Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-04-24
SOUTHERN ITEMS.

The Manufacturers Record says that dur
ing the past week there has been no diminu-
tion of the activity which has been feature
Of industrial development in the Southern
States for some time past. The formation
and announcement Of new cotton mill com
panies continues. altough decrease in
number Is noted: but the many that have
been organized during the early part OF the
year are busiIy occupied in the erection OF
their buildings.
Principal among the industrial announce
ments OF the week is the statement of details
for the much talked Of steel plant which Is
to be controlled by the Tennessee Coal, Iron
and Railway Company of Birmingham. The
Tennessee Company is to subscribe $780, 600,
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad 100000,
the Southern Railway 100000 and the cltl-
zens of Birmingham the other 800, 900, and
this latter has been about secured. The mill
as planned is to produce rails and merchant
able iron from the low silicon ores Of the
Birmingham district Another important
announcement in the iron trade is contained
in the incOrpolat alton OF the Cumberland
Iron and Steel Company, Of Norfolk, Va.
The President is Mr. Charles T. Phillips, OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, who claims that the com
pany will build large iron and steel plant
in the vicinity Of Norfolk.
Among other industrial enterprises re-
ported for the week are the Montgomery,
Ala, cotton mills, 5000 spindles, doubling
capacity; the W. R. Kindly Cotton Mill Co..
of ut. Pleasant. n. c.. capital stock $50, ,OOOi
the Iuman Compress Co., Augusta, Ga, to
build compress, capital 5000, 900, the Univer
sal Construction Company, of Campbell
county, Ky, capital 95O,OOO formed by NJ.
J. Brown and others of Chicago; the Secur-
ity Battery Co, capital s15, 900; New Orleans
Furniture Mfg. Co., capital 954, ,O0O wooden
ware factory by Chicago Basket Co., and
Collins & Co., capital 325, 900, saddlery man
ufacturers. all formed in New Orleans; Gar-
lam Canal Co.. capital SIS 900, at Crowley.
La. the North Point Construction Company,
of Baltimore Nd, to establish yacht works
at Sparrows Point; the Chattanooga, Tenn,
Foundry and Pipe Works to build 500, OOC
new plant; the Milburn Bass Wagon Co.,
Chattanooga, Tenn, capital 100000 &c
build new plant; the Cookevile Canning
Company. of Cookeville, to build cannery
capital 10 900; the Ballnger Livestock and
Trading Company of Ballinger, Texas, capi-
tai 20 900; the Calvert Compress Company,
Of Calvert, Texas. capital SO, 900; the Han
way Marble and Granite Co.. of Dallas, Tex
capital SO 900; the Independent Peanut Co.
of Smithneld. Va, to erect S25, 900 plant; the
Lamberts Point Tow Boat Co., of Lambert's
Point, Va, capital 100000
A special from Scale, just over the Georgia
line in Alabama. states that between mid
night and morning mob Of masked men
went to the county Jail, took Reddick Adams
colored, therefrom. and lynched him. Red
dick Adams is the man who waylaid and SO
foully shot Mr.. r. T. Rentroc last November,
and after shooting him robbed his person,
burglarized his store, and set fire to his
dwelling He had been on trial in the Cir
cult Court and the jury had been out on his
case from $50 p. m. Wednesday till P. m.
Saturday. when they were discharged, after
having made mistrial.