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j v TTEARST’P SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA 0A„ SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1013. INDUSTRY IS THRMNG HEBE Clothing Manufacturers Find Thi^ Good Location—Know Exact Needs of the Section. USE LATEST MACHINERY Work of Twenty-five Women Done by One Device, Which Sews on Buttons “To Stay.” Typically h Southern industry is the manufacture of clothing, and in thi*- Jfrne Atlanta has several factories which are convincing Southern buyers ^hat it pays to stock up in the Georgi i at y. Among theee is the factory of Mar cus Loeb. 75 1-2 South Pryor Street, which confines Itself to workingmen’s clothes entirely—mechanics’ shir's, overalls, work troupers and “Jumpers.’’ The only exception is in favor of the children, for whom "rompers” are made 'These are Southern-made goods, in the best sense of the word," says Mr Loeb "The cotton is grown in the South: we buy all the cloth we can from Southern mills, even the thread is from Southern spindles, and, in tin end. the goods are manufactured in the South by Southern operators.” Know Southern Need*. jS’ew York City and other Eastern points long were regarded as tile leaders in this line of manufacture But Southern makers have gained su premacy for several reasons. One of these is their intinfute knowledge <>f Just the sort of clothing needed in this climate. A favorite product is tropi cal weight trousers, which are decid edly popular In all Southern latitudes. Another great advantage which At lanta clothing manufacturers* enjoy in ci>rnmon with all other mu nufa- t ur< i and Jobbers in Atlanta, is the con venience of the city as a distributing point, with its many railroads spread ing out like the ribs of an umbrella toward all sections of the country. Skilled help. too. is to he found in Atlanta which enables the Atlanta factories to compete with the great plants of the North and East. Most of the employees are girls, who have organized a local of the Garments Workers’ Union, and enjoy its protec tion. They are paid well, work hut eight hours a day afid find conditions agreeable. Machines Are Wonderful. The Loeb factory, like the others of its kind, exhibits some of the most Ingenious machines known to man. A trip through the factory fills a fasci nating half day. As the denims, khakis and other goods arrive in great hales and boxes They are stored in the basement of the plant, where from $30,000 to $40,- 000 worth of goods is kept to meet the constant demand of the voracious machines. When the goods are opened and in spected. they are piled on low tables, 90 feet long. Under the direction of the cutter, who is a skilled and highly paid workman, layer after layer of goods is piled up until the table sometimes is covered a foot thick with cloth. On the top layer the pattern Is chalked. Here the cutter's skill Is displayed. He'must not waste an inch of goods, for that inch multiplied by the hundreds of layers runs into yards, and yards into money, money into lost profits. Cutting Machine Irresistible. The quaint geometrical designs once chalked on the cloth with the utmost precision, a cutting machine is used to plow' its w'ay through the thick layers. This machine consists of an electric motor mounted on a base To the motor is attached a cir cular knife of razor edge. Nothing can withstand the tremendous slicing power of this rapidly whirling disk of steel as it is guided along the chalk lines by the cutter When he has finished, a surpris ingly few useless scraps are left, des tined in the end for the paper mills The neatly sliced out patterns* are carefully numbered and sent to the machine room. In this vast loft, thrumming with its hundreds of sew ing machines, the odd-shaped bits of cloth take shape Into garments. No one girl makes an entire garment. Each performs a single operation. One machine sews the long seam of trous ers, using two needles and two threads to make a double, “un-rippable” seam Perhaps the most remarkable ma chine sews on buttons It is hard to conceive of a machine which will sew a double-holed button to a piece of cloth so tight it never will come oil. and knot the myriad threads on I he wrong side of the garment—all in the space of a second. Sewing on Button*. “Once we had 50 women sewing buttons.” says Mr. Loeb ' Now two machines do it. and as the process is automatic, the work can not be Blighted. Every button is put on with exactly the same strength. Besides, the women on the button machines make more money than in the hand sewing days'’ Quite as remarkable, in Its way is the machine which cuts and sews toe button holes in one operation To make a good button hole and bind it well takes a seamstress twenty rr\in utce. The machine does 30 or 40 a minute. Pockets of a man's clothing