Small but Vigorous.
The Houston East & West Texas Railroad, running from Houston, Texas, to
Shreveport, La., is not very much of a road as to mileage, but there is
more hustle about it than most roads of ten times the length exhibit.
With only 232 miles of road the company is doing more relatively
towards the development of the country it traverses than almost any
other road in the country. Recently a development department has
been created and put in charge of General John M. Claiborne, an old
newspaper man. Among other methods of building up the territory of
the road, and besides the usual concessions to settlers in the way of
passenger and freight rates, the company has offered to contribute to
a common fund an amount equal to all that can be raised by the people
of the counties through which the road passes, the money to be spent in
getting in settlers. The road promises to locate at least one family
for every two dollars the citizens of these counties will raise. The
country through which this road passes includes some superb farm and
garden lands, and large areas of original forest timber, pine and hard
woods, and with the energy and push of the managers of the road it will
not be long before immigrants will be pouring into their country.
The officers of the road are E. S. Jemison, president; M. G. Howe,
vice-president; M. S. Meldrum, secretary and treasurer, and T. Cronin,
superintendent, all of Houston.
Mr. A. A. Arthur and Middlesborough.
The people of Middlesborough, Ky., and Middlesborough property
owners living elsewhere are making strenuous efforts to induce the
Middlesborough Town Lands Co. to reappoint Mr. A. A. Arthur to the
active management of the company’s affairs. Ever since the termination
of Mr. Arthur’s management the town has been in a state of virtual
stagnation, and it is believed that Mr. Arthur alone can rescue it
from collapse and restore it to its former condition of growth and
prosperity.
Several delegations of citizens and property owners have called on
the company’s present commissioner at Middlesborough, Mr. Lionel H.
Graham, of London, and urged him to bring about the appointment of Mr.
Arthur. On February 17, a mass meeting was held, at which the following
resolutions were adopted:
_Resolved_, By the people of Middlesborough in mass meeting assembled,
that the opportunity presented by Mr. L. H. Graham, who is now in our
midst as the representative of the stockholders of the Town Lands
Co., seeking information and encouragement for the guidance of his
associates, be seized, and that we, the citizens and property owners
of Middlesborough, who have borne the brunt of all the troubles of
past two and one-half years, and have witnessed and studied both
administrations, and who have been with the stockholders in prosperity
and adversity, respectfully but emphatically ask a return to the old
original plan of administering the affairs of the Town Lands Co.
_Resolved_, That we know that all the great and valuable resources upon
which the city was started still exist; we have seen railroads brought
to us and great enterprises created in our midst. The necessities of a
city have been established, all legitimate expenditures have been made
and nothing now remains to be done to re-establish credit, activity and
progress, but the appointment of a leader, a wise and liberal man, one
of intelligence, wide experience, integrity and extended connections,
one in whom we can place great confidence.
_Resolved_, That in Mr. A. A. Arthur, creator and projector of
Middlesborough and all the adjacent territory, we find such a man. None
other has so great an interest. We will stand by him and we believe
and know that he alone can pull you, the stockholders, and us, the
citizens, out of the abject state in which we now are.
_Resolved_, That we most heartily ask for and will most cordially
approve the reappointment of Mr. A. A. Arthur to the active management
of the Middlesborough Town Lands Co.; we believe that he can
rescue this city from ruin, and the sooner the management is placed
in his hands the sooner will confidence be restored and values be
re-established.
_Resolved_, That the interests of the Town Lands Co. are alike the
interests of the city and the citizens thereof; one cannot prosper
without the other, hence the citizens and property owners are
profoundly earnest in their desire to see Mr. Arthur restored to power,
as they believe that his restoration will give new life not only to
Middlesborough but to Southeastern Kentucky as well, and that we will
enter upon a career of unexampled prosperity.
The Annual Fair at New Berne, N. C.
The annual fair of the East Carolina Industrial Association was held in
New Berne on February 19th to 23d, inclusive, and was formally opened
by Gov. Carr with a sterling address, in which he referred to the
tidewater region as the garden spot of the continent, enumerating its
resources and estimating their economic value, present and prospective.
The exhibit, as a whole, was a surprise to home visitors as well as
strangers, especially in marine, agricultural and mechanical products.
Its mineral exhibit was remarkable in respect to native ores and
precious stones. Thirty-one counties in the State are mining gold at
a profit. Nuggets were shown which were valued at $52 and upwards.
