Birmingham state herald., 1896-08-05
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
The New Industries Reported for the Week
 Ending August B.

ine NeW industries Reported for the Week
 Ending August B.
 Chattanooga, Aug. 3.-The Trades mans southern correspondents among prominent manufacturers and dealers re- port some improvement in business con- ditions. Indications are still favorable for large crops of corn and cotton, and the decrease in production in the iron and textile industries gives more healthy tone to the markets. The ex- treme heat of the past week has had a paralyzng effect on trade, but this is only temporary and a renewal of activ- 1ty in many lines is expected this month
 A slight change for the better charac- terizeS the iron and steel market Though pig iron is still weak, some sales are re- ported, and there is quite a little in- quiry for steel and other materials. Buy CTS are still conservative, however and prices low, but conditions seem to en- courage the belief that change for the better IS not far distant. The Mahoning valley manufacturers have signed the Amalgamated scale and nearly all the mills are getting ready to start up. The Ashland (Ky) Coal, Iron and Railway company is overhauling it's No. furnace preparatory to putting it in blast.
 Southern lumbermen report increasing activity even at this early date, with prospects favorable for good demand in the fall, despite the depressing effect or elections and the ever troublesome money question.
 Matters in textile circles are quiet. A number of mills are running on short time, but others are still in full opera t1on,' With fair number of orders on hand.
 The Tradesman reports the following new industries:
 A canning factory at Green Cove Springs, Fla; $50 900 electric light and power plant at Berkley, Va; fertilizer factory at Savannah, Ga.; fiouring mill at Lillard's Mills, Tenn; a cotton gin and electrical plant at Magnolia, Miss. 1; $2500O foundry and machine shop at Birmingham, Ala, and the T. s. Godfrey Marble company organized with a capi- tai of $5O,00o at Knoxville, Tenn Coal mines will be opened at Montreal, Ark, and Artemus, Ky; stone quarries at Par is, Tex; machine works to. cost $50,000 will be erected at New Orleans, La; a paper box factory at Norfolk, Va. $15,- 900 oil mill at Yoakum, Tex. knitting mills at Chattanooga, Tenn, and Union, s. C.; and woodworking plants at Bruns- wick Ga, and Columbia, s. c. Other new industries reported are cotton mills at Thomaston, Ga.; electric light plants at Anniston, Ala, Central City, Ky, and Greensboro Ala; machine works at Fort Worth, Tex; an oil refinery al Mounds ville, w. Va. rice mill at Eunice, I.a., and tile works at Winchester, Ky Wa ter works will be probably be established at -Gurley, Ala! Cotton Plant, Ark. Guthrie, Ky, and Decherd, Tenn.
 The enlargements include brass works at Louisville, Ky; an electrical plant at Concord, N. C.; Touring mill at Edom, Va, and water works at Clarksville, W. Va.
 Among new buildings the Tradesman reports large business blocks at Tampa, Fla, Stillmore, Ga, and Petersburg, Va; a court house at Lexington, Tenn; a $32, 900 depot at Montgomery, Ala, and hotel to cost $100,000 at Abbeville, Ga.; a S20, 900 opera house at Washington, Ga.; a $10.000 residence at Mobile, Ala. and school building to cost $10,000 at Orange, Tex