Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-03-11
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS
Gratifying Reports Received From
Various Points in the South.
The Experimental Stage OF the south's Re-
turn for IA Cultivation of its Industrial
Energies Has Passed The IRON, Coal
and Coke Trade New Undertakings
Especial to The virginIan- pilot.)
Baltimore. Md. March @ 1eot

Baltimore. Md, March 9. 1900.
Though many years must pass be-
fore any Southern State will possess
such a variety and so great number
OF industries scattered all over it's ter
ritory. that the general activity of the
whole State will not permit any one
undertaking to be distinctive. great
strides in that direction have already
been made. The Manufacturers Rec
ord, abiding to this, points out that
the South has already it's centers of
manufacturing of one kind or another,
which comes to mind whenever the
name of certain localities are men
toned. Newport News, with its ship
building, Charlotte with its cotton
mills, birmingham, with its iron and
steel. Mount Pleasant, with its phos-
phates, Corsicana, with its petroleum.
Pocahontas, with it's coal, and Beau
mont, with its lumber and illustrations
OF course there are other places: Rich
mond, with It's locomotive works. its
tobacco factories, woodenware works.
iron working establishments, ship yard
and abattoirs; Norfolk with its lumber
mills, woodworking establishments
machine shops and other activities
growing from its Importance as rail-
road terminal point of export; Annis-
ton, with Its iron interests and car
shops; Knoxville, Chattanooga, Nash
vile. Greensboro. Augusta, George
town, Brunswick. New Orleans, Little
Rock. Houston and Galveston. where
diversification of industries has as
sumed more or less large proportions.
while in other cities and towns, too. the
industrial and commercial life has been
| quickened and. week by week, one UNI
| taking after another is entering the
| field as business organizations are put
| ting forth efforts in support of estab-
| lished industries and for the purpose
OF inducing others to come in their d.
rection.
EXPERIMENTAL STAGE PASSED
The experimental stage of the South's
| return for a cultivation of lis indus
| trial energies has been passed. with
increasing railroad facilities. with .
| market Gloss at hand by the develop.
ment of the large enterprises dealing
with raw material from the forests
fields and mines. the reputation o!
| cities already established in specia;
| lines must become greater, while the
number of cities occupied in diversified
| Industries and the number Of those in.
| dustries must increase. The time re.
CURED for realization OF the POSSIBLE.
ties in this direction is determined b,
the Southern people themselves
| For the impetus given to industrial
| activlty in the South the development
! of the iron manufacturing has beer
largely responsible. It has become O.
such Importance that the South Is nov
vitality interested in everything pertain
| ing to iron at home and abroad. Tn,
statements of Mr.. William c. Dreher
| of Berlin Germany. in special cor
respondence of the manufacturers
Record this week will therefore attrac
| wide attention. He writes that tn,
| situation In the iron trade in German,
seems to grow stronger every mor,l
! and that contracts are in hand for q
long a time in the future that an,
marked fall OF price for more than ;
year seems we'll nigh impossible. 1T