Eighty-five varieties of commercial woods were shown. There was a great
variety of building stones. Tomato plants six inches high, garden peas
three inches high, and strawberry blossoms were shown. The department
of ladies’ work was superlative. Dairy products were meagre, only three
samples of butter being shown. There was a great variety of feed in
bales--native grasses, stock peas and corn fodder. Fine samples of
wool and blankets were exhibited. The same blankets took a premium at
Chicago. Some fine Southdown sheep from the Tucker farm near Raleigh
were on view. There were some fine Jersey, Devon and Alderney cattle,
and superior Berkshire and Red Jersey pigs and fat hogs, running up to
600 pounds in weight.
The fish and oyster exhibit, with the nets and apparatus, is always a
prominent feature of the annual expositions, and was well sustained.
Roe shad were remarkably fine.
There was an attractive exhibit of live and dead game and fur-bearing
animals, and two curious hybrids between turkey, guinea fowl and
Plymouth Rock hen. The floral exhibit was simply exquisite, and the
colonial relics and old family plate and curios were very interesting.
There was never such a poultry show seen on earth for quality and
variety. At least two kinds were shown!
In the department of Women’s Work the productions of deft fingers were
astonishing in all fabrics, laces, gold embroidery, feathers, flowers,
etc., rivaling Japanese art, and causing Valenciennes to blush with
jealousy. Altogether, there was a wonderful diversity of industrial
products of which the old North State and all her sisters may be proud.
New Berne herself has earned honors.
An Immigration Bill in the Maryland Legislature.
A bill is to be introduced in the legislature of Maryland, which is
now in session, enlarging the powers of the chief of the bureau of
industrial statistics so as to give him authority to provide for the
settlement of immigrants in Maryland. The bill makes it the duty of the
chief of the bureau to collect reliable information in every county of
the State bearing upon the question of immigration, and authorizes him
to appoint a local immigrant commissioner in each county. The local
commissioners are to receive $2.50 a day for each day of actual service
and personal expenses, the expenses are to be itemized and certified
to before a justice of the peace, and $1.00 for each immigrant sixteen
years of age and over settled by them in their respective counties.
Their duties, under the direction of the chief of the bureau, are to
procure the statistics and information necessary to properly set forth
the facts, advantages and conditions of the counties, to perform such
other duties appertaining to the work of the bureau as may be required
and to procure options on farm lands at such prices and upon such terms
as will be within the means of the immigrants desiring to locate upon
them and to give them such assistance, care and information within
their province as may be necessary.
The owners of lands upon which options have been thus secured shall
upon the sale of the lands through the agency of the bureau, pay to the
chief of the bureau a commission of 5 per cent. upon the gross amount
of the sale, the sum thus obtained to be used in defraying the general
expenses of the bureau and to be accounted for by the chief of the
bureau in the itemized statement of receipts and expenditures which he
is at present required by law to publish in his report and to make to
the State comptroller.
The chief of the bureau is authorized to visit such States and
countries as in his judgment may be necessary, or to send an authorized
agent, for the purpose of securing immigrants, having special regard
to the character and responsibility of the immigrants. He is to adopt
such means of advertising the State’s advantages as may commend
themselves to his judgment, including such maps, charts, &c., as
may be best calculated to illustrate the geographical, geological,
topographical and physical features of the State, and to make contracts
with railroads, steamship and other transportation companies and the
masters of sailing vessels to secure a low rate of transportation for
immigrants and to make the necessary arrangements for their temporary
reception and accommodation upon their arrival until they can be
located.
The bill provides the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, in addition to the present annual appropriation of the
bureau to carry out the provisions of the law.
Packing-Houses in the South.
The people of the South have so long been accustomed to buying
their meat from Northern and Western markets that the suggestion of
packing-houses in the Southern cities is full of novelty and surprise.
Packing-houses distributed over the Southern territory would be the
incentive for farmers to raise more hogs and cattle and a better
quality, and thus create a source of revenue now practically closed to
them.
Are not our people convinced of the folly of selling their marketable
live stock to drovers and buying their meat, thus paying the cost of
transportation both ways, besides the profit each handler obtains?
Pork and beef raised on our own farms and cured in our own
packing-houses would keep at home the large sums of money sent off
annually for the meat supply of the people.
