The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24
INDUSTRY MAKING
STRIDES IN SOUTH
New Mills and Enlarge
ment OF Plans
RECORD FOR PAST WEEK:

Water Power Plants, Pottery Plant.
Coal Mining, Cement Works. saw
Mills, Public and Private Buildings
Necessitatins the Expenditure of
Millions of Dollars.
Especial to News and .Observerl
Baltimore, Nd, Aug. 19-Southern
industrial activity during the past
week resulted in many announcements
Of new mills and factories to be erect
ed, established plants TO be enlarged,
mines to be developed and buildings
to be constructed. The weeks re-
ports OF the Manufacturers Record
include the following:
The Central Textile Corporation,
Menfp his. Tenn, was organized with a
capital stock Of $1,000, 900 n will
Install $4,000 spindles and 500 looms,
driven by 1000 electrical horsepower.
The Pike County Waterpower COM
pany, Little Rock, Ark, engaged an
engineer to plan the development of
its WaterpoWer and to build its pro-
posed plant for transmitting 10000
horsepower by electricity, near Muir
ffreesboro- The Riverside Cotton
Mills and the Dan River Power and
Manufacturing Company, Danville,
Va, consolidated and will ~incorpor-
ate as the Riverside and Dan River
Cotton Mills, with a maximum capital
stock Of $40, 10000 this new COM
pany has 165,164 spindles and 1856
looms for manufacturing denims,
chambrays, shirtings, etc, and is
building another mill to have so, 900
chi, Loo o-l 4 ~ 81 7,
tiona mill viii cost 81, 900, 900. The
Grafton Pottery Company, Grafton,
W. Va, will be organized with a capt.
tai stock Of $50, 600 to build a pottery.
The NeWperry Cotton Mills, NcWberry,
S. c., awarded contract for the cree
ton of its proposed addition, which
will be four stories high and so by
$50 feet, containing 10000 spindles
and 800 looms, operated by electric
power; this additional plant viii cost
$250,OO0. The Austin Gap Colliery
Company, Bristol. Tenn, was incor-
porated with s15O,000 capital to de-
velop coal mines. The Maryland
Portland Cement Company, Baltimore,
Md, is planning to erect additional
buildings and install machinery to in
crease the daily capacity of its plant,
at Security, from 500 to 1900 barrels
Of Portland cement The Chalmette
Cypress Company, New Orleans, La,
dWdIueu contracts LOT Saw Ill1l Ind
chinery for a plant to. have an an
nual output Of 5000 feet of lumber;
cost of buildings, machinery, etc esti-
mated at $150,OOO. The National
Mining and Power Company, Birming-
ham. Ala. was incorporated with a
capital stock of s25O,O0O. The Cen
trail of Georgia Railway, Macon, Ga,
awarded contract for construction Of
woodworking and blacksmith shops
to cost $75 900. The Calhoun Mills,
Calhoun, S. c., awarded contract for
the erection Of it's proposed additional
building, which will be equipped with
10000 spindles and 200 looms. The
Henderson Cotton Mills, Henderson,
N. c., will build an additional mill to
be equipped with 10000 spindles and
accompanying machinery.
Among the buildings contracted for
during the week were the f~ollowing:
$1,000 bank building at ST. Paul, Va;
$4,000 jail at Brady, Texas; $4,000
school at McComb, Miss: 100000
hotel at Lexington. N. G.; $4,000
postoffice at Winchester, Va; s125,001
hotel at Bluefield, w. Va; 100000
Y. NJ. c. A. building at Tampa, Fla;
$4,000 hospital at Baltimore, Md;
$500, 900 municipal court building
at st. Louis, Mo-; $4,000 school at
Fort Worth, Texas, and 100000 hotel
at San Antonio, Texas.