The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-01-20

and Tin Plamt,-OUer Fly
Millions Of Aamufac,
turcd Cotton.
=. cav that the year 1890 was one of
most remarkable periods in the mate
y oistorv of the Southern ~tates is but
- urterance to a potent fact that is
'.nngT1iz-d a d appreciated by all who are
o. MEASURE acquainted with the mar
,on3 expansion which ha. been going
IN that section during the past year.
y percentages OF increase the various
: .F,ment of business aud msnuf9ctur
Is. are so notably large that they
e Iooqt hewilder the average business man
.om the staid aud quiet communities of
~ North and West. 80. Fl
While the business growth of the South
, baep large in every line, it has been
uot.blv so in the production of pig iron
."S the establishment Of iron manufac-
-Toe increase in pig iron production has
hosn nearly 500 per cent. over that of
'TS9O while a long step forward has been
1nsde toward the establishment of the
steel making in lustry.
During the year 1873 625 tons of steel
we're Produced, be ng more than 1000
Der cent. increase over the produ ;tion of
ff88O, a degree Of growth probably never
before euualed in any line of industry
nywhe e in America, il, indeed, in the
whole world.
A great future is dawning in the South
in the line Of steel exploitation. Within
the soils of Virginia, Western North
Csrolina, East Tennessee, a portion of
South Carroll a and in Western Texas
there are ores that are specially adapted
for sreel~ making, and during the year of
1891 will be brought under a Sreater de-
gree Of Development than the year of 1890
has witnessed.
The famous Cranberry ore of Western
North Carolina, for years noted for its
rare metallic purity, is destined within
this and the coming years to slmost revo-
htionjze the industry in at least the Mid
die South, A large number of ore cars
are now being constructed in Johnson
CITY, Tenn, to ply between Johnson City
and Chattanooga and tie mines at Gran
berry. bearing IN greater volume the
famous ore to the furnaces at the two
places named, where it will be metamor-
phosed into inc pmparable pig, which in
turn will produce a quality of Bessemer
steel that will be the means of es ;ablish-
ing, at least at Chattanooga, a great tin
making industry.
Within the past few weeks sheets of
steel made from Cranberry ore have been
rolled out by the Southern Iron Com
pany's new steel plant at Chattanooga,
and have been shipped to St. Louis, where
a large tin-rnsking plant has experimental
with them IN the manufacture of tin
sheets. The experiment tern mated in
the most satisfactory manner, and the st.
Louis concern has already contracted with
the Chattanooga plant for a continuous
supply of steel sheets to feed their tIr-
making industry.
To every intelligent mind the natural
conclusion will come that Chattanooga, in
course of time, instead of shipping her
steel product to distant points, will utilize
it herself, and thus in curse of time q
great IN manufacturing industry will be-
come esta 1lished in that city.
The tin industry promises to secur a
strong foorhold n the State of Virginia.
where a large English syndicS e has al
ready taken steps to establish, at Saver
make, on the Shenand oak Valley Railroad,
an immense tin-plate plant
Within the past month ores, reported
BY State geological authorities to be re-
markedly rich and abundant, have been
found in West Texas, where efforts are
now maxim looking to the development
Of this newly discovered sourc of wealth
The Sou his cotton manufacturing in
dustry stands next to that of iron in the
ratio of increase. The past decade has
witnessed a very extraordinary growth in
the textile industry, and the past year has
been characterized by an even greater de
gree ct d5vel pment than ordinarily. In
1880 there were 161 cotton mills in the
Southern States. There are to-day 1856
showing q rate of increase of fully 107
per cent. These 336 mills contain 1872
19iS0lniles, against 542 ,048 spindles il
1851. The increase Of spindles during
he past year is eq~uivolent-to nearly one
nan o! the eutire number reported in the
South by the census Of 1880.
The value of the maaufac 7ured product
OF the s 'uthern cotton mills in 1880 was
over SIG 600 900. This amount has swol-
len into more than $54. 900 900 to-day.
These may be dry ia is to the reader
VINO has little interest for statistics, but
Iy as they seemingly are, they mean
much to a large number of people who
enGact their living through the instru-
mentality OF the industry
q cotton mill men all over the South,
WIN rare exceptions, are looking forward
NJ NJ year OF great prosperity in their line
rue demand for their prod act was never
greater, and white the prices have been al
s ,nes unsatisfactory, they have been good
E FIUusn u create gratifying dividends
Lh.elg Year new mar xets are oeing found
Va,, southern cotton goods, and every
inc LINE one quality of these goods is becom-
so Mqc5 New En- gland capital has come
invoaI curing the past year, AMI become
nIsp 1sseo In spinning plants; beside, many
frorun'S entire have been moved bodily
bsva Their New England moorings, and
Cor T1e sought Southern locations, near the
force ,en me Eelds, Simultaneously with the
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