The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-11

1 IoAlliiiOiCv CDI udl -ttopcCfdl.) Big and important industrial enter prses are included among the southern l developmentaI announcements of the past week, the principal facts being
 presented in the Manufacturers Record. l They are varied in character, and
 among them is a s5,O0o. 900 corporation | which will mine coal and iron, operate coke ovens, manufacture iron at two furnaces, etc, in Tennessee and Geor- gia. Another important enterprise is a $3,000000 plant for manufacturing 1 industrial alcohol and other chemicals | In Maryland. In Tennessee there will be built $1,500,00 plant for manufac-
 turing wood distillates for the govern
 ment. In North Carolina a 100000 cor
 poration will mine coal for the Nor folk Southern railroad. At Pensacola 1 final arrangements were completed for 1 a s645,0o0 shipyard whose initial con-
 tract, recently awarded by the govern
 ment, provides for building 10 ships at a cost of more than $14,000. 000
 The Manufacturers Record reports | include interesting features of the above mentioned enterprises which, with others requiring a capitalization 1 of $100,000 and in excess of that 1 amount may be briefly outlined as follows:
 Tennessee. Georgia and New York ! capitalists have incorporated the Day ton company. Dayton, Fla, with a cap l italization of $5.000,000, to consolidate the Dayton Coal, Iron and Railroad
 company and the Matthews Iron and Steel company of Rome, Ga. They con-
 template an expenditure of $1O0o for | Improvements for the further develop
 ment of the properties which have been appraised at $3,969.000. These proper ties are located in Rhea county Ten I nessee, and Gordon and Walker coun- l ties. Georgia, and they include two iron furnaces, 374 coke ovenus. 27,000 acres l of coke and coal land, 4000 acres Of coal land, limestone quarry, 17-mile ! standard gauge railway. etc.
 l Plans and specifications have been
 accepted for the plant, now reported as to cost $3.000,000, which the West | Virginia Pulp and Paper company of Luke, Md, will build to manufacture | industrial alcohol and other chemicals ', (from pulp and paper-mil1 waste) for the government The factory buildings will be of reinforced concrete construc- l tion.
 | It is now estimated that $1.500. 900 will be the cost of the plant which the Tennessee Valley Iron and Railroad company. Collinwood, Tenn, will build
 to supply the government with wood distillates, while the accompanying im- provements to include constructing dwellings. offices, waterworks. e1ectr .- 1 light plant. sewers. etc, for employees,
 will cost $500,000 additional. Contract l for constructing the plant has been l awarded. and materials and men are ] now being gathered at the site. This | plant will burn 250 cords of wood every day, and it's daily product will be 2700 gallons of wood alcohol, 52,000 pounds | of acetate of lime and 12,37e bushels
 of charcoal The charcoal will be con | sumed by the Tennessee Valley man.
 agement in operating the iron furnace
 which the company is building in ac- 1 cordance with details heretofore an
 nounced.
 l North Carolina coal deposits will be | developed by the Cumnock Coal Min- l ing company. Cumnock, N C.. which has been incorporated with $1,000.0O0 cap-
 ital by officials of the Norfolk South ern railroad to furnish the CumnocS coal as fuel for the railway mentioned. This new corporation Is supplemental to the Piedmont-Cumno company. which the same officials recently char i tered with $500, ,000 capital and later increased to s1 100000. Norfolk and
 New York capitalists control the two i enterproses.
 Site has been acquired for the ship yards which the Pensacola Shipbuild- ling company. Pensacola. Fla. will build Il to construct fabricated steel ships for l the government. The investment for the plant will be $645,000, and the plant l structures will include shops, slips, ways, offices, employees dwellings. etc.
 This company has been organized by the Ketler- Elliott Erection company of
 Chicago to undertake the latter's con- tract for building 10 9000-ton capacity government ships to be equipped with steam turbines.
 I Oklahoma lead and zinc ores will be mined by the Constitutional Lead and Zinc Mining company. Muskogee. Okla, Incorporated with $300,000 capital.
 The manufacture of leather tan ming extract from palmetto and man. grove root and bark is planned by Wal ter J. Lloyd. Miami. Fla. who proposes I organizing a $3o0,000 company to un- dertake this enterprise.
 Kentucky coal land totaling 1S.o0o
 acres will be developed through the
 Kentenia- -Puckett corporation. Harlan ky, which will lease the property in 500 to 1500-acre tracts to mining com
 panies. The construction of an eight
 mile railroad Is contemplated to pro-