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r i \ HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1913. 7 WHAT ATLANTA MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS ARE DOING All Kisses Are Good No Cessation in Developing South Alabama Wire Mill and Stock Yards at Macon Listed Among New Enterprises. BALTIMORE. May 31.—Among the many Southern industrial and other developmental enterprises reported In this week's issue of The Manufactur ers' Record are the following: United States Steel Corporation. New York, announced that the Amer ican Steel and Wire Company will at once proceed with construction to complete Its steel and wire works al Fairfield, Ala., representing an in vestment of approximately $3,500,000. Cumberland Mountain Land Syndi cate Compans', C. H. Smith, engineer, Chattanooga, Tenn., will develop 20,- 600 acres of coal land near Whitwell, Tenn.; plans mining town, steel and fireproof brick building to be equipped with modern mining machinery, etc.; will establish central power station and drive machinery by electricity; construct by-product coke oven plant at Chattanooga. Total cost, about $1,500,000. Colorado River Power Company, Dallas, Texas, Is reported as planning to construct $1,00,000 dam across the Colorado River near Ballinger, Texas, to store water for Irrigating 76,000 acres of land; also reported as to con struct hydro-electric plant 40 miles north of Austin, Texas. City officials of Memphis, Tenn., adopted plans for flood protection In North Memphis; plans include levees, floodgates, culverts, pumping station, etc.; will vote May 29 on $1,500,000 bond issue, J, H. Weatherford, city engineer. Seaboard A1r Line Railway, W. D. Faucette, chief engineer, Portsmonth, Va„ will build phosphate elevator on Syddon Island near Tampa, Fla; ex tend docks and bulkhead about 550 feet, improve and increase trackage facilities, extend and enlarge basin, etc., at estimated cost of from $90,000 to $100,000. Georgia Packing and Stock Yards Company, Macon, Ga.. was incorpo rated, with capital stock of $100,000 and privilege to increase to $1,000,000. Bids will be received within 30 to 60 days for levee construction along Mis sissippi River between Cairo and White River, involving about $800,000 worth of work to be done In several contracts running from six to eight een months; Mississippi River Com mission, First and Second District, Memphis, Tenn., will be in charge. Tropic Palmetto Fiber Company was incorporated, with capital stock of $250,000, and Edwin M. Ia>e, presi dent, Indianapolis, Ind.; plans estab lishment of plant In Florida to extract fiber from saw palmetto and erect warehouse in Indianapolis. A FREE TRIP To Atlanta is avail able to the mer chant who buys an adequate bill from the members of the Merchants’ Asso ciation. Write to H. T. Moore SECRETARY. Rhodes Building, Atlanta. Sold Only Sealed in Packages High Grade Monumental and Cemetery Work Artistic Designs Best Workmanship Satisfaction Guaranteed tnR. Hunter 9*. Bell Phone Main IH5 ATLANTA MARBLE & GRANITE CO. Oil Mill Experts To Convene Here Recognize City as One of Important Centers of Industry—Machinery Display To Be Large. Among the coming events which attract attention to Atlanta, and em phasize its importance as a manu facturing center, is the meeting of the Interstate Association of Oil Mill Superintendents. The convention will be called to order Wednesday morning at the Au ditorium. Representatives from North and South Carolina. Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi are expected. An attendance of 400 delegates Is promised. When the first convention was held In Macon two years ago, there were fifty delegates. This is indicative in large measure, of the growth of the cotton oil business in Georgia and the South. Once a nuisance, dumped in the streams or used as fertilizer, now the cotton seed is prized, and brings high prices. From it are made oil, meal, and hulls, while clever pro cesses clean the "fuzz” from the shell, producing a material useful for felt for mattresses, for horse collars and other purposes where cotton of spinning lengths would be too ex pensive and no more satisfactory. Atlanta is a recognized center iDr the manufacture and sale of cotton oil mill machinery, and on the main floor of the Auditorium will be an extensive display of apparatus, the newest and best, for the needs of the oil mill man. J. T. Holmes, of Shellman, Ga., is president of the association. The Atlanta Manufacturers Supply Asso ciation