The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-03-18
ACTIVITY ALL ALONG THE
+ @ 2 LINE.

| The Manufacturers Record o
the 7th instant says: ~
The past week has shown al
activity in the industrial life O
| the south that is amazing. No
for many months has there beer
such q list of new enterprises
and probably never before was
the southwark tend of indus
trial development more strik,
ingly illustrated than during
the last ten day. From every
direction the movement swells
in ever-increasing volume, and
there seems to be no limit to the
wonderful growth that the COM
ing summer will show Penn
sylyania, the west and Great
Britain alike helped on the re-
cord of the weeks advance.
From Great Britain come re-
ports Of a 81, 900, 900 company to
build furnaces and steel works
at Middlesborough, Ky; $2,-
100000 development company
that has already planned for a
dozen new enterprises to en-
|ploy about 5000 hands at the
same town, and q $500, 900 coal
mining and coke company like
wise at Middlesborough; one oil
the big iron and steel-making
companies at Pottstown, Pa,
will build larger iron works in
the south, probably in Virginia;
a Scranton company has con-
tracted to build hardware works
to employ 500 hands at East
Richmond, and a New York
company will build sewing ma
chine works there; a 81, 200, 900
company, with all the stock
taken. has purchased 100000
acres of iron and timber land in
Virginia and West Virginia for
development; a 81 200, 900 COM
pany has been formed to build
q furnace and other works in
Alabama; Florida reports six
new phosphate mining COM
panies with an aggregate capi-
tai stock of 81, 1868, 900, and the
sale oe large tracts of phosphate
lands, the activity in the dwell
.opment of this business being
something wonderful; a $l75,-
600 cotton mill is to be built at
Edgefield, s. c.; a 4,000-spindle
mill at Kings Mountain in
North Carolina, and a mill at
Salisbury in the same state; a
$200, 900 company has been or
|ganized in Philadelphia to es-
tablish pine straw bagging fac
tories and soap works in con-
nection in the south, while a
$75, 900 pine fibre company has
been chartered in South Caro-
lima; a $50, 900 horse collar fac
tory, $4,000 brick works, a
$250,000 electric company at
Cisco, 81, 900, 900 town building
company at Galveston, are some
of the new enterprises charter
ed in Texas; Staunton, Va, is
TO have a 400 barrel -four mill
and Shendun a $4,000 plaster
company, while a 500, 900 steel
company and three land COM
panies with an aggregate Of
S500, 900 Of stock have been Or
ganized; West Virginia shows a
$l00, 900 friedrich company, a
$50, 900 coal mining company,
and also q $50, 900 chinaware
company 10 be organized; in
North Carolina a $4,000 slate
company and q $685. 900 quarry
ing company are among the
weeks new enterprises; a $500. ).
0OO coal mining company and a
$l00, 900 quarrying company in
Kentucky; q $25, 900 cotton-seed
oil mill in Camden, s. c., q $50,-
900 mining company in North
Georgia; a Sl5, 900 cotton mill in
the same state have been or.
ganized. While this list briefly
summarizes a few Of the more
important enterprises of the
week, as long as ii is, it does
mot by any means cover the
whole field nor give a full idea
lof the remarkable activity
which is everywhere being
shown. As the spring adv lnce:
land good weather enables build.
ling operations 10 be resumed
1.-THE south will be the busiest
lpart Of America, and its ad
Vance during 1891 will, in al
probability, far surpass the re
cord Of any previous year.
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