The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-08
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
RAILRoAD CONSTRUCTION ON
VAST SCALE.
liberalization Of Industry is Widen
ing With the Liberalization Of
Farming-New Projects
.. 81. . Of the Week.

Baltimore, Nov. 7.-(special)-The South
constructed last year 2,254 miles of steam
railroad. In one Southern State, Texas,
there have been planned since the begin
ming of this year new lines and extern
sions aggregating a7s7 miles, according to
figures presented In this weeks issue Of
the Manufacturers Record. OF these,
2425 miles represent the plans of estab-
lished companies and 1,z74 are entirely Of
new undertakings. nineteen in number.
In addition other plans are reported as
under consideration at various points to
build an aggregate Of loo more mileage.
The process under way In Texas, Louis
lana, Arkansas and other parts of the
Southwest Is an intensified form of that
which has wrought so nightly in the up
building Of older States Of the South, as
sembling coal. iron ore and limestone.
uncovering copper, phosphate rock and
other minerals, building cotton mills and
other Industries. making Investigation
in agriculture both possible and profita-
BILE and attracting wide stream Of
healthy immigration Southwark. Diver
sihcation Of industry 10 widening with
Investigation Of farming. And the pro-
jects of the week reported in The Rec
ord include the following by States:
Administering plant at York; en-
largement Of lumber plants at Mobile;
an additional biscuit factory at Birming-
ham; harness factory at Huntsville.
Arkansas-Flour mill. ice plant and
kindred industries at Malvern; lumber
plants at Jonesboro and Esau.
Florida-Organization of a company at
Monticello to bore for oil and to develop
lands at Monticello, and planning at Tai
lahassee.
Georgia-Duster factory at Atlanta; ad-
ditionaI building for a cloth room Of the
Paceiet Manufacturing Company at
Gainesville; kaoiin plant near Macon:
lime works at Atlanta; a 100000 addi-
tional cotton mill at Cedartown and a
$4,000 additionl cotton mill at Lindale.
Kentucky-Blind factory at Bowling
Green; development of coal and iron
mines at Duncan: development OF coal
mine at Toms Creek and at McGuffey.
Louisiana-A lumber plant at Cheniere
for developing cypress forest and the
development OF 10000 acres OF rice lands
in Vernon Parish.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of coal lands
near Mt. Savage and Westernport fur
mace stove works and shoe factory at
Baltimore, and a metalbed plant at Hag-
erstown.
Observation-Disclosures plant at Green
Vile; foundry and machine shops at Gulf
port; Woodworking plant at Laurel; saw
North Carolina-Paper box factory at
wineton; furniture factory at Dunn; the
development Of 500 acres of granite land
at Biddenite and Of gold mines at Tilden;
tobacco factory at Warsaw.
South Carolina-Cigar factory at
Charleston; kaolin plant at Columbia;
bleachery at Greenville.
Tennessee-Developme of lead and
zinc mines at Chatata and of marble
quarries at Friendsville: -four mill at
Hardison; lumber plant at Memphis;
hoop factory at jackson; cotton oil mill
at Memphis; woodworking plant at
Memphis.
Texas-Brick works at Alba and at Liv-
ingston: rice mill at Houston; boiler
works at Beaumont; development of sand
asphalt mines at Palestine; lumber plant
at Roscoe
notwithstanding factory at Lynch
burg: woodworking plant at Norfolk: de-
velopment of manganese mines near
Lynchburg and of a copper mine at Sto-
ny Man; excelsior factory at Columbia;
brick works at Suffolk.
West Virginia-Development Of coal
mines at Hinton. East Lynn and New
Martinsville; glass factory at sistersville;
furniture factory at Bonoeverto.