The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-03-12
THE BIsIeHrENINa sKIEs.

The FRIGHTENING SKIES.
The South's Cheerful Prospect--Cot
ton Mile Ranning Night and Da,
where-The Reduction Works a
Blacksburg, s.. q.
/ Mr.. II. III. Edmouds, OF Baltimore
who has recently returned from
brief trip In the South, in an inter
view states that all indications poin
to a steady Improvement in genera
business and industrial interests.
lone OF the very noticeable thing,
in this connections" said Mr.. Edmonds
who is editor OF the Manufacturers
Record, sis that nearly every cottor
mill passed on the trip through the
CarOlinas was running on double turn
being brilliantly lighted all night b,
electricity. There is most active in
ton mill companies, in the enlarge
ment of old mills and in the building
of mills South by Now England cor.
porations. Heretofore nearly all the
cotton mills business in the South has
been done by Southern people and
with Southern capital, and of the $780,.
100000 or more invested in Southern
cotton mills, probably four-fifths L.
Southern money. Tho success OF
Southern factories has stimulated New
| England people to build mills South
and two of the largest companies In
New England have already commenced
the work of establishing plants-one
in Alabama to cost 500, 900 and ono in
Georgia to cost 100000
"Actiye construction is already in
progress on tho first mill, and re-
ceived o telegram to-day from the
| MaasanbnaSntfa 70 Cpff.n Mills Cpm v
of Lowell stating that that company
would Immediately commence tho con-
structiOn OF q $600,000 mill at Rome,
Ga. This is one OF the Oldest and
largest cotton mill companies in New
| England, having total capital, in
| cluding the amount to be invested in
Georgia, of $2,4OU,0O0. m the Caro-
linas there Is especial activity in mill
enterprises and negotiations are now
pending for sites for several very largo
mills to be built by New England com
panies.
"One of the most interesting points
OF my trip" continued MIR. Edmonds,
was an investigation OF a new reduc-
tion works that has been built at
Blacksburg, S. c., for treating re-
South has an enormous supply of re-
factory ores and pyritcs carrying g0iIl
and sulphur, but there has been no
general plan in operation there for
treating these ores ard saving all Of
the bi-products. After experimental
work, extending over nearly two years,
the Carolina Suiphuric Acid Company
OF Blacksburg, which is composed
largely of Philadelphia people, seems
to have made Il complete SUCCESS Of
treating these ores and saving not
only the gold, but all OF the other pro-
ducts. The plant has boon so salts
factory that it is now being treblcd in
size.
g 1t is the intention of this company
to handle ores for other people as we'll
as those mined by it. Operators who
wish to mine their ores Without at-
works can ship to this point and have
the bi-products being su!phuric acid
which is needed in the manufacture
of fertilizers, Il large fertilizer com.
pany of Durham has contracted to
build, ad djacent to the reduction works,
plant to cost about $3.50, 900 to $780,
600, contracting to take 20 tons of sui
phuric acid q day from tho reduction
works. This acid, instead OF being
put up in cases, will be carried in a
large lead pipe direct from the acid
company's works to the fertilizer
works, decided innovation.
The reduction of these Southern
ores by the new system saving the
gold, the suphuric acid and all other
bi-prOducts promises to become of
enormous value to tho entire South.
operation, If no trouble should be found
in itS f1tnrn ,ynclr tho ntili1ot ~
ores that have hitherto been without
value because they could not be
handled by any Southern concern; a
reduction In the cost of sulphuric acid
for the manufacture OF fertilizers and
thus possibly a reduction in tho cost of
making fertiliZors, SO essential to the
prosperity of Southern farmers.
Probably the most noticeable fea-
ture in connection with Southern mat
tors at the present." said Mr.. Edmonds,
lis the remarkable tendency of popu-
lation from the North and West to the
South. Every large land owner In the
South whose name has become known
throughout the North and West Is In
receipt OF lettcrs by the scoro asking
for Information about farm lands.
Some land owners have been almost
overwhelmed with correspondence,
and one friend Of mine in Laudcrdale
County, Ala, reports that within the
last month or two he has had over 500
letters from Northern and Western
farmers who wanted to settle in that
section. In the Carolinas, Georgia
and parts Of Virginia tho same thing
Is noticeable, and all over these States,
as well as farther South, Western
people are settling singly and in
colonies.
"All Indications point to great
Southwark movement of population
chat promises to become one OF tho
most conspicuous features OF tho busi-
ness interests OF the entire country.
Judging by information obtained in
the South, and by correspondence that
comes to me from tho North and
West, | believe 1t is reasonable to cx-
pect within the next few years just
such an enormous Southwark move
mont Of population us that which
swept into the North and Northwest
ton 0r fifteen years ago. In this case,
however, 1t will be of Americans
mainly, rather than OF foreigners"
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