The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-26
PLAN To DEVELOP
VAST GOAL LANDS
Model Mining Town and 100
Coke Ovens to>be Established
in West Virginia.
OTHER NEW ENTERPRISES
OTHER NEW ENTERPRISES
Announcements Of Great Variety
of Industries to be Estab-
lished III the South.
tspecinl 10 The Times Dispatch.

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BALTIMORE. April 25.--Among the
notable Industrial projects in til,
South reported in this weeks
issue of the Manufacturers Record
are plans for the development of III,
600 acres of coal land. estimated to
contain So,u00.0oo tons of coal, In
Iraxton and Gilmer counties. West
Virginia, involving the construction
OF 100 coke ovens and the establish
nent Of model mining town; the es-
punishment at Brandenburg, Ky. OF
slo00o0 plant for the production oil
photographic stone, 100000 shoe
factory with a daily capacity Of 500
pairs OF shoes at Fayetteville. N. c..
s25o.ooO mill at Charlotte. N. c., to
make yarns from American long sta
PIE. Sea Island and Egyptian cotton,
ana a $4,000 company at New Orleans,
La. to grow hemp and to manufactura
tagging and baling material.
Many New Industries.
These projects are Indicative OF the
steady Increasing diversfication OF IN
dustries In the South, Of which ouits
NUMBER We're announced durinr the
week. '"'
Among them, in iron and steel work.
ing are included plans for a foundry
~ q, An,lston. Ala. and plants at Col
iinsVllle. Ala. to manufacture Sorghum
mills, sadirons. CRATES, etc.. at Man.
CHESTER, va. to make railroad metal,
etc.' at baltimore. Md. to manufactures
can making machinery; at Bessemer.
Ala.' TO make iron and steel castings.
such as crates. ventilators. hollow-
ware. etc; at Jackson. Tenn. to make
automobiles and machinery for tho
transmission of electric power a.
houston, Texas. to make farm
railroad. poultry, ranch and ornament
al fences.
Canneries are to be established at
Benson. La; Union Springs. Ala; Van
Buren,, Ark. and Beulah. Okla. while
one at Pine Bluff, Ark, will begin next
month to can vegetables and sorghum
molasses.
OF Many Sorts.
There will be established at Merid.
ian. Miss. a creosoting plant to cost
with machinery about $500: at
Waynesboro, Va, plant to make fruit
cider. preserves and pickles; and at
Columbus. Ga. to manufacture build
ing blocks, while Ice or cold storage
plants are contemplated for Foley.
Ala.; Richmond. Va: Wilmington. n.
c.: McAlinnvtlle. Tenn, and Snyder,
Okla. Dallas. Tex. is to have a wood
fibre plaster factory with a daily ca
pacity of fifty tons: Columbus. Ca. a
bagging and tie plant with daily ca
pacity OF 100 rolls of bagsing and
100 bundles of ties: Hagerstown. Md.
plant to make all kinds OF building
material; McMeekin, Fla, a clay work
ing plant: Houton. Miss. bottling
works, and Norfolk, Va. a 100000
cotton thread and yarn mill. An ad-
dition TO the woodworking Industries
at High Point. N. c., will be cedar
chest factory with daily capacity OF
500 Capitalists are arranging to es-
tablish at Lake Charles, La. 100000
hardwood furniture factory, and a
plant recently organized at Lawrence
VILE. Va, will make building materials
and box shocks. For the print cloth
mill at Darlington, S. G.. there Will be
an equipment of 10000 spindles and
$50 looms.