The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-19
FINE CORN CROP
IN S0UT HEASI
Furnaces and Factories Ready to
Compete on Lower Level.
UNUSUALLY LARGE COAL OUTPUT
In Alabama i 800 900 TonsWere Min
ed III First Six Months of the Year,
and the Estimate for the Second
Half Is 100000 Tons.
UNUSUALLY LARGE COAL OUTPUT
BIRMINGHAM. ALA, July 1T

BIRMINGHAM. ALA. July TT
Manufacturers Review, in reviewing tn
condition of the Southeast in July. says
The disturbed condition OF emma par
tally deprives southern mills OF slo,
EJ.G0o customer, and settling values II
the lumber and iron markets have taken
the edge off the boom, but there are CON-
pensatons To unusually large wheat
and oat crops is to be added a spiendo
corn crop. and, -eSpite the Government
in his 1eecy crop. All in all, this section
IS not respondent as IL turns into the
second half OF the year. The price OF cot
ton makes amends for lower prices In the
saw-mills and furnaces and factories, and
all of the last-naned are getting ready
tor competition on the lower level Nor
have new enterprises been wholly stayed
by midsummer dizziness or by leSsened
COAL OUTPUT.
In Alabama -t,5CN, ~. tons of coal were
mined in the first six months of the year.
and State Mine Inspector Hooper esti-
mates the product OF the present six
months at about 100000 tons A $I5,-
600 piow plant is going UP at Ensley. and
TIE met-solvay b-protluct coke plant
is to be doubled at expense exceeding
$500, Geo; every furnace is active. and
large buildings in Birmingham continue
to be planned. Confluence In the mineral
district is in nowise abated.
In Mississippi railroad construction is
well maintained. The Gulf and Ship
Island has been completed, and work has
Kansas City Road. The extensions of the
Illinois Central system are only hinderea
by the want of labor. All the cotton mills
planned earlier in the year are going up.
a 100000 fertilizer factory is to be
added to Memphis industries. and Nash
vile is to have $4,000 canning con-
Germ The progress of the Tennessee
Central Railroad is leading to the open
ing of new coal mines, especially near
Crossvile, and to great activity at Rock
wood, where the Roane Iron Company
is building a furnace of large capacity.
The news from China does not discour-
age the mill-builders Of South Carolina.
Mills are to be built at Inman. Cheraw.
Johnson. Huntsville and Woodruff. An
dcrSOn is to have a SiGUhov fertilizer fac
tory, and Spartanburg is seeking rail
connection with The Seaboard Air Line.
GOLD-MINING
The gold-mning district of Dahlonega,
in Georgia. demands q railroad, and line
is fully planned to GainesvIlle distance
part of the State railroad building is
especially active Large buildings con
tinue to be planned and started in At
lanta. the two largest being a fourteen
story office building and a 100000 Ma
sonic temple.
In Florida a million-dolar sugar fac
tory at Tampa is now assured. and the
extension of two lines of railroad to
Tallahassee and the coast is more than
probable. CaSsava factories are becom
ing an industrial feature of the State.
across the river in Louisiana and Texas .;Si
much railroad building is going on. The
cotton mill at Monroe, in Louisiana. Is
fast becoming q fact in brick and stone,
and there is increased activity in the Cor
sicana oil district in Texas. Many tests
of the oil deposits of the State are going
down and valuable discoveries are antici-
pated. Cotton-mill building interests
many towns and oil mills and rice mills
are keeping step to the industrial music.