The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-29
THE SOUTH
MOVING ON.
GREAT SECTION.
A WEEK OF SOLID INDUSTRIAL
GROWTH THROUGHOUT
THE SOUTH,

the industrial progress OF the oouIo'
s'ys:
ssThe past week has beea very
active one 10 Southern develop
ment, and the MANUFACTURERS
RECORD has very rarely had to report
a wider range of industrial Advance
mept than for the last seven days,
@ En- though the financial world is not
yet looking for investments in new
ventures to any great extent. De- |
spite this, however, the South Is
pushing ahead and rapidly organiz-
ing new manufacturing and mining
enterprise to utilize it's vast resour-
ces. This growth is DOT confined to
any one State, n 0l to a few indus |
tries ouly, but takes in the whole
South and covers almost every line
Of manufacturing including furn aces,
foundries, cotton mills, coal mines,
iron-ore mines, ice factories, flour
mills, wagon factories water works,
electric light works, Woodworking
enterprises, tobacco factories, ferti-
lizer factories, breweries, phosphate
mines and works, etc. The leading
event Of the week is the announce.
ment Of the final closing OF the sale
of 10000 acres of mineral and tim
Der land, including coke ovens,
lumber mill, etc in Eastern Ken
lucky to q Belgian syndicate for
$5,000,O00, part Of which it is un-
derstood, goes into the opening OF
new coal mines, the building Of coke
ovens, furnsces, saw mile, ect. A
dispatch from London says that the
directors Of the Middlesborough
Town Co, have voted $l,25O,000 to
be expended in pushing the enter
prise under construction at Middles.
borough 10 completion. Among
other enterprises are the purchase Of
extensive property in and around
O:ala, Fla, the price being reported
at $500. 900, for development work;
the investment at Dunnellor, in the
same State, of about 100000 for
improvements a 100000 improv-
ment company st Alabama City,
Ala; six phosphate mining and
manufacturing companies 10 Florida;
an ice factory ct Lakeland, Fla;
SD 900 saw mill in the same State;
q 100000 brewery company and
cooperage factory at Augusta, Go;
$50 ton ice factory at New Orleans,
La; a 500, 600 engine works at Balti>
more, Md; 100000 brewery at
Bristol, Tenn; $4,000 carriage
factory at Dallas, Texas; $4,000
manufacturing company in Texas !; q
$500 coo Oil and gas company,
$4,000 mining company. two $780,,
Coz and one $4,000 coal mining
companies, all in West Virginia d
100000 packing and refriseratins
company at New Orleans 81 5000
600 barbor and dock company at
Arkansas Pass, Texas; $4,000 tobac-
CO warehouse company in Florida;
$4,000 hedge fence company in
Loulslna; $3O9,OOO lumber COM
pany az Norfolk, Va: $4,000
wagon manufacturing company al
Redmond, Va; the purchase b.
Western eople of AZ 900 acres OF
TIM Der land near Greenwood, Mise
and q $4,000 cooperage plan: at that
place; ore mine a. Blufftor, Ala 6
5000 lumber company at Riverside,
Ark; wagon factory company at
Columbus, Ga, ice factories at
Scranton, Miss, and Abilene. Texas;
enlargement Of coal-mlning epe, g.
ton at Egypt, N. c.; tobacco facto.
~ at Milton, N. C.; two tobacco fsc-
tories, lumber mill and canning
factory at Mt. Airy, n. c; brick
works at North WiIkesborc, N. c. {;
fertilizer works at Bamberg and
Charleston, S. c; compress company
at Columbia A; water works at Dech-
erd, Tenn, and Barlow, Fla -four
mil, E>till Springs, Tenn tobacco
factory, Danvllle lime works, Fin
castle; electric-light works at Barlow
Fla. e.. Negotiations are pending
for beet-sugar factories, a new indus
try for the South, at Stanton, Va,
Martinsburg, W. vs..
Such Is the record for one week.
1t does no include all that has been
done in that time, nor does it take
account of the progress of enterprises
previously mentioned. 1t is simply
q brief summary of the more lmpor
tant concerns reported in this weeks
issue of the MANUFACTUREas
RECORD, and Of which full details
are giver, showing that these are
not simply enterprises that are talk
Cd Of, but that they have all beer