The grocerymen of Jackson purchase every year about $100,000 worth of
meat and lard for consumers in this immediate section, and it is easily
seen that a packing-house in Jackson would be a profitable industry. It
would furnish a home market for hog and cattle-raisers, and stimulate
the production of the best qualities. Every step in this direction is
an important gain, and the subject deserves the earnest attention of
our live and progressive citizens.--The Whig, Jackson, Tenn.
Sponge Fishing in Florida.
The vessels that are used in the business are chiefly schooner-rigged
and vary in size from five to twenty-five tons burden. They carry crews
ranging from five in number to fifteen for the largest vessels, nine
men to the boat being the average number. The odd man in each case is
the cook, who remains aboard to provide for the inner wants of the crew
(generally amazingly large) and sails the craft while the balance are
off in the small boats called dingeys in search of sponge. Each vessel
is provided with poles of various lengths, from fifteen to fifty feet,
to be used according to the depth of water in which they are working,
which have attached to them three pronged hooks shaped like the teeth
of a garden rake, somewhat heavier, with which the sponge are detached
from the objects to which they are adhered and drawn into the dingey.
Two men are necessary to operate a dingey, one, the “hooker,” using
the pole and the sculler keeping the boat in motion, following the
directions of the hooker, where he leans over the side looking through
an ordinary wooden bucket with a glass sealed in its bottom for the
sponge, which, when discovered, is secured with the hooks.
The fisherman are most all former inhabitants of the islands; many of
them have lived in the Bahamas, and there are about equal numbers of
white men and negroes.
They are designated “Conchs” by the people living upon the mainland,
from their making use of that shell animal for edible purposes when
living upon their native islands.
A trip is of eight to ten weeks’ duration, unless it is mutually agreed
by the owner and the crew that it shall end sooner, and a “broken” trip
is one which does not pay expenses incurred, and does not happen often,
except during a period of disaster like that just passed through.
When the trip is finished the catches are carried to market where the
purchaser bids upon them at a certain price per bunch or for the lot,
having previously estimate from his thorough knowledge of the goods
their value in pounds.
Before sending them to the various markets they are first trimmed
neatly and cleaned of all rock and shell, and then packed in bales of
convenient sizes in a compress which reduces them to small bulk and
renders them easily handled.
Owing to the scarcity of the supply the demand is at present very
great, and excellent prices are obtained.
* * * * *
The Newnan (Ga.) Cotton Mill (6300 spindles) will put on a night force
to operate its mill, so that it can catch up with the orders with which
it is now overrun.
* * * * *
Mr. L. C. Porter, proprietor of the Windsor hotel of Minneapolis,
Minnesota, has decided to remove with his family to Wilmington, N. C.
He has been in North Carolina since the 28th of December.
“I want to get away from the cold, long winters of the Northwest,” he
said, “and I came here to prospect. I have been traveling North, East,
South and West, and my observation is that you have the finest climate
I have ever seen. If you hadn’t this advantage in climate and your
fine opportunities for investment along with it, you wouldn’t catch me
settling here.”
It is said that Mr. Porter has in hand a plan to establish a colony
of Scandinavians in Eastern North Carolina. He expects to settle from
fifty to 100 thrifty families somewhere near Wilmington. For twenty
years he has been engaged in fostering colonies on the new lands of
Wisconsin and Michigan.
* * * * *
A Young Men’s Business Association is to be organized at Knoxville,
Tenn.
* * * * *
Savannah is getting up a commercial club.
* * * * *
Macon, Ga., expects to be visited about March 10 by a party of
investors and home-seekers from Indiana, who have been induced by the
Macon Bureau of Advertising & Information to go down on a prospecting
trip.
* * * * *
The Commercial Club, of Anniston, Ala., is going to have an exhibit
room in which to show the agricultural, mineral and industrial
resources and products of Calhoun county.
* * * * *
Mr. Chappell Cory, secretary of the Birmingham Commercial Club, has
taken great interest in the matter of immigration. Recently at a
meeting of the State Agricultural Society, he delivered a very able
address on the subject, which was exceedingly well received by the
farmers before whom it was delivered. In the latter part of February,
at his invitation, a number of the real estate men of Birmingham met
to discuss the subject of immigration. Mr. H. D. Lane, commissioner
of agriculture of the State, was present, and addressed the meeting.
