Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-16
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

| The expenses of operating railroads have been largely reduced, yet they charge, in
 many instances, the same rate of freight as formerly.
 The Mary Lee mines will be put in oper- | ation next week. A large sale of coal has l already been made to New Orleans parties. l The Mary Lee employs large number of men, and it's coal is always in demand. The Riverside Lumber company of Flor ence, Ala, has just closed contracts for | nearly 3, ,000 ,000 feet of logs with parties h Lauderdale county. This company has | fine plant and has a contract for the sale of all it's output.
 Grand Master J. R. Sovereign has been | he is very much pleased with many por- | tions of the south and avails himself of | every opportunity to recommend 1t to | parties seeking homes and locations for manufacturing.
 Still another use for cotton seed has been l discovered. It IS being successfully fed to | hogs in conection with other food. The animals eat the seed, hulls and all, and.it l is stated by South Carolina farmers that 1t | does not injure the quality of the flesh or | fat. Here IS a way of disposing of the seed | when the price of cotton oil is forced below profitable sale. Turn 1t into meat. Wire nails are now so cheap that if car l penter drops one it is cheaper to let it alone | than consume time picking it up. There | are 200 sixpenny nails in pound, and nails | are worth 1.6o cents per pound, and each l nail is worth 0 .0077 cent. A carpenters 8 | time is worth 30 cents an hour, and it takes | him ten seconds to pick up nail. Then 1 the recovery of the nail would cost him | 0.OS3 cent.
 The market for cotton seed products ia l New Orleans continues steady, with prices unchanged. The following quotations are I receivers figures: Cotton seed, $8 per ton | of 2000 pounds delivered; cotton seed meal l is jobbing at depot at $17 per ton of 1000 | pounds for export, and $17 to S17. 50 per | long ton f. 0. b.; oilcake, $i7 to $17.5O per
 long ton f. Q. b.; crude cotton seed oil at | wholesale, B to "A cents per gallon for strictly prime crude in barrels.
 | The first half of every decade since 1860 has shown little or no increase in the pro- ducton of iron, while during the last half l of every decade production has more than | doubled. From 1880 to 1885, for instance, | there was practically no increase in the output of iron, while between 1885 and | 1890 the production largely more than | doubled. It is probable that between 1890 and 1895 there will be little or no increase | in production, but, if we are to judge the DJ Jno phots IhOkc OuEhb u DS du enormous increase between 1895 and 1900. If the consumptive requirements of 1900 shall prove to bs as great as predicted by Mir. Edward Atkinson and Mr. Abram Hewitt some years ago, this country will have to produce between F 1000, ,000 and 19 GOO ,000 tons Of pig iron in that year. 
 Application will shortly be made for a charter for the Gulf Transit company of
 Psnsaeola, Pen Fla, with capital stock of
 the Louisville and Nashville railroad, Louisville, IS to be president, and w. h. Reynolds, secretary The com- pany proposes to engage ln exporting coal, coke, lumber and other domestic products from Pensacola, taking the place of the late Export Coal company. The Louisville | aud Nashville Railroad company continues to prepare for u heavy export business at Pensacola, work being steadily progressing HOW on the new wharves and warehouses to replace the ones recently burned. The | wharves will be lighted by electricity, so as to permit of loading by night, and the ch m will be deepened sufficiently allow the largest vessels to take on cargoes.
 Exports to Cutan ports will be greatly in- creased, and closer commercial relations with Mexico also will doubtless follow. leading business man oi Alabama, in | letter to the Manufacturers Record, re- ferring to the bill now pending in the leg islature of that state 10 exempt from taxa ton for ten years all new industries which have an actual investment of S25 900, says: | "Ifthis bill becomes law it wlll bring mil | lions nf dollars into the state.' The value | of such a law as this would not simply be | in the amount saved to manufacturers, but | in tue announcement that il would be to | tbe world that Alabama is heartily and | vigorouiiy in favor Of doing everything to | help its Industrial interests. The Manu- | fac urers' R cord would be glad to see Ala | baIna and every other southefn state take | such action as this. The highest prosperity | anu van cement Of the south necessarily de- pend upon the develo pment of it's industrial | interests. The progress of it's agricultural interests is intimately allied with the progress of it's industrial interests. If the south can be made the great manufactur- ing ion for which nature has so lavishly provided fouudation, there will be question as to the prosperity of it's farmers, | for there will then be home market for all th at they can produes.