The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-02
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
LARGE WOOD PULP MILL 1
 WAYNEsvILLE, N. C.
Plant VIII Cost More Than e1,J0eyo yoeoI and Wnl Employ over 1yoOo
 Persons-1Oy00O Acres of
 Land Purchaseh.

Baltimore, Dec. 1.--{Special. )--Incis dental to the vast expansion of the fore est industries in recent years in the South Is the announcement in this cord that work has begun upon the construction near Waynesvil1e. N C. of probably one of the largest wood- pulp mills In the world
 The plant will cost more than $1,500,4 LOO. will employ more than 1000 per- sons and will handle 500 cords of pulp wood per day. Independent of the 5000 horsepower developed at the plant from 200 tons of coal to be burned daily, the company will utilize 3.0OO horsepower generated electrically from the Pigeon River. The operations of the plant will require ten carloads of sulphur day and i've carloads of arsenic. with many other supplies. and the Southern Railway Is now lowering it's gradc from Asheviile to the factory slte.
 The company has bought about 3o.000
 acres of timber land nearby for pulp
 wood, the supply of which in the East
 and in the Middle States has rapidly
 diminished. This pulp-mill is an addi-
 ton to the woodworking industries.
 including three large tanneries and four
 tannic-acid mills, which have located
 in that portion of North Carolina with-
 in the past four years, the discovery of tannic acid in chestnut wood and the ability to use hemlock wood for the manufacture of pulp and its bark for the derivation of tannic acid having accelerated the movement to make available for industry the great stretch- es of standing timber in the Western North Carolina mountains.
 Pine lands in that State are also in demand. recent deals including the pur- chase for s2.750.ono. of 2oo.0o0 acres of timber lands, with Raw mills. etc. In Florida one weeks transactions in a single county, Polk, represented in the aggregate transfer of 108,N00 acres
 of pine lands. principally to turpentina
 and naval stores interests.
 Other developments of the week fn-
 dicating an increasing tendency to di-
 versiicaticn in woodworking are am
 nouncements of plans for saw mills or
 blaming mills at Rome, Ga, Herndon,
 Ky, Greenwood and Mendenhail. Miss,
 Dryden. Ark. Marion. s. C.. Athens.
 Tenn Talladega, Ala, Dallas, Texas at Columbus, Ga. and Little Rock. Ark.i
 tanneries at Toccoa. Ga.: barrel hoop
 factory with daily capacity of from 5000 to 5000 hoops a day at Beaumont. Texas: box-shook factory at Whining ton, N. C.; furniture factory at Knox vile. Tenn; chair factory at Nashville. Ga, and the increase in capacity of c saw mill at Charleston, 6. C., from 25,- 100000 to 4o,0O0,000 feet a year.
 Other industrial projects include an overall factory at Chester, s. C.; the remodeling of a cotton mill at Char lotte. N. C.. and a doubling of the ca- paeity of a trousers factory in the same city; cotton mill at Lincointon ana Monroe. N. C., and McDonough. Ga; cotton bag factory at Memphis. Tenn: rice mill at Lonoke. Ark: ice plants at Shefield. Ala. and Fort Worth, Tex as: knitting mills at Columbiana, AIa.s and Clinton, Tenn; concrete block fac- tory at Greenwood, Miss; sewer pipe works at Texarkana, Texas: peanut fac- tory at Cumberland. Md; paper-box factory at Charlotte, N. C.; mining op- erations at Leeds, Ala, Paintsville. Ky. Cedar Springs. Va, and Glendale. Bei- iington and Buckhannon, W. Va.