The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-27
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
coon SHOWING IN THE MANUFAC.
 TURERy RECORD.

9OUD SHOW1N0 IN THE MANorAS- TURERy RECORD.
 Millions of Dollars are Being spent in Improvements and the Estabhsh- l., ment of New Industries in l%f This Section.
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 Baltimore. Md, Aug. 26.-(Special.) An interesting exposition of recent progress in Southern industry is maoe in a series of special correspondence published in The Manufacturers Rec ord from representatives of business organizations in many Southern clties. The series was suggested by letter from a commercial club in Arkansas, which stated that that organization
 had had fifty good propositions which
 it was unable to handle and was en- deavoring to persuade nearby commu-
 mites to avail themselves of these op-
 portunities to secure investments in
 industrial enterprises.
 The correspondence shows that most of the communities have dehnite re- suits to show for the work Of tneif business organizations, and all of them even the youngest, are alive to any
 chance to add to their population and wealth through the attraction or en- terprises to their limits. For many years commercial navigation of the Ocmulgee river between Macon and Hawkinsville, Ga, has been practically suspended, but Improvements have permitted it's resumption by steamboat, and $3.000.000 are awaiting investment l at Macon as soon as this shall happen. Sandersville, Ga., is 100 years old. Tn recent years 1t has entered into the | industrial life of the South, and during
 the past eighteen months has spent $245,000 upon improvements, including
 industries. stores and residences In the same period Asheville, N. C., has | erected, at a cost of $293.0o0. a total of 1l7 buildings, and. an expenditure of more than S175 900 additional Is repre- sented in work under construction and additions.
 Building operations at Durham, N. C., including structures just completed, nearing completion and planned for the future, represent an invest ment of nearly $7O0,00O. Chattanooga. Tenn, constantly increasing in import ance as an industrial centre, Is looking to the spending by the government or
 millions of dollars during the coming year in nearby improvements, and to the consequent increase within its linn | It's of wage earners and producers. Preliminaries are well under way for the construction of a $2.O0o,000 axe fae- tory at Charleston, w. Va, which will | require the erection of several hundred houses for employees. At Parkersburg. | in the same State, about $750,00O are now being spent in construction. The | City Is constantly being studied by manufacturers from other points. ana | an effect of such study Is that there IS | fair assurance of the erection In the near future of three manufacturing I nj n n
 900.
 | Many activities, commercial. indus | trial and railroad, center at Memphis, | Tenn, where last year there were spent S3,365,255 in building improve | ments. At this time 300 houses are In course of erection, and before October | work will begin on two fifteen-story buildings. one ten-story building and d | number of smaller structures, the con servative estimate being that the in-
 vestment in building in 1904 will ap- proach S4,o00, 900. Tampa, Fla. spent | se59,319 in new buildings during the
 past year, and now proposes to issue | $500. 900 of bonds for municipal i'm provements.
 Monroe is one of number of Louis- iana cities which, like New Orleans, have made wonderful progress In the
 last few years. Home capital has been couraseoussand progressive at Monroe,
 and It's investment has brought into
 successful operation sash and door | factory a hardwood factory, mo-
 lasses factory, a cotton mill, two luh-
 her mills and a large brick manufac-
 turing plant. while many public and
 private improvements have been maoe. | Shreveport La, has altogether TOT | ty seven propositions of an industrlai | nature before its business organiza-
 ton. Meridian. Miss, has spent $ooo,- | 900 this year in construction. Jumper
 900 this year in construction; lumber | Jackson, Ala, while three industries have been added to Birmingham dur | ing the past sixty days. ROCK ILL.,
 S. C., has only recently completed a
 $1, JOG, 900 hydro electric plant, which IS now furnishing power for machinery and lighting within an area Of twenty | five miles.
 | Among the noteworthy improvements | at Kansas City, Mo-, are $1.oO0,0OO soar | factory, a $1,O00.000 oil refinery and
 pipe line, a S1,000.0o0 packing plant
 several railroad elevators of large ca
 pacity and other additions to terminal
 facilities costing $1,000,0o0. Fulton
 in the same State, has spent $20O,OOo
 this year in new buildings. and indus.
 tries with $130,o00 capital have located l
 ry costing $20,00O and a modern flour
 ing mill are nearing completion al
 Bentonville, Ark, and number oi
 fruit evaporators have been built there A $30,000 cotton compress and two
 cotton gins are narly finished at Bal finger Texas, and at Bells. small and young town in that State, flour
 mill and oil mill are in prospect. Wa co, Texas, has within the past year in'
 vested more than S100,000 ofits owr
 capital in factories, Paris. Texas, has
 brought $1.000,000 in investments tc
 it's limits. and San Antonio has about
 $75Oo00 worth of building now under | way.
 A steel door and blind factory ii
 one of the recent additions to the In
 dustries of Berkley. Va; West Point
 Va, is under the spell of improvement!
 which has persisted since its fire more
 than a year ago, and at Maysville. Ky.
 there Is not an unemployed man wht
 is willing to work. Blackwell, Okla.
 has increased its population from 50i
 to 4,20O in six years, and sixtey-tw'
 brick and stone buildings with larg'
 hotel are to be built at once. Bartles
 vile, in a great oil and natural gal
 field of the Indian Territory, has be
 come a thriving town of 5000 popula