The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-12
|B|G INDUSTRY FOLLOWS
WATER TO HOUSTON, TEX
channel Inland, Making City Seaport
Finds Parallel In RicEmond's
Needs.
WARRIOR RIVERS COMMERCE..
remarkable Growth OF Shipment On
Alabama Stream Follows Compile
ton OF that Project-Activities In
South

Especial to The Richmond virginian.)
Baltimore, Md, Sept. 11.-Review-
ing the Industrial interest Of the South
for the week, the Manufacturers Re-
cord says:
indicative of the growing diversity
Of the manufacturing interests of the
South Is the esta adjustment in Birming-
nam of concern which is now pro-
ducing dental steel burrs, the first
plant of the kind ever started in this
section, making a line Of small steel
goods heretofore controlled entirely
in other sections This, however, Is
but typical of diversity in the In
dustrial life of the South, as well as
in It's agricultural activities which ia
creating many new lines of work.
broadening the activities and the
thought Of this section as to its own
potentialities. and making on farm
and in factory things which hereto
fore the South has, depended upon
other sections for.
Letters from Holland on one side,
and from banking interests in Chicago
on the other, express q great amaze
| ment created by recent statistics re-
garding the increase of corn produo-
ton in the South. and a Holland or
ganizauon Is preparing to have q Sc
ries of lectures delivered throughout
that country to set forth these and
other facts about the resources and
the progress Of the South.
After many years of improvement
work on the Warrior River in Ala
bama. often delayed by the Govern
ments failure to press construction
work rapidly. there has now come. fol-
lowing recent completion, a remark
able growth In the shipment OF coal
and other products down the War
rior to Mobile. thence to New Orleans
and other points. Half a dozen or
| more leading steel and coal compa-
MES OF the Birmingham district have
promptly commenced the utilization
outcome OF this situation the Terminal
Transfer and Storage Company. OF Mo-
| bile, capitalized at 100000, has an
nounced It's plans for building exten.
| sive terminal facilities FOR handling
| and storing metal products and other
| goods, for providing accommodations
| for loading and unloading twenty
steamships at time, with 5000 feet
| dock space and 100000 square feet
of warehouse storage space.
To Make Houston seapor.
"Along similar lines as an outcome
/ OF the construction by the expendf-
Houston and the National Government
In digging the Houston ship channel
and making Houston q seaport, the
Texas Portland Cement Company, OF
Dallas. has begun work on the huiid-
ing of q cement plant on the ship
channel. TO have a capacity OF 500
900 barrels OF Portland cement an
| nually.
The Pears1te Company. of Pitts
burg. chartered under Delaware laws,
with q capitalization Of 81, 600. 900, for
| the purpose OF making chemicals and
dyestuffs, Is building a plant at Caney.
KY. and proposes TO use Kentucky
camel coal In its work.
The Columbian Kaolin and Alumi-
mum Company has been organized at
Washington with 100000 capital
stock to develop kaoiin property IN
Georgia.
The Commonwealth Manufactur-
ing Company. Of Louisville. capital
stock 100000. has been organized for
manufacturing chemical compounds.
1.-THE Oklahoma Consolidated Lead
and Zinc Mining Company has been
lprEanixed at Joplin with $3.50, Geo cap
ital stock to develop mines and build
concentrating mill Of 500 tons daily
capacity.
THE Hogansville Cotton Mill. Hoo
gansviile, Ga, will double its capacity
at reported cost of about $4,000.
''The Lyon Cypress and Lumber
Company, Garyville. La, will build
hardwood mill with daily capacity OF
81. 600 feet Of lumber.
The Salmen Brick and Lumber
Company. Slidell. Ala, now operat-
ing large lumber mills. will, It is re-
ported, build additional mill with
daily capacity OF 100000 feet.
THE Baltimore Metal Company. Of
Baltimore, Md, has been Incorporate
in connection with the Bartlett-Hay-
ward Company. which 10 construct
ing an immense plant to include
twenty-four buildings for the manu-
facture OF war munitions. having =
contract with Russia for q minimum
OF $12.00O,0 900 OF shells which may
be very greatly increased
THE IaBelle Iron Works, Of Steu-
benville. Ohio. will build by-product
coke ovens In West Virginia in con-
nection with it's iron and steel plant
at an estimated cost OF about So
600, 900.
These are typical illustrations OF
| the activities that are in progress
! here and there throughout the South
| covering every section from Mary
land to Oklahoma and Texas. and COW
| erine at the same time almost every
| variety of Industrial and agricultural
activities. They are suggestive OF the
gradual but definite Improvement un-
der way In the business conditions OF
The arfire South"