mult not rip "When is* a pocket not a pocket? When it has a hole in the bottom.” There is a machine which' daris round the edges of a pocket with lightning rapidity, taking particularly strong thread from three giant spools and sewing the three into a reinforced seam of double strength. Another device takes suspender buttons for overalls, sorts them out of a hopper, feeds them down through e narrow chute and affixes them to the garment so tight they never can come orf Consumer* Demand Wear. ”!f a man buys a $5 shirt and a button comes off. he says nothing. Htrt- if a button comes off a suit of over all*. the customer will send the gar ment back from Texas.” says A1r. Loeb. In this class of goods the Great Vehicle Plant Succeeds ATLANTA BANK +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ I Gives Full Credit to Location Buggies and Wagons Made Here Spread Fame of Atlanta as Factory Center. Among the factories which giv4 At- , lanta the right to claim pre-eminence hs h manufacturing center, none ranks 1 higher than the Blount plants at East R<Xint. one of tijhlch manufactures the, Hlolmt buggies and spring wagon*, the other, farm wagons. Georgia, Alabama, Florida, the Car. olinat, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas arc the States the Blount fa • I lories claim hh. Lhgijr. ftvyji. and B. M. Blount, president of both companies, | as well ah P. J Zlinplemann, manager j of the buggy factory, says the success j attained could not have been won n such great measure in any other city. ; Atlanta, they declare, is the best .dJjp- j trlbuting point of the South, and this. | with the quality of goods, has enable 1 the Blount buggies to outdistance com pet i tors. From the Blount buggy factory 10,- 000 vehicles arc shipped each yea.**. From the factory just across the street 15,000 White Hickory wagons are shipped every year. To the uninitiated it may be news that the making of the wheels, the bodies and the irons used in buggy manufacture are separate and distinct industries. The business is so highly specialized that no buggy manufac turer would think of undertaking to make wheels. These are bought from factories of which the most important are in the hardwood regions of Ken tucky. Wheel* Come “in the Rough.” They arrive at the Blount factories! by the carload just fourh wheels, the, color gleaming white, which Is *h<?| natural shade of fine hickory. In this state It is easy to detect any imper fections, such as t racks, knots or de fective workmanship. The per/ect wheels are painted a 1 • articula#Iy ugly red—“primed” Is the technical word for the process and nearly eVeryVnk^ will understand this means laying tile foundation for the * on or eleven coats of paint which follow and make : ^a buggy the fine, shiny thing It Is when, it leaves the shoo. Long bands of steel next are cut Ibl proper lengths, bent, welded and mam Into tires. These tires art* shrunk onto* the wheels by a hydraulic devi£& which is the successor of th B JI. BLOUNT, one of the • city’s manufacture™, and a strong “booster” for At lanta. Rhyme Invites Dixie Buyers To Attend Atlanta Meeting Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Bureau Expects 5,000 Southern Dealers to Come -OKXink- V mm■ 11 boxes come “nested’’ and are wheeled about the factory on ingenious trucks. A>)JX these the painters lavish tbegreat- t'lUC^re until they attain a real ”pia- -ho finish.” • Cushion* Carefully Mad®. On the upper floors skilled leather workers and upholsterers fashion the cushions and tops. Real leather Quarters are in great demand tilts year, it seems, and nearly all buggies joust he made in this way to please ■he trade. » At the very last the wheels, gear, .‘•shafts, box and top are assembled un- method of heating l&tfhiler the severely critics! eye of an in blacksmith tire cherry red. putting It on the wheel In that condition, and droppiq£ r wheel and tire Into 'water, where i|t« sudden cooling contracted the tire and made it grip the wheel firmly. Y New Device Aid* Speed. The modern device will shrink tires on 75 **ets of wheels a day, a set, of course, being four wheels. The wheels their are ready, except for the painting, which is a long and elaborate process. » At the same end if the factory be- 1 gins tiie manufacture of the running gear of the buggies. Odd-shaped piece* of white hiekory and seem ingly tangled pieces <jf iron take shape under the hands of the workmen and become the light, but exceedingly strong link between the box and the wheels. The shafts come in great bundles— fine curved and tapeying pieces of se lected wood. The Blount factory does what many buggy junkers do not — puts its own Irons op the shafts The Jipeetor, and only when he is satisfied *».ls the buggy "knocked down” for Shipment. All this description applies to bug gies but much