Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-09-11

growing regions will be higher this
Year than last
The lumber producing sections OF
the South have naturally been among
The chief henefciaries OF the cVuu-
try vide building boom. orders re-
ccivcd 10y many mills have consist
emily been in excess Of production
and have, during the entire season.
been almost uniformly above what
had come TO be considered normal.
Operations at not a few mills have
been restricted by labor shortage
circumstance tending to lower pos
sihie profits. but a; the same time
speaking cloQucntiy for employment
conditions in tn. particular com
munitieS where the prohleni has en-
listed
Moreover, tho South has been free
~ using its own lumber Construc-
ton work In Mobile. to take an OK.
| IRENE example was during June 525
I per cent above the same month last
year: in Knoxville, $50 per cent
phovc: ia Jacksonviilc. - per cent
/ IN Atlanta. go per cent above: in
/ Columbus, SO per cent above
| Textile Activity.
| While the textile industry in New
[ England has been in tho grip OF a
devastating strike That has dragged
/ along through most OF III. spring
! and summer. Southern mills have
been constantly broadening their op.
/ erations. / June of this year. ,hi,-
/ ty-threc mills IN the Sixth Federal
I Reserve /. trict reported their pro.
! duct!on OF cotton yarn at 40 per
/ cent above tn. same month last year.
and the number OF their employees ak
/ ~ per cent greater. Four hosiery
| mills reported output - per cent
greater than the same month last
year. and five overall mill. reported
output - per cont ercatcr
There has been at un time this
| year any strike In the Southern tcN.
/ tile mills
Growing Coal Production.
Nor has Their. been any coal strike
| in the important Birmingham indus
| trial district. The mines in that ter
! rit0rj-'' nave Seen. s.SircrraSing ;hpit
, output 10y leaps ana bounds since
/ Npr!I ], ANA ar. now producing at
| the rate OF about 2O.0OO.O 900 tons a
year more than double the rate this
time last year
There has, indeed. been something
"c scramble on the part OF rail.
roads and industrial establishment.
outside the South to obtain Alabams
coal. AS "A result. prices have scared
SO urgent has been the demand thai
very recently II number OF so-callcC
tair weather mincs--small seal,
operations that can only AFFORD /,
produce when prices are high-havt
opened up. There has been no mn,
complaint Of proitccriug
because steady supply Of fur
has been locally available. the Birm.
insham iron and steel industry In.
been blowing In furnaces Will,
Pittsburgh has been blowing then
out runaway market prevails in
spot pig iron Las, week. one and
two carload lots sold zap 10 S25 nc:
ton. the highest pric. reached since
the war. y sufficient volume of or.
ders is pending TO assure "A good bust.
ness even after coal production In
ia" Strik" districts has materialI,
Increased
Cur shortage.
u appears, however. that car short.
age IN the southern Industrial dis
tricts has already become much NOR,
OF problem than il has in the North
Several coal mines in the Birmingham
district have been forced TO close
with their bins FUN. because car,
could not be obtained For man,
weeks var shortage In the Southern
Appalachian territory has gravely re.
| Strictcd coal output
Conditions in these districts give 4
iair indication. we think. or wha
y may be expected from the railroad,
IN tn" Northern States after boil
anthracite and bitumlnous coal pro
duction hay" been resumed on ,
iuIl-iime basis. Each day the cvi
d"ncc becomes more clear that !
general car shortae" is going to b,
one OF TINS couutry's most pressing
problems later on In the year
Last Years Depression Severe.
Last years business depression
struck the South a staggering blow
IN" movement Of cotton prices ere
atca a situation which for a tim,
Looked almost hopeless. II now seem.
evident that. through u furtuitou.
combination OF circumstances the
south is going To be one OF the mrs,
great districts 20 com" back"