The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06
GROWTH OF INDUSTRY
 IN SOUTHERN STATES


 Among the most important of the new industries of the southern states for the week Just passed the following are re- ported by The Industrial South of Bir- mingham:
 A1abama-Birmingham paint works, s5,O00. 900; cotton oil plant, s50.oOo; East Lake, bond issue; Ensiey. gas franchisei Huntsville. s10,oOO lime works; city will build electric light plant; Montgomery, Southern Steamship company sso.ooo; Spring Garden, iron mines; Tallasee Falls water-power electric company.
 Arkansas-s25,0 600 stock company. to raise Angora goats; Fort Smith, packing and cold storage company S15O,O00; Gill- ham, s80o,0O0 mining and milling com pany; Little Rock, s5O00 to $1o,o0o stave milli Luxora, machine shops for St. Louis Southwestern; Mena, s2b,0O0 water works; Pine Bluff, s2OOO0 sash and door factory; Melville, Chanute Mineral and Lumber company. s2oOOO.
 Florida-Bartow, s160o0 bond issue for electric light and semerage plants Jack. sonville. S1z3OOO mercantile company. 5000 mercantile company; Sanford. telephone system; Tampa, paint works, $25.0O s25.s | GOO mercanele company.
 Georsia-Americus. fertilizer works; At | lanta, S100,000 car wheel works Ten nessee, Georgia and South Carolina Rail . way company line from Blue Ridge. Ga.. to Charleston Tenn, S3,0OO, ,00o 1000 printing company; '$6O00 shoe company Sl5O,00O hat factory; s5.000000 sugar re- finery; $25.O0O publishing company Barnesville, knitting mill; Brunswick, $oO'00O paint-oil factory; Camilla, electric light and ice plant; Carrolton, Virginia | Carolina company bought large tract mineral land; Columbus, cotton mill: De- morest, bobbin and shuttle mill; Gaines vile, woodworking plant; coffin factroy development of pyrites mines; Norcross, s5O000 tannery; Savannah, consolidated naval stores company, $2.0O0,0O0; $l00,000 paint, oil and wallpaper company
 Kentucky-Bowling Green, flour mill clcverport, $50,OOO coal mines; Greenvillc $l5,000 coal company; Greenup county, s5O000 oil and gas company.
 | Kentucky-Louisville, Louisville Tobac- co Warehouse Co., increased capital from s1,0O00 900 to $1, 4360O0; $35, 600 office supply company. Anzeiger Co.,, s30500; Middles- boro. $30,0O0 coal mines; Daducah, to- bacco factory, s10.OOo Prestonsburg, brick works; Jefferson county. s1bt.- publishing company; Pulaska county, $5000 oil com panny.
 Louisiana-Alexandria, State banks. s9s,000; Empire. $40.OO0 fisheries Gueydan. drainage canals Mish s500O0 lumber com pany; New Orleans $20000 blow pipe works s20,0OO cannery; Seaboard Refln- ing Go. s125,000; $500O real estate com pany.
 Maryland-Baltimore $10.O00 fruit com | pany; International Telephone Co.,, 3D. OOO,oOO; Baltimore Bridge Co.,, purchased | Structural Iron and Steel Co.'S plant extensive improvements to be made wheel factory; $1OOO0 marble machine works; Oakland 200-acre tract coal land will be developed Washington, D. C., $2,O00.000 machine works
 ssissippi-Ellisville, opening of new bank and hotel; Columbus, hosiery mills doubled capacity; Hattiesburg, two opera houses; Liberty Liberty bank, s25,0OO, opened; JacKson, Mineral development; charter of incorporation to "The South ern Railway company in Mississippi Mayersville, $25O00O manufacturing plant Natchez, Electric wagonette line; Nola $10,00O land company; Vicksburg, s4O0, ,00( cotton oil company.
 Chattanooga, foundry and machine works; electric railroad; a000 textile company; woolen mills; Wood working plant; Dyersburg, telephone sys tenn; Helenwood, coal mines; Huntsville $5O,O00 land improvement company; Iror City. Slave mill; Kingston, $25,Oo0 coa mining company; Nashville, Nashville Chair & Carriage Co.,. will rebuild factory destroyed by fire; s4O,0O0 dry goods com pany Whiteside, Etna Coal & Coke Co. will increase output 200 tons per day.
 North Carolina-Ashev...e s5o.oOo furni ture factory; Aurora, s25.000 telephone |