The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-12
-Four Lines Being Built Within n isa-:
dius of3Onc Hundred Milcs-Cot-
ton Mills Operation Increases.
Many Other New Indus

BALTIMORE, Jan. n.-soecial.
week, asScaused by Il shortage of mate
rial, do not seem TO have prevailed to any
great extent in the brown hematite dis.
trict around Admission, Ala. The CORE
-spondent ct that city of tie Manu1ac-
turers' Record estimates that between
Z SOAl and 10000 persons are engaged in
mining ore within a5radius OF fifty mics
of that city, and that 500 persons are
raising ore within the city lim1ts.ZHe
says: THE district is filed with prospect
T tors and ore is being found nearly every
where. In former years the mineral was
searched for and found and miEed in
many places and in large quantities me
present iron boom and great demand Tor
ore have caused mere careful searches TO
IL. made, and the results are really won
dcrtui. Ricn ore in almost ineNnallst!pies
quantities is being found all over the dis
tr:ct. The railroads are putting in many
new switches and spur tracks, and estaD-
lsl,ps several new stations to accommo-
date the large and ever-increasinG ore pus-
mess. Much CT TIE ore is mined ana used
by the iron companies N this district, ana
the remainder is shipped to other NEARBY
furnaces.
RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION.
The energy displayed by the railroad
companies in providing facilities ior
handling the raw material of the south
great coming industry is geNertcd in. other
directions. For example within an area
OF 100 miles square in Louisiana no less
than four railroad companies are con-
Struc,iug lines. This area is III q portion
of the South which is the centre OF great
activity in railroad development, most OF
the lines extending in soWtheasteriS
direction and naralieiins the Red river.
They are links between Arkansas ana
Louisiana, and their construction aSsi e
eating. during. the past two years nearly
2CO miles has been accelerated by the
natural resources of Northw csterE LOUIS
lana All the lines being built southwark
from Arkansas will reach. in addition 10
land producing large quantities OF corn
and cotton the tracts of long zeal yelio"
pine for which that section OF the SCUM
is noted 1t is calculated by experts that
in the Louisiana parishes between tlic
Red and Ouachita rivers are ,GGo.1o acres
OF land averaging 1900 feet Of timber TO
the acre While plans for developing t'e
timber resources ar@Eundcr way IN hiInS
portions of the South Atlantic ana y uii
States the lumber business Sene.tiiy coH-
1;nuss highly satisfactory. The STOCKS On
hand at the mills in the Norfolk ssctieH
are reduced 10 Il minimum With an urSsh'
demand existing Conditions for logging
have been favorable all the mills in the
North Carolina pine belt have an a2ui'o-
ance OF orders and some are running night
and day to fill contracts AT Geofseto"iH'
S. c.. and at tie Georgia ports trau coi,-
tinues excellent. though at BrunsWlcN
-t1t,f f.pS Il
scarcity Of tonnage. "A fair lnuic;.tiott "
The state Of the market is had III the iaest
that in North Carolina pine prices were
advanced during the week one doiiar per
thousand feet, and at Mobile the tiuil t LIZ,
port Association advanced CUBAN anu
South American timber ana lu1hper sct,eu
ules. while at all points in IeN''S Va i
in all grades of lumber have the same de-
cided tone. TIE demand is quite as ac.ive
everywhere as at any time in the tast
o,,ortcr of 1859. while stocks are below me
normal. The only material restIlctloii
nnon greater activity is the temporary
scarcity of car and sale tonnage
CoTTON MANUFACTURING.
One of the features CT the week in the
South is an estimate by Mr. CuEier
Smith of the condition Of cotton manu-
featuring in Georgia and IN othel Pa .
of the South. tle shows that 1eots.a
gE
Z: cotton mills, employing 1870 persons
and representing an investment OF Sl1,-
327, Oc1 Thirty-eight counties have cot
TN mills, and fourteen have knitting
mills Sixty-five counties are enueaVor-
ing to build cotton mills, or 10 =lnatce
some textile manufacturer 10 locate VIII
in their borders, While no less 1nan-
Twelve textile undertakings are i'll course
of construction. and It is estimated that
the coming year viii see twenty five or
thirty more miles in operation ~ tl'e
State. This picture may be duplicated
in the Caroinas and in portions OIL Nia-
hama. The results of cotton mill build
ing. particularly in the Piedmont region
Of the South are the best arguments IN
favor of the extension OF the industry
into regions where the mills will DE. even
| closer, perhaps, than they are now tta
| the cotton fields. This argument is be.l
ing practically recognized in Nississipps.
| Louisiana and Texas, and the healthy
| spirit is developing in other STATES
NEW INDUSTRIES.
- Among the new industries reported
| during the week to the Manutactufefs
| Record were:
Twenty-Five thousand dollar bottilhS
|: works. $4,000 flour mill, Ss9,oo0 coal MN
| ing company and $4,000 brick and tile
| works in Alabama: s1O.G2O electric light.
! company and $4,000 drug company in
Florida; s25. o00 oil mill. 5 ton ire factory
1850 spindle mill addition. $4,000 COM
press and $500 spindle mill in Georgia; :
| $4,000 lumber company in Kentucky 500
400 = shirt factory and siG,G0o- novelty
Factory in Maryland, 100000 cotton fac.
tory company ard G,24o spindle mill ,ddi-
| lion in mississippi: $1,000 knitting MILL
si;7oO -four mill, $4,000 TELEPHONE. com
pany,S 500, coo cotton mill sllosSAo cottoll
| factory, $50 GEO iron works and 5000 spindle
addition in North Carolina; 10.Geo, spindle
mill, 5000 telephone company. 2 ooo
spindle mill and $4,000 water power.
COMPANY in South Carolina; 800 sack
rice mill $4,000 lumber company v e. md
e75,nn0 cotton factory company in Texas
SIS COO electric light plant So 3on brick
company and $4,000 tobacco company in
Virginia: $50, 900 ice and cold stora ssscom.
many, 100000 coal company, etc99 coal
company and SOS, 600 wat works IN West.
| Virginia.
VIRGINIA SH0RTtcHISTltR|ST