tiie same processes are followed with the manufacture of light spring wagons and heavy wag ons. except that wagon bodies are built at the factory. Light delivery apd spring wagons are a new venture of the Blount fac tories. The line was Introduced this year and is meeting with considerable Rubber tires are in greater demand this year than ever. Of course, rub ber-tired buggies are not new. They have been in steady request from the trade for some seasons. But no one seems able to explain w r hy it is that everyone wants rubber tires this year, unless it is that the good roads move ment has borne such fruits in the South that it is practicable now to use rubber tires in many districts where this could not be done before. Turpentine Rules At Higher Levels Rosins Remain Practically Unchang ed—Much Interest Evident in the Lumber Situation. SAVANNAH. G.V.. May 24. The turpentine market has been ruling at advanced prices all tin* week. Rosins have remained practically unchanged, alt bough considerable Interest has been manifested in th« offerings. The inor«*.ise in the market values of naval stores is due to the factors taking the selling end of the business into their own hands. Activity during tin- week has been deflected from naval stores to the lumber side of the ’exchange, where the tight against the operations of tin* Merchants' and Miners' Transpor tation Company, for alleged late dis criminations. is being pushed with vigor. The tight against this corpor ation lias the backing of the entire in dustry. The receipts of naval stores are growing daily. DUNDEE DISTRICT PROSPERS. The year 1912 was oin* of excep tional prosperity for the Dundee Con sular District in almost every line of business, particularly so in the Jute Industry, upon which the welfare of the district so .largely depends. A remarkable r»**H*fi • ft* the jute trade began toward file Tatter* part of 1911 a no* eon tup led steadily tlircffighout the past yPar. great essential is strength \Ve must figure *n every wa\ to give the great est wear, or we^will lose the busi er* * 1 V ■- t - ? One large portion of the working force is busy Constantly with over all* of gayer goods than the plain blue. These stand out vividly in the great ^masses .(T fMothlng in -he fac- tbfcy apd^tfUiri. tgfiotice ‘‘Those are thr* uniforms the em ployees of a great express company wear.” explained Mr. LobV ”\Ye turn out thousands a year... They meet the hardest kind of service, and we are proud of the fact t.hiu we are able to make goods which yfill fill the exact ing requirements -of this particular ACade.” . Y ’ TH©- Union Label. The union label goes into all the Loeb gefnronts. “We are proud of the union label.” says Mr. Loeb. ' It tells the consumer that workers in our plant are well treated and that they have good sur roundings. Mam people do not no- ice it.--but rcrta rnfy w no- r*trr object's ?fl it. Gn the other hand, there are com munities whore union-made goods have the preference. At any rate, wo would not be without it*” Raises Peach Crop Figures After Trip Manager of Exchange Puts Estimate at 1,947 Cars—Tells Just Where They Will Originate. After an inspection trip through South Georgia and based upon esti mates made by leading growers. Man ager Marks, of the Emit Growers' Ex change. gives out a definite state ment on the 1913 peach crop. lie expects 1,947 cars, with a possible variance of a few more or less. The statement gives these details showing the location of the crop: Central of Georgia (south of At lanta ) 100 cars. C. R. & S. Division of the Central of Georgia (Griffin to Chattanooga) — 30 cars. A & F. Division of Southern Rail way (Atlanta to Fort Valley) -149 cars Columbus Division of Southern Railway—43 cars. Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic (Atlanta to Way cross)—42 cars. Macon and Birmingham Division Southern Railway (Macon to La- Grange)—72 cars. Georgia, Southern and Florida (Ma con to Cordele)—26 cars. Georgia Railroad (Atlanta to Au gusta and Macon to Carmack) 150 cars. Augusta Southern (Augusta to San dersville) i» cars. Southern Railway (Atlanta to Chat tanooga) 75 cars. S mthern <At!'***u to Charlotte) 95 cars. Western and Atlantic (Atlanta to Chattanooga) H>() cats. Charleston and Western Carolina (Augusta to Anderson. S. C.)