The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
The New Industries Reported In the
 South and West.


 Chattanooga March 6.-The progress in southern industrial development for the week just closed, as reported by the Tradesman, includes the following new organizations as among the most impor- tant:
 Alabama-Jasper. telephone system: Montgomery, $5O,0oO lumber company; Mo bile, s20000 lumber company; Birmingham, $l0,0o0 soap company, $50O,O0O coal and iron company; Montgomery, S125000 oil com pany; Fort Payne, stave and heading mill; Thorsby, $5ooOo lumber company.
 Arkansas-Magness, 5000 ginning and milling company; Batesville, s1O,OOO invest ment company; Lafe, wagon factory; Clarendon. cotton gin, ice factory, $5OOO wagon factory, water works. $5O,OOO oil mill. $15,00O cooperage plant, brick works and lumber mill; Fort Smith, S1O,OOO couch and bedding company; Camden, S1OO.OOO coal and oil company; Brookland, S5OoO saw mill $30OO saw mill.
 Florida-Pine Mount. canning factory.
 Georgia-Calhoun, flour and grist mill: Savannah, $50,00o turpentne company; Triton. creosoting plant; Vienna saw mill; Dublin. telephone system
 Indian Terrtory-Bokchito, telephone system
 Kentucky-Louisville, company to manu facture fire extinguishers, $200 OO0 ice fac tory; Elizabethtown, blaming mill.
 Louisiana-$lOoOO0 rice mill, syrup can nery; Welsh, 250o0 machine works: Rayne, rice mill; Antrim, $10O,OOO lumber company.
 ssissippi-Lexington ice factory. fer tilizer factory, electric light plant water works; New Albany, S40,O00 cotton com press; Laurel, $20,000 contracting com pany; Coahoma, s45,OO0 lumber company. Skiner. $20.000 lumber company; Tutwiler $10,000 supply company; Mt. Olive, water works.
 North Carolina-Weldon. s9O,OoO cotton mill Murphy, $25,0O0 furniture factory: Ashboro, sash and blind factory; Boom vile, three saw mills; Patterson, gin and milling company; Lumberton, oil mill cotton gin.
 Oklahoma-Bessie, cold storage plant: Perry, $25000 improvement company a,- 000000 mining and milling company: Mountain View, $S000 hardware compa- ny: Supply. telephone company; Mar shall S2o,000 elevator company; Arcadia, s1Oo,0OO oil and gas company; Guthrie. sl00,000 lumber company; Carpenter, S5, 600 telephone company; Roosevelt, $10,- 900 mining company; Shawnee, s2500OO machine company: Elk City, $20O,OOO coal, gas and oil company; Oklahoma City, s50000 development company; McLoud s50000 oil and gas company.
 South Carolina-Blacksburg s50000 cotton mill, power plant; Coum- bia s1Oo,000 paint factory; Charles ton, roofing company; Greenville, s25o. 900 oil mill. s250000 lumber company; Anderson ss500o oil mill and fertilizer factory; Edgemoor. telephone company.
 Tennessee-Dayton, SS0000 four and srist mill; Morristown. $l0,0o0 ice factory; Chattanooga, s20,000 company to manufac- ture tale specialties; Nashville, s10.000 bottling works; Cookeville, stave factory; Tyner. Touring mill.
 Texas-Brownsville. S10O0000 building and loan company; Alice, irrigation sys- tenn Beaumont. s10000 oil company, s100,- 900 building and loan company; Houston s10,000 saddle and harness factory $1O00,- coo oil and refining company; Milford hardware company; Hamilton. s2O,Oo0 ice