The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-16
OF INTEREST TO
SOUTHERN STATES
Measure Now Before Congress
for Meteorological Survey.
GREAT INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars to be la
vested in birmingham to Bui'd Street
Cars and Automobiles
New Projects.
GREAT INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
fsnccia, Dispatch to b. g-fr"-


BALTIMORE. MD, March 1S:-Qulte
number of Southern States are lnteresteu
directly in the measure before CONFESS
which promises to aid them IN ~, uil et the
States, notably Alabama. Maryianu.
North Carolina, and Georgia; nave 1or
years been wording In TINS dlrect ti, o o.l
their own account and the recently OF
eanized mineral survey of Texas has
within ten months done mucn 10 attldcs
attention to the underground Weal.n o.
the State and especially its on, rs qu u n
silver and its. sulphur. The survey, ~ IS az at
present carrying OH Investigations IN the
SIX counties of the region kno"I 10
Trans-Pecos Texas. between the Pecos
erai uncertainties OF Texas, are revea ca ssd
in the fact that within this area OF oo,s so
square miles there arc known 70, 10 DC ; uons
quicksilver uranium and tin; deposits oi
salt gypsum. oil, sulphur and pure sand
Of value in Industry; building stones suci.
and many extensive deposits of excellent
clays, suitable for all kinds OF G iapent
ware bricks and tinE iii i lnT 5irectlv to
the benefit Of Texas inasmuch as as .nes
are upon lands owned by the State in
which the survey is 1or tns p pi,.s IN i'm
petus to the study of other deposits, OF
the kind, not only in Texas but else
where in the South. and will De one OF t!e
influences which, like rice growing in
Southwest Louisiana and the oil dlscov-
cries at Beaumont, are attracting q
healthy immigration to different parts OIL
the South.
stage is noted also in the natural gas
regions of West Virginia, and IS wei ae
scrbed in this week IS Manu1ac e, .e;l:s
Record in correspondence from ClarkS-
burg, half of the 5000 population of which
has moved in during, the past two or
three years from Ohio. Pennsylvania
respondent says: around Clarksburg
there are OIL coal and gas, and timber
forests are close by. There are 500 people
in Carksburg getting an IN income nnent rom ia
5000 There are $4,000 acres in the county
of Harrison rented to oil operators There
are So 900 acres of land in the county I'M
derlaid with the Pittsburg vein OF coal,
nine-foot vein that crops out on the NIL ),
sides, and the whole county is underiald
| with the F'reeport vein some 400 feet pc
low. Natural gas is everywhere arouno.
There are nine wells on the town site
with minimum pressure Of LOCO pounds.
Right here there is more gas on tap than
is used ard it is offered to manufacturers
at four and five cents. Three glass plants
are here now and others. as we'll as new
industries of various kinds, ale coming
in" In this region natural gas is SO
cheap that even coal miners ina It
cheaper to buy gas for running their ma
chinery than to burn the coal they dig
themselves, and small and large plants
working in iron, steel and wood are IN
operation.
It is a far sweep through the South ut t,
from West Virginia, to Texas, but within
that vast area Industrial activity is man
ifest on all sides whether in plans to pipe
oil from the wells at Jennings. La, IN
sinking wells in Florida. in improving iron
and steel establishments and developing
mines in the Birmingham district. where
several hundred thousand dollars of
Pennsylvania capital are TO be invested IN
plant to manufacture street cars and
automobiles. or in the Piedmont cotton
mill section. Among the latest projects
in textiles is 100000 IN mill at Easley So s;
looms. and will make fine sheetirgS at
the, rate Of 5000 pounss of cloth per day
and give employment to 115 persons a
modern cordage mill, representing an in
vestment of $4,000 will be built at An.
derson, S. c., to have a daily output of
about 900 pounds. The mill will be
operated by electric power, and will use
as material the waste cotton from yarn
and cloth mills and low grades of raw
cotton.