Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-11-02
RAPID INDUSTRIAL
MARCH OF THE SOUTH
Gratifying Progress Made In
Past Ten Years
BY FOUR OF HER STATES

Manufacturer's Record Gives Some In
teresting Figures Showing That the
South Is Forging Ahead and Util-
tzing Her Every Opportunity.
BALTIMORE. Nov. preliminary fig
ures of the census of 1900 for four typi-
cal southern states are held by The Man
ufacturers' Record in this week s issue as
indicating a most gratifying progress
industrially IN the south during the
past 10 years.
The figures show an increase in the
value of manufactured products in
Florida of 1O9 per cent, in Alabama of
81 per cent, in Georgia of 90 per cent
and in Mississippi of 116 per cent during
the decade.
The fact that while there has been a
slight apparent decrease in the actual
number 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 rs per cent in the number of
held to be in harmony with what seems
to be the general tendency in the south
and in the country, a rapid rise of in
dustries in new localities paralleling the
Capitalization of some of those at long
established centers.
Manufa cturing In Mississippi.
This rapid rise appears in the increase
OF 18O per cent in ten years in the num-
ber of manufacturing establishments IN
Mississippi, so long occupied in agri-
cultural pursuits, slower to enter the in
dustrial field, but now beginning to feel
and to reveal statistically the material
results of systematic railroad building,
especially during the past five years,
with a consequent opening up Of timber
resources, the development of truck
growing, and the increase in woodwork
ing plants and kindred undertakings.
This development will undoubtedly
be found be marked and on similar
lines in other states, such as Texas and
West Virginia, where railroad construc-
tion has opened new fields for the miner
and the lumberman. IN the meantime
committees in other states are meeting
their opportunities. At Wilmington, n.
c., for instance, the construction of
RAOO1OVO SJ SbCAlJ q POOOBOOO
pressed brick plant and an $4,000 saw
mill will show that the community is
alive.
KaoIin Plant to Cost $4,000.
At Waynesville, N. O., about $75, 600
will be invested in modern plant for
taking out kaolin and corundum.
AT Louisville, KY, the owners of a
boiler plant have determined upon the
erection and equipment of an entirely
new plant to cost in all more than $237,.
900, the building TO be of steel and the
site to be in South Louisville. To a
rolling mill at COvington. KY, a CORFU
gated plant is to be added. equipped
with the latest improvements. A com
pany is being organized to develop the
water in High Falls, near Griffin, Ga,
for industrial enterprises.
A dispatch to The Manufacturers
Record from Birmingham, Ala, says
that the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail-
road company contemplates building a
merchant steel plant. That is but one
of the projects for the coming year of
existing companies and of new ones in
volving an expenditure of several mil
lions Of dollars in the Birmingham dis
trict.