Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-01-12
TRADESMAN'S REVIEW
SHOW MUCH INDUSTRY
Southern States Will See
Many New Plants and
Improvements Soon

CHATTANOOGA Tenn, Jan. IL
The Tradesman this week. reviewing
he iron market conditions. says:
Southern manufacturers of pig
iron have very little complaint to
make IL the sale of iron for the first
three months of the year is the only
proposition before them. There is a
fairly good sale on the books also
for the second quarter OF the year.
while inquiries in hand which FROM
! Use to result in business will provide
a steady demand for the product
through the first half OF the year
and give a nice start on to the sec
ON. half. The prices now are a little
hrmer with s1O.25 and $3.50 being
asked The greater portion OF the
iron now being delivered on and
which VIII go out from the southern
furnaces for the next four or FIVE
months win hardly average above
$40 per ton. No. 2 foundry. The fact
that there is not to be stagnation
in a presidential year is encourag-
ing.
As to steel, the year is starting OF
fairly well. OF course. more BUSH
ness is necessary to bring about the
same good feeling that prevails as
to pig iron, but every week there is
announcement Of the receipt of small
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TO aggregate well and by the end of
the first month of the new year it
is believed there viii be warrant for
a steady operation at the different
plants. Positively it is known that
there is need for steady operation
at the rolling mills handling steel, for
fabricated steel viii be in strong need
for some time to come. Steel wire
goods are moving also and the in
dustries in this section of the coun-
try are looking forward to steady i'm
provement in the trade"
The following are among the mort
important Of the new industries, or
ganized during the week ending to-
day reported by the Tradesman:
ALABAMA.
Birmingham-S30,O 900 lumber compa-
ny; $4,000 land company.
Drifton-S2,0o0 coal company.
Montgomery-$S0.OOO electric power
company
Mobile-s25.OO0 handle factory.
Orrville-s25.000 bank
Tuscaloosa-s2.600 lumber company.
Talladega-s75.00 paint factory.
ARKANSAS.
Paragould-S4ooOO grocery company.
FLORIDA.
4 Jacksonville-s75,00 900 piano factory;
5000 ice and cold storage pIantf
$4,000 realty company.
Molino-s5,o00 turpentine company.
Pensacola-s90o 600 land company.
GEORGIA.
Administrator foundry.
Darien-Ice and light company.
Griffi1zS5Q 900 cotton. mill
McDonough-Light plant.
q Waycross-S5O,0Oo sash and door fac
tory.
KENTUCKY.
Frankfort-s7.O00 hardware company.
Lexington-S10.00 broom factory.
MaysviIle-s50.000 pulley works.
LOUISIANA.
Abbeville- $50. 900 bank.
New Orleans-Turpentine company:
$4,000 oil and gas company; SCI, 900
planting company.
Shreveport-S20,oO0 laundry.
MISSISSIPPI.
Gulfport-s25.000 publishing company.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Asheville-s15.0OO hardware COM
1any; $4,000 bank.
Black Mountain-Waterwor
High Point-$100.O0o furniture fac
tory.
Spencer-Ice plant
Wilmington-s5O.OO 900 realty compa-
ny; 100000 column factory.
OKLAHOMA.
Ardmore-$1O,000 plumbing and
sheet metal company.
Altus-s20,0O0 oil company.
Blackwell-s1O,O0 medicine com
pany.
cOalgate-s1O,OOO publishing com
pany.
FL RenO-s25.OOO construction
company.
Guthrie-$5O.OoO bank.
Hamomn-Waterwor
Lawton-$75,000 grocery company.
Lindsay-$10,000 hardware COM
lany.
Madill-s25,O0 hardware company.
Manitou-s1O.O00 oil company.
Nowata-$7O, 900 hotel company.
Oklahoma-s15,000 stock yards;
s350,000 hotel company.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
AIlendale-s2.O0O hardware COM
pany.
GreenviIle - $4,000 investment
company.
STANDARDIZATION automobile
company.
TENNESSEE.
Burns-Planing mill.
Dyer-s5,000 telephone company
KnoxvlIe-S25,000 construction
company.
McMinnville-Bank.
Memphis-S1, 100000 construction
company; $4,000 lumber company.
Nashville-S5O,000 construction
company: $4,000 cotton gin; $5O,U00
lumber company; hardware. comps-
ny; $4,000 manufacturing plant.
TEXAS.
Blooming Grove-s12,5OO hardware
company.
Corpus Cristi-ssOOO hardware COM
pany.
Dallas-S10.OOO construction compa-
ny: $4,000 leather company.
Ennis-S50,0O0 hardware company.
Fort Worth-s200.O00 farms company;
$4,000 lumber company; $4,000 pump
factory: $4,000 gas plant
ernsa 900