The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-17
.EROMV|RG|N|A TO
SOUTHERN [Zyi.S 5.
Building Boom and Industrial
Development Noticeable All
Over the Southland.
ELECTRICAL DEVELOPMENT ,'I. ''l::'' !.
Brief Summary Of Industrial En-
tcrprises Being Put on
Foot in Dixie.
DEVELOPMENT
rsnec,al 10 The Tim as Dispatch.]


q BALTIMORE, MD, February 16-1n
this weeks issue the Manufacturers
Record mates that the movement for
the utilization In electric development
OF water powers which has made such
head way in Virginia. the Carolinas
Georgia and other States, extending
and that three such enterprises are
under way for Kentucky streams. One
Involving the leasing of land ana sur
plus water at Lock Five, on the Green
River, will electrically transmit power
to Bowling Green, a distance OF thir-
teen miles At several dams on tho
kentucky River power will be develop
cd for Industrial plants at Lexington.
Frankfort, Paris, Richmond and other
points, and the third project looks to
the utilization of power in the Cum
berland River for transmission to Ma h-
Vile. Tenn. In Kentucky. too, there
l. has been considerable expansion this
| month in developing another source of
power-oil. The most important OF
| recently started work Is the effort to-
ward developing deep oil sand in tho
f.! Southern part OF the State, and al
| ready an excellent strike has been
/ made in Cumberland county in q l.
! s5O-foot formation.
Building Elsewhere.
Permits at Atlanta. Ca, representa- ting
s479, 147; at Birmingham. Ala, s71,o66;
at Chattanooga Tenn. se4.o15: at
Nashville Tenn. 81 2s.617, and at Louis
VILE. Ky. s1776o2, indicate considera-
BILE activity in building operations in
the South in January This activity
Is emphasized by the fact that In
Waycross, Ga. with q population OF
1 $500 persons. hundreds OF dwellings,
| are being built, additions are being
made to schools, the foundation of a
i $4,000 Young Mems Christian Asso-
I citation has Just been laid, a $4,000
i college is In course OF erection, ground
4 has just been broken for a 100000
hotel, and the roofs OF several OF the
buildings OF the railroad shops are
] nearing completion. At Tampa, Jack
4 sonyille and Fernandina. Fla. and at
Savannah. Ca between s2,00o,oo0 and
s3,UOO,OoO are being spent upon rail-
road terminals including the con-
1 struction Of elevators. machine shops
fire proof warehouses and slips. Other
Southern developm ents of the week in
cude the completion of an addition
to n foundry plant at Knoxville, Tenn,
doubling its capacity at a cost Of, S45,-
7 600, and enabling 1t to turn out car
. wheels and ballast cars. In the same
city there Is under way ut a cost OF
$50, 900 an enlargement OF woou man
{ | tel works providing for a4doubiing OF
the output, WI
In North Carolina.
, A plant on the river front5at New
burn. n c.. including n four-story
/ 62X72-foot digester building. 36x225.
!, foot paper machine building, and "a
I brick boiler-hou with equipment Of
t 4oo-horsc power, is preparing to besir
, the manufacture of Manila wrapping
e paper and OF paper pulp for Northern
3 mills. intending to go into the manu-
fecture Of writing paper later on. Ar
: expenditure of $4,000 has been au
1 thorized for additions to n calico prin
j. works at Wheeling. w. Va; the capa
$ city of mill at Admission. Ala, is t.
! be quadruplcd In the manufacture O
3 cotton yarn, twine and rope, and I
h 100000 company has been organized
: for the construction Of q cotton mill
. either at Brownwood or at Fort Worth
!, i Texas, sP8 GfsAs.t III Ng ,t%-t1si r XII