--30 cars. Tennessee. Alabama and Georgia (Chattanooga to Gadsden)—25 cars. Manager Marks says that the crop is in sound condition and that weath er conditions are now excellent. Al though the crop will be small, he be lieves that it will be as well devel oped and as free from rot as any crop the State has ever produced. Railway officials decided that the Southern will maintain the same schedules in -effect during last year's j peach season. JAPANESE RAW SILKS HIGHER. V s'ight Increase in Japanese raw I silk Prices is reported from Yokohama as a result of improved European buying. The Chinese demand at Can- ! Ion and Shanghai is increasing aid j price* are very firm. This condition j is also in evidence at Milan. New Yo k business is alow, and there will probaM\ be no change until the strike j is settled. Clearings Represent Only Thirty Per Cent of Total Transactions, Estimate by Cooper Shows. Atlanta doe* a business through the banks of nearly two billion dol lars a year. The bank clearings represent only about 30 per cent of the business done through those institutions. Country clearings are perhaps $140,000,000 yearly. The astonishing figures are the estimate of Waiter G. Cooper. Secre tary of the Chamber of Commerce. He believes he lias good grounds to consider them conservative, big as they look. Atlantans always have been in the habit of pointing to the city's clear ings with much pride, as exhibiting in remarkable degree the size and growth of the city's business. Makes an Experiment. A little clear thought convinced Mr. Cooper that these figures could not, in thfe nature of things, repre sent the real volume of banking busi ness He talked it over with the president* of two of the largest banks in the city, and they agreed to keep watch of their business for a certain number of days, to see what propor tion went through the clearing house. The result Surprised them and Mr. Cooper as well. One of the largest banks found that 28 per cent of its business only w’erit through the clear ing house; the other found the figure a little over 29 per cent. Taking these banka as representa tive. Mr. Cooper gets his assertion that the clearings represent only 30 per cent of the business done by the banks. Since that time, how’ever. the country clearing department has swelled the city’s total clearings. It is estimated that in 1912. country clearings amounted to $140,000,000. Now as to the two billion dollar estimate. Clearings last year were $691,941,- 254. Deducting the country cheeks, the city business is left at $551,941,- 254. According to the experiment men tioned, this represents 30 per cent of the bank;' business. Total busi ness. therefore, is around $1,839,- 000.000. Fully 25 per cen of the retail busi ness of Atlanta is cash business. This cash Is deposited with the banks, and, Of course, does not figure in the clearings. Many Accounts in Same Bank. Tt is evident, too, that a large num ber of the checks which come in to a business house must be on the same bank as the one in which lhe firm carries its own account. The firm deposits these, and of course there is no necessity for clearings in this case. There is no way to arrive at the volume of such business, but as there are seven clearing house banks, all doing their fair share of business, it might “be estimated roughly that one out of seven city customers would happen to have an account in the same bank as any one firm with which they deal. It is a general practice, too. for out of wn firms to remit to Atlanta jobbers and manufacturers in Ne : York exchange. This again, obviates the necessity of clearing. Mr. Cooper, therefore, thinks it easy to understand why two banks, presui tbly typical of all the others, found that only 30 per cent of their business Went through the clearing house, and thinks he can demonstrate clearly that Atlanta’s business, done through the banks, is close to $2,000.- 000.000 yearly. FOREIGN SITUATION STILL SHOWS SIGNS OF STRAIN Although some improvement took place in sentiment abroad up to the very end of the week, there are con tinued indications of strain. Monejr in Berlin. Paris. Vienna and other leading centers is scarce and dear. The private rate of discount in Berlin is 1-8 higher at 5 1-8 per cent, and in Vienna rules still higher. There ap pears to be no immediate prospect of getting much of the hoarded money out of the stockings. Berlin is re ported to have been bard hit. espe cially by the serious decline in Cana dian Pacific, in France distrust of the German armament policy is still evident. The Paris Figaro editorially suggests caution by the French Gov eminent regarding the Chinese loan. COFFEE SUPPLY GETTING LOW. A further material reduction of the world's visible supply of coffee will no doubt be experienced during the remaining two months of the crop year, according to Henry Nordlingcr ^ Co., and it will be a reduction suf ficient to bring the world’s stock be low 10.000.000 bags. Of these, about 3.150.000 bags belonging to the Sao Paulo government are not available for the trade. Altogether about 5,500,- 000 bags are available in the consum ing markets. Tn accordance with present conditions, the market’s po sition during the next crop year, they say, appears to be assured in the respect that there will be no addi tion to existing stocks. The world’s production will not he