The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-14
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation rs Reported
for the Past Week.

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Reports as to southern industrial
aud business conditions for the past
week indicate that merchants and job
bers are doing q larger business, and
that money is somewhat easier, though
still not in large supply. Recent in-
crease in cotton speculation is bring
ing out a good deal of cotton, and the
movement tends to encourage planters
in extending the area OF. cotton to be
worked this season. Fertilizers are
in good demand, and but little credit
is asked.
The iron producers report that the
output of pig iron is steady, and with
no present evidence of overlooking
the market. Quotations are steady
and unchanged, but some remark is
made as TO sales by spectators at a
shade below market prices, making
some uneasiness among buyers for flu
ture delivery. The coal output is still
very large, and sales are equal to the
supply. Lumber operators make ia
vorable reports and that the home and
foreign demand seems to be growing
larger. Textile mill managers say
that prices for finished goods are too
low in proportion to the price of cot
ton, and are looking for an advance.
The southern cotton mills are all do
ing large business.
The following are among important
new industries established or incorpor-
ated during the past week in the south
ern states: The Kanawha Manufactur-
ing company, capital 100000 of
/ Charleston, w. Va. the North Little
Rock Ice and Electric company, of
Little Rock, Ark, capital 500, 600;
the Norcross Butter Separator Manu-
featuring company, of Knoxville,
Tenn, capital 500, 900, and the Texas
Gin and Compress company, capital
$75, 900, of Milano, Tex. The Chicka-
saw Compress company has been
chartered at Sherman, Tex. with $780,
600 capital; the Chattanooga Petrole-
UNI Oil company, limited, at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, capital 100000; the
Tampa Tile and Pavement company,
capital $4,000, at Tampa, Fla, and
Wilson, Eyres & Co., will establish
bicycle works at Houston, Tex, to cost
$50, 900. The Cannerd Lumber COM
pany, capital $25, 900, has cen char
tered at Garfield, Ark; the Globe
Furniture company, capital 800, 600, at
Fort Worth, Tex; a $4,000 Touring
mill is reported from Jonesboro, Tex. !;
the Ladonia, Tex, and the San An
tonic Horse Cotton company, capital
$40, 900, at San Antonio, Tex.
There is also reported canning fac
tories at Montgomery, Ala. ,and Brook
haven, Miss, cotton mills at Gadsden
and Eutaw, Ala, knitting mill at
Dalton, Ga, and wooden mill at Nor
gantown, ". Va. Electrical plants will
be established at Eutaw, Ca, and
Brentwood, Tex. Touring mills at
Hardy and Jonesboro, Ark, a glass
factory at Sistersville, W. Va, and an
ice factory at Newport, Ark. A cotton
oil mill is reported at Marietta, Ga,
and woodworking plants at Fort Smith,
Helena. LAGRANGE, Jonesboro and
Nettleton, Ark, and Wingo, Ky.
Among the engagements are min
ing company at Horse Greek, Ala, o
development company from $25, 900
to $50, 600 at Rockdale, Tex, an oil
mill from 500, 900 to $4,000 at
Dallas, Tex, and a tobacco factory at
Petersburg, Va. The new buildings
of the week as reported includes BUSH
ness houses at Atlanta, Ga, and Buffa-
10, Texas, church at Bowling Green,
Va, a $25, 900 factory building at At
lanta, Ga, an $780, government
] building at Meridian, Miss, and a
/ 1920 school building at Kosci-
usko, Miss. -Tradesman Chattanooga,
Tenn.)