i For 12 months the conditions have
! !n :ifrnina the inauguration of new
-e o
; enterprises in any part of the country,
but with the return ot more activity
after the first of the year, when the
crops have been gathered and sold,
there will naturally follow a revival of
new industrial and railroad develop
ment work. Even during this unfavor
able period the South shows a long list
of new enterprises every week, and
among the more important ones re
ported in this issue of the Matiu-
facturers
Record are an extensive
electric railroad, with large power
houses, to connect Baltimore and the
manufacturing suburb of Curtis Bay ;
the placing of 2,000,000 of bonds
for cabling a street railroad in Balti
more; a ? 1, 000,000 mining company
in North Carolina to purchase large
high-grade ore properties ; the enlarge
ment of the steel works at Chattanooga ;
a $ 150,000 ice manufacturing company
at Norfolk, where new enterprises are
started nearly every week ; a $200,000
enlargement of a brewery at Fort
Worth, Texas; ?ioo,ooo hotel and
improvement company in North Caro
lina ; a $50,000 woodworking company,
Columbus City, Ala., a $300,000 de
velopment company near Petersburg,
Ya., by New England capitalists; a
400-barrel flour mill at Staunton; a
$10,000 mininnr company at Blacks-
burg, S. C; water works at
Elgin,
Texas ; a $20,000 elcclnc-bght and
power campany at San Angelo, Texas ;
a $100, coo and an $80,000 coal and
coke company and a $48,000 gas com
pany in West Virginia; the purchase
of 20,000 acres near Elizabethton,
Tenn., by a new town and develop
ment company ; coal mine in Kentucky;
$25,000 emery wheel company at
Tallapooso, Ga.; a $30,000 flour mill
and elevator t McKinnev,
Texas; the sale for $100, coo ofa roil
ing mill at Bessemer, Ala., which is
to be enlarged and put in operation;
a large coal-washing plant at Birming
ham ; a $100,000 phosphate campany
at Lake City, Fla.; two$5o, 000 manu
facturing companies in Baltimore ; a
$50,000 ore mining and washing plant
in Tennessee ; $50,000 water works at
Orange, Texas, etc.
