The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-31
NORTH. CAROL|NA'S
NEW C01.'T|O|'N ! ! |. ]
Georgia, Too, Is to -s:, (; Thou Tho, i;
sands Of New Spindles This
Year.
NEW ORLEANS n: "a TERMINALS 'I::' 5
nc. Break to BE Observed in II IN
dustrial Development in
the South.
NEW ORLEANS TERMINALS
, Break to BE Observed in In

If BALTIMORE, March 2S.-Southern
cotton mill Undertakings reported In
this week s issue Of the Manufacturers
Record contemplate an Investment Of
between $1,O00.O00 and s1,5O0.00O.s
Among them Is the purchase Of
Eblenchery property at Clearwater s. Co
by Georgia men, who propose to8utilize
1T in the establishment Ola factory OF
10000 spindlesf and with authorized
capital stock of 100000; the formation
of a 100000 company to install 5000
gspindles at Kings Mountain, ~. CO
cotton factory with 5000 or 6 900 spin
dies for medium and fine yarns q Len
goir, N. CT n hosiery knitting mill#at
Augusta I Gu, and a 900 spindle mill
at Manchester; N. G.. For this S129
acres Of land have been purchased, to-
gether with "a w wa pro ,l't,.
now furnishing bO0-horse power, Which
will be still further developed. In adj
dttton o. company at Griffin, ca, which
added $1,000 spindlcs last year, has be-
! gun the installing Of 5000 more, bring
ing the total up to $4,000 splndles. A
company ut Greer, S. c., Is spending
about $4,000 Installing new machin-
| other at Biscoe, N. c., is installing u
$50 spindles and complement.
New Orleans Terminals.
Il "A
at a number of Southern ports are
/ those connected with terminals at or
! near New Orleans 1t has Just been
| announced that work will soon begin
on a passenger station in New Orleans
| to cost between $l75,000 and 100000
4 to be used Jointly by n couple OF rail-
| roads, and that improvements at the
/ Chalmette terminals which will afford
i wharfage for from five to nine ocean
| going vessels at a time, and Will re-
d present an outlay Of more than $2,5O0.-
i lOOO. afwll be completed by the end OF
i the year The Public Belt Railroad
4 n municipal enterprise, has already
i seven and a half miles built along the
A river front which Will be In operation
4 by June Ist This stretch OF the roat
4 will be double tracked by tho fall
4 When completed there willSbe twenty
4 miles Of doublc-track belt rallrnot
4 owned by the city. operated under di
rection6 of n commission, using Its OWL
4 engines and cars for local work, AM
u aimingEto provide interchanGing switcl
Y facilities with every railroad entering
n the city, and ultimately to reach ever,
Wharf, every terminal and tho LEADING
v Industrial establishments.
d In tha past five years, also unde
], municipal AUSPICES. there has bee
. built an almost cont nuous line OF ne,
!, 3wharves, covered With steel sheds TO
10 large part Of the Way,ior d ~.
j i % four and a half miles along the rive
i, front The steel sheds are of varyin
u lengths ana widths, running as niue
az 1900 feet long and zoo feet wild.
s tplans have been prepared for 500 ad
ditional feet Of sheds and 5000 fee
h3l OF wharfing and sheds are yet to
il built under present plans IN r ssa
! |6dition5 to building the wharyes, u
: lefty has raised the grade from
!, sa3 feet, be above flood height {
!. \ water. and Is building n roadway {
Georgia granite along the w.4arpes-