Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-07
PROGRESS OF THE SOUTH
Advance in Wages and the Resumption of lm- portant Establishments Are the Fea-
 lures of the Week.

Chattanooga, Aug. 5, 1S95.-The fea- lures of the industrial situation in the south for the week ending August 5, 1895, as gathered from full reports received by the Thadesman from every portion of the south, are the advance in wages at large southern mills and the resumption of im- portant establishments that have been idle in some instances for many years The Tradesman reports show no change in the iron, coal or lumber markets, but all are stiff at present quotations, with prospects of an advance of p cents a ton in steam coal.
 The leading factories that advanced wages during the week were the Norton Iron works. Ashland Ky, being a second advance, and the Ashlatl, Ky, Wire and Iron company, advance oA per cent. The Old Dominion Iron and Nail works, Rich mond, Va, 15 per cent; Athens. Ga., cot ton mills, 10 per cent, to take effect Sep tember 1. The Birmingham Rolling Mills company advanced from S4 to S4.25 per ton,and the Alabama Rolling Mill compa- ny of Gate City will make similar ad- vance. The Maryland Steel company of Baltimore, an advance of 10 per cent Among the plants that have resumed are the following: Citico furnace, Chatta- nooga, and furnaces at Cowan, Tenn. and Buena Vista and Pulaski, Va; War wick pottery, Wheeling, w. Va; Harri- man, Tenn, tack factory; Buescher Sons oil and gin works at Moulton, Tex; the Monroe, N. C. cotton mill, and the In- man, Tcnn., iron ore mines. Other con- cerns to start up at an early datee are the Gadsden, Ala, pipe works; lumber mills of the Jacob Weiss Manufacturing com- pany, Greenwood, Miss, and furnaces at South Pittsburg, Tenn, and Anniston, Ala.
 Among the most important new indus tries reported to The Tradesman for the week ending August 5 are large cotton congresses at Corinth, Miss, and Dallas, Tex, cotton ice factory at Ocala Fla a S30,00O coal mining company at Win dom, w. Va, and a $50,000 concern at At lanta, Ga, to make telephone and tel egraph supplies. A company to manu- fracture faucets has also been chartered at Atlanta, with a capital of $50, 000; one to make bicycles at Owensboro Ky. and $25,0o0 company to do a building and manufacturing business at Richmond, Va. A cotton mill will be erected at Bur lington, N. C.; one with capital of S100,- 900 at Hillsboro, N. C.; an $S0,000 mill at Bamberg, S. C., and one to cost $50,000 at Greer Depot, s. c.
 A $150,000 lumber company has been chartered at Alcobu, S. C.; another with a capital of $S0,000 at Morgantown, w. Va, and a $10,O00 box factory will be built at New Orleans, La. Other wood WOfklnS pants Will De eSldDllSneu at Poplar Grove, Ark, and Orange and Wa co, Tex
 The Tradesman reports among the en- largements for the week, coke ovens at Horse Creek, Ala; an ice factory at Mo- bile; pipe works at Gadsden, Ala; fur niture factory at High Springs, Fla, and a lumber mill at Jasper, Ala.
 The TradeSman'S list of new buildings include $15,000 churches at Monroe, La and Sherman, Tex, and one to cost $25,- 900 at Fairmont, w Va; a S15,000 club building at Raleigh, N. C., and an S1S,- 900 engine house at Louisville, Ky. A $40, ,000 hotel will be built at Triton, Ga; one to cost $25,000 at Gaffney City, S. C.; a $2O,00O hospital at Charleston, w Va; another to cost $25,00O at Dayton, Ky, and $60,00O opera house at Knox vile, Tenn.