The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-03
PROGRESS or THE SOUTH.
Census Figures Show. the Growth
 of the Section.

Baltimore, Nov. 1.--tSpeciaD-P
 ry figures of the census of 1900 for four
 typical Southern States are held by the
 Manufacturers Record in this weeks is-
 sue as indicating most gratifying pro-
 gress industrially 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 6l per cent. in Georgia of
 A per cent, and in Mississippi of 116 per
 cent. during the decade. The fact that
 while there has been slight apparent
 decrease in the actual number of indus
 trial establishments in four of the lead
 ing cities of Georgia. there has been an
 increase in the amount of wages, the
 products, and an increase of 75 per cent.
 in the number of establishments in the
 whole State, is held to be In harmony
 with what seems to be the general ten.
 rapid rise of industries in new iocali..
 ties paralleling the centralizauon or some of those at long -estapltShed cen
 ters. This rapid rise appssfs m the the number of manufacturing esta bl5sh- ments in Mississippi, so long occupied Tn agricultural pursuits. slower to enter the industrial field, hut now beginning to 1eei and to reveal statisticallv the material results of systematic railroad building. especially during the past five years,
 with a consequent opening up or timber
 resources, the development of truck. | ing plants and kindred undertakings. This development will undoubtedly be found to be marked and on similar lines in other States. such as Texas and west l Virginia, where railroad construction has opened new fields for the miner and the l lumberman. In the meantime. comruuni- ties in other States are meeting their op- portunities. At Wilmington, N. C. for | instance, the construction of N6o 900 l sewerage system, a s30,0O0 pressed-briek plant. and an $S0. 900 saw mill show, that | the community is alive, while the deter
 imitation to utilize fully the opportunities now under way of plant to develop the menhaden industry. This plant, which will cost about s100.000, and which will have a capacity of 5000 barrels of oil and | of 6o,000 tons of scrap every twenty-four hours. has been placed on the Carolina; coast because the fishery season lasts there longer than at other points. This | industry is one of several new ones re- ported during the week. At Waynesvflle, | N. C.. about $75. 900 will DC invested in a modern plant for taking out kaoiin and corundum. At Houston. Texas. 1t is pro posed to invest s5o,0o0 in establishing a manufactory of camel's hair press-cloth. | the plant to absorb the output of several other establishments in making cloth which Is largely used in cotton oil mills.
 At Louisville, Ky, the owners of boiler plant have determined upon the erection and equipment of an entirely new plant to cost in all more than $237, 900. the build ings to be of steel and the site to be in
 South Louisville. To rolling mill VI at
 Covington. Ky. a corrugating plant is to
 be added equipped with the latest rim- provements. company is being orga-
 pized to develop the water in High Falls
 near Grifin Ga.. for industrial enter prises. t4.t
 A dispatch to The Manufacturers Rec ord from Birmingham. Ala, says that the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Com
 rany contemplstes building a merchant
 steel plant. That is but one of the pro-
 jects for tho coming year of existing corA-
 panies and of new ones involving an ek-
 penditure of several millions of dollars in the Birmingham district. ~