The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-10-18

for the Past Week.
The reports aa 90 industrial coudi.
tioua OH over Che south ior the week
ending Oct z, show that The coud..
ton Of the southern iron mafkets has
been strengthened by favorable r..
ports from tests made Of southern low
grade basic iron in making steel adj.
ding another grade of pig iron 30 t5e
grades already in the market will In
creaso business at tho furnaces and
sustain the iron manufacturer la their
efforts 10 enlarge The business Coal
mining Is active aud the demand Is
fully equal 10 present supplies with no
sign Of falling of In production or
prices. Lumber operators are doing
good business. Railroad orders are
coming in quite freely, and the expert
demand grows larger from week 10
week.
General business Is active aud prices
are firm. Reports as 10 tho condition
of the cotton crop give no encourage
ment, and the reports an 10 it's amount
add nothing 10 previous reports. Ex-
listing high prices for cotton arc partly
owing 30 speculation and are in fact
caused by the certainty Of a short crop.
Cotton planters arein no haste TO mar
ket their crops. There is n geueral
belief that tho market will not depre-
ciate materially during tho season.
Merchants report that there Is less
outstanding indebtedness among the
planters than h. ever been known.
Among important new industries in-
cerporated or established during the
week in the southern states are the
Tygcrt River Manufacturing Company,
of Woodruff, S. O., capital $500, 600, to
build cotton md WOODEN mill rope
and Irvine mill at BenuettsYille, S. g.
the Big Stone Gap Iron Co, charter
cd at Louisville, Ky, capital $3.50, 600,
and the Texas Briquette and Coal Com
pauy, of San Antonio, Texas, with a
capital of 500, 00o The Pioneer To-
bacco Manufacturing Company, capt.
tai $50, 900 is reported as Incorporated
at Goldsboro, \. G., the Lone Star Ice
Company, capital $50, 600, at Austin,
Texas, and the Winston-Salem Granite
/ Company, with the same capital to open
| quarries near Winston, Va. There
is also reported the organization
at Waco, Texas, of the Improved
Cotton Condenser Company, capital
$50, 900, and the Searcritt Gold Mining
Company, at Petersburg, Va, with
$40, 900 capital.
There is also reported the establish
! ing of foundry and machine shop at
Shelby, n. O., of agricultural nipple
ment works at Little Rock, Ark, and
Dallas, Texas, OF fertilizer works at
Charleston, S. c., and Of Touring
mills at Winter Garden, Fla, and
Faith, N. c. Glass works are to be
built at Fairmont, w. Va, an ice fac
tory at Rock Hill, S. c., and brown
stone quarry is to be opened at Greens.
boro, N. G. Cigarette machine works
are to be established at Richmond,
Va, tobacco granulating- machine
factory at Roanoke, Va, and wood
working plants at Little Rock Ark,
Moss Point, Miss, Black Mountain,
N. c., Georgetown, S. O., Berkeley
and Houston, Va Car works with &
capital of $500, 900 are reported as il
contemplation at Macon, Ga.
Water works are to be built at Dub
lin, Ga, Greenup and Paducab, Ky
The engagements for the week in
clude the Knoxville, Tenn, electric
light company, which adds $50, 900 tc
its capital, and the San Antonio sewer
pipe works, of San Antonio, Texas
whose capital is increased to 5000, 000
- TradrSman Chattanooga, Tenn