Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-20
AMERICAN TRADE
The South's Conspicuous Part in
Tho Impetus Given TO Trade, Hes
corded by Figures OF Exports for
tho Past Year, Has nccn Felt al,
Along the Line.i
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Baltimore, Jan. 10, 1S99.-The impetus
given to American trade, recorded by
the marvellous figures of exports for
1898, has been felt by the South. The
meetings of commercial bodies at Rich
mond. Norfolk. Mobile, Galveston and
other points giving opportunities for
a review of the past year have also
been noted for the spirit of enterprise
and hopefulness pervading that section.
The shipment from Galveston of hun
drede; of thousands of bushels of corn
raised in that State, the expanding
exports of Mobile, marked by an in
crease in the last four months of 1898
c. more than 100000. nearly $500, 900
of which represents trade with Cuba;
the plan to establish steamship COM
munication between Norfolk, Va, and
South American ports, the increasing
Importance of Pensacola and the gem
eral activity at all ports from the
Chesapeake to the Rio Grande, are evil
denceS of the progressive spirit per-
vadng the South. For many years
food products and raw material. such
rs cotton, naval stores. iron and coal
will dominate the Southern exports,
but already manufactures In the shape
OF lumber, machinery and cotton goods
have begun to assume Importance, and
the steady increase in the number of
smaller industries noted weekly by the
Manufacturers Record, side by side
with the great steel plants, their kim
dred undertakings, ship building, &c.
are measures of the preparations of a
larger share by the South in the ex-
ports of finished products which have
been nurtured by representatives of the
N OH nd
Russia and the far East. Typical OF
the preparations for increased prosper
lty are the announcements that to the
Standard Cotton Mill at Rock Hill, S.
c.. is TO be added to plant with 1000
spindles; the proposed installation of
1900 spindles and DC additional looms
to the Caraleigh Mills of Raleigh, y.
c.. the expenditure of $4,000 for an adj
dition to the Modena Cotton Mills at
Gastonia, and the addition of 80 spin
dies to the Louise Mills of Charlotte
and Of $500 additional spindles to tho
Cumberland Mills. of Cumberland, n.
c., and the building of Il $4,000 spindle
mill in Georgia at a cost of 100000 by
Northern mill company.
In this connection are quoted the
words of a prominent mill man of
Charlotte, n. c., who said: 1.-The con-
dillon of the cotton business is to be
SauSeu not so much by the number of
new mills to be built as by the number
OF old mills that are being re- equipped
with the newest and finest machinery
1t is fact that the mills of the South
as general thing. have the finest ma
Chinery that is made. A better grade
of goods will be made in the South this
year than ever before. All signs point
to prosperous year for the Southern
mills
NEW ENTERPRISES.
Nhn rrfa
OF the week reported by the Manufact-
urcrs' Record We're:
100000 cotton compress, 125- barrel
-four mill and $4,000 cotton compress
ir Arkansas; $4,000 machine works,
etc. In Alabama $780, 900 creamery, &c.,
600 foundry and machine shop in Geor-
ga: 30 barrel flour mill in Kentucky:
$4,000 fibre company. 100000 saw mill
and Location sugar mill in louisiana:
$500.G00 pharmacal company. 10000
box factory, 3,S00-spindle cotton mill
addition. 3.500-splndle addition. 5000
spindle addition and 1900 spindle addi-
ton in North Carolina; 1000 spindle
mill in South Carolina: 5-ton ice fac
terry and $4,000 iron ore company In
Tennessee; 100000 oil company. $40, 900
-four mill machinery company, $500. 900
cotton mills company and 100000 land
bereavement company in Texas: $780,
c1C silk mandatory, $4,000 foundry
and machine company, S600,000 gas and
light cor pany. $4,000 boot and shoe
company. 30-barrel -four mill and S37,-
900 other company in Virginia; $50, 600
coal and lumber company $50 900
bridge company; $4,000 telephone COM
pany and 100000 petroleum compa ny
III West Virginia.
New buildings announced included
$4,000 warehouse. $50. 900 hospital and
s. SEQ warehouse at Baltimore, Nd;
$4,000 church at Plano, Texas; s26, 600
church al Newport News. Va; $4,000
business building at Franklin, Tenn;
$1,000 bank building at Plaquemine,
La, and $4,000 courthouse at Trenton,
Tenn.