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SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL' New Lnt:rprlses That Are I?nrich:n<; Our ravo-eU Sectio:;. Increase of Capac;tv. The Anderson Cotton Mills of Anderson. S. has tommenced to receive and is now installing machinery to make retain additions recently decided upon. The improvements win entail the expenditure of several hundred thousand dollars. In eluded with the textile equipment arriving will he Isi.ohO spindles and 500 looms, which will bring the plant's complement up to 62.o*i') spindles and 1^04 looms. The con tracts for this machinery have all V been signed. The power that will be n. required for the new machinery is to be furnished by the Anderson I D/vwai. nnu uaitT, IW&IH atiu i uhcj vv/., i?v/?. completing the development of Foreman Shoals. Industrial Miscellany. The plant of the Carson Company, manufacturer of hickory spokes anil handles at Alexandria. Va.. was destroyed by fire last week. The loss is estimated at $5,000; partially insured. The Palmetto Lumber Co. of San Jacinto. Texas, has been incorporated. with a capital stock of $50,000. The corporators are A. C. Ford. T. P. Cabel, A. L. Black and R. M. Bucy. Receipts of lumber at the port of New Orleans for the week ending September 27 amounted to 2.034.000 feet, and for the season 18.440.790 feet, against 19882.121 feet last season. The shipments of lumber from tinport of Mobile last week aggregated 2,340,612 feet, and for the season 8.117.474 feet. Shipments of sawn timber were 95.462 cubic feet, and hewn timber 26,020 cubic feet. The following steamers cleared last week from Savannah. Ga.. with Florida high-grade phosphate rock among their cargoes: Steamer Finnland for Bremen and Hamburg with 1454 tons for the latter port; steamer Aurelia with 1246 tons for Genoa, and steamer lwYiaii'i ?"iui iV'ii iuu3 iui | Hamburg. Southern business men hat'e organized the Cuban-Central American Mahogany Company to engage in importing mahogany from Central j America and Mexico by way of New ! Orleans. Robert Laidlaw is presi- I dent, and Ixmis M. Moragues of Montgomery. Ala., secretary and i manager. J. F. Garrel! and Co.. of Wilmington, N. C.. have broken ground for a cold-storage and fertilizer factory at San Souci plantation, a mile and a half from that city. The company will also construct a modern abattoir. Textile Notes. It is proposed at Hattiesburg. .Miss.. J to organize a stock company for the erection of a cotton mill. 4 The Mary Louise Cotton Mills of Cowpens. S. C.. has increased capital * stock from $20,000 to $50,000. The frou rtenay Manufacturing Co. i of Newry. S. C.. paid on October 1 its thirteenth semi-annual dividend of , 3 1-2 per cent. The Waxahachie (Texas > Cotton Mills is preparing to make lis intra i carload shipment of sheetings ant! ' ducks to the Pacific coast. This ship- ! ment goes to Washington. The Lumberton (N. C.? Cotton Mills is about ready to start operations, and the 3.00;) spindles will soon titmaking 20 to 32 yarns. Negotiations are under way with New York parties for the operation | of the Powhatan Knitting Mill at j Lambert's Point, Norfolk. Ya. i The Clayton (N. C.) Cotton Mill i has been entirely completed and com i menced operations last week. This | is a $200,000 plant. It has 5.00't spindles on yarn production. Capt. Pa\id Clark, general man ager and treasurer of the Ada Mann- j facturing Co. at Charlotte. N. C.. has been elected president of the Jones t boro (N. C.) Cotton Mills, a 3.2";i I spindle plant. A. J. "Bryan and assoc iates of Mil- ; ford, Texas, contemplate building a cotton mill, and invite eorrespon- j dence regarding cost of such a plant, j It is proposed to spin yarn and thread j for the larger mills. During the last cotton season Columbia. S. C.. handled 45,904 bales of <-otton .an increase of 5.500 hales over the preceding season. This increase is j attributed in part by the Columbia State to tne fact that the great Olvm pia sarted part of its machinery during the year. It used, however, but 3,000 hales, and when all its spindles are running it is expected to use 000 a vear. which will bring the number 01* bales handled annuallvin the a Columbia market to 60.000. * Thomasville (Ga.) Bobbin Works has been incorporated, with capital stock of $10,000. for the manufacture of bobbins, shuttles, skewers and other cotton mill specialties. C. M. Smith is president, and E. H. Smith, secretary. The Bannockburn Mills of Middleton. Ga.. Is offering $40,000 of first mortgage 6 per cent, gold bonds on Its proposed plant. J. H. Hicks. Clarksville. or Geo. C. Grogan. Elberton. Ga.. < an be addressed for further particulars. The Huntsville (Ala.) Cotton Mill Co. held its annual stockholders' meeting during the week. The direc- j tors and other oaicers were re-elected i including Luke Matthews, treasurer and general manager. This is a lo.-j 00b spindle plant. Stepmother'* Cift to Te:ietier. SSfprnothci (entering village sc'-arp with whip)?My In; t. 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