The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-18
MANUFACTURES BOOMING



BALTIMORE, Jan. 17-Reviewing the
new sources OF Southern wealth, the Man
ufacturers' Record says:
No one may safely predict when the
South is not going to reveal a new source
OF industrial wealth. The bulk of its cot
ton seed, once regarded a nuisance
now represents a value CT millions of dol
lars, and all its possibilities have not yet
been realized. UIcoverng the beds of
phosphate in Tennessee has put the ferti-
lizer industry in a new light. Highlands
OF Missouri, Arkansas and Kentucky are
Changing the situation in lead and zinc
and other ores
oil discovered few years ago at
Corsicana Tex was held as d sample
of the underground ricleS of Texas. This
has been emphasized during the past week
by mighty sush OF oil al point III the
southeastern part OF the state eighteen
miles from Sabine Pass and fourteen miles
from Port Arthur. flowing from a depn
of a thousand feet at the minimum rate
of 1850 barrels a day-a sustl which caus-
ed a drop OF prices for oil in the East
and started a train of prospectors and
wouId-be investors from the older llet'is
into the Southwest. Much enthusiasm las
been excited IN Texas by the discovery,
and with good reason.
EXPORT BUSINESS BEGUN.
ALREADY an expert business has begun
from the Corsicana field. but the situation
OF the new field, practically right on ule
Gulf coast may be expected to enable
II 10 recommend seaboar6 shipping facil-
ities eoI,alIed bv no other oil-Iield in the
United States If the statements about
the field should prove correct and other
wells of Ike character snail follow IN
tie vicinity. it is easy TO see that the
export business of Texas III cotton, cot
tou-oii. cattle and grain. now centerng
largely at Galveston which has appar-
entIv lbs, mons of ft, prestige as a ship
ping point because OF the recent disaster
there, Will he vastly increased by the
addition OF the outward movement OF oil
from otf,er norts- Texas is constantly
showing new rotentialities What the flu
tlIre tas in hand for il is a matter of
conjecture though all probabilities point
to the opening of an immense mineral
storahouse
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0-AHA Lex 90
WEieninS r-ce-heids ana tie immense
salt deposits OF LOUISIANA VII me- ee.1e
the manufacturing ana trace IN po ,,l nee
OF that state, nIaalis an eilipt'' iotii a.
New orleans, "nicn IS 70 isSes . =. g
ticai advertisement iioin -
system, no" III operation Gnu 1s 20 60
piete sewerage system, l2E s @alen s' nssI
placed. steadily growing demand for
bn,,sl. rooyo at s;lcsl centres as Columbia.
~ ma Rfrrntne.Fam. Ala. are iRdica-
lions of the inward trend of manufacture
inc ar many points in the St.leh. details
Of which are given in this weeks Manu-
f,,r,,rars, Record Concentration of euer-
eies and material in the Birmingham dis
7rict has almost ceased 10 be marvel.
Now comes the announcement that fur
mace Stag, which has already become a
h.,sic eIemen, in the manufacture of ce-
menr i; IA be used as a primary element
in making a commercial fertilizer. Tue
nunar of the process claims to be plan
nirs for the erection of a plant 10 cost
q. ON, Ono and to employ 800 worhmen.
Charlotte, n. c., viii. in the early spring,