The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-11-01
PROGRESS SHOWN
IS Ora Trying
Preliminary Census Figures Speak
Well for Southern States.
NEW INDUSTRIES STARTING.
North Carolina Shows Up Strong in Report.
for the Week-A Steel Plant to Be
Erected at Birmins.
ham, Ala.
NEW INDUSTRIES STARTING.
Especial pIspatch to The Times,

Especial Dispatch to The TlEes.)
BALTIMORE, October 31.-Preiiminary
figures OF the census OF 1900 for four typi-
cal Southern States are held by the Man
ufacturerS Record in this weeks issue as
indicating a most gratifying progress ms
dustriafly in the South during the past
ten years. The figures show an increase
In the value Of manufactured products in
Florida of 100 per cent, in Alabama OF 61
per cent, in Georgia of 81 per cent and in
Mississippi of n6 per cent. during the
decade.
The fact that. while there has been .
slight apparent decrease in the actual
nun Der of industrial establishments in
four of the leading cities OF Georgia,
there has been an increase in the amount
OF wages, the capital invested and the
value OF the products and an increase OF
T5 per cent, in the number of establish
ments in the whole State is held to be In
harmony with what seems to- be the gem
eral tendency in the South and in the
country, rapid rise of industries In new
localities paralleiing the Capitalization OF
some of those at long-established centres
This rapid rise appears In the increase OF
1870 per cent. In ten years In the number
of manufacturing establishments I'M MIS-
sissippi, so long occupied in agricultural
pursuits. slower to enter the Industrial
field. but now beginning to feel and to re-
veal statistically the material results or
systematic railroad building. especially
during the past FIVE years, with a. conse-
quent opening up of timber resources, the
development of truck-growing and the
increase in WOODWORKING plants ana XIII
dred undertakings.
NEW INDUSTRIES.
This development will undoubtedly be
found to be marked and on similar lines
in other States, such as Texas and West
Virginia where railroad construction mas
opened new fields for the miner and the
lumberman. In the meantime cotni.luHi-s
ties in other States are meeting their OPP
portunities. At Wilmington, n e.. Tor
INSTANCE the construction of a $780, coo
sewerage system, a $4,000 pressed-brick
plant and an SS6en0 saw-mill snow that
the community is alive; while the deter
mination to utilize fully The opportunities
of the State is shown In the construction
now under way of a plant to develop tue
menhaden industry. rms plant. "liei.
will cost about 100000 and which Will
have a capacity of $4,000 barrels OF oil
and of &C, coo tons of scrap every twenty
four hours has been placed on the Caro-
lima coast because the fishery season iasts
there longer than at other points. rms
industry is one of several new ones re-
ported during the week.
STEEL PLANT.
AT Waynesville. N. c.. about sto0Oo VIII
he invested in a modern plant for taking
out kaoIin and corundum. At Houston,
Tex. it is proposed to invest $4,000 IN
,, establishing mandatory of camel 8
hair press-cloth, the plant to absorb the
output of several other Establishments
in making cloth. which is largely nsed
in Cotton-oif mills. At LOUISVILLE. hy.,
the owners eff boiler plant have deter
mined upon the erection and equipment
of an entirely new plant to cost In all
more than s237. 900, the buildings to be OF
steel and the site to be in South Louis
Vile.
A dispatch to the Manufacturers Rec
ord from Birmingham. Ala, says thaI
the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad
Company contemplates building mer-
chant steel plant.