The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-02
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Of New Industries and Industrial
 Development in the aouth.

| VI M0W 4M0WBkk&U0 8kAA AAAW0tkA8A | Development in the aouth.
 Southern Timber in Coopsrags works
 The event of interest in domestic lines | is the opening of the stave and cooperage
 business in connection with the antici- | pated movement of the cane and rice | crops. In export business there have l been increased shipments abroad, both
 of locally produced timber and lumber. l and that from the north and the far west.
 as we'll as of the sundries produced In the | middle distance. Local lumber trade. | while large, is not of sufiicient import | ance to make much difference to the we'll being of the milling interest of the yel- | low pine belt. but number of local dis- | tributing agencies and numbering facto- l ries have been rather severely hit by the
 prolonged cessation of building operations 1 brought about by the many building trade differences. The cooperage works have started full blast At ieast four or five new plants have been established to aid in the task | of supplying the demand that comes from the sugar belt for both tight and slack | work. One of these is a stave and head | ing mill in New Orleans Others are in Mississippi. A number of department stave plants have been established m connection with the cypress mills In Lou isiana, about Ruddock. Lutcher. Donald | sonviIle and other localities, where the cypress is still plentiful
 Last year nearly 2,5Oo,0 barrels were | needed to pack the molasses and the su- gar made in Louisiana and Eastern Tex
 as. Of this nearly 100000 oarreis were mainder were tight barrels for moiasses' | It Is estimated that over 1.OOo.OW or these barrels were handled through New or | nf nnnnAY- age supply work of the season or lSVz-oS was the change from cypress stock 10 oak in the packing of molasses. and the added use of wire and iron band hoops | on both slack and tight work. Neariy | all the stock for the tight work was culled in Louisiana, much of it upon the plantations. The greater part or the stock for the slack work. consisting or elm, hackberry, gum and similar woods, came from Arkansas, Missouri, Tennes- see and Kentucky, with some from Missis- sippi and Northwestern Louisiana. The nearer sources of supply, in Tennessee and Arkansas, were drawn upon more than hitherto.
 The coopers in New Orleans say that the coming season will see all these fea- lures emphasized during the season just
 now upon the point of opening. Iron ana wire will be used more than ever on the
 molasses and sugar barrels. Oak Will bc used more than cypress. and slack stock from Tennessee will be more in demand
 than that from a distance. It is said the demand for barrels will be larger this
 year than last.
 Exports to foreign lands have largely increased during the last two weeks. large shipments going into Germany, Bel gium. Holland and to the south European ports.
 Central America has drawn upon Mis-
 sissippi for several shipments of creo- soted ties for railroad work and also for several shipments of piling treated
 the same way. Local mills have all ad-
 vanced the price of lumber to local con-
 sumers in consequence of the recently
 changed schedule of wages and hours forced upon them by the unionized mill
 hands It is claimed by the mill men
 in and about New Orleans, as we'll as
 those from the Mississippi and Texas
 yellow pine country. that labor is very
 scarce. and that even with the present
 high wages 1t is difficult to keep the
 mills going at the rate desired-New
 Orleans Correspondence The Trades
 man. Sept. 1.
 Coal and Coke of Alabama.
 The production of coal in Alabama Is
 on the increase. Preparations are being
 made in many quarters to lay aside
 good supply of coal for this coming win
 ter's use, fears being entert1bned already that there will be a car shortage again
 this year and the fuel will be hard to
 get The mines are working steadily
 and the output is very strong. All of the larger companies in this State report
 that their production now Is as large
 as 1t ever has been. The Pratt Coal Company will in the
 next few weeks be ready to ship coal.
 The branch railroad line being construct
 ed to their mines in the western part of
 Jefferson county is being pushed and in
 a few weeks should be ready for the
 handling of traffic. Coal companies in
 Bibb county are making application to
 the Southern Railway to build an exten- sion of some ten or twelve miles in their locality to permit of some develop
 ment' in virgin fields.
 The Palos Coal Company recently sold all of it's holdings in the western part of Jefferson county to the Lancaster Coal and Coke Company, a Pennsylvania i'm | stitution, the deal involving a cash trans
 action of about $1O0,O00. The company Lad about 2.000 acres of property. with two mines in operation.
 The West Pratt Coal Company has been l incorporated by H. H. Stobart, W. H. Soper and c. R. Meriwether. capital stock | $10,oO0. The company will operate mines l in Walker county. but will have general | offices in Birmingham.
 | The production of coke is also on the increase. The ovens are once more get | ting in good shape. During the suspen-
 sion of work on the part of the coal min
 CTS many of the ovens became cold and it has taken some little time to get them in shape again. The contractor of | the 200 ovens at Flat Top mines, in the
 western part of Jefferson county. has turned them over to the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron Company. and they will
 be put in operation at once; in fact one | half of them have burned considerable ! coke already.
 Good prices prevail for coke and as long as the iron production keeps up strong | there will be an urgent demand for soke. Birmingham Correspondence The Trades
 man, September l.
 | Chattanooga, Tenn, Aug 29-The | Southern industrial development for the | week ending today, as reported by The | Tradesman, includes the following new l organizations as among the more impor- 1 tant:
 Alabama.
 Suspension-Cotton gin.
 Three Notch-Cotton gin.
 | Thompson-Cotton gin.
 Sour Lake-$40,0O0 oil company.
 Merkel-$6.C00 gin and milling company. Birmingham-Bott;ing works; $2O, 900 | hardware company; $100000 coal company 1 Mobile-40-ton ice factory.
 Montgomery-$so.0oO lumber mill to be rebuilt.