The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-25
new INIDUST TRIES
OF DIVERS KINDS
All Parts of the South Maintain
Healthy Progress.
KA0LIN BEDS IN MARYLAND.
Number of New Flour Mills Are Being
Built and Old Ones Are Being
Be,nodeIed-Timber Ise,
gious Opened Up.
KA0LlN BEDS IN MARYLAND.
(special Dispatch to The Times.)

(Srecial Dispatch tc The Ti1nes.)
BALTIMORE, Jan. 24.-Because of its
dramatic manifestations and vast posi-
biIities, the oil development near Beau
mont. Tex, has become more than nine
days wonder, and during the past week
has fixed the attention Of persons inter-
ested in. Southern industry upon South
eastern Texas. At the same time other
parts of the South have been maintaining
their healthy progress in divers fields.
Among the notable announcements of
the week in the Manufacturers Record is
the organization Of a company with prob
ably 500 900 capital for the development
OF kaolin beds on about AGO acres of land
in Cecil county, Nd, and the erection Of
a plant for heating clay and i-r the
manufacture of fire brick and pottery. In
Bount county, Tenn, experts from Ohio
are inspecting lead ore properties with a
view to their development. a company to
make brick and tile has been organized
at Walden, Miss. The brick and tile
works at Gainesville, Ga, will be en-
larged and improved. A plant with a
capacity of 10000 bricks a day is to be
established at Decatur, Ala. y marble
quarry recently opened near Knoxville
will be developed on a large scale. y
quarry company of San Antonio, Tex, is
installing $4,000 worth of new mach,n-
cry, while at Alexandria, Va, plans are
making for the establishment of a glass
factory. Development Of coal and other
mineral lands in several States in being
pushed.
FLOURISHLNG MILLS.
Suggestive OF the great attention being
given to wheat growing in the South is
the large number Of new flour mills to
be built or of older ones to be remouelled.
For the former plans have been at Clin-
ton, KY, Arnold and N1ocksville, n. c.,
Denver, S. c., Yorktown, Hendricks Creek,
Laurel Bloomery, Rutledge and Jones'
boro, Tenn, Lancaster, Tex, GholsonviIle.
Star Tannery and Whitlock. Va, Carriers
Vile Ga, and Florence, Ala.
Though few new cotton mills have been
reported with the exception of a 100000
one at Cedartown. Ga, for the manufac-
ture of hosiery yarns for colored goods,
improvements in a number of others are
contemplated. The NOkomia Mills. OF
Lexil. eton, \. c., will increase its equip
ment to 12,O00 spndles and 800 looms,
though it is less than year old; the
Jonesvile Knitting Mills, of South Caro-
lima will increase its stock from $1,000 to
$4,000; the Darlington Manufacturing
Company, of the same State, VIII ada
$4,000 spindles to its equipment, and
company has been organized to build
knitting mill at Admission, Ala, and an
ASSOCIATION OIL IdFUletS Will tllueG|oA "
establish a mill al Pine Bluff, Ark.
At Athens. Ga, company Will erect
a knitting mill and an overall and trous-
er factory A. mill to make hosiery and
perhaps, undcrsh!rts, will be built at
Nottingham Ala The Sweetwater. Tenn,
Woolen Mil may make all addition for
the manufacture of cotton yarn and
WarpS.
TIMBER REGIONS.
tt,,,Ia hPiQr ODpuGd
and lumber products will take new forms
in a furniture factory at New Berne, n
c.; sash and door factory at Athens, Ca
a buggy factory at Goldsboro, \. c.; a
sash and blind factory al Jonesboro, ~
c.; a key factory at Birmingham; stave
factory at Columbus Miss; and wood
working factories at Tampa, Fla, west
Point, Va, and Montgomery. Ala.
Other new industries include mat
tress factory al Anderson, S. c.; pack
cry at Fort Worth, Tex, and plant
at News Orleans for the manufacture OF
iron beds, iron castings and hardware
specaltes.
Industries of many kinds will be given
an enormous impetus in Texas if the OIL
in the Beaumont section has tne great
fuel value attributed to It,
THE TEXAS GUSHER.
A special correspondent Of the Manu-
factl,rers' Record, who is on the ground
in the new field, estimates the SITUATION
as follows:
1T is not aside the mark to say that
at the present time everybody, INCLUDING
the owners of the Lucas we'll, is conS!d-
erablv at sea. All are as one who mas
fallen from ii fourth-story window, and
has not yet had time to find out whether
bones have been broken or not. Iae mag
nitude OF the flow is not the sole e!e-
ment of the perpleNity. The character OF
the oil seems to be different from that
of other fields and the Ms ture OF he now
is also unusual Unlike most Sushers'
where the oil is forced out for lie"
DAYS by an accumulation OF gas, there
is no gas behind this oil. It flows IN a
steady. even stream, and without tsle noise
which is always present where there Is
gas Whence the pressure is another OF
the problems Is the source OF the sup
ply a river lake or pool and is there an
artesian pressure behind the oil? are some
of the questions which present them
selves The wSeacres are simply iookinS
profound and saying nothing. laey want
more evidence before committing them
selves to any theories. 1t is not agreed
as to the geological formation OF the
strata in which the oil was found. Some
saw it is shale or conglomerate, and II SO,
is nor regarded as SO promising tor
long-lived producer Others afhrm that
the rock is Il sandstone and. therefore,
fulfl!s the best requirements 1t VIII take
time and may take some more wells 10
settle definitely some mooted questions.