Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-08-10
THE SOUTH VERY BUSY.
COftOn-MiII Enterprises Numerous
Iron Furpnccs Pushed.

Iron Furnaces Pushed.
BALTIMORE, MD, August 9.-Ihe
Manufacturers Record reports that the
past week has been an unusually active
and busy one in southern industrial
affairs. Cotton enterprises have been
pushed with more than usual vi
gor. A company has been organized
with a capital stock OF 100000, with
strong capitalists interested. TO Introduce
new cotton-ginning and COMPRISING sys-
tens. Among the cotton-mill enter
prises reported for the past week were
a $4,000 company to build at Newport
News. Va: a 10000 mill company AT
Memphis. Tenn: a $4,000 company be-
ing organized at Statesyille. y. c.; 80
90 mill at Greer, n. c.; large mlll
at Haw River, y. C.: 5000 spindle
mill near Pine Bluff, y. C.; s'o'o" com
pany at Monroe. y. C.; new MN AT
Burlington in the same State; additions
TO two mills at Columbus. Ga, OF ABOUT
$4,000 OF machinery; new mill IN hich-
mond county. y. G.. and NUMBER OF
extensive improvements OF mills through
out the South.
Among miscellaneous enterprises re-
ported for the week were an ehlarse-
ment of lron-pipe works at Gadsden, Ala
gold-mining operations at Hefiin; a 80
OO-bushel grain elevator at Mobile; ~
ton EGGPLANT at the same place;
a $4,000 brick company at Dayton, Fla.
a large phosphate elevator. TO be operated
by electrlc-power. at Tampa, Fla: fur
niture-works at High Springs: Sl2bOV
lumber company At Whiteield; N-ton
EGGPLANT at Ocala; $4,000 con-
struction company at Dahlone, Ga, or
ganized to build a railroad.
In Louisiana a 10000 hardware COM
pany. and a 100000 sugar refinery; $50
90 lumber and mercantile company In
South Carolina: n $4,000 oil-mill at An
derson, s. c.. in Tennessee. a lumber
mill at Memphis; an EGGPLANT at Knox
vile. and 25-barrel four-mill; in Texas
a $4,000 furniture company at San An
tonic, and a compress company at Texas
City: $4,000 water-works at Hillsboro :
a compress at Dallas.
The activity in the iron interest con-
tinues. and southern furnaces are being
pushed 70 meet the demand for iron.
colonel A. NJ Shook. of the Tennessee
Coal. Iron. and Railroad Company, the
largest coal and iron company In the
South. in a letter to the Manufacturers
Record. SAYS: THE business movement
starting. as II did. four months ago. has
increased i'm volume and momentum, ana
to-day II has practically touched every
village and hamlet in Alabama +he TACT OF
ia universally is the best evidence OF
its stability and its certainty 10 continue
until we have passed into the normal
condition Of business. Notwithstanding
the recent advances in iron. the indica-
tons for a steadily-increasing consump-
ton and as a natural consequence. IN
creased prices. have not been so manifest
at any time since the revival started as
=, has been during the past two or three
days"
A special to the Manufacturers Record
savs that the contract secured by the
Admission LAla) Pine and Foundry COM
pany for iron pipe to be shipped to foko-
hama. Japan. aggregated 5000 tons IL
Is the largest contract for iron OF 'hlS
Lind ever secured In Japan by any Ameri-
can house. and was secured IN compeu-
ton with the leading manufacturers OF
Europe.