The age-herald., 1900-07-17
CONDITIONS IN
 THE SOUTHEAST Manufacturers Review Prints Some Interesting Facts.
SOME DISCOURAGING NEWS
Disturbed Condition in China Partially Deprives the Southern Mills of a $1O,oOo,ooo Customer Many
 New Industrial Plants

The Manufacturers Review of Birming- ham, in reviewing the condition of the Southeast in July, says:
 The disturbed condition of China par tially deprives Southern mills of a $1O 900 customer, and settling values in the lumber and iron markets have taken the edge off the boom, but there are compensations. To unusually large wheat and oat crops is to be added a splendid corn crop, and, despite the government report, many a farmer sees much promise in his fleecy crop. All in all, this section is not Respondent as it turns into the second half of the year. The price of cotton makes amends for lower prices in the sawmills and furnaces and factories, and all of the last-named are getting ready for competition on the lower level Nor have new enterprises been wholly stayed by midsummer dullness or by lessened prices.
 In Alabama 4,500000 tons of coal were mined in the first six months of the year, and State Mine Inspector Hooper estimates the product of the present six months at about 5,0O0, 900 tons. A $75, GOO blow plant is going up at Ensley, and Cullman is to have a $1OO0OO cotton mill. The Semet-Solvay py -DiOuuCI COhe pitiHl IS tO uOuDlc dt expense exceeding $500, 900; every furnace is active, and large buildings in Birmingham continue to be planned. Confidence 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 been begun on the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City road. The extensions of the Illinois Central system are only hindered by the want of labor. All the cotton mills planned earlier in the year are going up.
 A $l00,0O0 fertilizer factory is to be added to Memphis industries, and Nashville is to have $100,0O0 canning concern. The pro- gross of the Tennessee Central railroad is leading to the opening of new coal mines especially near Crossville, and to great ac- tivity at Redwood where the Roane Iron Company is building a furnace of large capacity.
 The news from China does not discourage the mill builders of South Carolina. Mills are to be built at Inman, Cheraw, Johnson, Hartsville and Woodruff. Anderson is to have a $100,000 fertilizer factory, and Spar tanburg is seeking rail connection with the Seaboard Air Line.
 Inc BOlu mining u1Strlct or Danl0nega In Georgia demands a railroad, and a line is fully planned to Gainesville, distance of about thirty miles, In the southern part of the state railroad building is especially active. Large buildings continue to be planned and started in Atlanta, the two latest being fourteen-story office building and $100,000 Masonic temple.
 In Florida a million dollar sugar factory at Tampa is now assured ,and the exten- sions of two lines of railroad to Tallahas- and the coast is more than probable. Cassava factories are becoming an indus trial feature of the state.
 Across the river in Louisiana and Texas much railroad building is going on. The cotton mill at Monroe in Louisiana is fast becoming a fact in brick and stone ,and there is increased activity in the Corsicana oil district in Texas. Many tests of the oil deposits of the state are going down, and valuable discoveries are anticipated. Cot ton mill building interests many towns, and oil mills and rice mills are keeping step to the industrial music.