Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-12-30
THE LUMBER BUSINESS
From cnnries,on business L. Done
Win Jnmncin end other West In-
dian Por,s-Ahipmenis from Mo-
b,to-A List OF New industries re.
ported for the week
Especial TO Yirginlan- Pllot.l

Especial TO pirsinian- Pilot)
Baltimore. Md, Dec. 29.-Broadly
skctching the reasons why the South
enters uDon the new year full of
strength and hope, the Manufacturers
Record this week says:
1T has extended it's railway into new
fields of raw material. 1t has opened
new mines and developed old ones. It
has strengthened it's furnace equip
ment and entered upon The manufac-
lure of steel on large scale. 1t has
quit more cotton mills. enlarged the
operations of those already established,
and has prepared Cor a greater diver
sity of finished goods. 1t has uncovered
rich deposits of phosphate rock. Its
iuihber mills have expanded in size and
NUMBER II possesses better tools than
ever for making Its vast resources mar
ketable"
The facts accomplished are q rich
promise of future achievements. The
turn OF the year finds these various
interests strong and active, and appar-
entiy unaffected by the financial dis
turbances of tue East during the
closing weeks of December
BIG MILLS.
Among the indications of this activity
was the laying of the cornerstone of the
Mcdonald cotton mills, at Sylacauga,
Ala. The main building, of brick, will
be $50 by 100 feet. 1t will be equipped
with 10000 spindles, to make fine
hosiery yarns, and will employ 400 oper-
atives The buildings and machinery
viii cost $4,000. The capital stock OF
the mill ($200,0 00) has been fully paid
up The Dallas Manufacturing Com
pany, OF Huntsville, Ala, has decided
n 10 20
cate IT'S present mill, equipping the new
building with $4,000 spndles and about
l,0oO looms. AT Gastonia n. c., sub
scriptions for S120,000 of capital stock
Were secured for a 5000 spindle mill to
DE built by n company organized by
hlr. q. W. Ragan, and 1t is thought
that before construction begins 1t will
be determined to make the mill a 10, 600
spindle one with 100000 capital. Other
improvements contemplated include an
additional building for Use as a weave
mill by the Eureka cotton mills of
Chester. S. c.. the addition OF 5000
spindles TO the equipment of the Darl-
ington. S. c., manufacturing Company.
and the erection of a 2.O00-spindle and
o6-loom mill at Taylorsville. ". c..
LUMBER BUSINESS.
The lumber business shows much
vigor. From Charleston some business
is being done with Jamaica and other
West Indian ports At Georgetown,
near by. the progress with the i'm
nense sawmill plant of the Atlantic
coast Lumber Company is most salts
factory. the drykiln and machine shop
being we'll under way, and the COM
psny Is now preparing plans for about
forty more houses for its operatives.
Durlng the week more than 1000, 900 feet
or lumber were shipped from Savannah,
while Mt Brunswick and DarIen there
was strong movement in all lines of
the trade. The Spanish trade. long n
feature with Brunswick shippers. ia
now showing fair demand, while OAR
len shippers are enjoying a good bust
ness with Great Britain and the Euro
pean continent. At Mobile there have
been unusually large shipments. mostly
70 Central and South America. while at
an the lumber centres of the South
mere Is feeling of Intense satisfaction
oVer me eNcelieht showing OF the year
NEW INDUSTRIES.
among the reports OF new industries
TO the Manufacturers Record wrra thn
loilowins: $4,000 stavc factory COM
pahy, io,ton ice factory, 5O-ton ice fac
tory, 10000 overalls factory. q. (00
spindle. 1000-loom cotton factory to
cost over 100000, and sl0o, 900 iron min
ing company in Alabama; 100000 fruit
ana tobacco company in Florida. 500.
o0o cotton-secd OIL mill In Georgia.
s2oo. 600 cigar factory. 100000 Fertilizer
factory $4,000 fertilizer factory and
sls'ou0 cannery company in Kentucky:
s@V.oop Ice plant in Louisiana; Sl00. OO0
leiePilone company and 100000 brewing
company In Maryland: $1,000 cotton
mill company In Mississippi. Sim noo