Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-12
IT HAS BEEN A GOOD WEEK
The Manufacturers Record Summary Shows Great Activity in Industrial Enterprises.
 Alabama's Share of Good Things.

Baltimore, June 1.-The Manufactur- CTS Record, reviewing southern business conditions for the week, reports that de- SD .te the political turmoil the past week
 has seen the consummation of more im- portant contracts for industria and rail-
 road enterprises than have been closed in any one week for many months. Every undertaking reported in this summary is of the most substantial character, the capital for which has been provided, and nothing is included that is simply pro- jected. It Is true that negotiations have been pending for many of these undertake ings for some months, the preliminary work, as in all cases, taking much time,
 but the contracts for all Of them have
 been reported during the past week. The aggregate of contracts closed for
 the week for railroad construction work
 is over 500 miles, including the building
 of several hundred miles in South Caroli-
 na and Georgia, which, in connection with existing short lines, VII develop a 600 mle system controlled in the interest of Charleston. One hundred and forty
 miles have been let to contract in Texas on the extension of the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf; three contracts have been closed on the Charleston, Clenden-
 min and Sutton road in West Virgin
 and a contract for twenty-six miles in
 Tennessee.
 The week has also been noted for the signing of contracts for the building of $600,000 print cloth mill in Birmlng- ham, five-slxths of the capital being fur nished by northern cotton mill people, and the balance having been subscribed by Birmingham capitalists. The Ameri- can Net and Twine company of Boston, one of the oldest concerns in New England, having been established fifty years ago, has closed contracts for build ing a $350, 900 mill in Ann.ston, Ala, with the agreement to extend this to a $60O,000 plant later on.
 Local capitalists at Seneca, S. C., have provided the money for 10000 spindle mill to cost $350,000, and are letting con- tI+2 2cts for the work. The Eagle and Phe- nix company of Columbus Is arranging for the building of it's $150,000 woolen mill; a mill at Mount Holly, N. C., will double it's qu.pments; a knitting company at Columbus will spend $22,000 in enlarge ment, and at Orangeburg, s. G., a $60,000 mill company has been chartered. An extensive gold ehlorination plant i has been completed and put in operation near Tallapoosa, Ga.
 The Southern Refrigerator Manu- | featuring company of Murfreesboro, H., l has purchased the plant of the BranS- | ford Manufacturing company at Union 1 City, Tenn, and will establish a. $100, 900 company for the manufacture of bank | fixtures, refrigerators, etc.
 The Fisher Typewriter company of Athens, Tenn. will establish a Knoxville
 
 | ing typewriters.
 | Plans are being prepared for ten build | ings, each of which will be 106x500 feet, 1 for the car works previously reported to | be built at Savannah by a $300,000 com | pany. There will be over five miles of railroad tracks in and about the works 1 Construction work on this great plant | will begin immediately.
 l The Charles Shoe Manufacturing con- i pany will establish factory for employ l,@x JT. fx, Iy yttnrr tr, l Charleston, s. c. Union, in the same | state, has authorized $40,000 bonds for a | water works and electric light system. | Northern capitalists have organized a l $500,000 company and purchased the gas l and electric light works at Norfolk Va. l In building enterprises contracts have l been lief. for the Seaboard Air Lines new 1 freight depot at Atlanta, to cost from 1 $200,0 900 to $300,000.
 | Plans are being prepared for a OOC 1 court house at Charlotte, N. C., and a | $20O00 Masonic building in the same l place.
 | A $20,OOO hotel at Fitzgerald, Ga l At Harrisburg, Va, contracts have l been made for a $45,000 court house. | The Louisville and Nashville railroad
 will build $S5o.00O depot at Montgomery l Ala.
 | The Jacksonville Terminal company | will build a union depot in that city, the ] cost of which will be several hundred | thousand dollars.
 | A $250,00O company has been organized | in Texas for shipping Alabama coal, by l barges from the Mississippi river direct | to Houston, and arrangements have been | completed for the distribution on large | scale of Alabama coal by a proposed barge system to all points in Louisiana | tributary to the Mississippi river. | A sale of 800 tons of Birmingham pig l iron, for immediate shipment to Italy, l has been closed; and an order received | from another Italian company for a trial | lot of 100 tons which, if satisfactory, will | be followed by heavy orders.