The evening times., 1900-10-06
DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTH.
Many New Industries Being Estab-
Iished in Tint Section.

Iished in That Section.
The great development of new indus
tries, and especially OF those in textile
manufacture. throughout the South, is
illustrated in this weeks announcement
of plans for new undertakings in the
Manufacturers Record"
By the middle of next month it is ex-
pected that the plant of the williams
burg (Va) Knitting Mill Company, organ
lied few months ago with capital Of
$780, GOO, will begin operations. The plant
includes a main building 125 feet long,
two stories high, with a 20 by 50-foot
wing The equipment at the start. occu-
pying only the first floor OF the building,
will be ten tables of knitting machines,
employing 100 persons and producing 200
dozen suits of lined underwear dali
ly. The plant will be operated by steam.
Announcement is made of arrangements
for the establishment at Knoxville, Tenn,
of another $4,000 knitting mill, and of a
$4,000 knitting mill at Waycross, Ga.
The plant of the Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Wad-
ding Company is to be remodeled prob
ably for knitting mill. The Midland
Hosiery Company, of Lynchburg, Va, has
purchased a site for a new building, in
which additional machinery will be in
stalled. and a company has been organized
at Salisbury, Md, to equip plant tor
producing half-hose, capacity to DE 100
dozen pairs daily.
Some weeks ago factory was estab-
lished at Atlanta for the production of
Smyrna rugs. Already the capacity of the
establishment has been doubled and ar
rangements are contemplated for greater
enlargement. including the erection of a
building in which viii be Installed equip
ment for the production of $4,000 rugs a
month.
Successful efforts have been made for
the establishment of a $260.00G cotton
manufacturing plant at Alexander City.
Ala, the company having purchased 200
acres of land for a site and are prepar-
ing to let the contract at an early date
for a 1G.000-spindie factory.
1t is reported that Gustayus Milh!ser
OF Richmond, Va, has purchased land
for a site of cotton mill at Roanoke
Rapids. n. c., to employ 1GQ operatives
and to make fine damask Electricity
generated from the magnificent water
power which has been developed at that
point viii be used.
The Unity Cotton Mill, of La Grange.
Ca, has let the contract for the erec-
tion of its main building, 104 By $50
feet, with d capacity of 10000 spindles,
OF which 5000 will be put in at the
start. Duck and heavy osnaburg Will be
the products.
Significant, too. of Southern possibili-
ties is the plan of J. E. Wiley, colored
! man of means, to establish at Dallas.
| Texas, a 2,500-spindle mill, in which
negro labor alone will be employed d.
! About $50, 900 Will be invested. Already
buildings have been secured with electric
| power and railway facilities.
IN another field, that OF woodworking
which has hardly begun TO be developed il
the South. there has been decided activ-
| ity during the week. J. l. Kelly viii
| build a sawmilI and veneer factory fol
crates at Windsor, Fla; company has
/ been organized to establish a chair fac
tory at Milton, n. C.; the keyser. W. Va.
Table Works, with a capital stock o.
/ $500, coo, will manufacture tables and 9th
| er furniture; machinery has been ordered
| for the equipment Of a wood pulp mill
/ with daily capacity of fifteen tons, on tn;
! Nolachucky River. near Johnson City
| Tenn; machinery has been bought for {
! staYe factory at Crossville, Tenn; mil
! Will be erected to work 400 acres of hard
| wood at Martin, Fla, for New Yorl
| spoke and rim manufacturing company
! and company with a capital stock o
! $4,000 will be organized at Winona tt
| build wagons, while Murphy & Manning, o
Knoxville, Tenn. will double the capacit.
! of their woodworking factory.
Allied to such undertakings are a fac
tory at Charlotte, N c., to manufacture
! patent cotton, corn, and pea planter;
furniture factory at Spartanburg, s. C.
! and factory at Lexington, N c., to max,
a patent wheat separator. The compan.
owning this factory will establish its Owl
machine works in the future.
AT Berkeley, Va, machine shop, Il
| cost S40,Gc0 with equipment for boiler
making, steamboat repairing, etc, will b.
! built in connection with an existing foun
| dry, and at Lewisburg, Tenn, a machine
| shop is in course of erection.
| In the meantime, bottling works, ic.
! factories, canneries, sugar refneries
| brick kilns, flour mills and other minor in
| dustries under construction or plannet
| show that Southern communities are be
/ coming more alert as to their opportuni