Following his speech there was a general discussion of the subject,
after which the following resolution was adopted:
_Resolved_, That we cordially endorse the movement for immigration as
outlined by Commissioner Lane, and pledge him our hearty co-operation,
both as real estate men and as citizens of Birmingham and of Alabama.
* * * * *
At Atlanta, Ga., a $500,000 company has been formed to engage in
establishing country banks wherever good openings are found.
* * * * *
A large party of prominent coal operators of Chicago and other Western
cities have been examining Kentucky coal fields with a view to
handling Kentucky coal on a large scale, and also of investing in coal
properties.
* * * * *
A new water-power cotton mill will be built in South Carolina on
Penny-Shoals, Tiger river, near Wellford, by a company recently
incorporated as the Tuscapan Mills Co. Mr. C. E. Fleming, of
Spartanburg, is at the head of the enterprise.
* * * * *
The public lands in Arkansas, government, State and railroad, aggregate
more than 7,000,000 acres. There are over 4,000,000 acres of government
lands subject to homestead entry. Any male citizen of the United
States who is the head of a family, or over twenty-one years of age,
is entitled to enter 160 acres of land by paying the following fees:
For forty acres, $6; for eighty acres, $7; for 120 acres, $13; for 160
acres, $14. The State has also 1,200,000 acres which it will sell at
$1.25 per acre, or any citizen over the age of twenty-one years, or the
head of a family, can secure a donation of 160 acres by paying a fee
of $10. In addition to this the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
Railway Co. has over 2,000,000 acres which it will sell on five years’
time at from $2 to $5 per acre, receiving notes in payment therefor,
bearing 6 per cent. interest. During the last two years there have been
donated to settlers 166,940 acres of land, and deeds made to 131,957
acres to settlers who had fulfilled the requirements of the law.
* * * * *
It is not generally known that nearly the whole of the extreme western
part of Texas is fenced in and divided up into enormous pastures. There
is one pasture, for instance, traversed by the Fort Worth and Denver
Railroad, that it takes a fast express train four hours and a quarter
to cross. Another, in Dickens, Crosby and Emma counties, belonging
to the Espinella Cattle Co., contains over 1,500,000 acres. If this
pasture were in the shape of a square it would be about fifty miles
each way, requiring therefore, 200 miles of fencing.
* * * * *
The Empire Plaid Mill, at High Point, N. C., is crowded with orders.
The plant has been running on double time for some months until very
recently.
* * * * *
From the annual report of the Board of Trade of Eufaula, Ala., of which
Mr. C. B. Goetchius is secretary, it is learned that Eufaula has had a
very active business year in spite of the hard times. The residences
and stores that have been built during the year aggregate in cost about
$50,000. As an indication of the comparative business done in 1892
and 1893, it is stated that the cash receipts at the railroad office
were $8500 greater in 1893 than in 1892. During the recent period of
financial and business disasters and failures there was not a single
failure in Eufaula, and not a business house closed with the exception
of one case of temporary embarrassment, which was quickly arranged.
* * * * *
The Liberty Woolen Manufacturing Co., of Bedford City, Va., has secured
another contract from the government to make goods for the army. This
time the order calls for 7000 broad yards at a cost of over $8000.
* * * * *
The last annual message of the mayor of Augusta, Ga., which has been
printed in pamphlet form, is a very comprehensive review of the city’s
affairs for 1893.
* * * * *
Sixty newspaper men from North Dakota are visiting Texas.
* * * * *
The Eufaula Cotton Mill Co., at Eufaula, Ala., has just completed an
addition to its plant at a cost of $50,000. At the same place a new
cotton mill is being built by another company--the Chewalla Cotton Mill
Co.
* * * * *
The managers of the Seaboard Air Line have become greatly interested
in the matter of immigration. Mr. R. C. Hoffman, of Baltimore, the
president of the line, and Major J. C. Winder, the general manager, at
Wilmington, N. C., are considering plans for procuring the settlement
of Northern farmers in their territory. The Seaboard Air Line
traverses a country suited in the highest degree for farming and stock
raising, and especially for growing early fruits and vegetables.
* * * * *
The citizens of Tuskaloosa have organized “The Commercial Association
of Tuskaloosa county.” The officers and directors are: President, A. F.
Prince; Vice-president, George W. Christian; Secretary, Walter Guild.
Board of Directors: Festus Fitts, Victor Friedman, W. C. Jemison, J. C.
Harrison, A. S. Vandegraaff, H. F. Hill, George A. Searcy, Charles R.