will entertain the delegates. WOOLEN PRICES VARY. Surprise is expressed In the woolen goods field in the wide variance of prices of these goods disclosed re cently at Philadelphia by the open ing of bids for Government contracts. Between the bids of the two lowest bidders a difference of about 20 cents a yard was shown, while between the lowest and the highest a difference of 40 cents was reported. With such dif ferences as these In production costs it is thought In certain quarters that schedule K may be able to stand a cut without doing a great deal of damage, after all. Hardware Men See Great Display -J* e *£••‘2* Auditorium Floor Entirely Filled d-»+ •}•••{• -bad* Atlanta-Made Lines Prominent T. G. Green, of Eatonton, and John L. Moore, of Madison, president and secretary, respectively, of the Georgia Retail Hard ware Association for the past y ear. Twenty-nine exhibitors had floor space at the eighth annual convention of the Georgia Retail Hardware As sociation at the Auditorium the past week. Of thest twenty-nine exhibitors, six showed Atlanta or Georgia manufac tured goods. Thirteen of them have agencies in Atlanta. Which may be taken to mean, with- CHOICE OF ROUTES AND GOOD SERVICE out dispute, that Atlanta i« the hard ware center of the Southeast. Stoves of all kinds, farm imple ments of all kinds, sole leather paper products, buggies and wagons, and harness are among the “home made” product's displayed, and these exhibits were equal in completeness and qual ity to the exhibits, side by sidfc, of the greatest makers in all the coun try. It was the best exhibition ever made at a Southern hardware con vention, said the veteran dealers in attendance. Atlanta Made Exhibits. The Atlanta Agricultural Works, which makes almost everything in the way of machinery or implements for use on farms, had an attractive dis play which included a stalk cutter of novel design. This machine drew more attention, perhaps, than any other farm implement shown. Almost as high as a man’s head, with a ser ies of knives on upright shafts, the stalk cutter is designed to take care of the tallest corn or cotton grown. Plows, cultivators, harrows and many other implements made up the rest of the exhibit. The Mascot Stove Manufacturing Company and the Atlanta Stove Works had splendid displays of stoves both heaters and cook stoves, resplen dent with enamel and nickeled llt- tings. The Mascot works are at Dal ton, hut the general selling agency is in Atlanta, and all goods are distrib uted through this city. This concern is under new management. The Atlanta Stove Works is one of the largest in the South, and it« prod ucts are well known to the Southern trade. H. Wllensky Sons Company exhibited sole leather strips, and had a table demonstrating the cutting. The leather all comes from Georgia tanneries. The display was presented In attractive style, and was interest ing. McCurry and Inman, of Palrhurn, Ga., made an elaborate display of harness, all kinds, for work and for pleasure vehicles. The National Paper Company, which has an Atlanta factory, show ed building and roofing paper, and other paper products of considerable interest to the hardware trade. The White Hickory Wagon Manu facturing Company and the Blount Buggy factory, showed vehicles for the farm and for pleasure use. This is the largest plant of this kind in its territory. Plants Invite Visitors. Besides making these exhibits, all the Atlanta Manufacturing plantB, in cluding the Atlanta Steel Company, which makes wire fencing, among other things, announced that their plants were open all week for the in spection of the dealers, and many delegates availed themselves of the opportunity offered to examine the processes whereby the goods they handle are made. T. G. Green of Ratonton has been president and John L. Moore of Mad ison, secretary of the association for the past year. There are about 150 members. About 200 delegates -were on the floor during the sessions, many of course, not being members, although interested in the hardware trade. Conventions have been held in In dian Springs, Valdosta, Rome, Macon, and Athens preceding the Atlanta convention. “As a Jobbing center, Atlanta is ahead of all Southern cities, and as a manufacturing center, it is forging to the front rapidly,” said P. S. Twit- ty, of Dublin, in an address to the convention, and his sentiment was applauded heartily. Gathering Makes Converts. The convention is believed to have done much good, not only in tending toward the solution of problems