1899-10-28: Manufacturers' Review, Birmingham, Alabama, Volume 1, Issue 2

This is the volume I, issue 2, October 28, 1899 issue of Manufacturers Review: A Semi-Monthly Journal Devoted to the Industrial Development of the Southeast , a newspaper published semi-monthly by Manufacturers' Review Co. in Birmingham, Alabama. The newspaper includes news, information, facts,...

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Main Author: Manufacturers' Review Co.
Format: Electronic
Published: Auburn University Libraries
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Online Access:http://content.lib.auburn.edu/u?/agpapers,833
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Summary:This is the volume I, issue 2, October 28, 1899 issue of Manufacturers Review: A Semi-Monthly Journal Devoted to the Industrial Development of the Southeast , a newspaper published semi-monthly by Manufacturers' Review Co. in Birmingham, Alabama. The newspaper includes news, information, facts, correspondence, editorials, illustrated ads, and articles of interest related to industry and technology. Topics include business, economics, industry, technology, politics, and statistics. Articles vary greatly in length and may be written by newspaper staff or outside contributors; summarized or copied from other newspapers; or summarized statements from public figures. First two pages have large sections missing. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.Work and aim of the Review; Foundries pushed with orders; New railroads in the South; Lumber resources of the South; The Huntsville convention; Flour milling in the South; Cotton milling in the Southeast; Iron production, October 1; Negro labor in cotton mills; Volume and prospects of business; Huntsville convention program; Cotton mill labor: Wages in North Carolina mills--Scarcity of labor increasing, and the use of Negro labor becomes possible--The case discussed; Cotton milling: Various systems of computing the cost of manufacture; Correspondence: Review of the Southern markets; Iron and steel and their products; Coal and coke; Mobile; Lumber; Lumber news and notes; Staves; Timber-hewn; Timber--sawn; Naval stores; Fertilizers--Oil meal; Nashville; Lumber; Hardware; Phosphate; The Munger system; A word defined; Great coal combine; Railroad construction for past nine months; Headed for the coal fields; Tennessee's phosphate beds; Build mills; Railway growth; Highest price paid for turpentine in ten years; The iron situation; A big fertilizer combine; Iron and steel trades in England; Hester's weekly statement; Japanese cotton buyer; Towns can live without cotton; Prices of lumber; Advance in flour; A large Virginia enterprise; An automobile will be used for line riding; The building boom; Illinois coke; Semi-Monthly Survey of Southern Industries;