Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-06-07
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
No Lot Up in the Cotton Mill Building IN
the South.

Special reports to the Manufacturers
Record show We decided increase In 'n-
dustrial activity throughout the South.
While there is no let up in the cotton mill
building spirit, there is ii'e marked re-
yiyal in iron and steel matters during the
past week. Furnaces that have been lie
many months have gone Into pIast at
Florence aud Sheffield, Aa, arrangements
have been compile ed for starting up the Dig
furnaces and steel plant at Mddleborou;h,
q in an interview publIshe in the Manu-
facturers' Record, Mr.. Henry F. DeBurde~
chen, OF Dessemer, Ala, gives particulars re-
gard ng a large steel plant whlcn Will 10
immedia ely built at that point and the ue-
ye'opment OF ccal property to a capacity
OF 1000 tons OF coal day, and In connection
Herewith coks ovens-,he gas from which Is
t. be uti z,d for running arge cleo TIC
DOW plant to furnish free power to manu-
featuring ente Eri.es. At steel plant is also
to be built at Birmingham BY the Birming-
ham Rolling MIL Company, which has con-
tracted for the boilers for 1t.
In cotton mill matters this has been one oi
the busiest weeks since thu revival IN lnls
industry commenced. A company has been
organ 2. I'd to bui a 10000 spindle mill at
Columbia, S. c.; local building and loan
association at Blacksblrg. S. C., has been
merged into cotton mill company and vii
Immediately build a $15l ,OO) mill. Among
other mills reported for the week are
5000 spindle mill at Rock Hill, S. c.; 5000
spindIe mill at E 'zlbeth City, N C.. Col
umbda. S. c., mill now building to bc
doubled on original plans; a 500 spindle
mill at Washington, Ga; 81 O,OOO CON-
pany organ eel at Montgomery, Ala. mills
projec ed at High Shoals, Ga, and other
peints.
Arrangements have be n completed for the
building OF the s35o,OOO beet sugar pant at
Bowling Green, KY by German capitalists
who arc now contracting for machinery.
Contracts have been let for the machinery
fra S5OOO 900 sugar mill ia louisiana, to be
the largest ever built in that S:a Q. S1O),-
OO) gold mining company has been organ
izeI at Scotsboro, Ala; a $500, ,OO) develop
meut company at Fort Smith, Ark. a
80 OOl clothing factory at Au ,usta, Ga; a
SIS. 900 electric light aud water works at
Slndersonvi le. Ga; a 500, 900 cleo ric
company at Baton Rouge, La. ; S15O,OOO
electric plant at Meridian, Miss. new
compress at Tupelo, Miss; c)tton oil mill
company at Spartan'burg, S. c.; AMI CO..
ton oil mil company being organized
at Backsturg, S. q; $4,000 factory
builIin; a, Kuoxvl lie; large electric plant
Wheeling. w. Va; in add tion to whicl
there were large number OF misc laneou
en.erp ises such as Lumber n IS, waite
works. oil wells, foundries, coal mines, bric
and tile work., woodw rking plants, a.
@ meta!lurgIcal works for tho reduction
gold and pyritic ores at acksburS, s
G.. have been nearly completed and larg
phosphate works are now being built al
iacent TO this plant for the purpose OF uliiil
in the su phuric acid which Is saved MS
Li-produc. In the reduc ion of the gold re
This is by far the most extensive numbc
OF indus ria. enserp ises reported in any On
w,ek in the South for several years. and IL
Gates Il very marked revival OF busines
Interests and the determ natl, OF the pei
nls of the South 10 take hold OF industri
e,torprIses with increased vlgor. /. is
no .iceable fact that most OF the enterpri'
r,port, d In this list are by Southern Peep
and are 10 be built with Southern capital