in excess of the consumption. AMERICAN ’PHONES LIKED. A telephone system. American throughout in equipment and provid ing a service equal io that of any city in the United States, has recently been installed in Behia. Brazil, and is giv ing complete satisfaction to subscrib ers. NIGERIA WANTS FISH. The Lagos Customs and Tra ie Journal calls the attention of British merchants to the expanding and al most undeveloped market in Nigeria for cured fish, imports -of which have increased from $330,000 worth in 1911 to $377,000 in 1912. Five thousand Southern merchants are expected to gather In Atlanta during the week of August 4. when the Merchants’ and Manufacturers Association will undertake to con vince the dealers from cities and towns all over the South that they will profit by stocking up in Atlanta. It is altogether probable that an exhibition, similar to the one held last year, will be held in connection with the Convention, to demonstrate to the visitor* that there is nothing from threshing machines to thread that Is not made in Atlanta or Its environs. If possible, the exhibit will be made even more complete than the one given last year, and Harry T. Moore, Secretary of the Association, has hopes that some time, this ex hibit will be made a permanent fea ture. “It will pay you at full rates to take t hi is trip twice a year, you can not lose when it is free.” says the Bureau, in making the announcement of the Convention. In order to at tract buyers who perhaps might be reluctant to experiment with a new buying center otherwise, the Bureau offers to refund tiie railroad fare of all buyers who purchase a bill of goods amounting to $1,000 while they are in the city The only restric tions are that the claim must be pre sented within thirty days, and goods sold on the road, or previously or dered, cannot he counted in the $1,000 bill. Tn a. clever “jingle” the claims of Atlanta are set forth. The “poem” follows: If you keep a store in Hometown :-nd you stock it up with stuff bought from far and distant places, just the local trade to Jduff; if you skip the near-by market and you travel far to buy, is it fair to scold the natives if the same trick they should try? Buy in Atlanta. If you pay out extra dollars for big freights and travel too. if you spend your local money in a section far from you; if you boost the far-off market by bestowing there your trade,—can you kick if local patrons follovy out the plan you’ve laid? Buy in Atlanta. If within your own home section there’s a town of life and snap, in which town they do a business that has’put it on the map; If this town can furnish to you merchandise ex actly right, don’t you think it’s,— well, shortsighted, if that town von calmly slight? Buy in Atlanta. If you have, in easy distance, base of requisite supplies, don’t you think you ought to buy there? That's the place for you,—get wise. Here’s Big Implement Men Do Business Here Turned to Atlanta as Hub of the South—Trade Now Is of Vast Proportions. Atlanta Has 175,000 Customers on Record M. F. Holahan. head of the Atlanta branch of the International Harvester Company, which lays claim to being the largest farm Implement manufac turing and selling concern in the world, has a simple explanation of the International’s action in establishing a house in Atlanta. “When the business men North and East think of the South they think of Atlanta,” says Mr. Holahan. “In fact, many times they think of Atlanta be fore they think of the South, just as you »think of Chicago before you re member that it is in Illinois. “Why did the International Har vester Company come to Atlanta? That's easy. The implement business in the South was growing, and showed the greatest field for future develop ment. It was necessary to come South. And I do not suppose that any other city was considered for an in stant. "Atlanta's residents and its press so consistently ' and persistently have- talked of its advantages, of its growth and its future that every Northern and Eastern business man knows At lanta is the hub of the South. He be surprised to hear that any other city laid claim to pre-eminence. All Follow Suit. "We came here somewhere around 1900. All the other really big imple ment concerns came at the same pe riod. or a little later. Whether they th mght we had reasoned it put and picked 'A tin hi a as the best place for a Southern agency, or whether they, like us, were unable to think of the South without thinking of Atlanta as its center. I do not know. “At any rate, we all are here now. and the marvelous growth of the farm implement business in the Southeast is ample justification for our presence. Our stock and our warehouse here are as big as in Minneapolis, center of the great Northwest. "Now. these are just rough esti mates, but. I venture that they are not far wrong. In 