Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-28
MANY INDUSTRIAL
ENTERPRISES BEGIN
OPERATIONS SOON

weeks development, printed in the
Manufacturers Record, as follows:
A transportation company at Mem
phis, Tenn, has been chartered with
100000 capital. and plans to build
terminals
An investment of $1,O00,OO0 for site.
buildings, machinery etc, for manu-
featuring kraft paper is planned by the
North Carolina Paper & Pulp Com
pany, Wilmington, N. c.
Oklahoma petroleum will be refined
by the Cameron Refining Co., Ardmore,
Okla, incorporated with capital of
$1,000,000 by Ardmore and Chicago
capitalists.
Iron mining and manufacturing will
be the principal activities of the Shelf
field Iron Corporation, Sheffield, Ala
incorporated with $775,5OO capital as a
part of the reorganization plan of the
Sheffield Coal & Iron Company This
corporation is now rebuilding its Shelf
field furnace, improving its Jasper coke
ovens, adding to its mining plants,
etc.
River terminals will be constructed
by the city of Memphis, Tenn, which
has voted 100000 bonds to provide the
necessary funds.
An investment of 100000 is planned
by the Norris Fertilizer Co, Atlanta,
Ca, for building a fertilizer factory at
Nayassa, n. c., the annual capacity to
be 10000 tons.
An expenditure Of $5O3,47O is esti-
matre for the municipal river terminal
improvements for which the city of
Mobile, Ala, recently voted 100000 in
bonds The new CONSTRUCTION is to
include a 7500-foot wharf costing $232,-
500, $500 feet of bulkhead costing
1913 POS, six miles of railroad track
costing $4,000 etc, together with g.
100000 cubic yards of dredging to
cost $120,OO0
Non-alcoholic beverages will be
manufactured by the Huntington Co,
Beverage, w. Va, incorporated with a
capitalization of 100000
shipyards will be established at
Beaumont, Texas by j. n McCammon
~ n;oo Dluff ArIy r-bn hoe Iaoco6
plant site and secured an initial
contract to build a number Of $500
ton wooden ships costing $500 900 each
for the Government.
Brazoria and Fort Bend county eek
as) sulphur and oil properties will b.
developed by the swift Sulphur 4 tHi
Go r astoE, To-, chartered VIII
a tari'alizatio1 of $25O,OOO.
Fertilizer and oil will be the pro-
duct of the Pensacola Fertilizer & Oil
Co., Pensacola, Fla, incorporated with
capitalization of $250,0O0 by New
York investors.
Hosiery will be knit by the Paragon
Knitting Mills, Oklahoma City, organ
lied with $250,O00 capital
Headlights for motor vehicles will
be manufactured by the Turn Right"
Headli.ht Co, Harrison, Ark, in
corporated with a capitalization Of
100000
Machinery for destroying the boil
weevil will be manufactured by the
Kyser Manufacturing Co, Birmingham,
Ala, incorporated with a capitalization
Of 100000.
Oklahoma mines will be developed
by the MarshfeId-Quapah Mining Co.
Quapah, Okla, incorporated with
capitalization of $4,000.
Window glass will be manufactured
by the Model Window Glass Co, For.
Smith, Ark, incorporated with CAPT
talization of $75,O000.
Lumber will be the product of the
Coal Fork Lumber Co, Charleston,
W. Va. incorporated with capital
Of $4,000.
Oklahoma mines will be developed
by the Homestake Mining Co., Miami,
Okla, incorporated with a tapitaliza-
ton of 100000.
Cleansers will be manufactured by
the Hancock Cleanser Co., Chatta
nooga, Tenn, incorporated with a CAPT
talization of $4,000
West Virginia coal and timber land
will be developed by the Pocahontas
Coal Land & Timber Co. Princeton
W. Va, chartered with capitalization
Of $4,000.
Virginia marble, onyx and granite
will be quarried by the Virginia Marble
& Onxy Co, Saltpetre Cave, Va, organ
lied with a $4,000 capital
West Virginia coal will be mined by
the Depoy Co, WEIGH, w. Va, incorp-
Grated with $1,000 capital.
West Virginia coal will be mined
~ the Stonewall Block Coal Co., Stone
wall w Va, Incorporated with a CAPT