The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-26

IAxdDfe F9IueS Tn us county TtpTSseut BcAs investments in city residences. business blocks and industrial plants. The investment of at least S2. ooo. 900 at Fort Worth, Tex, by two great meat-packing concerns working in har- mony has given a spur to the industrial life of that city enabling it to share in the gen. eral good times shown at such far-removed points as Hopkinsvile. Ky, with the ncreas- ing capacities of its houring mills and tobacco factories: at Montgomery. Ala, with its man ufactuiing enterprises strengthening their business in a territory extending from South Carolina to Texas; at Suffolk Va. nest of industries giving solid and substantial prog ress: at Reidsville,, N. C.. where wealth Is dis triouted upon a notably comprehensive basis through its cotton mills. Touring mills. tobacco and fertilizer factories and woodworking es- tablishments: at Nashville, Tenn, where the industries are not able to fill orders in spite of working on double time. and at Bristol, Tenn.-va.. where two Mayors unite In con- gratulations upon the improvement of rail- road terminal facilities and in negotiations for the establishment of new manufacturing enterprises.
 Textile plants in the Piedmont section. es- peciaily in the upper portion of South Carolina. mark the change toward higher grades of manufacture in the large bleachery berg built at Greenville. in the box plant and dye works at Union, and in an increase of the population at Abbeville by more than 100 per cent. dur ing the past decade a result of the building
 
 tries Among these mills, as Is the case with the twelve factories at Concord. N. C.. addi- tions are being made out of surplus eai nings. a policy quite generally pursued in the South. with a stronger manifestation in no other place than Tampa, Fla, where an increase during the past five years of 100 DOT cent. of the capital invested in industries. principally cigar factories. bringing annual cash returns of about Si g. 900. 900. has beer literally money made on the spot.
 Augusta, Ga, in the center of an expand ing ruit-gTowing and truck-raising area: Will
 mingten. N. C., where under the auspices of
 Q live Chamber of Commerce. is being made q crusade among the farmers. for the encourage
 ment of tobacco culture. are among the cities
 whose merchants are feeling the effects of az.
 ricultural prosperity. while staunton. Va. 1T
 the midst of a rich agricultural country, ant
 New Berne. N C.. the gathering point of tht
 results of farming activities. striving tC
 add manufacturing on 6 larger scale to agri
 culture.
 'Ths coal fields on the Arkansas-Indian Ter.
 ritory line are of especial importance to Little Rock and Fort Smith, which have active Or.
 ganizations of business men seeking oppor-
 tunities for the material development of theil cities, and now comes Camden, in the sams
 State pointing to its ready access to coa fields as incentive to settlers with money ts
 invest in manufactures Johnson City, Tenn.
 with three railroads. one of them to travers, the richest bituminous coal fields. perhaps 1T the United States, and when completed to b, . trunk line connecting the West and thu seabosrd, has all its industries running or full time. and Its contiguity to coal is some thing like the advantage of Clarksburg. W Va. with four railroad lines situated in tn, wonderful coal fields and having plugged ma tural gas wells awaiting a market at the rat of cents a thousand cubic feet. oil hal
 brought its millions to Beaumont, Tex, whil, Lexington, Ky, has been stimulated by tn, development of the oil fields in Eastern Ken | lucky, many of the wells being owned fl that city. Lexington. also. is sharing in th development of a system of interurban electric l lines like that connecting Richmond and Pc l tersburg, Va: that planned to connect Chest nut Hill and Spencer through Salisbury. N | C.. 6 point of distribution of power iron l the narows of the Yadkin River to eight dif | ferent cities that bringing mill towns 0 | South Carolina into close touch. and that t connect Baltimore Md, with the capital 0 | the country.
 ''It is no wonder that the Mayors of man, cities send such messages never before wa | greater proportion of the population ern ! pleyed; no mechanic. blacksmith, inachinist | joiner. shipwright. boilermaker or building con l structor need be out of work heref and Iabo | Is actively employed. there are no tramps an 1 this Is place for idleness'"