The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-24
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
MANY EVIDENCES or PROSPERITY
 ARE APPARENT.
Ths Manufacturers' Record Tells of the Development That is Going on-- Activity in Railway Con-
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Baltimore, Mr., Feb. 2S.--(Special)-- Among the many evidences of prosper. ity in all parts of the South is the activity there in building operations on the part of individuals, business in. dustrial and railroad corporations. church and beneficial societies and municipal, county and State authori- ties.
 Aside from the notable progress made at Baltimore since the great fire of two years ago which has given m impetus to Improvements gn many di- rections and which is to have another mark in the commencement, March 1, of work upon new piers, aside from the increase in the number of apart ment houses and handsome residences at Washington, D. C., to be expected in the nature of tbings, aside from sus- tained work at such places as Jack sonville Fla, and Galveston, Tex, in recovery from disaster and in advance to greater things and aside from the construction consequent upon the es- tablishment of new industries of vari- ous kinds dealing with cotton, cotton seed, tobacco, lumber, iron and steel. the record of plans for new buildings and of progress upon such undertak- ings, has been maintained for several months past and their character IS well exempliied in the reports pub | lished In this weeks issue of The Man. ufacturers' Record chronicling the manifestations If the past seven days. Naturally railroads are to the fore
 in this particular, and among the most l interesting reports Is that of plans TOT | the terminals at Key West of the ex- tension of the Florida East Coast Rail way across the Flcrida Keys. That l bit of railroad construction has at- I tracted wlde attention because of It's I boldness and novelty. and 1t is under stood that the terminals which will l involve the expenditure of several mill | lion dollars will occupy site about | a mile from the shore line proper ana now covered by from five to twenty | five feet of water.
 Actual work has commenced at Mem phis upon two storage warehouses Tor the Southern Railway. which VIII cos. I sIOO,000. They will be of brick anu have an aggregate floor space of 62,- | 400 feet. The present freight ware | house of the road at Memphis will l also be overhau1ed at a cost of about ! $25,00e, and considerable steel work m doors will be installed. The freight l depot of the Georgia Southern and l Florida Railway Company at Valdosta, 1 Ga. will ba Of brick. 45xsss feet, and 1 will cost $12,000; pians are being pre- pared for the, Illinois Central Railroad | depot at Birmingham, Ala, which will | be of brick, three stories high ana l I4lx196 feet, while an addition of 20O 1 feet is to be made to the depot of the International Great Northern Faliroad | at Lerado, Tex A warehouse company at Memphis ..plans to spend nearly million dollars
 upon the consolidated system or ware houses and congresses on land near that city; Bennetville. s. C., is to nave a fireproof cotton warehouse of con- crete stone and plans hayes been made for cotton warehouses at Houstoh' lTexas, and Fayetteville. N. C., for large tobacco warehouse at Trenton, l Ky, for warehouse sheds at Grsenvtiie, Miss for piers at Mobile, Ala, and Tor piers and storehouses at Brunswick, lea. Among other contemplated im- Iprovements are the following:
 | Churches--$30,00 ,000 at Memphis, Tenn, $76,O ,O00 at Nashville. Tenn.. $11.00O at Hot Springs, Ark, $40,000 at, Pensacola Fla, s15,o00 at Statesville, N C., $7,- 900 at Eufaula. Ala, and others, cost not yet announced at Columbia, 5. c. and Victoria. Tex
 S22.9 300 at Orlando, Fla, $17,9SS at Lau-
 rel, Miss, and ss,00o at Adrian. Ga.
 Hotels-$150,00O steel concrete, fire Iproof construction, oJx150 feet, at Nor
 folk, Va; $100,0O0. five stories, at Charlotte, N. C.; four stories, brick,
 6Ox15O feet, at Shreveport, La. 70x120 feet, at Timpson, Texas.5 three stories,
 at Bessemer, Ala. and others at
 Brooksville, Fla, Grand Park, Fla, and
 Healing Springs, s. C., presumably to meet tourists demands which are be-
 hind the organization at New orleans
 of a company which proposes to build a $600,00O hotel at one of the Gulf
 coast resorts.
 Offices and Business Buildings-$S5,-
 GOO brick and stone, at St. Angelo,
 Tex; S50,000 at Memphis, Tenn; $1S,000
 of brick and Belgian blocks, at Bur llington, N. C.; ten stories, steel frame,
 at Macon, Ga. and at Rome, Ga, Sa- yannah, Ga, Jacksonville, Fla, and
 Alexandria, Va. JaIls-Slb, ,0O0 at Rome Ga; $12,S94 at Triton, Ga: $12.000 at Woodstock, Va;
 at Sparta. Tenn, and at Hot Springs,
 Ark.
 Banks--qreenville, S. C., Demopolis, Ala. North Fork, W. Va.
 Theatres-At New Orleans, La., El
 Paso, Tex, and North Fork, w. va.,;
 S75,0O0 city hall at Pensacola, Fla;
 $20O, 900 Masonic Temple, seven stories I high, at Atlanta, Ga; $10,0O0 armory at New Orleans. La; $21,0oO county home
 at Winston Salem, N C.; hospitals at
 Mineral Wells, Tex, and at New Or leans, La, and Young Mems Christian ..- 1E... az1 NAN4sz