The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-06-10
A MILLION A WEEK.
chat Is the Way Capital is Being Invested
In Southern Cotton Mills.


In Southern Cotton Mills.
BALTIMORE, June e4.-The industrial
progress of the South during the last
| week, as shown by the reports of the
Manufacturers Record, has been con-
tinued with the activity that has been
prevailing for the last year. While
there has been decrease in the num-
Der of new industries announced, the
character oil these is such as assists IN
the upbuilding and permanent pros
perity OF this section. Especially in
the establishment of plants for manu-
featuring for the market the South's
great staple is the activity in new
companies marked, and this has been
the rule for several years.
The cotton mills reported for the
week ending June 5, for instance, will
require the investment of capital to
the extent of about 5000, 900.
Some of the more important an
| nouncements of the week follow: The
Warren Manufacturing Company of
Graniteville, S. c., has about COM
pleted arrangements for ths erection
of 1000 spindle mill: the Knoxville
Woollen Mills have placed an order
for 5 900 spindles for an addition now
building; the" Eagle and Phoenix
Manufacturing Company of Colum-
bus, Ca, has decided to erect $780,
900 woollen mill; Howard Cole, of
Shreveport, La, has closed a deal for
the erection of $4,000 spindle mill;
Atlanta parties will build a 3, 600 spin
die mill at Lithia Springs, Ga; a sl0,-
900 knitting mill company IS forming
at Florence, S. c.. the E6rd Manufac.
turing Company OF Albemarle, n. c.,
has organized to erect mill OF s75,-
900 capital stock.
Other enterprises in varied manu-
featuring lines were: in Alabama a
company at Montgomery to introduce
a new dry kiln; in Florida, the Havana
Cigar and Cigarette Company, Of Tai
lahassee, with Ecapital of $40, 900; in
Georgia, the new Georgia Car ana
Manufacturing Company, ofSavannah
Ca, ;. has fully organized aud will erect
| plant having a capital Of $500, 900:
Rome Rolling Mill, at Rome, a cotton
tie producer, to resume operations; IN
Louisiana, Buchel Brush Company Of
New Orleans, capital 81, 900, incorpo-
rated to manufacture; in Shreveport
arrangements completed for the estab-
lishment of a foundery plan by Texas
1oundery men in Mississippi, $685.
600 cotton seed oil mill contracted for
at Clarksdale; in North Carolina, the
Gastonia Tanning Company will build
new plant at Gastonia; in South
Carolina, the city Of Laurens voted
$50, 600 in bonds for water works and
electrict lights; the Plumer Elevator
Company, of Columbia, organized
with capital ofs100, 900, to make eleya-
tors, etc; Sumter Cotton Seed Oil Com
pany, OF Sumter, will let contract
for 30-ton mill to cost SIS, 600; IN
Tennessee, at Sherwood, the Gager
Lime Works are to double their plant
making the production over 1000
barrels daily; 10 Texas, the Southern
Transportation Company, OF Houston,
capital $3.50, 00l to operate steamboats,
and the Walter Hafner Jewelry Com
pany, of Hillsboro, capital $20, 900;
Ragley Lumber Company, OF Winns
boro, capital $50, 600, both incorporated
in Virginia; Atlantic Water Front
Company, o! Norfolk, capital $40, 900,
INCORPORATED.