The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-26
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
The New Industries Reported In the
South and West.


Chattanooga, Tenn, May 24-Amons
the more important of the new Indus
tries reported by The Tradesman TOT
the week ended May "a, are $4,000 brick
works at Athens, Tex, sl2,OOO orlck
works at Bunkie, La, brick WORKS
at Kent, Fla, a $4,000 canning factory
at Big Sandy, Tex, a canning factory at
Luflsln, Tex, a $4,000 carriage COM
pany at Beaumont, Tex, $4,000 mill
and gin at Cough, Tex, cotton gin at
Cobb, Tex, a s25OoOo flour and grist
mill at New Orleans La, hardware
company at Canada Tex, a $4,000 Ice
and coal company at Birmingham, Ala,
500, 900 implement works at Paris, Tex,
a company to develop zinc mines at OAR
danelle, Ark, an oil and gas company at
Ashland, KY, 100000 oil company at
Beaumont, Tex, an oil company at
Greenup Ky, a 100000 oil mill at Gle
burne, Tex, 900 oil mill at Lexing-
ton. Miss a s35O,0OO oil mill and fer
tilizer factory at Meridian, Miss, a tel
ephone company at Chatham, Va, w.
900 cordage mills at Monticello, Ark,
$4,000 cotton mills at Brennan, TEX,
$4,000 land and lumber company at
Norfolk Va, a $25,000 shook and ium-
Der company at Portsmouth, Va, a cot
ton compress at Tupelo, Miss, cotton
gin at Grayson, La, cotton mill at
Alexandria La, an electric light plant
at Newcastle, KY, a $4,000 hardware
and paint company at Jacksonville, Fla,
an ice factory at Tupelo, Miss, $4,000
candy factory at Jacksonville, Fla, a
$200,0 900 company to manufacture chew
ing gum, candies, etc, at Nashville,
Tenn, an oil mill at Shelby, N. c., an oil
mill near Tarboro, N. c., a 100000 to-
bacco factory at Norfolk, Va, a $4,000
coffin factory at East Nashville, Tenn,
a band saw mill at Calhoun, s. c., a
grist mill at West Nashville, Tenn, a
900 mining and smelling company
at Camden, N. c., three oil companies at
Beaumont, Tex, capitalized at $3.50, 900.
$4,000 and $500, 900. respectively, an oil
and gas company at Frankfort, KY,
a $4,000 phosphate company at Nash
vile, Tenn, a $1,000 salt and oil COM
pany at Galveston, Tex, telephone COM
panies at Fredericksburg, Va, and New
Bern, N. c., cotton mill at Easley, s.
c., a 900 cotton mill at Graham,
N. c., a 100000 cotton mill at Griffin,
Ca, a $25, 900 lumber company at Piggott,
Ark, $4,000 bottling works at Beau
mont, Tex, $4,000 brick and tile works
at Jonesboro, Ark, a $4,000 electric
light plant at Coleman, Tex, a 900
electric light plant at Talladega, Ala,
an electric light plant at Rayne, La,
an electric light and power plant at Rich
mond, Va, an ice, light and water works
plant at Camden, S. c., a $4,000 hard
ware company at Port -4rthur, Tex, a
$4,000 plant for manufacturing drop
FORCES and finished machinery at Ensley,
Ala, $1O00 900 coal and coke company
at Fayette w. Va, a 100000 mining
company at Wheeling, w. Va, a stone
quarry at Tuscaloosa, Ala, a 500 900
oil mill at Crawfordville, Ark, a $4,000
oil mill at North Carrollton, Miss, a
wheelbarrow factory at Memphis, Tenn,
$4,000 lumber company at New Bern,
N. C., $4,000 construction company at
Knoxville, Tenn, a distillery at Rich
mond, KY a light, fuel and power COM
pany at Sutton. w. Va, $780, 900 locomo-
tive and car works at Memphis, Tenn,
a gin and milling company at De Wallis,
Ark, q glass factory at Dallas, Tex, a
guano factory at Morehead City, N. c.,
a horse collar and back band factory at
Memphis, Tenn, a $780, 900 coal mining
company at Fort Smith, Ark, a $50, 600
company to operate manufacturing plants
at Birmingham Ala, a $500 manufac-
turing company at Greensboro, N c., an
Oil company at Marksville, La. a packin-
plant at Meridian. Miss, a $4,000 rice
mill at Morse, La. a $4,000 sugar mill
at Wharton, Tex, a $4,000 telephone
company at Paris, Tex, a $4,000 lumber
company at Cargile. Ark, a $4,000 lum-
Der company at Charleston w. Va. a
$Zl,VO lumber company at Cumby, Tex.
an extensive lumber mill at Opp, Ala
coal and oil company at Fulton. Miss
$500, 900 oil company at West Liberty,
Ky. $50000 cotton mill near Wares
Shoals, s. c., $4,000 cotton gin at Clio.
S. c.. 100000 lumber company at Little
Rock, Ark, a $4,000 kaolin company at
Birmingham, Ala, a $780, 900 coal company
at Enterprise. w. Va, coal mines ar
Morgantown, w. Va. and a $50, 900 COM
pany to develop white sand deposits in
Green Springs Valley, w. Va.