1900, 1 would say that 15.000 feet of floor space sufficed for all the implement and farm ma chinery business, exclusive of cotton gins, done out of Atlanta. “To-day the various agencies here use 250,000 feet at the very least, not to mention manufacturing plants .n the same lines. “1 suppose $150,000 would cover the .sales in these lines out of Atlanta for 1900. Sales in 1912 were at least $2,500,000. "Ten men. perhaps, gained their livelihood from supplying farmers with machinery in this city thirteen years ago. Now there are 175 men employed, and, with their families, they would fill a small village. Sales of Binders. “I think the sales of binders in 1900 could not have been more than 100 machines. Last year 500 of these ma chines were sold out of Atlanta, and for this year the sales will reach 1,000. “Of course, the growth in the sales of binders is not normal. It is healthy, though, for it is due to the increased acreage In oats, and increased feed crops are to be the salvation of the State. ' Big traction engines, big threshers, riding cultivators, real plows with mold boards, shredders, stalk cutters —these are a few of the things we sell now that a Southeastern farmer would not even have been interested in ten years ago. “Why. I remember back in ’98. when I was on the road. I sold six mowers in Augusta. I got a personal letter from the big boss himself commend ing this as good work. Forty mowers in the Northwest at that time would not have attracted his attention. And ion now In an Augusta season would not. The six mowers, you see, were an opening wedge.” I RA D. GREEN, formerly of J. P. Allen & Uo., who will leave Atlanta to enter the furniture business in Macon. South's Investors Enter New Fields ATLANTA, good and ready, with the goods you need to buy; from her fat torie* strong and steady she can Dixie’s wants supply. Buy in Atlanta. She can furnish shoes and shovels, silks and syrup, shirts and strings, overalls and hats and cook-stoves, yes, a thousand other things. She can furnish fads and fancies, clothes to wear and food to cat,—everything, in short, that’s needed to make up your stock complete. Buy in Atlanta. If you’d come and see these factor ies where they make this goodly stuff, you would say, “This town's a won der. she's all right. she’s good enough.’’ You would realize ln- stanter that Atlanta, close to home, is the place for Southern merchants. there’s no need for them to roam. Buy in Atlanta. What’s the use of plodding north ward, going West or traveling East, when within so short a distance., right at home, there’s such a feast? What’s the gain to you in going far away at costly rates, when besides the cost of going, there's the added cost of freights? Buy in Atlanta. Styles you get in eastern markets are no newer, no more chic than the styles Atlanta offers.—fresh and novel take your pick. Modes that find their birth in Paris and transplanted over night. vogues and models ever chang ing,—here you find them. always rigiit. Buy in Atlanta. There's no quarrel with the styles, then; for Atlanta has them all,— men's and women’s, lads’ and lasses’ —for the springtime and the fall: in no town the country over can you beat Atlanta’s lick; when it comes to showing fashions, she’s unrivalled, keen and quick. Buy i.n Atlanta. In Atlanta there are rivals, eager for your steady trade; competition’s sharp and lively,—so the prices right are made Thus, besides the great assortments aijd the varied lines to choose, you can buy on closer mar gins,—all you gain and nothing lose. Buy in Atlanta. Yet. while rivals, we're a unit In the matter of OUR TOWN; so we join our hands together and we set this message down; COME TO SEE US. LET US SERVE YOU. LET US SHOW YOU GOOD AND STRONG, IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE TO TRAVEL FAR TO MARKET. YOU ARE WRONG! Buy in Atlanta. And to make the point a clear one. firmlv fixed within your mind; we will PAY YOUR TRIP’S EXPENSES, when to buying you’re inclined, if you come to ATLANTA lay in adequate supply. You will find the deal a square one.—here’s our : word. Come oh,—Good Buy. Popular Shoe Man to Enter Macon Business Ira D. Green Buys Interest in Fur niture Store—Leaves Many Friends Here. Ira D. Green, assistant sales man ager of the shoe department of J. P. Allen & Company, has disposed of his interest in that concern and will leave Atlanta for Macon. Mr. Green pas bought an interest in one of the largest furniture stores in that city and in the future he will devote his entire time to building up that concern. - Mr. Green has a host of friends here both in the business and the so cial world who will hate to see him go. Before taking up his work In Macon Mr. and Mrs. Green will spend a few weeks in the mountains. Atlanta merchants, jobbers and manufacturers have done