Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-19
THE NEW SOUTH.
a Week of Solid Industrial Growth
Throughout the South

Throughout the South.
The Manufacturers Record of Baltimore
October Il, i'll reviewing the industrial pro
| greSS of the South, says:
The past week has been very active
one in Southern development, and The Man
| ufacturers' Record mas very rarely had TO
| report a wider range of Industrial advance
meut than for the last seven days. even
| though the financial world is not yet looking
| for Investments III new ventures to Any
| great extent. Despite this, however, the
| South is pushing ahead and rapidly organ
! izing new manufacturing and mining enter
| prises TO utilize its vast resources. This
| growth is not confined to any one state, nor
| 10 few industries only, but takes in the
| whole South and covers almost every
! line of manufacturing, including fur
naces fOuGdries, cotton mills, coal mines.
| iron-ore mines, ice factories, flour mills.
wagon factories, WaterwOrkS, electric light
works, Woodworking enterprises, tobacco
factories, fertilizer factories, breWerieS.
phosphate mines and works, etc. The leading
event OF the week is the announcement OF
the final closing of the sale Of 10000 acres
OF mineral and timber land, including coke
ovens, lumber mill, etc, in Eastern Ken
| lucky TO Belgian syndicate for 5000, 0OO,
part Of which, it is understood, goes into
the opening of new coal mines, the.
building OF coke ovens, furnaces, saw
mills, etc. \ dispatch from Lon
don says that the directors of the Mlddles-
borough town company have voted $3.50
COO to be expended in pushing the enter
prise under construction at Midd!esb borough
TO completion. Among other enterprises
are the purchase of extensive property in
and srouud Ocala, Fla. the price being
reported at 500, 900. for development work
the investment at Dunnellon in the SAINT.
state, OF about 100000 Tor i'm
proyemcnt; 4 S20O,0GQ Improvement
,-.,- A1,,l,r
phate mining and manufacturing companies
in Florida; an ice factory AZ Lakeland,
Fla. $4,000 sawmili in the same state;
100000 brewery company and Il cooperagc
factory at Augusta, Ga. 81; 4 150-ton ice fac
tory AT New Orleans, La; $5O,0G9 engine
works at Baltimore, Md; 100000 brew
cry at Bristol Tenn. u S25, 0G0 car
riage factory at Dallas, Tex; a ~ $1,000
manufacturing company in Texas; Il $500
QUO OIL and gas company, Si5O.0l0 mininss'
company, two SlO0, coo and one so. 600 coal
mining companies, all in West Virginia; Il
$500, 900 packing and refrigersting company
at New Orleans; a Sl,500, 600 harbor aud
dock company at Arkansas Pass, Tex. 500
900 tobacco warehouse company in Florida =
a $4,000 hedge fence company in I.ouisi-
ana; $500 0GO lumber company AZ Nor
folk. Va; Ii $4,000 wagon manula,-
turing company at Richmond. Va, the
purchase by Western people of $1,000 acres
oil lmber Iaud near Greenwood, Miss, and
$4,000 cOoperage plant at that place: ore
mine at Button, Ala. ; a 5000 lumber com
pany at Riverside, Ark wagon factory
company at Columbus, Ga. ice factories at
Scranton, Miss, and Abilene, Tex; eng
largement OF coal-mining operations at
Egypt, n. G.: tobacco factory at Milton.
\. c.; two tobacco factories, lumber mill
and canning factory at Mt. Airy, y. C.:
brick works at North Wilkesboro.
\. c. fertilizer works at BAN
berg and Charleston, 5. c.;
compress company at Columbia; water
works at Decherd, Tenn, and Barlow, Fla. :
flour mill, Estill Springs, Tenn; tobacco
factory, Danville: lime works, Fincastle
electric-Eght works at Barlow, Fla, etc. 4
Negotiations are pending for beet-spgar
factories, new industry for the South, at
stanton, Va, and Martinsburg, ". Va.
Such is the record for one week It
does not include all that has been done in
that time, nor does it take account Of the
progress OF enterprises previously men
toned. 1t IS SIMPLY a brief summary of the
more important concerns reported in this
weeks issue of the Manufacturers Record.
and of which full details are given, showing
that these are not simply enterprises that
are talked Of, but that they have all been
organized. II is an encouraging exhibit of
the weeks work. and indicates how soiidly
the South is growing, and how great will
be the activity when the full benefit of this
years enormous crops is felt next spring.
after The wheat and corn and cotton which
have been produced have been marketed
and business of all kinds has received the
impulse that must inevitably come then"