Maxwell, T. N. Hays.
* * * * *
The Richmond & Danville Railroad has issued a very handsomely
illustrated book, “Snow Balls and Orange Blossoms,” a copy of which
will be sent on application.
* * * * *
Mr. George W. Truitt, of LaGrange, Ga., has published a pamphlet called
“Talks to the Farmers of Dixie.” It is full of valuable advice and
suggestions.
* * * * *
The Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. has in hand contracts
that will keep it busy for two years.
* * * * *
Several hundred laborers have been put to work on the Chesapeake Beach
railway, which is to connect Washington, D. C., with a proposed resort
on the Chesapeake bay in Southern Maryland. It seems remarkable that
this superb body of water has been up to this time so little made
use of by the cities of Washington and Baltimore. This new resort at
Chesapeake Beach will be a boon to both cities. It will be within less
than an hour’s ride of Washington, and will be readily and quickly
accessible from Baltimore also.
The Chesapeake Beach railroad passes through a section of country
admirably suited to truck gardening as well as general farming. Mr.
Washington Danenhower, whose office is in the Loan & Trust building,
Washington, has already had some negotiations looking to the locating
of a colony of farmers from the Northwest along the line of the road.
* * * * *
The Sibley Manufacturing Co., of Augusta, Ga., has begun an extensive
addition to its cotton mill. The output of the mill will be greatly
increased.
* * * * *
It is astonishing to people who are unacquainted with the details of
Florida business life to hear of the amount of business done in the
little towns in the interior and along the coast. Indeed, it surprises
some of those who live here to see the summing up of the annual
business done by individual firms in those towns, and if one didn’t
in some way get at some tangible reason for these figures one would
be disposed to question their correctness. But when one drives out
into the surrounding country and sees the many orange groves and the
many broad acres planted in vegetables a key is found that unlocks the
situation.
In Florida, instead of large areas of land in cultivation, there are
the native growths only dotted here and there with openings, and
planted to fruits and vegetables. It requires but little stock to
cultivate them and but few hands, comparatively speaking, to do the
work. The crop raised on one acre of Florida soil on an average is
equal to that of fifteen to twenty acres in cotton regions, and every
dollar is for export, the grower receiving the cash for his crop, and
then he reinvests it for the necessaries of his household and farm.
There is where the volume of business done by the Florida merchants
comes in.--Jacksonville Times-Union.
* * * * *
The cultivation of the castor bean may be attempted in Texas on a
larger scale than heretofore. The United States Consul at Breslau,
Germany, Mr. Frederick Opp, has been making inquiries about the climate
and soil of Texas for Max Strahl, who is thinking of purchasing land in
Bexar county for the purpose of raising the plants mentioned. According
to Mr. Strahl’s statement, the castor plant requires much less rain
than cotton; can be harvested in a much shorter space of time; requires
only one-third of the amount of labor, and yields a much greater profit
to the producer.
In a letter to the San Antonio Express Mr. Opp says: “I have sent a
sample of the beans to the Department of Agriculture at Washington. I
trust that Mr. Strahl will soon positively decide to settle in Texas
and inaugurate the enterprise. He is an expert in castor plant growing
and raises large quantities in India.”
* * * * *
The Rock Island & Texas Town Co. owns a 300 acre tract of land near
Boyd, Texas, which has been divided into ten acre tracts for small
fruit and vegetable farms.
* * * * *
The citizens of Nacogdoches, Texas, have organized a society, the
purpose of which will be to induce immigration to Nacogdoches county
and advance the general interests of that section. Lists of lands for
sale, with prices, &c., and general information about the locality will
be furnished on application. The president of the society is George H.
Davidson.
* * * * *
Mr. Guy M. Bryan, a banker of Bryan, Texas, who owns large areas
of property in Brazoria county, near Velasco on the Gulf coast, is
arranging to bore artesian wells to flood a considerable area of
ancient lake beds, which he will convert into extensive rice farms.
* * * * *
A report now being prepared by Mr. F. H. Newell, of the United States
Geological Survey, on the condition, amount, and location of the public
land still in the hands of the government, shows that there are about
600,000,000 acres of government lands. The report states, however, that
all the vacant land remaining to the government in the West is either
mountain country or else land which, owing to scanty rainfall or other
conditions, is fit only for grazing.
