New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-02
NEW PLANTS IN SOUTH.
Expansion Of Forest activities Re
suits IN Manufacturing felicity.

p.,+;roore Nov 90 SpeciaD-IncidentaI to the
~ss+ expansion of the forest industries in recent
sers in the South is the announcement in this
-set.s issue Of The Manufacturers Record that
vTk has begun upon the construction near
vrsvpesviIle. n c., of probably one of the largest
yrs5pulp mills in the world. The plant will cost
,o-e than 81 800 oo0 viii employ than one
,sosssnd persons and viii hardle six hundred
,-ss Of pulpNood a day. independent of the 5000
borsepower developed at the plant from two hun
sre5 tons Of coal 20 be burned daily. the company
IN utilize 5000 horsepower generated electrically
t-on the Pigeon River. The operation Of the
-l.n- will require ten carloads OF sulphur day
.7s five carloads OF arsenic, with many other sup
niles. aid the Southern Railway is now lowering
its grade from AsheytLe to the factory site
The company has bought about thirty thousand
acres Of timber land near by for pulpwood, the
sunnly Of which in the East and in the Middle
states has rapidly diminished This pulpmiu is an
6sltior to the wood working industries. including
three large tanneries and four tannic acid mills
which have been located in that portion Of Nortn
csrolna within the last four years, the discovery
If tsnuic acid in chestnut wood and the AFFINITY %
rss hernlock wood for the manufacture OF pup
and its bark for the derivation Of tannic acid nav
ing accelerated the movement TO make aVa1iaDie
for the industry the great stretches OF stal4olng
timber in the western North Carolina m ounta1ns,
Pima lands In that State are also IN ceInano' re-
cant deals including the purchase, for Szd9oOou VI
sn5O acres Of timber lands, with sawmills etc,
In Florida one weeks transactions in a slnsIe
county, Polk represented, in the aggregafe "a
transfer of 10000 of pine LANDS prlhClp1idy
N furnentlns and naval stores Interests OLLISI
Ssvsionments OF the week indicating an lnCI eaS-
i5g tendency to diversification in WOODWORKING q!
announcements OF plans for sawmtIls or plsanLig
nils gt Rome Ca; Herndon. KY GreenWooq ana d
Msndenhau, Miss Dryden ARK; inSIl9 Tsx :" and
Chgtisnsburg Va; crate factories az AotritDos
O. and little Rock. Ark tanneries at Toeeoa:
Ca: barrel hoop factory, with daily capaelIy OF
from 600 to 5000 hoops day at BeauInohl 49,
box shook factory at Wilmington n u I4b
factory at Knoxville. Tenn: chair factory at Nes@
Vile Ga, and the increase Of the caPacI[y OF
sawIniu at Charleston. S. c., from 20os'ot0 V
100000 feet year. ~.
other Industrial projects include an overall FAC
tory Chester s c. the reInodelIng OF a COTTON t
mill at Charlotte n. c., and the doubling OF the
capacfty of a trousers factory IN the same CITY
cotton mills at Lincolnton and Monroe, n e. ana
NcI9onough, Ga; cotton bag factory at MenlphlS,
Tenn. rice mill at LOnoke, Ark; ice plants at
sheffield Ala and Fort Worth, Tex; knitting
mills at Coumbiana, Ala and Clinton, Tenn; con-
crete block factory al Greenwood. Miss. sewer
pipe works at Texarkana, Tex; peanut factory
at Suffolk Va. b0ttliRg works at Charlotte, y: g;
wood fibre plaster factory at Cumberland Nc
paper box factory a. Charlotte, y. g; mining opr
atoms at Leeds, Ala; Pa3ntsyille. Ky; CEDAR
Springs Va. and Glendale. Bellngton and BUCK
harmon, ". Va