pe culiar to the hardware trade, but also in making Atlanta jobbers and man ufacturers better acquainted with their customers throughout the State. Many dealers who have been buy ing elsewhere are said to have learn ed through the convention that they have been making a mistake. At lanta will be the terminus of their buying trips hereafter they declare. SOUTH’S RESOURCES ALMOST BOUNDLESS Georgia Alone Has Raw Material Enough to Keep Factories Busy for Centuries. Great as has been the development of manufacturing industries in At lanta, the surface only has been scratched, according to experts who have made a careful study of the r e- sources of the State. Georgia has Increased the value of its manufactured products from $94,000,000 in 1900 to $203,000,000 in 1912, but this, say the students, is but a beginning. The 5,384 factories, $225,000,000 of capital, 122,000 em ployees and $40,000,000 of wages rep resent but a small percentage of what Atlanta may expect within the next decade at the same rate of progress. At the basis of all manufacturing lie power and raw material. Next in importance are distributing facili ties. Georgia’s Coal Supply. Coal long has been and long will be the great source of power. Geor gia. though the fact seldom is men tioned. has 920,000,000 tons of coal as yet untouched, nearly aJl of a grade which car be used in manufac turing plants. Most of it is "coking coal,” according to the miner aolog- ists. The figures are from E. \V. Parker’s “Mineral Resources of the United States,’’ published in 1911. As Georgia, in nine years, mined only 3,079.197 tons, it is plain that no immediate exhaustion is to be feared, even with vastly Increased consumption. The reserve supply of the South is estimated by the same authority at 530,002,000,000 tons, which will last 3,000 or 4,000 years at the present rate. Apparently a little speeding up of manufacturers can be done with out danger of using up all the fuel. Next in importance to coal, and gaining every year as a producer of power, are the streams of the South. Georgia has some 1,500 water power plants, developing 166,000 horse power, and can increase this amount indefinitely. Lumber is another great resource which Georgia hardly has begun to manufacture. It is shown by statis tics that out of every 100 feet of lumber milled in the South, only 30 feet are used by Southern factories. The factories of Illinois, on the other hand, use more than 1,000 feet of lumber for every 100 feet produced in that state. A vast field is here for Georgia industry. In the old days, all the cotton grown in the State was sold in its raw state, to be made into cloth in England or New' England, and repurchased, in large measure by the South. Prosperity has followed the introduction of the cotton mill into the South, so that now from the lint to the finished cloth, from the seed to the edible oil, Georgia han dles the chief product of its soil. Where Prosperity Beckons. Industrial students believe the same prosperity would follow* the de velopment of wood-w’orklng indus tries in the South. True, there are furniture manufacturers and other wood-w'orking plants in Georgia, but they freely admit the field is not crowded, and do not see why Atlanta cannot become another Grand Rapids w'hen it comes to furniture. Georgia, too, has large deposits of iron ore, the red hematite and brown varieties. With the increasing use of iron and steel products in the South, economists hold that the State can very well smelt, convert and man i- facture its own iron and steel. “THE ATLANTA SPIRIT” One of the reasons Atlanta takes front rank as jobbing center is the fact that the job bers, wholesalers and manufac turers have the entire city with them. WMmer L. Moore, President of the Chamber of Commerce, and Mayor James G. Woodward wel comed the Hardware Retailers to the city when they met here for their eighth annual convention. In another community, little or no interest would have been dis played by the municipal officers or the general business leaders outside that particular line, despite the importance of the gathering! It was another manifestation of the “Atlanta Spirit.” White City Park Now Open FRUIT JARS, ETC A RET/aL*Mft PRICES TO iRCHAWTS Oar trarreJing men are now stKnvtug, among other good thing*, the best makes of Fruit Jars, Jelly Glasses, Fruit Jar Rubbers, oto.. at very attractive price and Queen Pruk Jars. TS. J the trade We mpe lit Jar Rubbers, eta. dollse on E Z Seal Whol 57 North frr s £r£% DOBBS & WEY CO.