The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-10
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
PROJECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT or
Lumber Industry.
Railroads 90 he HuiIt and Numerous
Saw Wills Erecsed--Iron and steel
OF section Attract Interest.


Baltimore, March Especial Am
nouncement is made in this weeks issue
of the Manufacturers Record of sever
al important undertakings looking to
the development of lumber interests in
the South. Tho construction of a rail-
road, to connect Atlanta with the Gulf
of Mexico ultimately through Georgia
Alabama and Florida, will involve the
opening of a solid body OF yellow-pi
timber, extending from cottondale.
Fla, to St Andrews Bay, Fla, dis
tance of about fifty-five miles. St.
Andrews Bay will be the terminus of
graded from Dothan, Ala, to Cotton
dale. distance of about thirteen miles
and Is now being rallied at the rate of
about a half a mile a day.
The contract for grading between
Cottondale and st. Andrews Bay Is ex-
pected to be let within the next month
or six weeks.
pany in Tennessee to develop 10000
acres of coal and timber lands near
Cfossville means the erection of a
lumber mill of $4,000 feet daily capa-
city. In the same state at Townsend
will be erected by another company a
saw mill 60 by 140 feet with additions
rs by 80 feet and so by 140 feet, with a
udtty CdpdtlIJ III IUVtOVu AGGL VI naI0~
wood. white pine and hemlock; saw
mill 40 by 80 feet is to be established
at Southport ~ c., with a daily capa-
city of 10000 feet of Iong.Ieaf and
short-Ieaf pine and poplar and a Char
lesion, w. Va. company will build n
$4,000 saw mill on Glade Creek with
a daily capacity of 10000 feet, the COM
pany now controlling more than 5000
acres of timber land
A tract of land which is expected to
cut 100000 feet of OAK, poplar, chest
nut and other woods in wise County.
Va, has been acquired by a company
which will erect two large mills em-
ploying about 800 men and for the
working OF $4,000 acres of pine lands
in St. Helena and Tahgiapahoa parishes.
La saw mill of 10000 feet daily
capacity will be built and railroad
connections will be constructed.
Increasing tendency OF the iron and
steel industry to take advantage of OPP
portunities In the South Is emphasized
by the details published In this weeks
issue of the Manufacturers Record for
the concentration at Charleston, w. Va,
in the midst of coal and natural gas
fields of the entire activities of a steel
company now opening in New York
State. The company mas acquired, an
site for its new plant, twelve acres
OF land situated on the railroad about
"a mile from the center of Charleston,
and immediate construction Is to be-
gin Immediately The buildings Will
be of concrete or OF brick and steel
construction and the plant will include
crucible furnaces. rolling mills with
a full complement of various sizes of
steam hammers, shears, cutting off
machines, planishers, etc. other inn
portant industrial announcements of
the week include the following. by
States;
ADMINISTRATIONS of iron mines
in Calhoun County; ice factory at Jack
son; canning factory at Orrville and
foundry and machine shop at Annis-
ton.
Arkansas--Lumber mill at Paris and
brick plant with daily capacity of
10000 brick and a pottery and tile
works at Hot Springs
Florida-Marble and stone works at
Jacksonville; sand-llme brick and ce-
ment block factory at Punta Gorda.
and development of 100000 acres of
timber land near Pensacola.
Georgia--Concrete block factory at
Gainesville; ice plant and bottling
works at Villa Rica and development
of fuller's earth deposit in southern
part OF State.
Kentucky--water power development
near corbin; ice and cold storage plant
at Lexington; bottiing works at Lex
ington: machine works and concreat
block factory at Louisville.
Louisiana--A 100000 short factory
at New Orleans; cotton seed oil mill
at Lecompte and development of 300,-
600 acres of timber near Minden. .
Maryland-Copper mines develop
ment in Washington County; crosstie
plant and screen factory at Baltimore
and cement factory at Cumberland.
Mississippi-cement block factory at
Yazoo City and cannery and syrup fac
tory at Moss Point.
North Carolina--Beverage factory at
Sanford; starch factory at Washington;
addition TO cotton mill a Graham; ice
plant at WarrentOn.
South Misunderstanding works at
orangeburg; additions to cotton mill
at Jonesville and lumber mill at SEQ
tia.
Tennessee-Enlargem of car
works at LenoIr City; soap factory at
Memphis; addition to machine works
at Nashville and addition to candy fac
tory at Memphis.
Texas-Ice plant at Yorktown and
obstruction OF railroad terminals on
fourteen blocks OF ground at Calves
ton.
Virginia Coal mine development In
Lee County: doubling of knitting mil
plant 1T Norfolk and wool working
plant at WsverlN.
west Virsinia-Coal development
companies al Lumber Port Tunnelton,