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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
TEXTILE MILL HUMMINGS.
A 5.000-spindle mill is being, erected at
Macon, Ga.
A cotton factory to employ 500 hands is
being erected at New Decatur, Ala.
The Trenton Cotton Mills, of Gastonia,
N. C., have declared a dividend of 30
per cent for the past year.
The Waynesville, N. C., Light and Pow
er company will establish a mill for the
production of woolen hosiery, capacity
to be 500 pairs daily.
The Virginia Cotton Mills, of Swepson-
ville. N. C., are enlarging their plant by
erecting an additional building 100x75 feet,
in which they will install new machinery.
The Tolar-Hart & Holt Mills, of Fay
etteville. N. C., have 'been incorporated
with $100,000 capital stock, to erect and
operate a 10,000-spindle cotton mill at that
town.
An additional 2.000-spIndle equipment is
soon to be placed in the Kinston. N. C.,
Cotton Mills. They are to start up night
work at once on their present 3,250 spin
dles, hosiery yarn being the product.
Hon. J. O. Waddell has sold another
large tract of land at Rockmart, Ga., to
the Aragon Mills, and the Campbell-Wal-
cott Spinning company, which may mean
a southern branch of the latter miU as
well as of the New York mills.
The Raleigh. N. C., cotton mills are
adding another pair of mules of the Ma
son Machine Works’ make, which gives
them 2.500 additional spindles. They are
manufacturing a very fine class of ho
siery yarn.
A contract for the erection of an $S0,000
oil mill at Iceland. Miss., was signed at
Vicksburg on the 1st inst. The new com
pany is capitalized at $100,000. all of which
has been paid in. The contract calls for
the completion of the mill by September 1.
MANUFACTURING ITEMS.
A cotton oil mill costing $100,000 is being
erected at Leland, Miss.
The Cooperage company, at Ensley City,
are increasing their plant to a capacity of
3,000 barrels per day.
W. P. Henry is erecting a tobacco fac
tory at Timmonsville, S. C., with a daily
capacity of 30,000 pounds leaf tobacco, and
employing some 250 hands.
The Walworth-Neville Manufacturing
company are erecting a cross arm factory
at Beaumont. Tex., for telegraph poles
and will use 5.000.000 feet of lumber annu
ally.
The Republic Steel and Iron company
has been organized with a capital of
$55,000,000 and have acquired 31 rolling
mills, as well as 265,000 acres of coal
and iron lands.#
and drink Bowden Lithia water, from
Litbia Springs. Ga., or when in Atlanta
grasp the opportunity' of visiting their
pleasant office and reception room, oppo
site rhe Aragon hotel, and drink cool,
transparent Bowden Lithia Springs wa
ter, (fresh from the springs), he would
learn how to keep well and happy, and
be free from indigestion or sleepless
nights.
IRON AND OIL BLOWINGS.
The Carnegie Furnace company has just
put its 90-ton furnace at Johnson City,
Ja., in full blast.
The American Oil Improvement compa
ny has secured 15.000 acres of oil lands
near Sistersville, W. Va., and will devel
op same.
The Embreeville, Tcnn., Iron company
has put their furnace at that town in
full blast and are now turning out 120 tons
of iron per day.
NEWS AT THE PORTS.
The Port ingles Terminal company has
been chartered with a capital of $400,000
with headquarters at Rockwell, Fla.
C. P. Huntington has purchased 1,160
acres of land at Virginia Point, Galves
ton, Tex., and adjoins 2.500 acres which
he bought several months ago. The land
all fronts on the bay.
What Mr. Huntington intends to do
with it is not known, as he but recently
bought 230 acres on the island for wharf
purposes. New York specials say it is for
stockyard and packery purposes.
SAWMILL BUZZINGS.
Frank Kendall has purchased 8.100 acres
of timber land in Jefferson county, Ar
kansas.
Michigan parties have purchased 9.000
acres of timber land in Perry and Har
rison counties, Mississippi.
The Roper Lumber company has pur
chased 7,000 acres of timber land near
Brice’s creek in Craven county, N. C.
