The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-08-15
A NEW BOOM IN
THE SOUTH.
RETURNING PROSPERITY FELT
EVERYW-HERE.
The Baltimore Manufacturers Rec.
ord's Report Of the New Enter-
prises Undertaken.

The Baltimore Manufacturers Record re-
ports that the past week has been an un-
usally active and busy one in Southern in
dustrial affairs. Cotton enterprises lave
been pu:1ad with more than usual vigor. A
company has been organized, with Il capital
stock Fl, ,00J,o90 with strong New York cap
italists. iutea lei to introduce improved cot
ton gins aaI ccm pressing systems. Among
the cotton mill enterprises reported for the
week were 4 5000 coTp11v to build at
Newport News, Vat $500, 900 mill company
at Memphis, Tenn; 800. 900 company being
organized ut S;atesyille. \. c.; a $50, Zoo mill
It Greer. S. c.; a large mill at Ifaw River; q
5000 spindle mill near Pine Bluff, n. c.; q
$4,000 camp at Monroe, and new mill at
Burlington, same State. while two mills ct
Columbia, Gl. will add about $4,000 Of new
machinery;a a new mill In Richmond County,
T. c., and Z number Of extensive improve
luents 10 mills throughout tho South.
Among the miscellaneous enterprises re-
ported for the week were the enlargement Of
iron pipe works at Gadsden, Ala; gold min
ing operations 1T Hef1in, a 250,000 bushel
grain elevator at Mobile, and twenty-ton
ir0 plant 1T the same place; $50, 900 brick
company at Daytona, Fla; large phos-
ph:te elevator to be operated by electric
power at Tampa, Fla. furniture works at
High Springs; L $4,000 lumber company
vt Whitfield; a twenty-tcn ice plant at Oca!ai
a $500, 900 construction company at Dahlon-
cga, Ga, organized 70 build q railroad. In
louisiana 4 $50. 900 hardware con pany and
&SlG0, 900 sugar refinery. A $3.50, 900 lumber
and mercantile company in South Carolina;
500 900 oat mill at Anderson,S. G. In Tennes-
sec a lumber mill 1T Memphis; electric plant
st Knoxville and 4 twenty-five barrel flour
mill. In Texas 100000 furniture company
at San Antonio. and u compress company at
Texas City; $4,000 watar-worSs at HILLSIDE
70. compress at Dallas.
Tho activity il iron interests continue and
Southern furnaces are being pushed to meet
the demand for iron. Col. A NJ. Shook, OF
the Tennessee Coal and Iron Railroad, the
largest coal and iron company iu the South,
In a letter to the Manufacturers Record,
says: ''The business movement, starting as
1t did four months ago, has grown in volume
and increased in momentum until to-day it
has practically touched every village and
hamlet in America. Tho fact that it is so
universal is the best evidence Of its stability
and its certainty To- continue. at least until
we have passed the normal condition of busl-
ness. Notwithstanding the recent advances
in iron the Indications for steadily increas-
ing consumption antt. as Il natural conse-
quence, increased prices, have not been so
manifest at any time since The revival started
as it has been du>;nS the past two oe three
days"
A special to the Manufactures Record
SAYS that the contracts secured by the Aanis-
ton. Ala. Pipe and Foundery Compsay for
:ron pipe to be shipped to Yokohama, Japan,
aggregate thirty thousand tons. 1t is the
largest contract for iron for foreign ship
mert ever secured by any American house,
and was secured in competition with the
leading manufacturers OF Europe.