The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-03
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
HEALTHY FINANCIAL CONDITION or
 THE CITIES.
nfaascIpaIiffes spending Large stunts for Fmprpyemenfs--AIabn Makes Good Showing In Manufac-
 .furers' Recera Lisf.

Baltimore, March 2.--(speciaL )---The Nanufacturers' Record says this week:
 Healthy conditions of municipal finances, refiecting the general pros perity of the South, appear In the wide spread interest of Southern cities, great and small. in the question: of water supplies, electric lighting, sewerage systems and street improvements. Re- ports received by The Manufacturers Record during the past month covering the steadily progressing region from Maryland to Texas, Indicate that the determination to better the materiali- ties of towns and cities, as manifested in plans already under way, practically mapped or seriously considered, IS so deep and wide and strong that the next year or two are certain to mark great advance in that field. At num- Der of point Arrangements have oeeh made for carrying on several improve ments at the same time.
 Pensacola, Fla, for instance, VIII shortly ask bids for $25eeOe se"erass system. 1t will spend $100,000 on street paving and s35o.0oo to purchase the present waterworks or to establish new plan, the city having recently voted s75O.O0O for these purposes. Tampa, Ela.. in the same State, is considering an issue of $400,00 of bonds for water works, and $1e0.000 for electric light plant; North Birmingham, Ala, an issue Of $50 O00 for a sanitary sewer system and $50.O00 for water works improve ment and electric-light plant, and Man assas. Va. and 1Sdgefield, s. C., are moving in the same direction, while more or less progress upon such com bination plans has been made by Abe marie, N. C., Carbon Hill, Alaa Apaia- chicago. Fla, Punta Gordo, Fla, SheF- nan. Tex. Cochrape, Clarksville and Dallas, Ga, a school building being in cIuded in the see.e8o expenditure at the Hast mentioned place and private franchise having been asked for a e4e,- 000 water works aud electric light sys- .sem at Albertviile, Ala.
 . Tn a number of cases the question of water works is whether to purchase plants now privately operated or te some mere tentative, some dependent upon authority from the Legislature to issue the necessary securities, some awaiting local vote in the near future, and some already definitely provided for. are the following:
 .Xyaterworks, TIaHcaloosa, Selma and Brundidge, Ala; Arcadia. Fla; Marks vllle and DonaldsenVilIe. La; Hagersr town. Md; Raleigh. N. C.; Nashville. Tenn; Brownwood, Tex; Portsmouth, and Edlnbnrg, Va, and Piedmont, w Va. Selma to vote next month on issue of sISO,0OO of bonds to purchase local plant and Edinburg and Portsmouth seeking authority from the Assembly of Virginia to issue necessary bonds.
 s.An electric light system-Phoenix Ala: Cotter, Ark; AdeI, Ga; and Hyatts- Ville, Md, with plant including water mower development at Goodwater, Ala
 ts&werage--Gaiuesyi and St. Pe- aersburg, Fla; Lexington, Ky; Lexing- fon, N C.; and Norfolk, Va; $33seoa bond issue being arranged to pay foi She redredging of drainage canals ID New Iberia. Parish in Louisiana.
 ..gtreet mproyements--New Decatus and Montgomery, Ala; Augusta Ga Jackson, Miss; Memphis, Tepn., and Petersburg. Portsmouth, Phoebus ane Roanoke, Va; Rockingham, N. C., is to vote on the Issuance of s300,000 oi bonds for road improvement and Hlbi County, Georgia, is considering an is' sue of $500.000 of bonds to macadamize It's roads. and bids will close this week for the construetion of about fourteen miles of pike road from Clinton to OIL yer Springs. Tenn.
 saThe past month shows also some. what of renewed activity in cotton mill construction. Among the plans are an additional building two stories high, ls by 154 feet, to be equipped with lO,4os spindles at Laurel. Miss. a 5,000-spindie Hosiery mill at Spartanburg. S. C., a 6,0ee-spindIe mill at dastonia, N. C.. an additional building two stories high eS by 225 feet, to be equipped with knit ting machines at Chattanooga Tenn, 2 doubling of a 5.00O-spindle and a 1so- loom plant at Brenham, Tex, a 10000 spindle and 3,O00-Ioom mill at Rocking ham, N C., a doubling of an 1S,S64- spindle and a 35s-loom plant at Spar tanburg, s. C., the Incorporation Of { kf,bOe,e00 cotton yarn company al Chattapooga, Tenn, a 5,000-spindle plan at Lincoln, N. C.. an addition of e,00l spindles at Laurinburg, N. C.. a 5000, spindle eIectric-driven mill at Dallas N. C., and a s50,0O0 plant to manufac- ture satin things at Weldon. N. C."