The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-13
SOUTHERN PROCxe3S'
THE MANUFACTURERS RECORD
 TELLS oFsDEVELoPMENT.
Gotten, Coal, Iron, Lumber and Many Other Products of the Section in the List-Alabama
 Shares Prosperity.

Baltimore, Dec. 12.--(CSpeciaD-lndi tive of the diversity of industrial devel- opmehts In the South are the announee- ments in this weeks issue of The Manu- faeturers' Record. For the enlargement of the Union Cotton Mills of Lafayette Ga, recently authorized by the stock holders of the company. mill architects are now preparing the plans which in- clude the erection of seventy-ive cottages for opefatives, The company now oper- ates 1880 ring spindlcs and PIP looms in the manufacture of sheeting. toweling and drills. This equipment will be in- creased by 10000 spindles and 2SS looms about $200, 0o00 being. expended on the ne" buildings and machinery.
 The Lockhart Mills of Leckhar, s. C., will build an additional mill at cost or $a50, 900, and an increase of the capital stock from $650, ,000 to $1,000,0O0 has been authorized to supply the funds. There are .0G0 spndles and 500 looms in the pres ent plant. Ii is reported that the pur' chase of 800 acpes of lapd and valuable water power near Covington, Ga. is pre- limnary to she erection of $2Oo,00O cot ton factory at that place Men already interested in several mills at Spray N.
 
 to manufacture woolen cloths. The Capi- tai City Mills of Columbia s. C., is chang ing its equipment so as to produce finer grade of goods. It now has 6,200 ring spirdles an 200 looms and has heretofore used 100 bales of cotton month. With the change the consumption will be re- duced te 100 bales. Work is progressing on the improvements of'the Hope Mills, at Hope Mills, N. c, and will soon be completed. The additional structure Is 15O by 300 feet and will be equipped with 200 looms and a finishing plant, the total cost being agout s1o0ooO. The present plant has 125S2 spindles and 751 looms.
 Extensions are being made in other lines. A three-story brick addition is to be made to a plumbers supplies works at Baltimore, and an annex to be used for making castings for machine engines and builders supplies Is being added to iron works In the same city About $30,O00 will be spent for moSe machinery and new buildings for boiler works at Chaeta- nooga. wagon factory at Laurel and an oil mill at Anguila, Miss, are tosb en- larged, and the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company of Parsons will build an- | other mill in Tucker County.
 The acquisition by the Crescent Lumber Gompanysof Mobile of an established plant ! means that 1t will be enlarged and im- | proved. contract having been let fer full bandsaw outfit, and tbat the capacity will be increased to 20O.V00 feet daily, saving soft and hard wood. This under taking is typical of the constant expan- sion in the lumber industry noted also in the purchase of 5000 acres of timber lands in Randolph County, $500 acres near Elkins, w. Vav and plans for the establishment at Blueded in the sama State of plants for cutting railroad ties from 15,o0s acres of timber land
 In Louisiana, Illinois and. Michigan par- ties have purchased s5O.0oO acres of land along Lake Ponehartrain and will organ ize a $5,o00,0 900 company to c1t the timber and prepare and market the lumb ber. while a s40,O00 site has been purchase 2 at New Orleans with the object 1t is re- ported, of establishing a furnfture rac- tory. Other ur' '~takings Of like nature a*c the development hy company of Northern caY of -cYc-2i thousand acres of tlRnc | coal lands in Morgan CouHty, the cs,ablIshrent of a handle factory at Paascah of a stave factory at Owensboro and the cutting of timber from 5000 acres of land in Knott County, Ky. the ongsptzation of a S.o0OO company to opeHate saSv mills in Western North Car olina' the purchsse of 5000 acres of tim her land near Spring City, the 'estab- -liStEneU of aWat ttress and tYrpitupe. fac tsry at Ns sfyills, Tenn. theSbuilding of q lumber plants st Tus1uitee, N. C.. of a lumher mill at nenIson, Tex; and the building of two large band-saw mills near Abingdon, Va.
 Coal developments are under way or contemplated near. sprs+s, Ky. where 200 coke ovens .Vsll be built, near Trade water and in Harlasd County in the sarse State, near LamQpt Huntington. Mate wan and in Lincsln co-Irty. alerg Coal River Tn the same State, aHd in two or ttEee points in Alabama, Tennessee and VlSginis. waile othey industries re ported include "packisg"house at zolte, a foundry. and machine. Shop. a t Okahump-- ka anh q shingle and lath factory at Jack sonville, Pla., ap ice plant at Concord. a trousers factory at Lexington and a silk mill al High Peint N. C., a steel blind factory at Norfolk. Va, piano factory sat Vicksbug. Miss. a rice elevator at Houston, Fex. and the development of limestone quarries at Bessener. w. Va.