* * * * *
The National Builders’ Association of the United States will hold its
next convention in Baltimore in October, 1895. Mr. Noble H. Greager,
of Baltimore, is president of the association; Mr. Charles A. Rupp,
of Buffalo, first vice-president; Mr. James Meath, of Detroit, Mich.,
second vice-president; Mr. Wm. H. Sayward, of Boston, secretary, and
Mr. George Tapperk, of Chicago, treasurer.
* * * * *
The Rock Hill Cotton Factory Co., of Rock Hill, S. C., which has
heretofore made yarns only, is now adding 192 looms to its plant.
* * * * *
Mr. George C. Power, industrial commissioner of the Illinois Central
and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Companies, in an interview
with a reporter of the New Orleans Picayune, said: “I have been down
south of the Ohio river with two or three parties who are desirous
of locating wood-working factories. Those parties have expressed
themselves as being well pleased with the lumber found there and the
facilities for handling it; also the welcome which had been given them
by the Southern people. It is more than likely two of the parties will
locate within the next week or ten days.
“I find that although the banks wherever I visited have plenty of
money, yet they cannot loan it to advantage. At some places the loans
to farmers are being curtailed, but in the majority of places the
applications for loans are fewer than in several previous years. The
hotels are crowded with traveling salesmen, all of whom appear to be
doing good business, selling principally dry goods, clothing, hats,
caps, shoes and articles of similar character, and very few provisions.
Many places are purchasing a better class of dry goods than they had in
twenty years back. The merchants anticipate a very good spring trade.
“To show how small farmers are doing, I will cite one case. In the
Yazoo Delta a farmer has grown all the provisions--corn and seed--for
his new crop, and has sufficient left over to purchase a reaper for his
coming hay crop. He has contracted for the produce of five acres of
potatoes, seven acres of onions, and he will be self-supporting from
this date forward. He is only one of a great many, and it seems to me
that with fewer applications for loans and less demand for money to
carry cotton, capital must seek other sources of employment. A large
portion of it will most probably be invested in sound manufacturing
industries, which will make a market for raw materials that are now to
a great extent valueless.”
* * * * *
Charlotte, N. C., has grown tired of its inert Chamber of Commerce and
proposes to organize a more active and progressive Board of Trade.
* * * * *
The Chamber of Commerce, of Huntsville, Ala., is receiving many
inquiries from Northern farmers, who want to know about farming
conditions around Huntsville.
* * * * *
It is stated that there are not enough houses at Columbia, S. C.,
to accommodate the increasing population, and that an excellent
opportunity is given to erect an office building.
* * * * *
The secretary of the Bureau of Information of Newport News, Va., is in
constant receipt of letters asking for information about Newport News
and the adjacent country.
* * * * *
The Denison Land & Investment Co., of Denison, Tex., has elected A.
P. Childs, of Bennington, Vt., President; E. H. Hanna, of Denison,
Vice-president, and A. H. Coffin, of Denison, Treasurer.
* * * * *
C. S. Durling, of New York, was the originator of the refrigerator
business in Florida, being the first man to run iced cars for the
transportation of fruits and vegetables to New York. Before he began
to do so berries could only be shipped by express, and only then when
the weather was cool and the berries sour. Now Florida berries are sent
North as late as May 1.
A refrigerator company will begin business at Gainesville, Fla., this
week, and for the extra charge of ten cents per package they insure
the arrival of truck at destination in the same condition as when put
aboard the cars here.
* * * * *
Some of the cities of Tennessee have become interested in the idea of
having an exposition to celebrate the State’s centennial. At a meeting
of the Nashville Commercial Club a resolution was adopted providing
for a committee of twenty-five members, composed of seven from the
Commercial Club, six from the Board of Trade and three each from the
Southern Engineering Association, the Historical Society and the Art
Association, to make arrangements for a convention to be held in the
city in March to discuss plans for an exposition.
* * * * *
The Board of Trade of Nashville, Tenn., is one of the few such concerns
that has life and activity and progressiveness. Major A. W. Wills, the
recently elected secretary, is a man full of zeal and energy, and he
will make the board of trade a power in the advancement of Nashville
and the surrounding country.
* * * * *
The stockholders of the Luna Cotton Mills, Fort Mill, S. C., have voted
to extend the plant and add considerable new machinery, including 100
looms.
* * * * *
Within the last twelve month taxable values in Texas have increased
$30,000,000.