Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-13
FOREIGN EXPNRT INCREASE
Causes Establishment. of Direct Steamship
Lines to $ Jean Ports.
NEW INDUSTRIES ARE NOW OPENING UP
And Others o 70 Resuming Operations
a Coll Colonization Company
~ med to Operate in
80 Alabama.
ARE NOW OPENING UP

Baltimore, Nd, Nov. 1.-THE Manufac-
turer's Record in its review of southern
business conditions, says:
Inc remarkable growth of foreign COM
mefce through southern ports Is empha-
sized py the arrangements that have lust
peeh completed for the establishment of
alrect steamship lines from Norfolk.
charleston. Savannah and Brunswick.
10 European ports. Five years ago only
three southern ports had direct steamer
hhes 10 Europe the shipments from
other ports being made by tramp steam
ers. Now eleven southern ports have
established regular lines to various Brit
lsh and Continental ports. The magni-
tude or this business is illustrated in the
TACT that one company operating a large
number of steamers has engaged much
OF their cargoes through the whole wins-
er ana up to March, and another COM
pany operating from Norfolk has about
hIty or sixty steamers engaged for CAR
fylhg general cargo business this winter.
rms great increase in foreign exports
Is building up southern seaports and giv-
ing 10 them as much activity and pros
perlty as has heretofore prevailed in the
industrial centers of the south
Following the general improyement
since the election, a large number of
southern enterprises have resumed opera-
tlons ana others are preparing to do so.
among the most important reported In
these two classes during the week are the
Ashiand Steel company and the Norton
Nail works, at Ashland Ky, the Balti
more Tin Plate company, employing two
hundred hands; the Wheeling Iron and
steel company, and the Whitaker Iron
company, of Wheeling, and other enter
pr1ses have increased the number of their.
nands from 1000 to $500; the Kanawha
Woolen mills of Charleston, w. Va; tho
Maryland SILK mills of Hagerstown: tho
Cotton Duck mills, near Baltimore: the
Galveston, Texas rope and twine mill.
employing 100 hands, the Gostoria Glass
works, at Moundsville, w. Va, 300 men;
Avery Plow works, Louisville, Ky, $50
additional men; the Louisville Woolen
mills, 300 operatives; the Bear Grass
Woolen mills, 200 hands; the Howard
Harrison Iron company, of Bessemer.
Ala, put ON full force; Birmingham Roll
ing MILL 1900 men; the Gate City Roll
ing mill. Gate City, Ala, 900 men, and a
large number Of other industries through
out the south.
Among the new enterprises looking to
the development of business interests in
the south, reported for the week are a
number of railroad undertakings; a ST.
100000 company organized in the west,
which has purchased 5000 acres of land in
Texas for Improvement and colonization
In connection with manufacturing enter
to purchase 100000 acres of land In Ala
bama for colonization; sales of several
large tracts of timber lands for develop
ment; $150,000 celluloid plant at OWENS
boro, KY; 100000 knitting mill COM
pany at Union Point, Ga: a 100000 cleo
trio light and power company at Fort
Worth. Texas.
Many enterprises projected some
months ago and delayed by the political
excitement are now being taken up act
lively with a view to securing capital for
immediate construction. Some of them
have capital already pledged contingent
upon the election and these will be car
red forward promptly. Reports to the
Manufacturers Record from all parts
of the south show very hopeful feeling
and determination to bend evry possi-
BILE energy to the material advancement
of this section. The newspapers very
generally are urging the people to drop
politics for the time and give attention to
the Advancement of material interests.