The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
vIRGINIA's COAL, COKE AND
 IRON BUSINESS
Cotton Mills are Projected for Troy and Roanoke in Alabama Other Industries Co.,
 ing Up.

Baltimore, March B.-(special)-In Southwest Virginia where coal coke ana iron form the basis of the greatest ac- tiyity a correspondent of The Manufac- turers' Record. writing in this week is- sue notes solid and substantial develop ment in many directions. lie mas hoa, noke which, twenty years ago, had small place on the map, thriving. busy city of 2, 900 people and Bristol. on the Ten- nessee-Virginia line. presenting an array of foundries, stove works, machine shops. lumber companies. tanneries, Jobbing houses and small industries. with its rail road business doubled four or five times within the past ten years. He Writes' And so 1t 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 into Kentucky. where new coal fields are being opened all the time; into Eastern Tennessee, where just now new zinc mines are being added to the already large development or coal. marble ana timber properties. and into Western North Carolina where 5000 men are at work in copper mines and other resources are being turned into available wealth. The railroads are taxed to their capacity limit to handle the business and new equipment cannot be obtained as fast as needed.
 The correspondent mentions as typical of railroad conditions, contracts or the Norfolk and Western road for 5000 freight
 
 four baggage cars. and two 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 utili- zation of the great fall in the New River below Pulaski for the development of electric power for one of the largest cot ton mills in the country representing an investment of E., 225.000. and to the growth of market gardening around fourishing industrial centers.
 The big textile undertaking in South west Virginia marks the continued steady growth of that industry which appears in more notable degree. perhaps. in the or at Oklahoma City: o. T. The one will erect a building 70 by 100 feet in which will be installed machinery to produce cotton batting. antieeptic cotton. cotton stair pads, cotton mattresses and com forts. The other mill. which will be. 60 by 200 feet. will manufacture woolen cloth. In the older textile centers en- Judgements and other improvements are under way The Belton, s. C.. mills will double it's equipment of 27.OOo spindles and 800 looms The Colleton Cotton Mills of Walterbor0 s. C., will add to it's plant a building 60 by 75 feet in which will be installed 1+0 looms. while the Clinton, 8. C., mills will add 5000 spindles and 150 Richmond Hosiery Mills of Rossville, Ga has increased its capital to meet addi- tions especially in its dyeing department and contracts have been awarded by the Ellawhite Cotton Mills of Uniontown. Ala. for a 5000 spindle addition. The Hargrove Cotton Mills of Shreveport, La. has reached the point for the awarding of contracts for machinery and other sup plies necessary to complete its plant.
 There is considerable activity. also. in cotton oil building, the projects including mills at Roanoke and Troy Ala. the lat ter including 5000 ton capacity ferti- lizer factory. at Payne and Union Point, Ga, at Brookhaven, Anguilla and Hou- ma. Miss. at Rock Hill. s. C., while a company with a million dollars capital stccs has been organized in Texas to clean cotton and cotton seed. press and bale lint cotton and to manufacture cot ton seed oil. soap. fertilizers, etc. In Texas. too, will be established a number of canneries at such points as Big Sandy, Lufkin. West Point, while similar under takings are planned for Beaver Dam, Ky. Salisbury N. C.. and Waverly, Va.
 West Virginia continues to diversity its industries in the centres of natural gas production. while the search for pe- troleum continues in that State. in Texas,
 Kentucky. Tennessee. Arkansas, Louis jana, Alabama and Florida.