Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-12
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY.

Reviewing the industrial aetiviie:
 of the South for the week, the Manu- lecturers Record sums up ths in- creassd attention which is being given to the bcilding of cotton mills and the enlargement of existing plants. The Effrd Manufacturing company and the Wiscassett Mills company, beth Of Albemarle, N. C., and under the same management, will build sditionai mills at cost Of half a million dollars each, and have aws rded contracts for the buildings. During the three mon ,hs of July, Au- gust and September new cotton mills and improvements to existing plants reported represent an ultimate cost cf about $20O,000. while for the first nine months of the year projected cotton-mill undertakings and enlarge ments will represent an addition of 250,000 spindles and $500 looms, at an aggregate outlay Of over $6.250,000. In this development North Carolina Is taking tho lead. Of the additions reported during the last, three months, about TO per cent were in North Carolina, and to this strong showing is5 added the two-and "a -half-miliion dollar contracts to North Carolina mills just mentioned. < 1]1'f at 4iias
 Reports from all parts of. the south show continued bettarment. in the lumber situation,l with incrsa sing de- mand, more general employment ot labor in-the iron districts Of Alabatna a an. elsewhere than fer the last five or six years. and very marked i'm provsment in general business con ditions throughout the whole South. At Baltimore q contract has been let by the Pennsylvania railroad for the construction of a new coal pier. at 2 cost of S1 ,000,000. to handle about co., tons of coal per hour. Philadelphia manufacturers, in connection with Baltimore investors, will build a $375 GOO plant at Baltimore for manu- featuring high-grade steel, using cleo tricity exclusively in the work. The American Vacuum Can company o! West Virginia. has been organized with a capital S ock of $400,0uo tt manufacture cans or metal contain CTS. The shslbyville Cotton Mills Shslbyville, Tenn, has been organize( with $10O,000 capital stock to build al electrically-drivsn cotton mill. Owlnt | to the prohibition situation in Wes Virginia. the West Virginia Brewin;
 company of Huntingdon is to remode | it's brewery and change it into a pack ling plant at cost of $50,0G0, for thu packing of hogs and cattle. Ta,zi Lun dale Coal company, Charleston, W Iva. has been incorporated with $200, 1000 capital stock for mining opsra tions. From the furniture manufac Turing center of North Carolina High lPoint--come reports of short Iage of labor, with demand for me lchanies in furniture making exceed ling the supply available.
 l It appears from the Records re
 vlaw that the problem of what to d with the breweries has been solved make 'em over into packing plant:
 Pine Bluff has been famed more 10
 consuming than manufacturing bcer Ii. never possessed brawery, but
 does possess modern packery- all ready to operate. If a West Vi. ginia brewery can afford tc spen IS50,000 to become . packing plant.
 would appear that the Pine Blu
 packery should pay profit If put I operation.
 The men who built the Pine Blu
 packing plant were few years ahea
 Of the country. But time, the Eur' pean war and the practice oi divers
 fication of crops has enabled tf country to catch up. Two years a&
 there Was not enough livestock
 this territory to make pioiitao
 operation of the packing plant po
 sihle. Two years hence it will be di . ferent We ought to bssin now 10 Il } cuicate the hapit Of sending live : sleek to Pine Bluff, and buying Fiji 5 Bluff packed meats.
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