The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-28
SOUTH
ON THE BOOM,
Activity in the Virginia Copper
Belt and Kentucky Oil
Fields.
MORE GOOD LUCK FOR TEXAS.
Excellent Clay Deposits Promise a
New Field of Indnstry-Rail-
road Building Swells the
Tide Of Prosperity.
MORE GOOD LUCK FOR TEXAS.


REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Baltimore. Nd. Aug. c7.-Additions to
cotton-Inill equipment. new furnaces enter
ing the field OF pig-iron production and rail-
road building to increase by connections or
by mountaineering esta blished facilities or
py entrance into new fields to make addt-
taons to Southern traffic. are accompanied
by greater activity in the DEVELOPMENT of
southern mineral and other resources.
In this weeks issue OF the Manufacture
ers' Record are noted two or three i'm
portant movements in the Virginia copper
belt
In the Kentucky oil fields so2 wells are
Producing regularly and are in connection
with pipe line, which. extending as rapid
~ as possible, Is yet unable to meet the re-
quirements Of the field with the resultant
necessity to store more than 100 900 barrels
Of oil in the lower field.
Texas is not SO occupied with oil and
lumber that she is not able to be interested
In other forms Of production, and is giving
close attention to the investigations of
economic biologists into its clay deposits.
It has been found that not only are thsre
clays in many sections Of the State which
make an excellent brick, and other deposits
capable. in the judgment Of experts. OF
facsure OF stoneware of the best quality,
and also giving it a basis for an export
trade in such goods. but that It has a de-
posit Of glazing clay quite as good and quite
as extensive as the one in New York State
from which the leading potteries OF the
country are supplied.
In an adjoining State, Louisiana, sue
cessfrl engineering feat is rendering accesst-
BILE an immense stratum of rock salt hav-
ing a depth Of at least loo feet, which,
systematically exploited, will almost double
the salt output of the State.
est is had IN the building Of the Atlanta
Birmingham extension which Is to connect
the Seaboard Air Line with the Frisco and
the Birmingham end will be completed by
January. but that the line from Atlanta
to Rockmart,. Ga, will not be completed
not only the building Of entrances to Biz
mingham and Atlanta. but the rehabaita-
ton Of the East and West Railroad of Ala
bama which was acquired some time ago
in the interest of the Seaboard.
The reconstruction is well advanced. ano
It is expected that branch to Gadsden
By connection with the Chattanooga-south-
ern.
Great interest also attaches to the Wa
bash extension work between Cherry Run,
W va. and Cumberland. Nd, which. when
completed, will enable the West Virginia
Central to ship its coal direct to Balu-
more 10 De Q6uOIeO loE SApo3t we tAAo
Western Maryland's new terminal line that
Is being rapidly advanced.
Additional information about the terminal
at Washington gives a clearer conception
of the magnitude of that undertaking than
that given by the mere announcement OF
the millions being expended for it. It in
wolves the construction under Capitol Hill
Of a tunnel extending for more than eight
blocks. This Will be doubie-tracked, and all
passenger trains between the north and
south are to run through 1t. Its completion
will find on the other side of the Potomac
double tracks of the Southern Railway GER
tainly as Ia as Orange. Va. facilitating
travel by that route to the South and
West and also double tracks OF the Wash
ineton Southern to Richmond.