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IIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA. C.\ , SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1013.
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WHA T A TLANTA MANL
JFACTURi
ERS AND j
OBBERS ARE L
wing
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 .8
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, I
meal, and hulls, while clever pro
cesses clean the “fuzz” from tty |
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 i9 a recognized center f;>r
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.
Hardware Men See Great Display
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Auditorium Floor Entirely Filled
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.
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 u difference of
40 cents was reported. With such dif
ference® as these in production cost?
1t is thought in certain quarters thfit
schedule K may be able to stand a
cut without doing a great deal' of
damage, after all.
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 is the hard
ware renter 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”
products displayed, and these exhibits
were equal in completeness and qual
ity to the exhibits, side by side, 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 fit
tings. The Mascot works are at Dal
ton, but 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, und Its prod
ucts are well known to the Southern
trade. H. Wilensky Sons Company
exhibited sole leather strips, and had
a table demonstrating the cutting.
The leather all cornea from Georgia
tanneries. The display was presented
in attractive style, and was interest
ing.
MCCurry and Inman, of Fairburn.
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 plants, 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 Eatonton has been
prestdent 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 Makt-s 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 h. r e 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 lias Haw Material Enough to
Keep Factories Busy for Centuries.
Great as has boon 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 re
sources of the State.
Georgia has increased the value of
its manufactured products from
$94,000,000 in 1900 to $263,000,000 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 tlie great source of power. Geor
gia. though the fact seldom is men
tioned, has 920,000,000 tons of coal
as yet untouched, nearly all of a
grade which can be used in manufac
turing plants. Most of It is “coking
coal,” according to the miner aolog-
ists. The figures are from E. W.
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 th it
no Immediate exhaustion is to be
feared, even with vastly increased
consumption.
The reserve supply of the South is
estimated by the same authority .it
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
1 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-working indus
tries in the South. True, there are
furniture manufacturers and other
wood-working plants in Georgia, but
they freely admit the field is nut
crowded, and do not see why Atlanr.i
cannot become another Grand Rapi is
when 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.
W'lmer 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
TO
E*DITI*T I ADC CTC at lowest prices ti
ri\UI I JAI\0, L 1 V*. RETAIL MERCHANTS
Out traveling men are now showing, among other good things,
the beat makes of Fruit Jars, Jelly Glasses, Fruit Jar Rubbers, etc
at very attractive prices to the trade. We specialise on E Z Beal
and Queen Fruit Jars.
Wholesale Showrooms
57 North Pryor Street
DOBBS & WEY CO.
No Cessation in
Developing South
Alabama Wire Mill and Stock Yards
at Macon Listed Among
New Enterprisesi
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 at
Fairfield, Ala., representing nn in
vestment of approximately $3,500,000.
Cumberland Mountain Land Syndi
cate Company, C. H. Smith, engineer,
Chattanooga, Tenn., will develop 20.-
600 acres of coal land near Whit well,
Tenn.; plans mining town, steel and
fireproof brUk 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 75,000
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
Nortli 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 Air Line Railway. W. D.
Faucette, chief engineer, Portsmouth,
Va.. will build phosphate elevator on
Seddon 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. Lee, presi
dent. Indianapolis, Ind.; plans estab-
iishmen* of plaht in Florida to extract
fiber from saw palmetto and erect
warehouse In Indianapolis.
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 r .
H. T. Moore
SECRETARY.
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