The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-17
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
REVIEW OF THE WEEK BY THE
MANUFACTURERS RECORD.
Activity Continues in the Increase
Of the Textile Equipment Of
This Section-The
Oil Fields. -

Baltimore. May 15-tSpeciaI)- The
movement of Southern coal to the sea-
board with the increasing demand for it
in commerce direct and indirect, which
has become of such Importance to Balti-
more, Newport News, Norfolk, Pensa-
cola, Mobile and New Orleans, will be
accelerated by the completion of of a
couple of projects reported in this week S
issue of The Manufacturers Record.
For quite while the water facilities
az Southport. N. c., have been consid-
cred In connection with plans for hand
ling foreign bound Southern products,
especially coal. The contract has now
been awarded by the Cape Fear Terminal
Railroad Company to the Southport Con-
struction Company of Wilmington, Del,
for the construction of a railroad thirty
miles long, between Wilmington and
Southport, with large coal and freight
piers at the latter place, the contract
price being 81. 450, 600 The awarding of
this contract and at the same time of a
contract for the construction of forty
miles OF the projected Rutherfordton
Hickory Nut Gap and Asheville Railroad
running west from Rutherfordton, N c.,
toward the Tennessee line indicate the
tendency to open the mineral regions of
the Southern Appalachians by additional
railroads and to increase the facilities
At Southern ports for handling traffic to
come out of the mountainous section An
other contract bearing upon this move
nient is that secured by the Callahan Con-
struction Company of Knoxville, for the
building of about thirty-eight miles of
the Knoxville. LaFollette and Jellico
Railroad, which will connect the Louis
Vile and Nashville with the Atlanta.
Knoxville and Northern, giving
through line from Cincinnati and Louis
Vile to Atlanta and opening another out
let for the Jellico and adjacent coal
fields.
Z. Activity continues in the increase of
the toxtile equipment of the South mark
ed by engagements and additions for es-
tabiished mills. The Kincaid Manufac-
turing Company of Griffin, Ga, will build
q 45-foot addition to provide for $500 spin
dies and 100 looms. The High Shoals
IN. CD Company will erect a four-story
building rs by $50 feet and will install
5000 spindles and $50 looms. The same
number of spindles are to be added to the
Franklin Mills of Greer Depot, s. c., and
the Tucapau, s. c., Mills will increase
their spindles from 10000 to $4,000 and
win place 1000 looms in a new weave
shed. New projects include a $4,000
knitting mill at Cedartown, Ca a $780,
900 mill at Anderson, S. c., a $4,000 knit
ting mill at Cross Hill, S. c., a 800. 900
mill at Magnolia. Miss, a $3.50 900 mill at
Hpartanpurg, D. u, SlWO,OOO mill at Lex
fngton, Miss, and a plant ~ 25000 spin
dies and $50 looms to he operated by
power from the Ware Shoals near Lau-
rens, s. c.
In connection with the subject of South
-ern Industrial power an article in The
Manufacturers Record from C. F. z.
Caracristi. the oil expert bearing upon
sensational reports from the Beaumont oil
fields. is of interest. Mr.. Caracrsti
writes:
zone of the simplest laws of physics is