The Knoxville Sawmill company has
been incorporated to erect and operate
a large sawmill near Knoxville, Tenn.
L. N. Dantzler. Jr., has purchased the
sawmill plant and a large tract r of timber
land near Howison, Miss., and will devel
op same.
The George Land and Timber company
has be*n organized at Valdosta. Ga.. and
have purchased 40.000 acres of timber
lands in Florida.
The Gallaway & Wright Lumber com
pany. lately reported as incorporated, will
erect a planing mill 70x100 feet, with four
machines, resaw and edger, at Nacog
doches. Tex.
TRANSPORTATION ITEMS.
The Southern Pacific railway will oper
ate a steamship line between New Or
leans and Guatemala.
C. B. Wintersmlth has been appointed
land commissioner of the Yazoo and Mis
sissippi Valley railway with headquarters
at Memphis, Tenn.
The Tennessee Central railroad officials
have purchased 300.000 acres of timber and
coal lands on the Cumberland mountains
and will develop same.
The Seaboard Air Line has prepared
plans for ten new locomotives to have ex
ceptional high speed to be used in tb«
passenger service.
The Merrill-Stevens Engineering com
pany. of Jacksonville, Fla., are building a
^.Wlft. light draft •p^stwijj'ger pgarner
the Plant line. This steamer which when
completed will ply on Florida inland wat
ers, will be 121 feet long and 30 feet beam
and cost about $50,000.
CONFEDERATE VETERANS’ RE
UNION.
Charleston, S. C., May 10-13, 1890.
On account of the Confederate Veterans*
Reunion, the Seaboard Air-Line will sell
tickets to Charleston and return at very
low rates, based on one cent per mile
traveled. Tickets on sale May 8th, 9th
and 10th. good to return until May 21st.
For information in regard to rates,
schedules, etc., apply to Ticket Agents or
address
L. S. ALLEN, Gen’I. Pass’r. Agent,
Portsmouth, Va.
PRIZE PEACHES OF'ALABAMA.
The largest peach grown !n the vicinity
of Fruithurst, Ala., the past season
measured ten and one-half inches In cir
cumference. It had the rich color and
bloom peculiar to that section, and ex
quisite flavor. A prize is offered through
the Fruithurst Enterprise for the largest
peach brought In during 1899; the prize is
Jo, and if the peach exceeds the size of
the past year it will be made J5.
A GOOD OPPORTUNITY.
"Atlanta Business Men’s League, At
lanta. Ga:—Gentlemen The Ellen N.
Land company will donate a limited num
ber of- acres of land, the amount to be
agreed upon later, to any reputable man
ufacturing concern which will agree to
place its plants and works thereon. The
donation to be commensurate with the
size and importance of the works and
the number of hands to be employed.
"GEORGE S. MAY.”
The offer made is an especially valuable
one. The property of the Ellen N. Land
company is situated on the outskirts of
Atlanta, near the Van Winkle machine
shops. It has a railroad frontage on
three lines, and will make valuable man
ufacturing sites.
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO.
LUCAS COUNTY, ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doing business in the city
of Toledo, County and State aforesaid,
and that said firm will pav the sum of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
my presence, this 6th day of December,
A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON.
(Seal.) Notary Public.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mu-
cuous surfaces of the system. Send for
testimonials, free
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists. "5c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
ANT PERSON
Wishing to know the truth in regard to
their health should not fall to send for a
valuable and new 64-page Booklet which
will be sent FREE for a short time to
those who mention this paper. This book
is published by the celebrated physicians
and specialists—Dr. Hathaway & Co., of
tZhi S. Broad street, Atlanta, Ga., whom
you should address. Write today.
- ~^ 3EES #r0 HGiiEYr
Among the lesser Industries in the
southern states honey production .Is not
the least. The south Is pre-eminently a
region of flowers, while buckwheat, that
favorite of the honey bee, blooms in near
ly all the states traversed by the South
ern railway. Wild bees are in abundance.
The resident of the coider north, locating
in the south, will recognize the advant
age of living in a country where honey
can be made In abundance, whether he
desires it only to add to his home supply,
or to produce it for the market.
