Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-26
TRADE ACTIVITY
 IN SOUTH GROWS

A special dispatch to the Manufac- | turers' Record from President Grace l of the Bethlehem Steel company, in | giving details regarding the proposed l expenditure of $3G.O00,00H by that | company in the enlargement of the l Maryland Steel company works at Baltimore, which is recently purchas- | ed, reports that among these improve
 ments will be four blast furnaces,
 while other additions will include the
 building of new pants for turning this 1 iron into the finished product, he enlargement of the by-prOfuct coke plant and the extension of the ship l building yard all of which will re- suit in making this one of the great est combined iron and steel and ship | building plants in the United Slaves. l The four furnaces will have a ca pacity of 300 tons each, which will mean additional imports of about 4, 900 tons of ore daily.
 Various other announcements of Southern industrial activity during the past week are detailed in this I weeks sssue of the Manufacturers
 Record, almost every class of enter prise and many large expenditures being mentioned These big invest ments included $2,00O,00G to build dams for 26,000 horsepower hydro electric development near Brdgewa- ter. N. G.: $2,O0C,000 for a grain ele- vator at Baltimore, $1000,0 for an oil refinery at Tulsa, $500,000 for cotton mill at Porterdale, Ga, and $250, ,000 for corn products manu-. factory at Baltimore. From particu- lars of the numerous reports are talk en the following essential statements: Western Carolina Power company, subsidiary of Southern Power com pany, Charlotte, N. C., awarded $2,- OOO,OO0 contract for cOnstructin@ three dams near Bridgewater, N. C.; these dams will have power-house' c end equipment to generate 260o0 electrical horsepower for transmits sion through the Carolinas and will increase the Southern Power com pany's total to 170,000 horsepower from six hydro-electric developments. Pennsylvania railroad, Baltimore
 will expend $2,G0O,ocO to rebuilt
 Northern Central railway grain ele- vator recently burned; concrete fire
 proof construction has been adopted
 and the elevators capacity will prob ably be 100000 bushels of grain.
 Milliken company, Tulsa Okla, chartered with $1,000,00O authorized capital. and plans to build crue-ol re- finery.
 Bihb Manufacturing company, Ma con, Ga, will build 25,C0O-spndle cot ton mill, costing probably $50G.0o0 at Porterdale.
 Huntington Development & Gas company, Huntington, w. Va, award ed contract for 20-mile line to pipe gas from gas fields to Huntington, cost to exceed $300,000.
 Canton Corn Products company, Baltimore, Md, incorporated with $25O,oOO capital for manufacturing alcohol and other corn products.
 Marion Refinery company. Clare more, Okla., incorporated with $250,- coo capital to refine oil. .--
 Carolina Tanlac company, Char lctte, N C., incorporated with $155,000 to manufacture tanlac.
 Oriental Textile Mills, Houston Heights, Tex. increased capital from $3o0,0O0 to $60O,00O.
 Safety First Manufacturing compa- ny, Tulsa, Oklahoma, incorporated with $1oo,ooo capital for manufactur- ing purposes. Henderson Hosiery company, Hen derson, N. C., incorporated with $1GO,- GOO capital to knit hosiery
 RobstoWn Gin & Ice company, Robs- town, Tex, incorporated with $6O,OOO capital to gin cotton and manufacture ice.
 Peoples Cotton oil company, Sweetdater, Tex, incorporated with $5C,000 capital to manufacture cotton seed oil
 Long Coal Mining company. Rev. ncldsville, w. Va, incorporated with $50,O0O capital to develop coal land.
 Moseley Slave company, Richmond, l Va., incorporated with $5O,GO0 capital | to manufacture slaves.
 Bell Gasoline Saver company Alex | andrfa, Va, incorporated with $5O,0OO capital for manufacturing purposes.
 Southern Press Cloth Manufactur- ing company. Augusta, Ga., :ncorpor- ated with s25,000 capital to .nanufac- ture press cloth fcr oil mills.
 Bay City Clay Products company, | Bay City. Texas incorporated with | $25. OcO capital for manufacturing clay | products.