The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-02-03

BUI|iI YGs
RICHMOND. J ID
sAt5Least Six Hundred Thousand Dol
lars TO be Paid Out.
MANY & NEW 6 Colt ON MILLS.
Groups Of Capitalist. Have Been In
vestiSatins the Iron Fields OF
Alabama and Texas with
Practical Results.
MANY 4 NEW e COTTON MILLS.

s4U(l texas WITH
Practical Results.
r BALTIMORE. Feb. o,-special-an
estimate OF building operations at Rich
six months at least $500 900 viii be paid
out in construction work there without
regard TO the Improvements on a large
or to Developments following the utiliza-f
ton of the James river for electrical pur-
poses Among the largest enterprises are
warehouses. costing $4,000; $4,000
candy factory. and $4,000 additions to
smanufaeturIng establishments already in
ali classes of freight. especially iron pro-
ducts, moved to and from Richmond
show enormoust increase; that the de-
mand for rails. nails. axles and iron for
structural purposes has kept mills busy
day and night. and that there is not a
{ factory in the city which has not enough
orders to keep it busy for months. Rich
mond is sharing in the general prosperity
which has come to the country during
the past eighteen months. and it's expert
ence is typical of that which belongs on
a smaller scale to many other southern
communities. This is manifested, not
merely by advances in the iron and coal
and cotton manufacturing. in the lumber
and phosphate trades. but by a multitude
of undertakings of various kinds in minor
industries.
IRON FIELDS OF TENAS.
Groups of capitalists have been tnves-r
tigatins the iron fields of Alabama and
far-away Texas. and the figures of the
review of the iron trade during the past
the future. give a decidedly practicnl
tinge to the Investigations Among the
visitors to the South have been officials
of the Woodstock Iron Works. who have
J been inqulring into coal and coke. sap-
plies with a view to meeting the demands
for the operation of two 20o-ton furnaces
owned by the company at Admission IN
! the meantime there Is great actt.i5N in
the brown ore lands within q few miles
of that city From n tract of SOD acres
from 100 to $50 tons a day are expected
to be raised. while the four large mtnss
are being developed near DeArnlaIlEl.le
and one other near Jenifer and Chocn,
1occo. respectively, while from an Old
WORKOUT farm two miles north OF INNS.
ago for $500, several thousand dollars
worth of ore has already been taken.
COTTON MILLS.
Among the new cotton-n1ill propositions
reported by the Manufacturers Record
is the Seneca Is. 60 Cotton Mills. with
pIoy 10000 spindles and 500 looms for
the manufacture of cotton cloth. Ihe
Canton tGa.( Cotton Mills has CONTRACTED
for its entire plant the main b in eln
>will be 4 two-story structure. SOx240 feet,
to contain 5000 spindles and 100 looms.
| The new 1O.OO0-spirdie mill for Atlanta.
Ca, will make brown export, sheeti1hs =,
r L
by > wide, with two LIS 30 feet long.
steam and water power vii! be EN-.
pioyed- The company Will employ d about
| for them. AT Simpsonville. S. c.. $50.
| 900 stock company will build mill OF
10000 spindles and 500-loom cnpac1ty-
The Trenton Cotton Mills, of Gastonia.
N c.. will make an addition to it's plant
Of a building to contain 1000 Spindies:
| the N1iddleburg Cotton Mills of Bates
burg, S. C.. will have an equipment OF
$500 spindles. with looms to manutac-
| ture three-yard sheetings and drills: the
| Natchez fNIiss) Cotton Mills Company
lie Mills for 1o,5Is sptndles md 800 looms.
! and the Peppertou Cotton Mills. AZ jack,
! SON, Ga. viii add about 100 spindies and
| 200 looms to its plant, at cost OF
$500 Projected INDUSTRIES.
! Among the other projected enterprises
n turers. o Record We're the following:
Alabama-Cotton gin at Ozark, with.
| plans for the introduction later of mn,
rope: additions. including boiler-room,
| engine-room and pattern slip to the Iy Ter
! Soil Pipe Works. at Admission: 5000
ice factory at Huntsville: brick works q. ~
| New Decatur: saw-mill at Sunny South.
| Arkansas-Lumber mill Mt cypress,
woodworking factory, 3OOXSo teet. at Lit
| tie Rock.
| making plant at Live Oak; phosphate
| plants at Neidtvilie, fernando and IN
verneSS, and Il machine Shop huuitlo!l "
the plant of the Planter Manutactutlns
| Company, at Sanford
Georgia-2,0O0-ton cotton compress at
| brownsville; a door. sash and bilnd rae
| tory and bobbin fnctoryg at Athens; ee-
| ment works and carbonic acid gas oy-
product factory at Rossville. and num-
Der of saw-mills near Fort Valley.
Kentucky-Oil refinery at Somerset
Louisiana-A 10O-ton cotton-seed OIL
| mill at Alexandria; I'M excelsior Factory
! at Shreveport.
Ma rvland-A, plant to crush oyster
! shells near Baltimore: 100000 firearms
manufacturing company
Observation-Disclosures at Biloxi: COTTON,
| seed oil mill at Holly Springs; cotton-seeu
| o mills at Columbus.
| North Carolina-Turpenttne works at
! FnyetteyiIle: cigarette factory 1t Wilson.
cannerv and broom factory at StatesviJle;
furniture factory at Statesvilie, ice rae
| tory at Gastonia: woodworking Factory
at Roxboro.
| South Carolina-Fiour mill at SHAW 5
| Works: flour mill at Old Town: wagon
factory at Rock Hill: cotton-seed Oil mill
I Tennessee-Ice factory. cold STORAGE
| MA nt and abattor at johnson CITY, pen.
/ eli factory at Shelbyville: enlargement OF
| machine works at Chattanooga; ice plant
| Al SKnoxyille: furniture factory at WIZ
| chester. ,,o1rino
! house at San Antonio : :
West Virginia Friedrich works at
! Charleston.
Bnyhood IN the South
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