The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-03-14
A Busy Week Throughout the South.

The Manufacturers Record of March
I, reviewing the great activity throughout
the South, says
The past week has shown an activity in
the industrial life of the South that is
amazing. Not for many months has there
been such list of new enterprises, and
probably never before was the Southwark
trend of industrial development more strik-
ingly illustrated than during the last ten
days. From every direction the movement
swells in ever-increasing volume, and there
seems to be no limit to the wonderful
growth that the coming summer will show.
Pennsylvania, the West and Great Britain
alike helped on the record of the week S
advance From Great Britain come reports
of 81 100000 company to build furnaces
and steel works at MiddlesbOrough, KY; Il
S2,000,000 development company that has
already planned for dozen new enterprises
to employ about 5000 hands at the same
town. and $500, 900 coal mining and coke
company likewise at Middlcsborough; one
of the big iron and steel making companies
at Pottstown, Pa, will build large iron
works in the South, probably in Virginia;
Scranton company has contracted to build
hardware works to employ 800 hands at
Fast Richmond, and New York company
will build sewing machine works there; a
Sl000,000 GOA any, with all the stock
taken, has purchased 103, 900 acres of iron
and timber land in Virginia and West
Virginia for development; $1,000, 900
company has been formed to build furnace
and other works in Alabama; Florida re-
ports six new phosphate mining companies
with an aggregate capital stock Of S ,36S,-
900, and the sale of large tracts of phosphate
lands, the activity in the development of
this business being something wonderful;
$4,000 cotton mill is to be built at
Edgefeld, $. G.; a .l,000-Spindle mill at
Kings Mountain, in North Carolina, and
mill at Salisbury, in the same state;
$1,000 company has been organized in
Philadelphia to establish pine straw bagging
factories and soap works in connection in
the South, while SIS 900 pine fibre com
pany has been chartered in South Carolina;
$4,000 horse collar factory, $4,000
brick works, $3.50, 900 electric company
at Waco, $4,000 water works at Cisco,
81 900, 900 town building company at Gal
veston are some of the new enterprises
chartered in Texas; Staunton, Va, is to
have Il 400-barrel flour mill and Shendun
a $4,000 plaster company, while $780,
900 steel company and three land compa-
mics, with an aggregate of $4,000 Of
stock, have been organized; West Virginia
shows S100,000 fire brick company,
100000 coal mining company, and also
$4,000 chinaware company to be organ
ized in North Carolina $4,000 slate
company and $50, 900 quarrying company
are among the weeks new enterprises; a
100000 coal mining company and a
100000 qua,rying company in Kentucky;
a S25, 900 cotton seed oil mill in Camden,
S C.; $4,000 mining company in North
Georgia. $4,000 cotton mill in the same
state have been organized. While this list
briefly summarizes few of the more i'm
portaut enterprises of the week, as long as
it is it does not by any means cover the
whole field nor give full IDEA of the re-
markable activity which is everywhere
being shown As the spring advances and
good weather enables building operations
to be resumed, the South will be the busiest
part of America, and its advance during
1891 will, in all probability, far surpass
the record of any previous year.