The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-02

artisans Will go to Work IN the rOllnS
mill, which has been idle for nearly
a year. Senator Frank o. Briggs, as
sistant treasurer of the company, de-
clares that the concern will be buster
than 1t has been for years.
One order just received from New
York will keep the Willetts pottery
works running on full time for a year.
General C. Edward Murphy said that
his pottery plants would start work
on S275,000 worth of orders, all OF
which had been held up pending cleo
ton.
The Mott Iron Company has re-
ceived orders ~aggregating nearly a
quarter of a million dollars since cleo
ton. John S. Broughton has just
booked $4,000 worth Of new orders
for his rubber mills, and the Trenton
Iron Company has opened with a full
force of men.
P%ittsburg. - The Berwind-White
Coal Company has closed contracts
for improvements at its many mines
to cost 100000.
The Pittsburg papers carry adver"
tisements for 500 additional miners
wanted by the Berwind-White people,
though they have had 1000 men at
work.
Harrisburg.-It. was announced
here that the Pennsylvania Steel
Company has received an order for
$4,000 tons of rails from the Atlantic
Coast line. These rails will be rolled
by the Maryland Steel Company at
Sparrow's Point. Fires were started
in the No. 1 blast furnace in the
Steelton plant. The furnace will be
placed In operation. '
There were not enough men on
hand in the Connellsville coke field
in the Pittsburg district to satisfy the
coke concerns, and complaints OF the
scarcity of labor poured in on all
sides. An estimate published placed
the number of coke ovens firing at
5000. The coke labor shortage was
placed between 1000 and 1000 men.
In the South.
Richmond, Va.-It was announced
that the Virginia Railroad has or
dered nineteen locomotives Of the lat
est model from the Richmond branch
of the American Locomotive Com
pany. This will necessitate the OPP
GRAFTON of the plant, so long practical
~ idle, at full blast for months to
come. This announcement has Gre
ated a stir among, the hundreds OF
employees of the plant, who have been
idle for many weeks.
Other. industries OF lesser 1mpor-
lance throughout the State are noting
improved business, and employees are
being reinstated in many factories.
With the impetus business has re-
ceived during the week, should 1t con-
tinue, in a month conditions In Viz
ginia will be normal. {.
The order for engines received by
the locomotive works would seem to
indicate that the capitalists behind
the new Virginia Railroad, of whom
H.. H.. Rogers Is. the chief, are fully
confident that business throughout
the country will continue to improve.
Local wholesale and retail houses
report increased trading for the last
two days, some houses having sold
more goods in this, time than within
the same period for the last SIX
months. ,
Atlanta, Ga.-Harvie Jordan, pres
ident Of the Southern Cotton Grow.
ers' Association, in emphasizing his
belief that the price of cotton Will
rise speedily, said:
1.-THE national election is past, n
millions of dollars Of orders for man
ufactured goods have been, placed IN
the last few weeks. Raw cotton Will
feel the impetus given to other lines
of Industry. While the ginners' re-
ports indicate a larger amount OF coz
ton ginned to date than at any pre-
yious period in the history of the
Census Bureau, the ginnings for No
vember and the succeeding months OF
the year will indicate q heavy falling
off. The total yield Of this year will,
in my opinion, fall far short OF n
big crop years of 1904 n
1906" , 9,
New Orleans, lathe only Indus
try in New Orleans to raise wages in
consequence Of election is the Textile
which controls the two big
factories Of this city ana mas
1900 persons at work, A reductlon
in the wages was made some time
ago; a large number Of the employees
left, n the mills reouceu tneif ouI-
put. Two days after the election
wages were raised twenty per cent.
and all the hands went back to work.
The increase applies also to Wesson
Mills, at Wesson, Miss, which Is con-
by the Textile Company.
The election has had more 1mme-
date effect in the matter OF bringing
in money to New Orleans for invest
ment, this being due in part to great
er confidence, and in part to the adop-
ton of a constitutional amendment
exempting from taxation money ad-
yanced on mortgages.
This has resulted already In the
investment of more than 100000
in Louisiana mortgages, OF which ST.
0O0, 900 goes to the erection of the
big Audubon Building. Another loan
was made by a New York life insur-
ance company to the city for con-
structing schools. These loans served
to relieve the money situation here
money being scarce and tight.
Farm Communities and
the Future of Trade.
Washington, D. C.-To-day, the
for,,ors of tho limited States have