The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-11-20
BUSINESS IN THE SOUTH.
Inc Growth on rureisn Commerce
Very Pleasing at all Ports.


The Manufacturers Record in its review
OF Southern business conditions says: The
remarkable growth Of foreign commerce
throughout Southern ports Is emphasized by
the arrangements that have Just boon com.
pieted for the establishment Of direct steam
ship iines from Norfolk. Charleston, Savan-
naa nan ana Biunswick to European ports. Five
years ago only three Southern ports
hah direct steamer lines to Europe, the
shipments from other points being made
py tramp steamers. row eleven South.
ern ports have established regular lines to
various British and continental ports. The
magnitude OF this business is illustrated in
the TACT that ono company operating u large
number OF steamers has engaged much OF
their curgoes through the whole winter and
up TO March. and another company opera
unB from Norfolk has about SO or 60 steamers
engaged :or carrying on general cargo
DuslnesS this winter. This great increase in
foreign exports is building up s.. uthern sea-
ports and giving to them rs much activity
ana prosperity as has heretofore prevailed
IN tho industrial centres OF the South.
large number OF Southern enterprises
nave resumed operations since the election.
Ihe Baiti imore Tin Plate com pany employing
2oo hands; the Wheeling Iron and Steel
company and the Whitaker Iron company, OF
creased the number OF their htAds from g.
0oO to $500; the Kanawha Wooien Mills, of
Charleston, w. Va; the Maryland
SIX Mills. OF Hagerstown; the
Cotton Duck Mills. near Baltimore; the
Galveston, Texas, Rope and Twine Mill,
employing oae hundred hands; the Fostoria
Glass Works, at Moundsville, w. Va, 800
mon; Avery Plow Works, Louisville. KY,
l20 additional men; the Louisville Woolen
Mills, 200 operatives; the Blue Grass " oolen
Mills, 200 hands; the Howard Harrison Iron
Company, Of Besscmer, Ala, put on full
forces; Birmingham, Rolling Mill, 500 men;
the Gate City Rolling Mill, Gate City, Ala,
500 men, and u large number OF other in
dustries throughout the South.
Among tho new enterprises looking to tho
development of business interests IN the
South reported for the week are n number OF
railroad undertakings; Il 81 100000 COM
pany organized in the West. which has pur-
chased 5000 acres of land in Texas for i'm
provement and colonization :n connection
with manufacturing enterprises; Chicago
company organized to purchase 200 900 acres
of land in Alabama for colonization; sales OF
several large tracts OF timber land for devel-
opment; $3.50. 900 ccllulose plant ut Ovens
borO, KY; 100000 knitting mill company
Mt Union Point, Ga; u 800, 900 electric light
and power company ut Fort Worth, Texas.
Many enterprises projected some months
ago and delayed by the political excitement
are now being taken up actively with view
to securing capital for immediate construc-
ton. Some Of them have capital pledged
contingent upon the election, and these will
be carried forward promptly. Reports to the
Manufacturers Record from all parts OF the
South show very hopeful feeling and deter
mination to bend every posi-, le energy to the
material advancement OF this section, the
newspapers very generally urging the people
to drop politics for the time and give atten-
tion to the advancement Of material inter-
ests.