Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
T. HAS BEEN A BUSY WEEK The Industrial Movement in the South Is Pronounced. ALABAMA IS REPRESENTED asHfr
 In the Many Enterprises Which Are About to
 Be Set on Foot. THE ACTIVITY IN IRON CONTINUES Colonel Shook Is Very Sanguine As to the Outlook = That Anniston Contract
 With Japan Is Reiterated-An
 Encouraging Summary. 
ALABAMA IS REPRESENTED
THE ACTIVITY IN IRON CONTINUES

Baltimore Aug S--The Manufactur- CTS Record reports that the past week has been an unusually active and busy one in southern industrial affairs. Cot ton enterprises have been pushed with more than usual vigor A company has been organized with a capital stock of S1, ,00O, GOO, with strong New York cap itallsts interested to induce improved cotton ginning and compressing sys- tems. Among the cotton mill enterprises reported for the week was $50O,00O com pany to build at Newport News, Va; $500. 0.000 mill at Memphis, Tenn; a $10o.000 company being organized at Statesville, N. e.. $50000 mill at Greer. s. C.; large mill at flaw River; 5000 spindle mill near Pine Bluff N. C.; a $75,000 com- pany at Monroe; a new mill at Burling- ton, in the same state, while two mills at Columbus, Ga, will add about S75.- GOO of new machinery; new mill in Richmond county, North Carolina, and number of extensive improvements to mills throughout the state.
 F4Among miscellaneous enterprises re- ported for the week were the enlarge ment of iron pipes works at Gadsden, Ala; gold mining operations at Hef1in; 25O 900 bushel grain elevator at Mobile; twenty-ton ice plant at the same place, a $50 000 brick company at Dayton, Fla; a large phosphate elevator to be operated by electric power at Tampa, Fla; furni- ture works at High Springs; $l26,000 lumber company at Whitfield; twenty ton ice plant at Ocala; a $500,0 construc- tion company at Dalonega, Ga, organ ized to build a railroad.
 In Louisiana $50,000 hardware compa- nv and a SlU0,000 sugar refinery; $780, GOO lumber and mercantile company in South Carolina; 1000 oil mill Ander- son. S. C. In Tennessee a lumber mill at Memphis; electric plant at Knoxville, and a $250 900 barrel four mill In Texas, a S2OO GOO furniture company at San Anto- nio and a compress at Texas City; $1S,- GOO water works at Hillsboro and com press at Dallas.
 The activity in iron interests continues and southern furnaces are being pushed to meet the demand for iron. Col. A. M. Shook of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, the largest in the south, in a letter to the Manufacturers Record says: "The business movement, starting as it did four months ago, has grown in volume and increased in mo- mentum until today it has practically touched every village and hamlet in America The fast that it is universal is the best evidence of it's stability and it's certainty to continue at least until we pass the normal condition Of business. Notwithstanding the recent advance in iron; the indications for steadily ln- creasing consumption and, as natural consequence increased prices, nave not been so manifest at any time since the revival started as it has been during the past two or three days.
 A special to the Manufacturers Record says that the contracts secured by the Anniston, Ala, Pipe and Foundry com pany for iron pipe to be shipped to Yo- kohama. Japan, aggregates 30,000 tons. Ht is tbe largest contract for iron for for eie,n shipment ever secured by any Amer ican house and was secured in compe- tition with the leading manufacturers of Europe.