The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02
PROGRESS.
ACTIVITY AND PROSPERITY

ACTIVITY AND
The Manufacturers Record of May
%, in its weekly review of the progress
of the South, says:
Every week is showing increasing
industrial activity throughout the
South. With rare exceptions, all
manufacturing enterprising enterprises
are fully employed and earning good
profits. Cotton mills are declaring
good dividends and charging the
capacity out of surplus earnings; fur
naces are in full blast, and even at
present low prices no complaints r
heard from Southern iron-makers;
woodworking establishments are
crowded with orders; tobacco factories
are making large profits; coal and ore
miners find a ready market for all that
they can turn out; new towns are be-
ing built on a solid basis, and old ones
steadily and vigorously building up
and running a friendly rivalry with
the new ones; railroads are largely in
creasing their earnings compared with
last year, and everywhere there is in
creasing activity in industrial develop
ment. Among the leading enterprises
reported in this weeks issue of the
Manufacturers Record are 800, 600
bolt and nut works at Baltimore; con
tract signed for a 81, 900, 900 iron and
brick office building in Baltimore;
$500, 600 waterwOrks extensions at At
lanta; $500, 900 compress manufacture
ing company In the same place; a
$3.50, 900 development company in Ala
bama; 800, 900 agricultural implement
company and 800, 600 stove works
company in Louisville; a $3.50, 900 min
ing company at Edinburg, Va. a $780,
900 quarrying company in Maryland;
a 800, 900 development company in
Jackson, Tenn. stove works in Talla-
poosa, Ga. $50, 900 waterworks in Rad
ford, Va. tannery at Charlotte, N. c.;
sale of oil property in West Virginia
for $500, 900; a 500 barrel sugar refinery
in Texas; q $4,000 manufacturing
company in Savannah; 800, 900 ore
mining company in Virginia; a 81, 000,-
900 improvement company at Ruther-
fordton, N. O.; $500, 900 improvement
company at Galveston; a $50, 900 build
ing company at Clifton Forge, Va. a
800, 900 improvement company at
Petersburg; a rolling mill and machine
shop at Covington, Va. $50, 900 water
works at Rockdale, Texas; a $3.50, 600
development company atNew Orleans;
a 81, 600, 900 mining and ~quarrying
company at Louisville; a $500, 900 COM
press company at Fort Worth, Texas;
a SIS, 900 lumber company at Norfolk;
a $15, 900 canning company at Knox
vile; a $165, 900 phosphate company In
Florida; a 81, 600, 900 company now be-
ing organized to develop zinc property
in Virginia; a $50, 900 Improvement
company at Bremen, Ga. a six-story,
192x260 feet, tobacco factory at Win
ston, N. c.; a cottonseed oil mill at
Dallas, Texas; a SIS, 900 lumber COM
pany at Tyler, Texas; a $50, 900 glass
company at Richlands, Va. a 800, 900
lumber company at Dallas, Texas; a
$75, 900 lumber company at Palatka,
Fla. railroad shops at Blueffeld, w.
Va, and many others.
As a summary of only a part of the
long list of new enterprises reported in
one week, the foregoing shows how
great is the activity throughout the
South. It gives some idea of the won
derful development that is in progress,
and shows how rapidly the South is
becoming a great manufacturing coun-
try.