KENTUCKY COAL IN 1898.
The returns from the commercial coal
mines of the states of Kentucky made to
the mine Inspector show a total produc
tion for the year 1898 of 3.542,132 tons, the
greatest In the history of the state, and
238,079 tons in excess of the output of 1897.
The prospect for a large yield the present
year is excellent.
GEORGIA STATE FAIR
To Be Held in Atlanta, October 18 to November 4,1899.
The Hagnitude and Aims, With a Partial List
of the Many Premiums to Exhibitors.
NOTES FROM THE SOIL.
Adam Brailee. of Harrlsonvllle. Mo.,
will erect a J2".OCO flour mill, with capac- I
ity of 2ii0 barrels of flour and 100 barrels I
of meal per day in Temple. Tex.
Icwa parties have purchased 4.000 acres ]
of rice lands near Beaumont. Tex., and
will expend over JlOO.oOO In erecting a rice
mill and irrigation plant to develop same.
The Greenwood Planting and Manufac
turing company, limited, has been incor
porated. purchased the Greenwood plan
tation in Terrebonne parish, and will
erect and operate a large central sugar
factory, at Houma, La., capital stock
J100.000.
Shakespeare has well said:
“There is a tide in the affairs of men
which, taken at its flood, leads on to for
tune.’’
In other words, there comes a time in
every man’s life when a great opportun
ity is offered to him. If he accepts it. he
is rewarded with health and happiness: if
he neglects it, the chances are it is gone
forever.
Horace Greeley said a quarter of a
century ago: “Go west, young man, and
grow up with the country.”
If the shrewd, sensible reader would go
CATHARTIC
SCOPE OF FAIR.
The plan of the Georgia state fair that
is to be held in Atlanta next fall has been
blocked out. And the result Is unique-
providing as It does that this state fair
is really to be a home-made fair. The old
established exposition idea—the collecting
of a temporary museum of foreign wares
and products and cataloguing the whole
under a local title and inviting home
folks to come and see it and thereby ac
quire a liberal education for the price of
admission, is entirely discarded. This
fair will be an exposition of the things
that are to be found in Georgia. Agri
culture and manufacture—home agricul
ture and home manufacture—have been
invoked as patron goddesses of the show.
For. the theory upon which this fair
seems to be founded is, at last, that if a
sample of everything Georgia can offer
to outsiders w*ho are looking for a home
to adopt or a place to invest money, is
put on exhibition, none of that very de
sirable class who come to view it can re
sist the multifarious charms of this
smiling state, and so will become
citizens of it. bringing with them new
blood anti money to enrich and make
greater the commonwealth and its peo
ple.
And. too. there Is another edge to this
theory no less keen. Which is. that a
friendly rivalry will be stirred up among
the people of the state by such a fair that
should make greatly for real and tangi-
bue public good. John Smith will he in
vited to come and show what he is doing
at home, he being expected to put his
best foot foremost. So also will his neigh
bor Brown he invited. Then, the fair
management argues, if Brown s products
are better than Smith s. Smith will in all
probability go back home fired with am
bition to in turn surpass Brown, and so
an admirable warfare will be started.
Another thing about the forthcoming
show that is calculated to make a great
hit with the people of the state is that
while manufacture will he a feature of it,
agriculture will be the feature. The larg
est premiums offered are for farm pro
ducts. And these premiums embrace
every imaginable product of the farm,
from Jersey bulls to pickled peaches.
both for Individual and county displays.
In offering premiums for county and in
dividual displays a scale of points has
been adopted, as follows: Recognizing 100
points as perfect, agriculture is rated at
60 points, garden vegetables at 20 home
Industry 10 and fruits 10. This will enable
Judges to rate each exhibit more accurate
ly upon its merits, and award premiums
with more fairness than is possible under
any other system.
The whole of the department is limited
to Georgia production, and ail articles
exhibited must be grown by the exhibi
tor. Exhibits must be of agricultural pro
ducts exclusively.
PREMIUMS FOR EXHIBITS.
