The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-23
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
THE MOVEMENT OF. LUMBER
 VERY. ACTIVE:
Plants for Getting Out. Timber and Handling It to Various Pur- poses are Rapidly Increas-
 ing in Their Section:

Baltimore, Nov. 22.-(Special9 9--Lumber, first-rate index of industrial conditions in the South, is displaying most satls-' factory activity at present. During the past week, as reported to The Manufac- turers Record. the movement In Soutn- west Virginia and East Tennessee and, Georgia. in both pine and hardwood tim-' Der. has been very active, while the oe-, velopment of forest properties Is rather more pronounced than usual at this sea-. son. Moth Carolina pine IS In exceuenI shape, and throughout Virginia and Eas-S tern Carolina the mills are all busy Al South Atlantic ports shipments of timbers during the week were larger than usual. In the Savannah and Brunswick district the demand for both timber and cross' ties is good, with shipments active, While complaints are made about scarcity of cars. This complaint seems general in many parts of the South. but traffic ar engagements are being looked after by. several systems, and the stringency WIT be only temporary. Large shipments of timber have been made from Mobile. Bus. mess in the Texas field has picked up little earlier than was expected. with, prompt sales of their crop by cotton-' growers.
 Plants for getting out timber and for handling it to various purposes are in., creasing. Among the announcements or the week are the purchase of machinery for a 5O,0O0 capacity hardwood and cy-' press mill. the organization. of a s2O. O.OOO company at Salisbury, N. C., to build af complete furniture factory the erectfoni of box factory at Chattanooga, Tenn. the letting of a contract to cut So.o0o acres of timber near Greenville, Tenn, furniture factory and blaming mill at at Thorsby. Ala., q shingle mill with 6o,ooo capacity daily at Wilmington. N. C., the: addition of stave factory to the saw mill at Hohenwald, Tenn. veneer mills at Johnson, Tenn, the addition of ma chinery for making hubs, spokes, rims, ter, Tenn, and the cutting of $500 acres
 Takings of cotton by Southern mills of bales taken thus far this season being more than 25,000 greater than during the same period last year. The new mill at Monticello. Ark, is nearly ready for op- machinery. including 5,OcO spindles, with, apparatus for the production of sheet, ings and osnaburgs, and will employ 100 operatives. Work Is progressing upon the Washington Mills In Grayson County, Val The mill will have 5000 spindles and from, 1.200 to 1,400 looms. and will be operated through water-power development. The main building of the Williamson, s. C., Mills has been completed, and 1000 spin dles and 150 looms are in position. There will be room for 5000 more spindles and 150 more looms. The Holt-Morgan Mills of Fayetteville. N C., will erect an ad- chinery Is arriving for the addition to the Standard Cotton Mills at Cedartown.' Ga, which will increase the number of spindles from 6.50e to 12,500. The w. T., Weaver Power CO, which has just con- tracted for extensive water power eiecI trical development on the French Broad. River near Asheville. N. C., will erect al cotton mill and, perhaps, a bleachery.
 Other projects of the week include oil developments near Florence, Ala. Prai-' rie Grove, Tenn, Floyd County, Ga, Al- bany, Ky, Wheeling, w. Va, Spring Creek Tenn, and Beaumont. Tex, coal; mining near Charleston. Rluefield, Graf ton and Mount Clare, w Va; ice facto-, ries at Jacksonville, Fla, Crewe, Va. Palestine and San Antonio, Tex; can, ueries at Hawkesville, Ky, Tyler. Tex, Thorsby, Ala; oil storage tanks and re-, near Salisbury. N. C.; metal and novelty ia actory at Baltimore, Md; harness fac tory at Nashville. Tenn; paper mill at Moundsville. w. Va; salt developments at Lytle. Ga, and Weeks Island. La; :, steel plant at Port Norfolk. Va; brick works at Jennings. La.; and marble quar- rying by company organized at Beau mont, Tex.
 Among the projects in railway con- struction reported in The Manufacturers Record during the. week are two which will add considerable mileage in Florida. They include the Central Florida & Gulf Coast Company. which is promoting a limo from Jacksonville to Boca Grande HarbOr on the coast of the Gulf of Mex ico. The estimated length of this road and branches is 250 miles, and it is re- ported that Boston capitalists are inter- ested in it. A Chicago syndicate has ta- ken up the scheme of building a line through the Southern and Central por- tions of the State from Fort Pierce on the east coast to Punta Rossa on the miles including branches. Surveys are now being made for this road.