The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-31
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
MAINTENANCE OF INTEREST lS
 TEXTILE INDUSTRY.
Activity in Improvements Additions Prevails in Established centers of Cotton Manufacturing
 some New Projects.

Baltimore, Oct. 30.-iSpecial. )-Some weeks ago a committee representing the business men of Fayetteville, Ark. visited some of the representative textile centers of South Carolina with view 70 deter- mining whether 1t would be feasible 10 establish mill at Fayetteviiie. Ine committee has just made its report. In which all questions bearing upon the mat ter are considered and whichis Is favorable to the undertaking. though 1t is suggested that there may be at first some dimcuity in obtaining a sufficient supply of quail fled labor. This incident illustrates the steady maintenance of interest In the South in the textile industry, together with the inclination to bring the cotton field and the cotton mill even closer together than they are now.
 Meanwhile, reports to the Manufactur- CTS Record during the past week show that activity in improvements and addi- tions prevails in established centers of cotton manufacturing. The Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville is negotiating while eastern capitalists who contemplate building a $20o.000 mill. A Monticello. Ark, cotton mill contemplates increasing its equipment of 5000 spindles and 15o looms. Hosiery mills at Athens, Ga, will erect a building two stories high and % by 30 feet. to which will be removed the present equipment. and additional
 machinery will be installed. A $5o.0oo company has been organized at New | Orleans to manufacture overalls and | Jumpers at the rate of 100 dozen garments a day. In North Carolina mills at Albe- marie will add 10000 spindles and 500 knit | ting machines; a s1o0000 company will
 develop water power and build mill at Lawndale; a yarn factory at Mount Holly l will add machinery for producing seine II s~<flt yx.x
 knitting mills, cotton mill at Kings
 Mountain will enlarge its plant. and the new cotton mill plan for Greensboro will have dyeing and finishing plant. Other
 industries reported by States are as fol-
 lows:
 | Aiabama-Medicine factory at Besse- mer; casting works at Birmingham; saw
 mill at ShefYield.
 rkansas-Development of coal mines at Fort Smith: of mica and kaolin at Har-
 rison; stave factory at Wilmer: basket
 factory at Little Rock; mattress factory l at Pine Bluff.
 Fiorida-Pine product plant at Jackson
 vile to manufacture wood turpentine. oil
 of tar. tar and charcoal, and to establish
 creosote works; packing-house at West Palm Beach.
 reorgia-chair factory at Dalton; resin
 oil mill at Savannah. ,eh | Kentucky-Saw mill at Lackey: broom
 factory at Louisa; mattress factories at
 Louisville and Stacey; development of
 lead and zinc mines at Marion, and of
 coal mines at Livingston.
 Mississippi-Saw mills at Itta Bena:
 lumber mills at Gulfport.
 North Carolina-Additions to tobacco
 box factoryl at Winston: spoke and
 handle factory at Greensboro; fertilizer
 factory at Monroe; pulp plant at Baisam:
 shuttle factory at Rutherfordton: cotton oil mill at Kings Mountain. South Carolina-Cheese factory at Wal
 halla; pottery at Granitevilie; wind mill
 equipment factory at Johnston: cotton
 seed oil mill at West Union. Tennessee-Enlargemen of medicine
 factory at Chattanooga; cannery at Greenville; addition to pants factory at Cave. addition to woodworking factory at Chattanooga; syrup cannery and l make candy machinery at Nashville. Texas-Cinnabar mining at Maria; saw
 mill at Saratog; eigr factory at Tyler: cotton gin at Lavita; trunk factory at Waco.
 | Virginia-Air-brake factory at Lexing- | ton: development of mineral properties in
 Shenandoah County, and of pyrites in
 Stafford County.
 | West Virginia--Deveiopmen of coal
 mines at Grafton. Diamond, Bluefield and l Fairfield, with company at Elkins fb | absorb 116.000 acres of coal lands giving
 it total holdings of 13S,O00 acres. This
 compan yis now constructing 300 coke
 ovens a new tipple with capacity of 5000 | tons day and a steel bin for the storage
 of 1,5O0 tons of slack coal.