The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-03-17
PROGRESS.
ACTIVITY ALL ALONG THE LINE.

The Manufacturers Record of March
z, reviewing the great activity through
out 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 a list Ofnew enterprises,
and probably never before was the
Southwark trend of industrial develop
ment more strikingly 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 weeks advance. From Great
Britain comes reports of a 81, 900, 900
company to build furnaces and steel
works at marlborough, Ky; a So
900, 900 development company that has
already planned for a dozen new enter
prises to employ about 5000 hands at
the same town, and a $500, 900 coal min
ing and coke company likewise at Mid
d~lesborough; one of the big iron and
steel-making companies at POttstown,
Pa, will build large iron works in the
South, probably in Virginia; a Scran-
ton company has contracted to build
hardware works to employ 500 hands
at East Richmond, and a New York
company will build sewing machine
works there; a 81, OOO, 900 company,
with all the stock taken, has purchased
1O3, 900 acres of iron and timber land
in Virginia and West Virginia for de-
velopment; a 81, OOO, 900 company has
been formed to build a furnace and
other works in Alabama; Florida re-
ports six new phosphate mining COM
panies with an aggregate capital stock
of 81, 1858, 600, and the sale of large tracts
of phosphate lands, the activity in the
development of this business being
something wonderful; a $175, 900 cotton
mill is to be built at Edgefield, S. c.; a
A. OO-spindle mill at Kings Mountain,
North Carolina, and a mill at Salisbury
in the same State; a 5000, 900 company
has been organized in Philadelphia to
establish pine straw bagging factories
and soap works in connection in the
South, while a SIS, 900 pine fibre COM
pany has been chartered in South Caro-
lima; a $50, 900 horse collar factory,
$50, 600 brick works, a $3.50, 900 electric
company at Waco, $25, 900 waterwOrks
at Cisco, 81, 600, 900 town building COM
pany at Galveston, are some of the
new enterprises chartered in Texas;
Staunton, Va, is to have a 400 barrel
-four mill and Shendun a $40, 900 plaster
company, while a 800, 900 steel COM
pany and three land companies with
an aggregate of $500, 900 of stock have
been organized; West Virginia shows a
800, 900 friedrich company, a $50, 900
coal mining company, and also a $780,
900 chinaware company to be organ
lied; in North Carolina a $50, 900 slate
and a $35, 900 quarrying COM
pany are among the weeks new enter
prises; a 5000, 900 coal mining company
and a 800, 900 ~quarrying company in
Kentucky; a $25, 900 cotton seed oil
mill in Camden, S. c.. a $50, 900 mining
company in North Georgia; a SIS, 600
cotton mill in the same State have been
organized. While this list briefly sum-
marizes a few Of the more important
enterprises of the week, as long as it is,
1T does not by any means cover the
whole field nor give a full idea of the
remarkable activity which is every
where being shown. AS the spring ad-
vances and good weather enables build
ing operations to be presumed, the South
will be the busiest p lrt of America, and
its advance during 1891 will, in all
probability, far surpass the record OF
any previous year.