San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-21
A Week of Solid Industrial Growth
Throughout the South.

The Manufacturers Record, of Bal
timore; Oct II, in reviewing the in
dustrial progress of the South, says:
The past week has been a very &C
tive one In Sontherp develOpm ent,
and the Manufacturers Record has
Very rarely had to report wider
range of industrial advancement than
for the last seven days, even though
the financial world is not yet looking
for vestments in new venturers to
any great extent. Despite this, how
ever, the South is pushing ahead
and rapidly organizing new manu-
featuring and mining enterprises to
utilize its vast resources. This
growth is not confined TO any one
State, ror to few iEdICtricI only,
but takes in the whole South and
covers almost every line of manufac
turing. including furnaces, fOundries
cotton mills coal mines, irOH-Ore mines
ice factories, water work, -four mills,
wagon factories, water works, electric
light works, woodworking enterpri-
ses, tobacco factories, fertilizer factO-
ries, breweries phosphate mines and
works, etc. The leading event of the
week is the announcement OF the
firsl closing Of the sale of 80, 900
acres of mineral and timber land, in
uluuIng cake Ovous, LUMBER mill, etc,
10 Eastern Kentucky to Belgian
syndicate for 5000 900, a part of which
it is understood, goes into the ope-
ming of new coal mines, the building
of coke ovens, furnaces, saw mills,
etc. \ dispatch from London says
-hnt Thn HiFppEnrG of tho Afi6Ilau-
borough Town Co. have voted 81 $50.
900 to be expended in pushing the
enterprises under construction at
MiddlesborOugh to completion
Among other enterprises are the ,pur-
thase of extensive property in and
around Ocala, Fla, the price being
reported at $500, 600, for development;
work; the investment at Dunnellon.
ia the same state, of about 5000, 900
for improvements; Il $500, 900 improve.
ment company at Alabama City, Ala;
six phosphate mining and manufact-
uring companies in Florida; an ice
factory at Lakeland, Fla; $4,000
saw mill In the same State; a 500 00C
brewery company and a cooperage
factory at Augusta, Ga; 80 ton ice
factory at New Orleans, La $50, 00C
engine works at Baltimore, Md
a Sl00,0 brewery at Bristol Tenn.
S25, 900 carriage factory at Dallas
Texas, a $50, 900 manufacturing com
pany in Texas; 100000 oil and gat
company, S750,000 mining company
two 100000 and one $50, 900 coal min
ipg companies, all in West Virginia
a $500, 0C0 packing and Refrigerator!
company at New Orleans: 81 $4,000
harbor and dock company at Arap
sas Pass, Texas 500, 900 tobacco ware
house company in Florida; a so, 90
hedge.fence company in Louisiana
g 100000 lumber company at MOI
folk, Va, q $4,000 wagon manutaC
turing company at Richmond, Va
the purchase by Western people {
$4,000 acres of timber land nea
Greenwood, Miss, and $40, 600 cooper
age plant at that place; ore mine a
Bluff'ton, Ala. SIS 900 lumb compau
at Riverside, Ark: wagon factor,
company at Columbus, Ga: ice factC
ries at Scranton, Miss; and \ bilen
Texas: enlargement of coal miniD
operations at Egypt, n. c.; tobacC
factories, lumber mill and cannin
factory at Mt. Airy, \. c.: brio
works at North Wilkes boro, &. G
fertilizer works at Bamberg an
Charleston, 5. c.; compress compau
at Columbia, water works at Dechel
Tenn, and Barlow, Fla; flour mi
Estill Springs, Tenn; tobacco factol
Danville, lime works, Fincastl
electric light works at Barlow, Fla
&c. Negotiations are pending +
beetsugsr factories, a new industl
for the South, at Stanton, Va; al
NIartinsburg, w. Va.
Such is the record for one wee
1t does not include all that has be,
done in that time, nor does it ia
account of the progress of enterprls
previously mentioned. 1t is simpI
a brief summary of the more impC