Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-15
ACTIVE TIMES THROUGHOUT THE
SOUTH.
The Manufacturers Record Oflast

The Manufacturers Record Oflast
week says
Regardless of the efforts of few
politicians to retard the South's IN
dustrial progress, the great mass
of the American people North and
South are becoming more and more
impressed with the wonderful &C
tivity that Is seen everywhere from
Maryland to Texas. Enterprises
involving millions of dollars are
being pushed ahead by men who a
year or two ago would not believe
that the South possessed the adj
vantages which the Manufacl urers'
Record had for years claimed for
it; nor would they believe that it
was ever TO hold the commanding
position in industrial matters which
they are now doing all in their
power to give it. At Norfolk and
at Salem, Va, plans are beng ma
tured by outside capitalists tor ex-
tensive steel plants, the one at Nor
folk to make Bessemer steel from
Cuban ores and the one at Salem
for basic steel, while at Buena Vista
the money has been raised for a
$780, 600 steel plant. At Tredegar,
Ala, work has been commenced
upon the large steel enterprise re-
Gently reported, which is to have a
daily capacity of 800 tons of finish
ed steel, aud include rolling mill,
rail mill and cotton tie mill. Here
are four great steel making enter
prjses which are but signs of the
times that indicate that the South
is now 10 turn Its attention to steel
making with the same vlgOr that it
has for years gwen to the increase
in iron production. That is the
rounding out of the South's de-
velopment, and is but the natural
order OF growth from the first
stages of a cOuntry's development
in the making of the coarser grades
OF goods to the finer productions.
AS IN iron and steel, so it will be iD
the manufacture of cotton goods,
for the South, having gained con-
troll OF the market for the cheaper
grades of cotton goods will now
turn its attention to finer qualities,
and in all other lines of industry
we may look for the same evolu'
ton.
The past week has been prolific
to new enterprises, large and small
in addition to the four steel plants
mentioned. At Charlotte HarbOr,
Florida, large phosphate works are
to be built by company having a
paid up capital of 100000. AT
Rome, Georgia, 100000 brick
works are to be built, and at Sa.
vannah, a 100000 wall plaster com.
pany has been organized. At
Greensboro, North Carolina, Phila.
delphia capitalists are to build a
100000 rolling mill. In Maryland
a $4,000 quarrylng company has
been organized. At Marion, North
Carolina, a 100000 gold mining
company will put in mining ma
chinery and establish colonization
works ; at Wilmington, in Z same
Stale, a $4,000 factory to extract
oil from pine has been built; at
Monroe, a 100000 land company
has been organized, and at Marion,
$50, 900 land company. Chat
tanoOga, Tenu., is to have a new
$4,000 ice factory, and Nashville
Will probably secure a 81 100000
packing house. In Virginia a
100000 company has been organ
lied at Stanton TO build a beef
packing house; a mining company
has purchased near Dillwyn 10000
acres of land, and will build new
town at Mineral City an English
company with a capital of $780,.
900 has purchased extensive gold
mines, and will erect sulphGric acid,
phosphate and reduction works.
This Is a summary of only a few
of the big enterprises for one week,
and, taken in consideration with
the many smaller concerns that
are being established in almost
every town of the South, 1t gives
fair idea of what the South is doing,
despite politics and the heat of mid
summer.