The leader., 1899-12-27

following valuable and interesting
data, showing how the South is awak
ening to a realization of its own pow.
ers, and to the development of its own
MISSISSIPPI.
At Tupelo, the leading business men
have organized company for the es
of $4,000 cotton mill.
At Canton, the cotton mill just or.
ganized with capital stock of s2OO,OOC
will build and operate 5000 spindle
mill
At Kosciusko cotton mill has been
chartered with stock of $4,000: DC
acres of land have been purchased and
will begin at once.
At Laurel, the capital stock in cot
ton mill is $4,000 and orders for ma.
chinery have been placed.
At McComb new cotton mill is an
assured fact.
At Morehead, the new cotton mills
have capital stock of S200,O00
ALABAMA.
The Huntsville Cotton Mills, the
oldest in the State, at a cost of 100000
have made additions to their plant and
now employ 200 hands. The first OF
the eight mills to be built by the Mer.
rimack Company, of Lowell, Mass, is
practically completed. These mills
with the necessary tenements for oper-
atives will cost nearly or quite $500
600 The latest outcome at Huntsville
is two new cotton mills, one of which
will operate $4,000 spindles and will
employ Loo hands. The other will be
a combined cotton and knitting mill
and will employ 800 hands. The total
investment will be Sl,150,000.
At Uniontown, OpelIka, Evergreen,
Admission, Florence and
other cities the wheels are going round
at the mandate of King Cotton and the
demands of the times. At Florence
the mills will be operated by electric
ity.
GEORGIA.
At Cedartown we find 0,000 spindle
mill in progress with a capital of $500
600, and employing, in anticipation, 25C
hands
At Lawrenceville is a 5000 spindle
cotton mill.
Forsythe has three mills, while at
Granville, Jefferson, Athens, Savan
nah, Moultrie, Gainesville, Louisville
Sandersville and Atlanta, new projects
are on foot for new mills, or valuable
additions to old ones.
Some Georgia mills declare over y
per cent. dividends for the past veal
and one lat Dalton 90 per cent; anC
the average is from 10 to 40 per cent
Business men of all classes are thus in
vesting surplus capital and their is NJ
waiting for help from the outside.
TEXAS.
The Lone Star State has been behinC
in the procession of cotton manufac
ture, but is catching inspiration from
sister States, and at present. we fine
both cotton and woollen mills upon it
vast area Hillsboro, Abilene. Beau
mont, Rusk, Georgetown and Wins
boro are all enthusiastically putting OIL
foot plans for factories; and at Dalla
another mill will soon be in operation
For fear of making this article too
long we will add, without further par
ticulars, that Louisiana, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Florida, Virginia
Tennessee and Arkansas are all forg
ing to the front with eyes intent upor
the future industrial development o.
the country. The South furnishes the
best territory for factories; and while
it is beginning to invest its own capita
as never before, such help, should il
come, would be cordially welcomed, i
not considered indispensable.
In 1890 there were in the South only
100000 cotton spindles; today there
are nearly 100000. Two thirds of al
the cotton mills of the South are alone
the line of the Southern Railway, the
great industrial road of this region
which furnishes all information tc
those desiring it and will aid seekers
after investments in every possible
manner.
In this connection we might also
mention an industry which at present
is short in the South. At Suffolk
Va, wefind Knitting Mills, with an out
put of $4,000 pairs of hose daily. Jack
Fla, Knoxville, Tenn, and
Ca, also have knitting
mills among other industries. There
is also great development in the iron
and steel industry, especially at Birm-
ingham and Chattanooga. In these
districts employment is furnished from
5000 to 10000 people. Furniture fac
tories, by the score, are now also oper
ated and fruit raising has become a
valuable source of revenue; in fact the
opportunity opened today in the South
ern States has never been surpassed in
all America. Young men and Others
looking for new homes would do well
10 investigate our resources and ad
vantages, before going elsewhere.
wide-awke and progress
i've as she is, must and will, at no dis
tant day, number good cotton facto-
~ among her other industrial enter
prises.
STATE SCHOOL MATTERS.
The following statistical matter from
he report of the State Superintendent
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