The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
BUILDING IN SOUTH
REPORTS FROM CITIES SHOW
 STEADY INCREASE.
Costly Structures Are Being Erected in GutfpOft, Knoxville, Atlanta. Biz mlRghnm, Montgomery, Ma con, Jacksonville, and
 Many Others.


 E-ltimore. Dec. 14.-fsps ;ial )-tn this weeks Issue The Manufacturer Record says:
 Reports from a number of Oities throughout the South and 1outhwesi show that building operations are steadily increasing both as to the num- ber of structures and as to their cost. At Gulfport Miss, work under way in ludes a $16,000 opera house with d capacity of 1.20V persons, to be conn pIsted by January 1; a thirty-room brick hotel to cost $22,0O0, twenty six room brick and stone h ltel th cost s23. 900 and several residences ranging in price from s4.O00 to $7,000. A $25- aan cannery nd a $6,000 cement plant are planned for the near future. It is announced that a big Eirehcuse is to be erected 'n connection with the last of five new piers at Galveston, Texas. and a contract providing for an ln- fcrease of 5.e00 spindles and twenty looms in the equipment of a cotton mill at Waxahachie involves the erection of a building 100 by 200 feet. ere story high, of red brick and cement stone, and fifteen operatives cottages.
 Tn Knoxville, Tenn, the value of buildings for which permits were is- sued last month is estimated Gt $105 4S0, an increase of S24,730 over ..ovem- ! Dtft AJUDs anu hA S|oF@DO ONCI NONtAiI~ ber, 1904. Among the important per nits of the month were these for tho erection of a $30.00O store, d s15,00G apartment house, and $10,000 store. Tn Atlanta, Ga. there has been mo- table increase in building activities. the estimated value of structures for which permits were issued :n the first eleven months of the year Icing S4- S13,S79 as compared with 5?.512,93l for fhn entire n IQO1 IT iu IL ted that $450, 900 Twill have been eX- pended during the year at Macon. Ga one of the most pr,anineut bWldinS Ss being a $60,0O0 hotel and store In Mobile. Ala. the value of ruilding ope- rations in the first ten months of the year was S1,O63,143 which Is slightly less than the total value of all build Ings erected in the twelve months Of 1905, and it is expected that the fig ures for 1906 will show an increase oe about $300,000 over those Q? last year. During November huilding operations in Birmingham. Ala. totaled Si3S 2S1, of which $111,250 represents buildings begun during the month, and $1S.520 repairs and alterations. Permits gran ted at Memphis, Tenn, are q7,326 in excess of those fer November 9O5. n Jacksonville. Fla, were ssued in No- vember permits for eighty frame buildings and six brick ones. Since May 3. 1901. total of 320 buildings has been the record of Jacksonville To the recent announcement of d S10n . < 900 fertilizer plant at Augusta. Ga. tN have an annual output valued at $500. Q 900 is added this week She announce ment of work to begin about the mi,i- de of January upon $50.ee0 modern apartment house built in Gputle style. At Joplin. Mo, building of all kinds is being pushed. notwithstanding the winter weather. and no less han 5,G dwelling houses are now n course of construction, while a number of factr- ries and other plants are soon to be under way. The new $500 900 hotol now under way has the steel stru' . tural work completed % tEe eighth story and It is confidently believed that it will be completed lv next July A new gas company in that city has laid the foundations of its D.ilding and steel company there which as recent, ly added a new building to it's plant has planned for a group of buildinGe