The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-03-02
MILL DEVELOPMENT
Details Of Various Plans
For Enlargement


rious new cotton manufacturing com
oanies and Of plans to enlarge estab-
iished plants were among the past
weeks industrial reports OF the Manu-
facturers' Record. Besides these there
were many other manufacturing, MIN
ing and milling enterprises announced.
Among the most important
ments were the folloWlng: Inc Cot
ton Fibre Company, Charlotte, n. -,
Incorporated with capital stock ol
S125,OOO to manufacture from the
waste of cotton mills; A. II. WOOD,
Columbia, Ala. Who has been erecting
buildings to be equipped with 5,VoO
spindles, decided upon installation OF
$1,000 spindles; Alden knitting Mills
New Orleans, decided TO build q
branch at Meridian, Miss: Elk Mills,
FayetteviHe, Tenn, now operating
5000 ring spindles, VIII double pro
ducing capacity; McAden Mills. NC
Adenville, N. c.. awarded contract
for 5000 spi,ldles additional; Ethel
Cotton Mills, Selma. N. c.. began cree
ton of buildings to be equipped With
Poteau, Okla, organized to build q
plant: Henry Warten and associate,
Athens, Ala, to invest 500, 900 in a
cotton oil mill, fertilizer factory ana
ice plant: Craig Water Power Co.,
Roanokey Va, appointed engineer Tor
its proposed NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
plant OF $500 horsepower and in
tends to build another plant Of same
capacity; China Lumber Company, st.
Landry, La, Incorporated with $780,
900 capital stock; W. Fl. Penman,
beaumont, Texas, decided on plans
for a plant to manufacture boilers,
tanks, and other similar products;
Gulf Lumber Company, Fullerton,
La, to build q second mill with daily
output Of $50. GOO feet Of lumber and
costing about $125,0OO:, L. A. Pitts.
Dubuque, Iowa, to establish plant at
South Houston, Texas, for
turing railroad and machine castings:
Russell Machine Company. Spartan
burg, S. G., incorporated with 100000
capital stock; Merchants Ice & Cold
Storage Company, Houston, Texas. in
corporated with $500, 600 capital
stock to build cold storage plant. main
structure to be six stories high of re-
inforced-concrete: Flint Hill Mining
Company, Gaffney, s. c., Incorporated
with s25o,O00 capital stock; +. II.
Robins and associates, North Noun
tain, ". Va, decided to invest $780,
OO6 in q brick plant; Georgia-Caro-
lima Power Company, Augusta, Ga,
Incorporated to build q water-power-
electric plant for distributing 5000
horsepower in Georgia and South
Carolina: Charles J. Graham, secre-
tary of the Graham Nut Company,
Pittsburgh, Pa. purchased control
of American Bolt Company, East Bir-.
~mingham, Ala, and will enlarge
plant. purchase price Of being report
ed as s125.OOe; Putnam Fertilizer
Company. Ga, arranged to
install. a plant with daily capacity of
SO to 100s tons; National Plaster &
Material Company, Memphis, Tenn.
incorporated with $4,000 capital and
will manufacture % tons of plaster
daily. besides manufacturing fire
proofing Materials; Norman Buggy
COMPANY Griffin, Ga. Incorporated
with $4,000 capital to manufacture
buggies; American Cabinet Manufac-
turing Company, Manchester. Va, in
c~orporated viii $50,609 capital stock;
Eure Cooperage Company, Norfolk,
Va, incorporated With $4,000 capital
stock, and Norton Mattress Manufac-
turing Company. Norton, Va, incor-
porated with $4,000 capital.
The most important buildings an
bounced during the week We're:
American National Bank, Richmond,
Va, engaged architects for q $780,
600 office building: City National
Bank, Temple, Texas, decided 70
build a $4,000 office building; con
tract awarded at S19,85O to M. B.
Moore, Christiansburg. Va. for en-
largement of court house at Chris
tiansburg; Edward F.. Ansley, Atlanta,
Ca, has plans by a. Ten Eyck Brow
for q ten-story reinforced concrete
garage; contract awarded at about
$4,000 to George Decking, Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, for building the custom
house at Americas, Ca; City of AL
bany, Ga, accepted plans for q $50
600 city hall; e. 3. Daggett, Fort
Worth, Texas, to build a $4,000
hotel; Grenada Bank, Grenada, Miss,
awarded contract at about $4,000 to
j. F. Barnes Jackson, Miss, for con
structing a bank and office building;
Vernon Parish, LeesVille, La, award
ed contract to Fl. 3. Hull Construct
ing Company, jackson, Miss. for
building a $4,000 court house. and
various others.
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