The folowing premiums will be offered
for county and individual exhibits:
To the county making the largest
and best display of products grown
or produced by residents of the
county n .000
To the county making the second
best display as above 500
To the county making the third best
display as above 300
To each county making a worthy ex
hibit that does not take a premium 100
To the individual making the largest
and best display of products grown
or produced by him, or under his
direction 200
To the Individual making the second
best display as above 150
To. the individual making the third
best display as above 100
To the individual 1 making the best
display produced on one-plow farm 150
To the individual making second best
display as above '75
Those interested in special premiums,
or indeed any matter regarding the fair,
may secure full information by address
ing the secretary, Mr. T.’ H. Martin, Pru
dential Building. Atlanta.
HOME GROWN MEAT.
Georgia raised meat Is going to be one
of the star features of the forthcoming
fair in Atlanta. The liberal prizes that
have been announced by the Agricultural
Society for fat stock, have been supple
mented by three hundred dollars in spe-
premiums by a couple of Atlanta
s. The k
ctal
firms. The" idea, evidently, of the fair
management, and of these Atlanta firms,
is to start, if possible, among the far
mers of Georgia, a fashion of raising
their own meat.
M. T. R. Sawtell, the head of a pack
ing house in Atlanta, which is one of the
firms offering the special premiums, sees
it demonstrated every day in his business
that Georgia farmers can grow as fine
stock as can be grown in the west—ifthey
only would. He very much prefers the
home product, but he cannot get it ex
cept in limited quantities. Indeed, he
has been able to secure stock from only-
two or three farmers in the state. These
to or three, however, furnish him the
finest quality, and what is more to the
point, have each acquired a flourishing
bank account by so doing.
Th& premiums offered in this depart
ment make up a nice little total, and the
farmers of this section would not be
throwing their time away in endeavor
ing to capture them. Here they are:
Mr. T. R. Sawtell, of Atlanta, offers
the following special premiums:
For fattest calf under twelve months
old - ..$100
For fattest lamb under twelve months
old 25
For patest pig under twelve months
old , 25
Edward O. Miles & Co., of Atlanta, of
fer the following special premiums:
For fattest calf under twelve months
old $100
For fattest lamb under twelve months
old 25
For fattest pig under twelve months
old.. 25
Pemiums offered by Georgia Sate Agri
cultural Society:
1st Prem. 2d Prem.
Best pen fat cattle, not less
than five head, to weigh not
less than 1,000 pounds each,
to be bred and fattened by
the exhibitor $50 00 $25 00
Best pen fat hogs, not less
than five, Georgia raised,
with statement of estimated
cost of raising 20 00 10 00
Best pen of fat lambs, not less
■than fiv^ head, to weigh not
less than eighty pounds each,
to be bred and fattened by
exhibitor 25 00 10 00
Heaviest steer .. 25 00
Heaviest hog 15 00
FAIR NOTES.
One of the features of the forthcoming
state fair will be what is usually termed
the “Midway.” The management of the
fair will endeavor to have this one made
up of really high-class amusements—such
as biographs, showing battles, moving
warships, etc., and that order of things
which are really worth seeing.
Races are to be held at the forthcom
ing fair in Atlanta—good races, and clean,
honest ones, if the efforts of the manage
ment don’t miscarry—and there is no like
lihood that they will. It has been said
that every man* who is a man loves a
horse race. And if such be true, all Geor
gia will be at the fair grounds next Oc
tober.
It Is announced that the premium list ol
the state fair that is to be held in At
lanta next fall is now in the hands of the
printer and as soon as It is Issued, Secre
tary T. H. Martin will be glad to send a
copy to anybody who desires it, free of
charge, of course.
A postal card mailed to him at the of
fice of the fair, 218 Prudential building,
will bring the book. And possibly the
penny invested in the postal will be the
means of securing a chance to pick up a
number of dollars in premiums that will
'rjWid offered hy the H arrii'ultujpl so-
(yaor sbniefhing the inq llrer’Tmiipen-:
to possess.
