Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-11-14
SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENT.
Industrial Interests Continue to Make
Satisfactory Progress.
The Growth of southern shipping cities
to Supplement- ,hs Building If
Manufacturing Cities.

to Supplement TIA Building If
Manufacturing Cities.
The Manufacturers Record, Of Baltimore.
s1ys;
The general business situation throughout
the Sou.l this We shows no material change,
industrial interests continuing to make sits.
factory pragr IS. The movement Of co ton is
till very heavy and foreign shipments sctiv-
The indications Aow very d cded .ndency
of Western produce tos ek utlets to foreign
markets through South Atlantic and Cult
ports, an railroad capitalists are more and
more showing their appr ci ii of this fact
rnua in sdlitioa to the many large island
manufacturing and tTsding cites which are
growing up in the South, this section is Ger.
tain % bui up great aport cities at New
port News, Norfolk, Charleston, Port Royal,
Savannah, Pensacola, Mobile, Galveston, and
probably at other points where good harbors
ean be created alta moderate cost The de-
velopment of la ger rasle wi h the West In
dies and South America AMI the construction
1.-THE Niearauguan canal will both prove of
enormous value 10 the South by furnishing
uew markets for Southern agricultural and
manufactured products, and by making
Southern ports great shipping and tTsaing
cent6rs. In every direc. on evidences are ac-
cumulating OF the sold growth of Southern
business interests ofall kinds, and the olt-
look is very bright. During the past week
the organization of new industrial enterprises
has gone on steadily and among the leading
ones reported a-e Projec ed iron aud steel
works % cost s., 600, 000at San Antonio, Texas
TO use the Bessemer ores of Llano, and while
this has not been cnnsummatef vet negntia-
lions for il are pending; in Florida 5000
acres of phosphate land has been
sold TO Chicago capitalists for development,
the price reported being $500, coo, and another
sale of 1000 acres at n reported price of $i25 =
700 has also been elcsed in Baltimore a $780,
200 ice manufacturing company is building n
large ice factory, and viii probably erect
several others: a SOD coo electric light COM
pany has been organized in Morgantown, ".
Va; $40 COO manufacturing company san
Antanio, Texas; barrel factory, Waycross,
Ga; $500, 900 development Company, Bridge
port, Ala; $25, 90 paperbox company, Rich
mont, Va; 800 water works company,
Giddings TexG; 500 communicating COM
pany, Coyington, KY. S400, 600 street-paving
contract, Houston, Texas; wooden mil, Ovens
boro, Ky; paint works, Buena Vista, Va,
$4,000 planning mill near Ocala, Fla; a s50,-
900 tunnic acid plant, Knoxville, Tenn; coal
mining company, Eagle Pass, Texas; tobacco
factory, Georgetown, Ky; 81, coo IN nufae-
turing company, Charleston, W Va; $780,
900 lumber company. Georgia. a g, 100000
freight car company. Newport, Ky; go, 600
furniture factory company Frankfor Ky:
$4,000 electrie-lisht and gas company, Tay-
Tor, Texas; 10000 grain elevator company,
Frederick, Md. saw mill, Shendun, Va;
300, 900 coal and fre-clay company, Hot
springs, AK, etc. In North Carolina, where
there is considerable nickel, there are rumors
Of a nickel steel making company; at q Gems
poro, in the same State, the corner stone has
been laid for the first large modern furnace,
and the first one built for coke, ever con.
structe in that State; the building Of this
furnace is an event OF great importance 20 the
Two Carolinas, where high-grade Bessemer
pres are found in abundance, the development
If which will add immensely 10 the prosperity
If both Stnfes