The Age Herald

SOUTHERN PROGRESS.

The New Industries Reported in the South in a Week.

Chattanooga, Tenn., March 24. - (Special) - Among the more important of the new industries reported by The Tradesman for the week ended March 23 are brick works at Harrisburg, N. C.; $25,000 brick and tile works at Laurel, Miss.; a buggy factory at Henderson, N. C.; a button factory at Batesville, Ark.; a carriage and implement company at Lake Charles, La.; a chair factory at Chattanooga; coal mines at Altoona, Ala.; a $40,000 coal mining company at Birmingham; a $50,000 coal company at Piedmont, W. Va.; a $25,000 cooperage plant at Hapeville, Ga.; a cotton gin at Harrisburg, N. C.; a $75,000 cotton mill at Belmont, N. C.; an $80,000 cotton mill at Lenoir, N. C.; a $100,000 cotton mill at Charlotte, N. C.; electric light plants at Russellville, Ark., Rocky Mount, N. C., and Cooper, Tex.; flouring mills at Barren and Eve, Ky., Mount Olive, Miss., Mountain City and Trigon, Tenn.; a $25,000 flour and grist mill at Charlotte, N. C.; a grain elevator at Nolin, Ky.; hardware companies at Tampa, Fla., and Ballinger, Tex.; a hoop factory at Fayetteville, Tenn.; an iron and coal company at Tuscaloosa, Ala.; a $50,000 land company at Laurens, S. C.; a $100,000 land company at Beaumont, Tex.; a laundry at Lynchburg, Va.; large lumber mills at Nashville, Tenn.; machine shops at Chattanooga; a mattress factory at Warrentonville, S. C.; two $50,000 mining companies at Center Point, Ark.; a $600,000 mining and milling company at Newport, Ark.; a $50,000 oil company at Austin, Tex.; two oil companies at Beaumont, Tex., capitalized at $500,000 and $1,000,000 respectively; a $100,000 oil company at Orange, Tex.; a $50,000 oil mill at Camden, Ark.; an oil mill and fertilizer factory at Crystal Springs, Miss.; an oil mill at Laurinburg, N. C., a paint factory at Hot Springs, Ark.; a $35,000 paper and box company at Nashville, Tenn.; planing mills at Kendall, Ark., and Westminster, S. C.; a shingle mill at Brewton, Ala.; a singletree factory at Paducah, Ky.; a $350,000 sugar refinery at Lakeside, Tex.; a $160,000 tannic acid plant at Damascus, Va.; telephone systems at Pensacola and Tampa, Fla., Austell, Ga., Bishopville, S. C., and Seymour, Tex.; a $30,000 tobacco factory at Belmont, N. C., and a tobacco stemmery at Russellville, Ky.