• • •
In the proof-sheets of the Agricultural
society’s premium list of the fair to be
held next fall in Atlanta, $150 is offered
for the best model dairy of not less than
five cows, In operation on the grounds,
and $100 for the second best. This is one
of the largest premiums ever offered by
any fair for any agricultural exhibit, and
is worth winning. The management of
the coming state fair has announced a
prize list which should command univer
sal competition. Now. let the people get
together and see if they cannot, with this
incentive, lift the pressure which has
been weighing down upon them as the
result of four-cent cotton.
A premium of three hundred dollars
has been offered by the State Agricul
tural society for the best exhibit produc
ed on a one plow farm. That sum is large
enough to warrant the prediction that
the displays it will call forth will be a
leading feature of the fair. Few things
are of more general interest than a prac
tical demonstration of what a man can
create with a plow. And the people of
Georgia are not only going to be deeply
interested by this feature, but they will
be surprised by It as well. For the agri
cultural possibilities of this state are al
most unlimited, and there are any number
of men who will show up at the fair with
more different kinds of things grown on
a hundred acre farm than the average
person thinks there is in the whole de
partment of agriculture.
• • •
Already ten counties have secured
space for exhibits at the forthcoming
state fair, and a number of others have
announced that as soon as official action
can be taken they will do likewise. This,
more than eight months before the open
ing of the show, promises brilliantly for
its success. The Agricultural society’s
purpose of making the fair a great agri
cultural exposition has evidently met
with the heartiest kind of approval
throughout the state, and. from present
indications, the fair will, by all odds, be
the largest and best show of its kind ever
held in Georgia. The ten counties that
have already entered into competition for
the $1,006 premium are Floyd, Bartow,
Cobb, Gwinnett, Camden.Hancock, Troup,
Thomas, Putnam and Towns.
The fair management says that fifteen
hundred dollars In cold, hard cash will
be giver, away at the state fair next fall
in premiums for poultry.
That isn’t a bad figure at all. And
everybody in the state who oWTts a roos
ter or a hen stands a. chance to capture
some of it. In the north and west, wherc-
the farmer makes every edge'cut. poultry
ls one of the chief sources of his revenue.
The farmers of those sections raise chick
ens not only for home consumption, but
for export everywhere—frequently to
Georgia, this perfect paradise for chicken
raising. It is an enterprise that is almost
neglected in the south, except in the most
haphazard way. And yet. there are few
better opportunities for gain. To which
fact the promoters of the fair are evi
dently striving to open the eyes of the
Georgia farmer by offering such a large
amount in premiums for this generally
considered unimportant department of
the farm.
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MINING NOTES.
The DeSoto Lead company has pur
chased 10,000 acres of lead and mineral
lands near DeSoto, Mo.
The Louis Gold Mining company has
purchased ihe Lovingood gold min at
Chipeta. Ga., and will develop it on an
extensive scale.
*
The LoufS Gold Mining company has
purchased the Lovingood gold mine at
Chipeta, Ga., and will develop it on an
extensive scale.
Lewisohn Bros., of New York, have pur
chased the copper mines property of the
Pittsburg and Tennessee company at
Ducktown, Tenn., for $157,500. Improve
ments amounting to nearly $250,000 will be
made, and the property will be worked
extensively.
A St. Louis sjTidicate has purchased a
large tract of mineral lands in Fentress
and Cum'beriand counties, Tennessee. The
Tennessee Central railway will build
through the property.
The Union Copper Mining company,
which was organized recently, is now
pushing development work of the copper
deposits on its 553 acres of land that were
purchased for this purpose near Gold
Hill, N. C. It is claimed that shafts thir
ty to 140 feet deep have been sunk, that
the surface vein measures over 100 feet
wide, and that the vein extends fully 3,000
feet on the company’s property from 50
to 120 feet in width; the ore is said to be
equal in richness to any/ ever marketed.
The erection of crushers and smelters to
handle 500 or 1,000 tons of ore daily Is con
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Number of hands employed. 3,900; num
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local consumption, 35.400.000: number of
cars of lumber handled 28.680; gross bus
iness ("approximately) $5,500,000; capital in
vested. $3,500,000; amount invested in plant,
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