The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-02
MANY IMPORTANT NEW
ENTERPRISES ANNOUNCED
Virginia Has Half Miliion Dollar Coal
and Iron Concern At Big
Stone Gap.
CLAY PRODUCTS AT GLASGOW

Two Million Dollar Mineral Refining
and Chemical Company Secured BY
ST. Louis-Unusual Industrial Ac-
uyity Continues.
Baltimore. Nd, July More than
the usual Industrial activity prevailed
throughout the South during. the past
week. Many new important and large
enterprises were announced. besides
plans having been determined for In
creases Of established industries. These
days Manufacturers Record. from
which is taken the following brief
summary Of the most Important:
Mineral Refining ana Chemical
Company. st. Louis. Incorporated with
81. 900. 900 capitalization and awarded
contract for eight buildings Of wood
and stone construction: viii equip
with machinery for daily capacity fifty
tons Of white lead substitute: New
York and Havana capitalists are or
ganixing this enterprise
Intermont Coal and Iron Cvrpora.
ton, Big Stone Gap, Va. incorposat-
furnace to- provide Tor
daily capacity OF $50 tons Of iron.
resume coal and iron developments.
build twenty additional ovens to pres
ent plant OF eighty beehive ovens;
later will build fifty additional ovens.
ETC.; II preparing plans and specafca-
tons for extensive improvements to
increase output Of coal and iron
Texas Sulphur Company. Orla. Ala.
organized with 100000 capitalize
ton to develop sulphur properties In
culberson County and has contracted
for equipment with daily cApaOfty 600
tons OF sulphur.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. BAL
timore, awarded contract a. about
100000 for constructing export pier
to replace present structure at It's
Locust Point export terminals. new
pier to be 1000 feet long by $50 feet
wide, with concrete dock on wooden
piles
:. Timber Land Development.
Edward Hines Lumber Company.
Chicago. will develop Mississippi tim
Der lands estimated to contain 3,000,-
600. 900 feet Ut lumber. and has plans
for building mill at Gulfport. Miss..
daily capacity to BE- 100000 fest At
lumber.
Tropical Lumber and Pulp oom-
pany Baltimore, Incorporated with
$500. 900 capitalization to develop 1l<.-
600 acres Of timber land In South
America, development plans includ-
Ing tho probability Of building . paper
pulp mill on the waterfront ut Balti-
more.
Atlantic Steel Company. Atlanta,
Ga. has plans for improvements cost
ing 100000, considerable portion
being In progress: bettermsnts to In
cluds rebuilding two open-heaxth fur
naces TO increase daily capacity fpm
forty-five TO sixty-ftve tons, installing
pot annealing furnaces with twenty
four hour capacity Of twenty-fl vs tons.
installing four-block heavy-duty wire
drawing frame. tnst@fllng exhaust fAna
for waste gases etc
Indian Bay Ievee and Drainage Dis
trict, Phillips County, Helena Ark.
proposes expenditure Of 100000 for
levees and $250,000 for canals to pro-
vide drainage system for IFS. 900 acres
of agricultural land.
Intermountain Coal and Lumber
Company. Elkins. w. Va. incorporat-
ed with 100000 capital TO develop
coal mines and timber lands
d. r.. Dunlap. president OF Ala
bama Iron Works. Mobile. Ala. will
form 100000 comp.ny 70 consolidate
Alabama Iron Works. Ollineer and
Bruce Drydocks and Gulf Drydocks;
development plans include drydock
and steel-plate shop. 20 that steel ves-
sells can be constructed.
~. Cotton Goods Industry.
Winnsboro Mill4 Columbia, g. c.,
Incorporated with S3So,0oo capital for
manufacturing cotton cloth.
WAteree Mills, Columbia, g. c.. In
corporatcd with 100000 capital for
manufacturing cotton goods.
Mcultrie Mills. ColumbSL q c., In
corporAted with sl75.ooo capital to
manufacture cotton cloth.
Aston Boyd, Memphis Tenn. and
Dallas TexAs: specifications provide
Tor modern building with equipment
to mix seed and 10 bleach lint for
paper pulp.
Fresport chemioai WORKS, San
Francisco and Fresport, TexaA adopt
81 final plans for sulphur refinery re-
Gently announced ~ 10 be bul1f 81
Freoport; will begin with 1Ooxi O0-foot
fsrAproof building costing go. 600, and
9urnaceA electric motors, 60, fos
caiiy production my tons Of refined
sulphur. flowers d sulphur and rock
sulphur,
Big Plant for 0lasguw.
Glasgow Clay PRODUCES Cuuapany,
capital 70 build eleclracaIly-drivsu
plant for manufacturlne bricks. 5lre-
PROBING blockA etc. and % saino slii-
q. kaclin and ochre.
Texas Sugar Company, Hrownsv1llA,
Texas. Incorporated Win V10e. 200 cap
ifal to refine sugar.
United Brick an1 1slo Cosnpany,
Tulsa. Okla. Incorporated with 500.
600 capital for 1nannfActnx4ne br1clr1