The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES.


Weeks Review Of the New Indus
tries.
Baltimore, Nd. Aug. 20.-(Special.)
Southern Industrial activity during
the past week resulted I'M many an
nouncements Of new mills and facto-
ries to be erected, established plants to
be enlarged, mines to be developed
and buildings to be constructed. The
weeks reports of The Manufacturers
Record include the following:
The Central Textile Corporation, Mem
phis, Tenn, was organized with a cap
ital stock Of 100000 and will install
$4,000 spindles and 500 looms, driven
by 1000 electrical horsepower. The
Pike County Waterpower Co., Little
Rock, Ark, engaged an engineer to
plan the development of its WATERFOWL
er and to build its proposed plant for
transmitting 10000 horsepower by cleo
tricity, near Murfreesboro. The Riv-
erside Cotton Mills and the Dan River
Power and Manufacturing Company.
Danville, Va. consolidated and will in
corporate as the Riverside and Dan
River Cotton Mills. with a maximum
capital stock of $4,000, 900; this new
company has 165.164 spindles and 1866
looms for manufacturing denims, cham
brays, shirtings. ETC., and is building
another mill to have $4,000 spindles
and 1900 looms; the additional mill
will cost 100000. The Grafton Pot
terry Co., Grafton, W. Va. will be or
ganized with a capital stock of $4,000
to build a pottery. The Newberry Cot
ton Mills, Newberry, s. c., awarded
contract for the erection of its pro-
posed addition, which will be four sto-
ries high and 80 by 1S0 feet, contain
ing 10000 spindles and 500 looms, OPP
Grated by electric power; this addition
al plant will cost $250,000. The Austin
Ga CAII nr1u @
incorporated with 3150,000 capital to
develop coal mines. The Maryland
Portland Cement Co., Baltimore, Nd,
Is planning to erect additional build
ings and install machinery to increase
the daily capacity of its plant, at Sc
curity, from 500 to 1900 barrels of
Portland cement. The Chalmette Cy-
press Co., New Orleans, La, awarded
contracts for saw mill machinery for
a plant to have daily output of
10000 feet of lumber; cost of build
ings, machinery, etc, estimated at
$780, 900. The National Mining and
Power Company, Birmingham, Ala.
was incorporated with a capital stock
of $250,000. The Central OF Georgia
Railway, Macon, Ca, awarded contract
for construction of woodworking and
blacksmith shops to cost $4,000. The
Calhoun Mills, Calhoun Falls, 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 Cot
ton Mills, Henderson, N. c., will build
ALI additional mill to be equipped with
10000 spindles and accompanying ma
chinery.
Among the buildings contracted for
during the week were the following:
$4,000 bank building at st. Paul, Va;
$4,000 jail at Brady, Texas; $4,000
school at McComb, Miss; $4,000 hotel
at Lexington, KY; $4,000 postofice
at Winchester. Va: $125.000 hotel at
Blueield, w. Va; 100000 Y. NJ. C. A.
building at Tampa, Fla; s155.0oo
hospital at Baltimore, Nd; $1.50o.00o
municipal court building at ST. Louis.
MO-; $36, 900 school at Fort Worth. Tex
as, and 100000 hotel at San Antonio.
| Texas.