The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-29
JACOBS PHARMACY
 } Court Square.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS COPPER INDUs sIRX IN VIRGINIA As4 MES IMPORTANCE. Discovery oi Deposits of Valuable Clay in Texas Foreshadows New
 Industry for That
 State.

Baltimore. Aug. N.-(Speeial.) .)--Addi- tions to cotton mill equipment, new fur naces entering the field of pig iron pro- duction, and railroad building to in- crease by connections or by double track ing established facilities or by entrance into new fields to make additions to Southern traf1c, are accompanied by greater activity in the development of Southern mineral and other resources In this weeks issue of The Manufactur- CTS Record are noted two or three move- ments in the Virginia copper belt, reveal ing the interest there of practical opera tors from points as far away as Butte Mont, and of investors in New York and Ohio, as well as of men of the im- mediate locality, not the least significant fact being the raising of a fund of $5,0O0 by leading citizens of Mecklenburg Coun- ty, Va, into which the Virginia belt extends, to defray the expenses of an expert examination of the mineral depos- It's of that county. In the Kentucky oil fields BOZ wells are producing regularly, and are in connection with pipe line, which extending as rapidly as possible is yet unable to meet the requirements of the field, with a resultant necessity to store more than 100000 barrels of oil in the lower field. It is estimated that there are probably twice as many wells be- sides those regularly producing which have not yet been tested, thoroughly, and actual drilling has been carried on in a steadily widening area.
 Texas is not so coupled with oil and lumber as not to be able to be interested in other forms of production, and 1t is giving close attention to the investiga- tions of economic geologists into its clay deposits. It has been found that not only are there clays in many sections of the State which make an excellent brick and other deposits capable in the judg- ment of experts of giving Texas inde- pendenoe in the manufacture of stone ware of the best quality and also giving it basis for an export trade in such goods, but that 1t has deposit of glaz- ing clay quite as good and quite as ex- tensive as the one in New York State from which the leading potteries of the country are supplied. In ad adjoining State, Louisiana, a successful engineer ing feat Is rendering accessible an im- nlense strata of rock salt having a depth of at least 1000 feet. systematically eX, plotted, will almost double the salt out put of the State.
 In railroad construction particular in terest is had in the building of the At lanta- Birmingham extension which is to connect the Seaboard Air Line with the Frisco and Rock Island systems. It is expected that the Birmingham end will be completed by January, but that the line from Atlanta to Rockmart Ga, will not be completed until the spring. The extension involves not only the build Ing of entrances to Birmingham and At. lanta, but the rehabilitation of the Ease and West Railroad of Alabama, which was acquired some time ago in the in- tereSt of the Seaboard The reconstruc- tion Is we'll advanced, and it is expected that branch to Gadsden will be built giving line to Chattanooga by connec. ton with the Chattanooga Southern Great interest also attaches to the Wa bash extension work between Cherry Run, w. Va, and Cumberland, Md which when completed will enable the West Virginia entral to ship it's coal di- rect to Baltimore to be handled for ex- port over the Western Marylands new terminal line that is being rapidly ad- vanced. The Wabash is also pushing work on the Buckhannon and Uorthern which is to connect the West Virginia central by q direct route with Pittsburg. but 1t is possible that the Cumberland and Cherry Run extension will be fin- ished first, so that coal shipments from the West Virginia Central may be han died before the Wabash will be able to carry any through freight business from the West over its tidewater line. Additional information about the termi- nal at Washington gives a clearer con ception of the magnitude of that under taking than that given by the mere an nouncement of the millions to be ex- pended for it. It involves the construc- ton under Capitol Hill of a tunnel eX- tending for more than eight blocks. This will be double-tracked, and all passenger trains between the North and the South are to run through it. Its com- pletion will find on the other side of the Potomac double tracks of the Southern Railway certainly as far as Orange, Va, facilitating travel by that route to the South and West, and also double tracks mond.