The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-18
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
NOTABLE ACTIVITY IN MUNICIPAL
 IMPROVEMENT.
School HfuldinGs, Street Paving, Water and LiEht Systems and Many other Thfngn Planned Or Now Under
 Construcffon.

Baltimore, Aug. 17--(speciaL)- )--Let- ters published in this weeks issue of The Manufacturers' Record from au- thorities of many cities and towns in the South and Southwest give details of notable activity In municipal im- provenaents recently. completed. now un- der way or planned for the near future scme of them merely awaiting the award of contracts. bids for some still 10 baopened and others depending upon the vote of citizens under authority from the Legislature. The improve ments range through practically all municipal activities of the kind, quite number of cities having three or four seperate undertakings In mind.
 They include school buildings costing from s45.0o0 to s10.000 or less. at Nor gan City, La, Georgetown. S. C., Clarks- vile, Tenn. Tyler. Tex. Frankfort, Ky, Johnson City. Tenn. and Lafayette. La: sewerage systems at Batesvilie. Ark. Argentina. Ark. Eatonton. Ga. Paragould. Ark. Key West. Fla, Pen- | sacoia. Fla. Bainbridge. Ga. and New port. Ark: street pavements of ce- 1 ment. -vitrffied brick. bithulitic. maca- dam. concrete. grants block or other material at Greenville. s. C.. Knoxville. Tenn. Arsenta. Ark. Batesville. Ark. Independence, Mo. Tuscaloosa. Ala. vicksburg. Miss. winchester. Va. Col umbus, Ga. Paris. Tex. and Overs burg, Tenn. where there is species of cooperation on the part of the senera1 government. while plans for good roads building adjacent to Union | Springs. Ala. are to be pushed at the | rate of twenty-five miles year: wa ter supply Improvements at Key West,
 Fla. Apalachicola. Fla, LaGrange. Ga,
 Morgan City. La. Dyersburg. Tenn. Charlottesville. Va. and Winston, N. C.; city halls at Pensacola. Fla, Gainesville. Tex. Hawklnsvii1e. Ga: courthouse at Grimm. Ga. and gas plant
 at Albany Ga.
 These undertakings are q few Illus | trations of the vast and widespread movement in the South for the better ment of municipal conditions involving the expenditure in the near future of ! several million dollars.
 ! Another large investment in the ag- gregate Is represented in the building of small railroads in the South. A mum Der of short lines proposed or under construction increases daily. many of
 them being designed for the purpose of I handling the output in such industries
 as coal-mining. numbering, phosphate mining and the gathering of naval l stores. There is scarcely a State in
 | the South in which the building of such I lines Is not in progress in number Of localities. In the mountains of Vir- ginia, West Virginia. Kentucky and Tennessee, much of the construction | of small lines is done by the trunk roads as feeders. although not a few
 Independent pieces of work are under way.
 | In the States named a large propor- | tion of this new building is on account of coal. although numbering figures in the situation to some extent. Farther South in North Carolina. South Caro- lima. Georgia. Florida. Alabama. Mis- l sissippi and even beyond in Arkansas and Louisiana the development of tim ! ber-land and the products therefrom is mainly responsible for the building of many short railroads. This type of construction Is particularly active just now throughout these States. and velopment of the country is now shown in Georgia, by means of connections, in making a through route from Augusta to the Gulf of Mexico.
 But 1t does not always happen that the first building of one of these lum- Der roads or even of coal lines Is of small extent For instance. the Good year line in Mississippi, lumber road. | is to be leo miles long from the be- ginning. in addition to the trackage of | the line previously built and which was purchases as the nucleus of the rail- road. On the other hand the Tidewater
 Railroad which will be over 400 miles | long. in Virginia and West Virginia, | is an example of what an Influence coal mining may have upon the development | of a new line.