The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-04

possible to inspect other of the facto-
ries in this locality there are a num-
Der of them well worth visiting, chief
among which is that of the Southern
Cotton Oil Company. This is one of the
largest plants of its kind in the South
comprising mills, refineries, hull and
seed warehouses, soap factories, lard
compound factory, etc. This refinery
uses not only the output of its own
mills, but that of mills at Atlanta,
Columbia, Montgomery and numerous
smaller mills situated throughout the
country. The plant employs 500 hands
The Vale Royal Plant.
Still another industry of large pro-
portions is that of the Vale Royal
Manufacturing Company, which
handles cypress and hard woods. 1t
is operated ten hours a day and has a
capacity of 10000 feet of rough sawed
lumber 10000 cypress shingles and TO-
600 laths This plant, as is the case
with practically all in this vicinity is
fitted with the most up-to-date and ap-
proved machinery. 1t gives employ
ment to 10 hands.
The Mutual Fertilizer Company also
has a plant in this locality, near
Schwarz avenue, on the west end of
the Ocean Steamship Company's prop
erty. 1t employs between 100 and l25
an annual output of about 10000 tons.
The plant is operated by a 67 horse
power electric motor.
one of the largest, as it is one of the
Oldest plants in the vicinity is that OF
A. S. Bacon & Sons, which covers five
acres. The plant consists of a plan
ing mill that has an output of 100000
feet of dressed stock a day; a sash
factory with a capacity of 500 pairs of
SaShaS a door fnptnFN with a p{ fuT
of 400 doors, and a blind factory with
a capacity of 800 blinds a day. These
various departments give employment
to between 100 and 125 men.
The Savannah Cooperage Co, Inc,
| also has on Schwarz avenue a plant
that turns out daily between 100 and
200 six and eight-hoop tight barrels, and
| thirty-two- gallon syrup barrels. The
kind first mentioned are used for pack
ing rosin oil, spirits, tar and lard. The
plant gives employment to between fif-
| teen and twenty men.
| The Wilcox-Ives Oil Company like
| wise is situated in this vicinity One
| plant is for the distilling of the by
| products of light-wood and has been in
/ operation about three months. 1t has
| a capacity of ninety barrels of tar pro-
| ducts, consisting of tar, oil and spirits.
| a week. The rOsin oil plant has a ca
/ pacity of fifty barrels of different
| grades rosin oil per day During the
! last year the total output amounted to
/ 20 600 barrels of Oil.
Though not exactly on the line of the
new road other manufacturing indus
| tries that will be benefited by the line
are the sawmill of Woledge & Phil
! pot, Shelters Works, and Armour &,
! Co.'S Fertilizer Works, the Woodan
! Chemical Company and the plant of j.
! s. Taylor. This plant which has been
/ established but few weeks, is for the
manufacture of rosiu oil out of low
/ grade rosin. rosin dross and rosin dust
! which is secured from the railroad
1 yards. 1t is understood that it's product
is shipped chiefly to Cincinnati.
Though the regular schedule will be
! put in operation on the new line to-
/ day number of Improvements are vet
| TO be made and right away. The pres
/ ent grade crossing of the Augusta road
( and the electric railway over the tracks
I of the Central of Georgia is to be done
away with and a new steel viaduct
/ erected, providing for the electric line
and the highway TO pass under the
railway tracks at the point where the
/ old WaterWorks road now goes under
+ the tracks.
A new sixty-foot road also is to be
established on the north side of the
Centrals tracks and to be paved with
gravel from the old Waterworl6s road
to the Augusta road. The Waterworks
I road is to be widened to sixty feet
from the Louisville road to Bay street
I extension. and viii be paved with
gravel, while Factory road is to be
widened to sixty feet from the end of
+ Schwarz avenue to the end of the new
street railway extension, and paved
] with gravel its entire length