The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-29
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.Growth.in Southwest !: i Z Virginia IS
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the Largest cottea Mills Il the coun.
try-Ac Activity i cettoas OIL
Mill Industry.
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tspecta1 Dispatch ito The Times)
BALTIMORE, MD, March 27.--In South
west Virginia, where coal, coke and iron
form the basis Of the greatest activity,
correspondent of the Manufacturers
Record, writing in this week s issue notes
solid and substantial development IN
many directions. He finds Roanoke,
which, twenty years ago had small
place on the map, a thriving, busy city of
q, 600 people, and Bristol. on the Tennes-
see-Virginia line, presenting an array OF
4foundries stove works, machine shops,
lumber II companies, tanneries, Jobb1ns3
houses and small Industries, with its rail-:
& road business doubled four or five times
within the past ten years. He writes:
#'..And 80 it is in varying degree through
out the section All the cities and towns
in Southwest Virginia are doing some
thing. and the development continues
over In kentucky, where new coal fields.
are being opened all the time; into East
ern Tennessee, where just now new zinc
mines are being added to the already
large development Of coal, marble and
timber properties, and into Western
North Carolina, where 5000 men are at
work In copper mines, and other resources
are being turned into availa BILE wealth.
The railroads are taxed to their capacity
limit to handle the business, and new
needed. =
WAITER POWER UTILIZED.
The correspondent mentions. as typical
OF railroad conditions, contracts of the
Norfolk and Western road for 00) freight
cars, 81 locomotives, IS passenger coaches,
baggage cars and mail cars, and refers
to the plans for railroad extension in
three or four States of that section to
get at deposits Of coal and to touch vast
timber tracts. He refers. too. to the uti-
lization of the great fall in the New
River below Pulaski for the development
of electric power for one of the largest
cotton mills in the country, representing
an investment of $4,000, and to the
growth of market gardening around
fourishfng industrial centers.
The blk textile undertaking in South
west Virginia marks the continued
steady growth of that industry, which
appears in more notable degree, per-.
tlaps in the organization Of two $500
mill companies at Oklahoma City, Q. t.
The one will erect a building 40 by 100
feet, in which will be installed machinery
to produce cotton be ting, anticeptic cot
ton. cotton stair pads, cotton mattresses
and comforts. The other mill, which will
be 60 by 2G0 feet will manufacture WOOL
en- cloth. In the older textile centers
engagements and other improvements
are under way. The Bolton, S. c., Mills
will double its equipment of 27,Oo0 spindles
and 800 looms. The Col1eton Cotton Mills,
oe WATERFORD, S. c., will add to its
plant a building so by IS feet, in which
will be installed 140 looms, while the Gin
ton, s.. c., Mills will add 5000 spindles
and $50 looms to its present equipment
The Richmond Hosiery Mills, Of Ross
vile, Ga, has increased its capital to
meet additions especially in Its dyeng
department.. and contracts have been
awarded by the Ellawhite Cotton Mills,
Of ITniontown, Ala, for 5000 spindle
addition. The Hargrove Cotton Mills,
| of Shreveport, La, has reached the point
for the awarding of contracts for ma
chineryf and other supplies necessary to
complete its plant.
COTTON OIL MILLS.
| There is considerable activity, also. In