The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-01
NEW INDUSTRIES
ALL AROUND DIXIE
Northern Capital Continues to
Seek Southern Investment.
Nirginias Attractive.
CLIFTON FORGE BIG COMPANY
Consolidation OF Several Power
Companies-Progrcss i'll West
Virginia and Carolinas.
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tSpeciaI 10 The Times Dispatch1
Baltimore. May 3l.-Among tn,
many Southern Industrial and othe,
dcrelopmen;al enterprises reported n
this weeks issue of the Manufacturers
Record. are the followins:
United States Steel Corporation. Ncv
ork. announced that the American
steel and Wire Co. will at ono, pro
coed with construction TO conp,e.. II.
6tee! and Wire works at Fairfield. Ala
representing an investment OF approxi
mately S3,500, $50.
Cumberland Mountain Land Svndi.
date, G. II Smith. engineer chatta
nooGa. Tenn. viii develop 20 500 acr.,
OF coal land near Whltwel. Tenn
plans mining town. steel and tir.o-ott
or'ck building. 10 be equipped witt
modern mining machinery etc. VII
eSta oiish central power station ana
CT machinery By electricity. con.
Sfuct oE-product coke oven plant al
Chattanooga; total cost about $500
600.
Virginia Western Power Co. Clifton
Forge. Va. was incorporated with CAM,
ia stock of s62eooO and will consoli
gate several operating and other prop.
critics, taking over Virginia Western
Electric Co. Rockbridge Power Cor
poration. Covington Light and Power
CO.. and Buena Vista Light and Power
Co.; contempiatcs transmission line ex
tensions, additional enlargements and
other hydro electric and steam de-
Veiopments; proposed 10 nave author
izcd bond issue of sl50O.O0O: company
owns several power sites and will de-
telmine further developments later
Colorado River Power co. Dalla Q.
tod -,
struct s1,ll0.OOO dam across Colorado
River near Ballinger. Texas. to store
water for irrigating $4,000 acres OF
land. also reported as TO construc ct
dydro- electric plant forty miles north
OF Austin, Texas
CITY officials of Memphis Tom.
adopted plans for food protection In
North Memphis; plans include lcvees.
mood gates. culverts, pumping station.
etc; Will soon vote on ST. 500. 900 bond
issue.
Seaboard Air Line Railway. w. D.
raucette. chief engineer. Portsmouth,
va. VIII build phosphate elevator on
Seldom lslaad near Tamoa. Fla. ex-
tend docks and bulkhead about 55o
rect improve and increase wreckagc
facilities, extend and enlarge basin.
etc. al estimated cost of from 500 o0o
to 100000
O. w, Kerr Co. Minneapolis, Mimi.
wires that outside capital purcha sed
Nelson Morris Ranch near Midland.
Texas comprising about $4,000 acres
at approximately 100000 arranged
with she company TO handle develop.
ment. Aund:viding. irrieating, coloni:
ing. etc.
Tropic Palmetto Fiber Co. was in
corp1ratcd with capital stock of $3.50
900. and Edwin NJ. Lee. president. In
dianapol!s. Ind; plans establishments
of plant In Florida to extract fiber from
raw palmetto and erect warehouse in
indianapolis
American Sheet and Tin Plate Co..
Pittsburs. Pa. plans improvements to
plant at Chester, w. Va, including m
stailation of five additional mills. five
anneallng furnaces and four cold
rooms. estimated cost $4,000
James p. Williams and T. c. will
liams, Columbia, S. c.. are planning
organization of company with capital
stock of about 100000 to develop shale
and clay deposits and establish brick
plant
Georgetown Gas and Electric Co.
GEORGETOWN, s c.. was Incorporated
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