the establishment of fifty canning
factories, thirteen III Georgia, ten in
Florida, nine in South Carolina and
the balance equally distributed in
the South. Nine new cigar and to-
baccO factories were started. The
textile industries received their share
of attention. total of sixty-siX having
been organized during three months,
twenty of which were organized i'll
Georgia, nine III Alabama. nine III
Texas, seven in Louisiana and six in
South Carolina.
Twelve new cotton compress com
panies were formed and six new dis
tillerics organized, four in the State
of North Carolina, Forty nine electric
light works were formed. AMI fifty
one flour and grist mills. Seventy
fouudrles were organized, Alabama
leading with twenty.
MANY NEW BLAST FURNACES.
An evidence that the South s in
creasing it's product of raw metals is
furnished by the fact that twenty
new blast furnace companies were
organized in three months, against
seventeen iii the corresponding quar-
ter of last year Eleven We're organ
lied in Alabama, three III Virginia.
three each in TcXas, Tennessee, North
! Can olina and Georgia, and one each
il. Arkansas, Kentucky, West Virginia
Forty-four ice factories were estab-
llishAd--.--O -Ona -hu,adNe1 "s>a .>Se,>. ,risa--
: ing companies were formed. Forty
seven new oil mills We've established,
against sixteen in the corres; cl .ng
quarter last year, twelve ~ .lich
We're III Georgia, cleo, II south
Carolina, nine in ICXas, and five in
West Virginia.
GREAT ACTIVITY IN RAILROADS.
One hundred and seventy -cigh.
new railroad corporations organized.
All of these of course will not be
built, but the fact that the companies
were formed is substantial proof of
the interest in that direction. Nine
rolling mills were established in the
South, and twelve stamp mills, and
smclters. Fifty-fivc new street rail
way companies were formed in the
quarter and and fifty-two new works,
and in addition 225 wood working
establishments and 225 5misccllancous
establishments
The Tradcsman says there is greater
activity in the formation of now en-
terprises today than ever before and
the prospects for the coming year
were never more favorable.