The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-16
1 BUILDING BOOM
WAY DOWN SOUTH
Reports From All Over Southland
Show Increases in Months
Building Operations.
MANY COSTLY STRUCTURES
Improvement in Character of the
Buildings Noted In Al! Cities
i'm Dixie.
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BALTIMORE. December Is.-ln this
weeks issue the Manufacturers Record
says:
Reports from uumter of cities
throughout the South and Southwest
show that building operations are stead
IN Increasing, both as 10 the number of
structures and as TO their cost At
Gutport Miss. work under way Includes
a $4,000 opera house with "a capacity
for l.20o persons. a. be completed 10y
January lists "a 3o-room brick hotel 20
cost $4,000, -d-room brick and stone
hotel 10 cost $4,000. and several resi-
d"nces ranging 10 price from 81 600 TO
$1,000 A "a 600 canuery and ID Sc. 600
cement plant are planned for the near
future. Ii is announced that "a big wave
house is 10 be erected 80 connection with
the last of five new piers at Galveston.
Texas. and q contract providing Tor am
increase Of 5000 spindles and 90 looms
I'm the equipment of a. cotton mill at
WaNahachle involves the erection OF a
building 100 by 200 feet one story high.
of red brick and cement stone and fif-
teen operatives cottages.
"ln Knoxville. Tenn. tho value OF
buildings FOR which permits We're issued
iast month is estimated at S1of.4S0. an
increase Of S24. $50 over November, 1908.
and Of S25.255 over November 1909.
Among the important permits of tho
$4,000 store. - $4,000 apartment house.
and "a $4,000 store. In Atlanta, Ca.
there has been q notable increase in
building activities. the estimated value
of structures for which permits were isl
sued I'm the first eleven months Of the
year being $4Nl3.S19 as compared with
$3.2l2.93 for the entire year OF 1908. It
is calculated that Sf50.00o ~ have been
expended during the year at Macon Co..
one az the most prominent buildings be-
I ing "a $50. oe0 hotel and store. Iu Mobile.
Ala. the value Of building operations iu
tine first ten months ~ tho year WAS 81 -
o63. 81. which is slightly less than the
total value OF au buildings erected in
the twelve months NJ 1905. and DO Isl eN-
pceted that Tine figures for 1906 Will
show am increase of about 100000 over
those OF last year.
During November building operations
in Birmingham. Ala. .totIed Sl3G.2SO. OF
which Sill.e5o represents buildings be
sun during the month. and SlN.5o0 Zee
pairs ana alterations Permits granted
at Memphis. Tenn. are S,.3Z6 in excess
of those for November 1905. In jack
suntiNe. tla. We're issued ln November
permits for so frame buildings and six
brick ones. Since MAY Q. 1909. n total
"f '.32" buildings hae been th. record or
'.t'N~'nNlhc fo tn- f-rDnf nurnurrc-
mont OF "a 100000 fertilizer plant at Az
Eu9tt Ca, to htt. an annual outuut
valued at 100000 is added tlfe week
tho auuouucoin snt of work to begin. .lorr
the middle OF January uuon SD $4,000
modern apartment house buIt BOO double
st,I" 40 Joplin Mo. building or aU
Kinds is being pushed. notwitus landing
tn" winter weather. and uo Toss than 300
dwelling houses are now ln course o.
construction. while uumie~ of llr-
tories ara other plants Hre soon % Dos
under way The new 500 oNI hotel now