The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-23
WONDERFUL
PROGRESS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Launch.
ed in the South.
FIVE MILLION DOLLARS
Oil Company With this Capital Organ
ICED at Nashville, and Two Other
Corporations Announced With
Two Millions Capital.
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CHATTANOOGA, TENN, Juno 22.-
The progress in Southern Industrial de-
| velopment for the week just closed. as
reported by The Tradesman, includes q
large number Of very significant transact
lions. indicating general activity along
| all lines.
Three of the largest organizations per-
| fected during the week were a 5000 900
| oil company In Nashville Tenn, a coal
and iron company at Petersburg, w. Va,
and coal and coke company at Wheel
| Ing w. Va, each capitalized at s., 900, 600.
In the woodworking and timber lines,
| there were four new saw-mills, ten lum-
Der companies, one land and timber COM
| pany one stave, heading and hoop manu-
| factory, one crate and basket factory,
| two SASH door and blind factories, and
four spoke factories. The majority OF
| these are heavily capitalized.
| In textile products five new cotton gins.
seven new cotton mills. one clothing man
| ufactory and one hosiery mill are re-
! ported.
The development Of the oil industry is
indicated by the organization OF seven
new oil companies and the organization
Of seven land and petroleum companies
during the week.
Municipal Improvements are shown by
contracts for water. works, electric light
plant and sewerage system at Griffin.
Ca; telephone system Mt Tazewcll. W.:
a light and railway company at Vicks-
burg. Miss. two telephone and telegraph
companies at Parkersburg. w. Va;
| water works and electric light plant at
Yazoo City, Miss: water works at Lex
ington, N. c., and Floresville, Tex, and
water works and electric light plant at
Big Stone Gap. Va.
10 ~ IND, krIa
ported for the week are botting works.
three Ice factories, two canning factories.
| one laundry, one mining and clay COM
pany, three grist mills and grain eleva-
| tors, one turpentine distillery. ono sitter
mandatory one mantel company. eight
coal mining companies. two electric light
| and power companies. one fertilizer fac
| tory. two telephone companies, four hard
ware companies, one machine shop, one
| foundry. two brick and tile works. two
| warehouse and tobacco companies, one
distillery, ono granite company ono
water power company. one medicine fac
| tory, one building company. ono paint
| factory, one construction company, one
artificial stone company two flour mills.
one development company and q naval
stores manufacturing company.
NEW INDUSTRIES.
The list OF these new Industries by
States is as follows:
administrative: 5000 saw-mil. St.
| Elmo: $4,000 lumber company. Birming-
ham: $4,000 development company; 800
| Gov Ice manufacturing and development
company.
Arkansas-Bigby: Grist mill: cotton gin.
| Forest City: Spoke factory. Little Rock:
| s5O, 900 land and timber company. Pen
rose: $4,000 stave, heading and hoop
plant. Black Rock: $4,000 lumber COM
pany Hamburg: $4,000 oil mill. VIII
] Diva pJ,,ff, fpt1
mill: $4,000 lumber company. Augusta:
$4,000 button factory. Mcpherson: Saw
Florida $4,000 bottling
works. Irvine: $4,000 crate and basket
factory. starke: Ice factory. osteen:
! Saw-mil.
GeorgIa-Amerlcus: Canning factory;
syrup refinery. Dublin: Laundry Grif-
fin: 10000 water works, electric light
plant and sewerage system. Valdosta:
| Two large lumber companies Gaines
VILE: Cotton mills to be rebuilt. Atlanta:
100000 mining and clay company. Round
Oak: Grlst mill and gin. Columbus Grist
$4,000 turpentine dIstileres, Thomas
vile: Feed mill. Leo: Thirty-barrel flour
ing mill,
:. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. $1,000 sitter
manufacturing company. Lexington:
NGantel company. Altamont: $4,000 coal
pany. Jackson: $4,000 electric light and
power company. Louisville: $4,000 grain
elevator. Beattyville: $4,000 oil and gas
company.
Louisiana-Ienn,l,nagss; 10000 oil com:
PaTnee sl25po Lumber NJ m3Ip and
company. New Orleans--Sasht door and
blind factory. Church Point-s25o.0o0 oil
mississippi sheppardtown: $1,000 mill
/ and gin company. Gulfport-S1500O sash,
door and bind factory; Yicks5bt'I I,
'ls Nerth 'pesa iHeiHyi,h Fertilizer
5 s sdsRh9ne
pany. Asheville--slO6. 900 lumber company.
4 Albemare Machine shops Fayetteyille-
$4,000 brick and tile company, Wades-
et er%ofks wv B sasaa gG ityso cotton
mill. Louisburg-$30oo warehouse and
tobacco company. Riverslde-sl0.0oO dis
'': South carollna-clI Two cotton
mills destroyed by flood, to be rebuilt.
6oo eottqn mill WThars5tsn
\ 1yate power company, Manning 5000
st9rss
coke company. Chattanooga $4,000 med
eine factory $4,000 brick and st ta yofr5ks,
nstocanntng fass9Eyo a
sw S sitnI hosiery mills, Viola.
Fifty-barrel Touring mill. BlrTdc, seS
lumber and coal company Coal Creek
$4,000 coal mining company
Texas-Dallas: 100000 building COM
pany. Galveston-s25,o 900 land lo and petrole-
UNI company 81 loq 9s paint fae-
p Many FloTesyille-sl4,O0 waterworks.
900 lan ID an and oi company;
iancaster- 600 hardware company.
Madisonville - Hardware firm Fort
Worth-Foundry, Bay. cityss5o. COG, ice.
IN mo oil Company, San Diego-Cotton
GIN say.' columbus.s 900 construction COM
bbany. center--s4o,ooO OIL mill j, -.
alectric light plant Fredericksburg
Spoke factory. Tazewell-T Telephone COM
"A pany. ca, ,,,i,,
Iseyser-S he 600 coal company. Hunting