business with 175,000 customers in the past few years, according to elaborate and comprehensi ve records kept by the Atlanta Credit Men’s Association. Bradstreet’s figures show there are 312,491 dealers in all Southern States. Fifty-six per cent of the dealers in Southern States, therefore, find it profitable to do some, if not all, of their trading in Atlanta. In Southeastern States, there are 116,448 dealers. Of this number, 87,- 336 have bought or are now buying in Atlanta. This figures out some thing like 79 per cent. SHEEP-GROWING DECLINES. Those who take the position that free wool will mean the end of the sheep-raising Industry of this coun try receive a setback at the hands of a statistician who shows that the number of sheep raised here has de clined about 3,000,000 in the last I thirty-three years. And that in the face of a high protective tariff. \- cepting under three or four years of the Wilson schedule. Save in the Mountain States—Montana, Idah •. Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexic \ Arizona, Utah ana Nevada—there has been a sharp and steady decrease in the number of sheep raised through out the country. Ih those States, however, the number raised between the years 1880 and 1910 nearly tHpled. ENGLISH EYES ON SCHEDULE K. This extract from one of the leading English trade papers gives an idea of how the woolen goods manufacturers of that country are preparing to take advantage of the opportunities that may be afforded them under the new tariff: “Some manufacturers say that they will have nothing to do with laying themselves out to cater for this mar ket beyond their customary arrange ments for the home and Continental trade. Others are going right out to capture what trade there is going to be done there. Some will lay down new machinery, open new mills, or re open those which have been for some years closed. Others more cautious will get all the looms they can in com mission. until they feel sure that the business* with the States will be more or less of a permanent character." LIGHTWEIGHT FABRICS DULL. Following the recent, auction of lightweight stock ir.en’s wear fabri s by one of the leading houses in the trade, other merchants are trying t » unload. On the whole, however, buy er* are disinterested, and concessions amounting in some cases to 20 and 25 per cent of the original values cf the goods are liberally disregarded. Project* Launched During Week In* eluded Everything From R*M* road to Terrapin Farm. BALTIMORE. May 24.—Among the many Southern industrial and other developmental enterprises reported in this week's issue of The Manufactur ers' Record are the following C. A. O’Neal. Andalusia. Ala., and asrociates. purchased 23,000 acres of timber land in Tuscaloorn County. Alabama, and propose to cut and saw timber and ship to River Falls. Ala., for finishing Arkansas Fertilizer Company. Ar- genta. Ark., will expend about $200 - 000 to rebuild it® burned plant and include equipment to manufacture sulphuric acid. » Tidewater Securities Corporation Mobile. Ala., was organized with $100,000 capital stock to develop Dauphin Island as a deep-water port and terminal for rail and water line* from Birmingham and to establish other enterprises. Lockhart Power Company. Lock hart. S. C., awarded the contract to* construct a solid masonry reservoir* dam across Broad River. 1,500 fee; long by 14 feet high, to cost $150,000. Columbia Receiptograpli Compan. Columbia. S. C.. was incorporated. w r ith capital stock of $200,000, to man ufacture receipting machines for pocket use. Southern Cotton Picker Company, Dallas. Texas, was incorporated, with capital stock of $100,000, to manu facture cotton pickers. C. H. Smith. Chattanooga, Tenn., in association with Cumberland Land Syndicate, plane to construct a by product coke oven. Diamond Back Terrapin Company. Beaufort. N. C., was incorporated, with capital stock of $32,000, to prop agate terrapins. Sterling Anthracite Coal Company. Clarksville, Ark., was incorporated with capital stock of $50,000. This company is a reorganization of the Union Anthracite Coal Company. Neuse Realty and Brick Company. Newbern, N. C„ was incorporated with $50,000 capital stock to manufacture bricks. Townsend Buggy Company, Reids- vtlle and Winston-Salem, N. C., was incorporated with capital stock of $50,000 to manufacture buggies. Farmers’ Cotton Oil Mill Company. Rogers, Texas, was organized with capital stock of $50,000 to establish cotton-seed oil mill. A FREE TRIP To Atlanta is available to the merchant who buys an adequate bill from the members of the Merchants’ Asso ciation. Write to H. T. Moore Secretary . Rhodes Building Atlanta High Grade Monumental mm ' and Cemetery Work Artistic Designs Best Workmanship Satisfaction Guaranteed 173 E. 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