The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1893-12-27
LOOKS LIKE BUSINESS.
Industries Of the South Are Getting Into
Lively Motion Once More.
All Business Improving, and Ap-
pearances Promise the Most Pros
porous Season To Be Just Now
Budding.
u,RDTuMEs HETREArING.

The Manufacturer, published in Lou
isville, gives us the following list Of
Southern industries renewing operations,
after temporary suspensions, and OF new
ones starting up: aAl1
The copper works at Ducktown, Tenn
essee, have resumed operations for the
winter. rr
The Glen Grove Coal Company, Glen
Grove, West Virginia, has resumed min
ing operations.
The Riverside Steel works, at Wheel
ing, West Virginia, have resumed opera
tions in all departments.
Two scrap furnaces and the nail fac
tory of the La Belle Mills, of Wheeling,
West Virginia, have started up.
Business has been resumed at the
mills OF the Gardner and Lacy Lumber
Company of Georgetown, South Carolina.
The blast furnace, rolling mill and
spike works OF the Allegheny Company,
of Iron Gate, Virginia, have started up.
After a shut down OF several weeks,
the knitting mill at Scotland Neck,
North Carolina, has resumed manufact-
uring.
Exley & Cos planning mills, at Var
tins Ferry, West Virginia, have been
put in operation after shut down Of
several weeks.
The Baxter Stove Works, Of Birming-
ham, Alabama, has resumed operations,
giving employment to about fifty men.
1t is stated that the Tennessee Coal,
Iron aud Railroad Company will blow in
its two ,furnaces in Birmingham, Ala
bama, Known as the Alice plant
Orders have been given to start up the
Riverside furnace at Benwood, West Vir-
ginia, as soon as possible. This furnace
has been idle since July 10.
The knitting mill at Mobile, Alabama,
formerly owned by w. D. Kyle, has
been purchased by Thaddeus Harrison,
and has been put in operation.
The cotton seed oil mill OF the Etowah
Alliance Company, Of Gadsden, Alabama,
has been purchased apd put in opet ation
by w IN. Reynolds & Son. ii
ThelPrati GIN compauy ,Ofl Memphis,
Tenn, has resumed business after reor-
ganization, and is now operated as the
Pratt Gin, Hame and Plow Company.
The Birmingham, Alabama, Hardware
Speciality Company has put its plant at
East Birmingham in operation again
alter an idleness of about five months, q
The iron furnace Of the Ashland, Ken
tucky, Coal, Iron and Railroad Company,
resumed operations November, 10Th; and
another furnace will blow in about Dec 1,
LIST.
The Bellair Steel Works, of Wheeling,
West Virginia, have started up after a
four months shut down. The furnace
alone gives employment to two hundred
people. IL sI.a.4 SO depU-Hi l
The Donald Lumber and Manufacture
ing Company, Of Mobile, Alabama will
| resume business operations under the
name Of the Southern Lumber Manu-
featuring Company.
The oldPanhandle Glass Works, now
called the West Virginia Window Glass
| Works, OF Wellsburg, West Virginia,
after being idle for nine years, have
started up again in full.
The Gardner < Lacey Lumber Com
panys. plant. on the island opposite
Georgetown, South Carolina, has been
recently overhauled and put IN first
class condition, under the personal super
vision Of Mr.. L. j. Marsh, their new
superintendent, who came from Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, and has taken quite .
share of the capital stock of the company
The mills and dry kilns were started in
full blast, and they have already loaded
two large vessels at their wharves thii
week for New York. These mills EN-
ploy large number OF men.
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