The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-30
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| The tables for the second quarter of 1905 l just ended, give a total of 1,3a6 new in I dustries for the same thirteen States oi I an increase of 172 over the second quar- | ter last year. | Among the most important new indus | tries launched during the past quarter were POS woodworking plants, IF mines and uuarries S1 cotton and woolen mills 31 brick and tile works, 2S canning facto' | ries, 66 congresses and gins, 6S electric light and power companies, b1 flour and grlst mills, 7 gas and oil companies, ~ oil mills and refineries, n iron working plants, and other large concerns that are using and developing the natural pro- ducts of the South. In the list for the past quarter there are PAT miscellaneous industries in addi- tion to the classified list. These miscel- laneous industries include: Bottling works, laundries, mattress fac- tories. saddle and harness factories, irri- Ration plants, medicine factories, naval stores companies, button factories, con struction compan nies, paint factories, roof ing plants, cement works stone works, lime works. potteries, broom factories, packing plants, trunk factories, sewer pipe works, hat factories. electrical sup- ply plants. asphalt plants, creosote works, starch factories, etc.
 The wonderful development of oil fields can be traced to Louisiana, with twenty four new natural gas and oil companies, Texas with twenty-eight. Kentucky with six, Tennessee with five and other States scattering.
 In the establishment of new flour and Rrist mills Tennessee leads with seven teen Tennessee is also in the front rank in new wood working plants, showing thirty-one for the quarter, while the rec ord for Mississippi, the next in number, is twenty-four. In iron working plants Alabama leads the Southern States for the quarter. with Texas second and Ten nessee third.
 Of the thirty-eight new telephone com panies established during the quarter, ten were in Texas, eight in Georgia and five each in Virginia and West Virginia. Louisiana furnished three new rice mills and Texas one.
 West Virginia furnished three of the five new breweries and Alabama three of the new distilleries, with but one new distillery and no new brewery for Ken lucky.
 It is also interesting to note that Ar kansas put in nineteen of the sixty-slx cotton gins and congresses reported, be- ing more than any other State.
 The record for the quarter is a most emphatic testimonial to the steady growth of the South. and one in which every cit- izen of the thirteen States represented has abundant reason for being proud.
 The progress in Southern industrial de- veiopment for the week just closed, as reported by The Tradesman, includes the following industries:
 Alabama.
 Bellwood-Hardwood mill.
 Warrior-Coal mines; water works.
 Bessemer-Coal mines.
 Anniston-Gold mining company.
 Warrior-Coal company.
 Boaz-Fertilizer factory; ice factory, (projected)
 Arkansas.
 Parkin-Lumber and stave mill.
 Argenta Station-Cotton gin.
 Jasper-$50 600 land company.
 Little Rock-$6OO00 coal company; S50,- 900 brick works.
 BIytheville-S 900 brick and tile factory; handle factory. Helena-$10,0O0 manufacturing company Florida. St Augustine-Lumber mill (near.) Carter-Saw mill. Prairie Creek-Lumber mill. Georgia. 1 FitzgeraId-$i0.O00 cotton compress. ! ThomasyilIe-Cane mill. | Covington-Ice factory. Kentucky. | InnisVille-Saddla and harness factory