The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-15
FLYING TOUR
THROUGH SOUTH
Western Capitalists Surprised at
Evidence Of Progress.
MANY NEW SMALL INDUSTRIES,
T,arne Party OF Wcstcrners Settle III
.,ice-Growin. Section OF Louis
ianu-Bjg Industries Main
tain Even Gait.
MANY NEW SMALL INDUSTRIES,
,snoci.1 Dispatch to The rimcs.)


TT,1oBE Feb. 14-Durins the past
,.aal, a marty of Cincinnati capitalists
ord business men have made lying Wis
:. 70 :, number of industrial centres IN
tho two Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama tii'
Tennessee. They have been greeted nus
nitablv at Knoxville, Charlotte Chaiie9
ton Augusta and at other cilies' anu -
fore their return to Ohio VIII go 20 bii-
rnincham Mobile, Atlanta anu oiia'''
noopa- members of the party who nave
not before had an opportunity 10 become
acquainted with recent phases OF south-
ern Northumberland the rapid survey
from a car-yyindow with brief stops at
typical centres is not the least uhatttdc
tive way of gaining excellent I'M
preston of the country--have been sur
prised at the evidences OF progress III
many lines on every hanG.
Aside from the agreeable social incl
dents connected with the trip and the
strictly practical results in the way OF
new business connections made the trip
cannot fail to be of great advantage TO
the South as i reve2ler OF its great pos
sibilities and OF the progressive work of
Southerners for their Development.
Though confined to half dozen States. it
gave opportunity TO the visitors to gain
general knowledge of what is going on
all over the South in cotton manufac-
many allied industries.
SMALL. INDUSTRIES.
| While the greater undertakings are
maintaining their even gait. with here
and there d new furnace of an iron com
| panv blown in. additional ore lands or
| coal deposits brought into working and
spindles and looms added to cotton fac
| tories, the number OF smaller industries
| is steadily increasing. For example, one
| might have imagined that High Point,
| n. c.. which has gained just fame q
| furniture manufacturing centre had
| reached the limit of its industrial abil-
! ity with one factory for every one hun
| dred and forty of it's forty-five hundred
! population the majority of factories
| making furniture or dealing with wood
F.! for household purposes.
But among the reports OF new enter
| prises during the week to the Menufactur-
| ers' Record IS that CT the incorporation OF
| another factory at High Point to make
| sashes. doors and blinds, and the selection
| Of a site at the same place for .; chair fac
| tory At Hickory, in the same State,
| plans are making for the establishment OF
| a plant to make bobbins, shuttles and
| spools. and at Burlington, a $4,000 COM
| parry has been formed TO manufacture fur
! niture. A similar company has been or
| ganized at Birmingham, Ala, as has also
! one at Manchester, Tex. At Fayetteville.
| Tenn, at German and at Crossvillc in the
| sume State stove factories will be built,
| and a company win establish at Douglas,
| Ga, a variety woodworking factory.
RICE-GROWING.
| Within the I72st week party OF more
! than one hundred persons from the mid
| die West arrived in the rice-srowins sec
| ton OF Louisiana for settlement. That
| region, together with adjacent territory in
/ Inns with he Ma CT q, IA
| come the scene of a fourishing industry,
| rice-growing by Irrigation. The progress
! made in that direction and the promise OF
| further DEVELOPMENT are described in Spe-
| Cad correspondence in the Manufacturers
| Record. AS acres for rice culture increase
| with the extension of canals. rice mills
! are rising. the latest project Of the kind
| being the incorporation ols the Donaldson
| vile Rice Min Company, with a capital
| stock of $4,000 for the erection Of mill
| with a daily capacity of from LOO to 1,6et
| s:,cks.
/! Other undertakings in different parts OF
/ the South announced during the week are
| ice factories al Elkton. Md, Jackson
| Term RuSton, La, canneres at Char
! aottesviile Va. Rossvlle, Ga, rice mill at
| Riceboro, Ga; fish product factory at
| Southport, y. c.: bricll-works at Decatur
Ala; fertilizer factory at Charleston. S
| c.: mattress factory at Pelzer. 5. e.; OIL
mills at New Boston, Tex: Dawson, Ca
tobacco factory at Louisville, Ky; devel-
| opIrent of gold mines at Dahlonesa, Ga
the formation of company at Winston
n c., to develop water-power and &c
transmit it 10 manufacturing plants, the
working OF manganese and iron mines al
Stuarts Draft. Va, and the organizing OF
more companies to seek Tor oil in the new
Texan fields.