The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-14
THE S0vT H SOLID
IN BUsIH E5s WAY
No Let-Up in the Tide Of Pros
pcrity Down III Dixie
Land.
LIVE BUILDING Y: OPERATIONS B I ON
LIVE BUILDING OPERATIONS
Money Seems to Be Plentiful
Enough to Meet Excgencies
Of Business.
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BALTIMORE, Md. April t1c.---rhera
seems TO be no marked inclination toward
retrenchmcnt in productive activities in
tho South, according to this weeks issue
of the Manufacturers Record, nor in un-
dertakings naturally Inanifesting the In
crease of wealth in that section. Few. Il
any. cities there show any reaxati Ion II,
building operations, which have for
months been q marked feature of South
crn development. During the past month,
for instance. permits representing $685., lS9,
ofSwliich S376,964 were for new Structures
We're granted for new. buildings and im-s
Droyements at Birmingham, Ala, and
similar undertakings represented s1.1T9,-
I'LL, at Washington, d. c.; 1853. s57, at
louisville, KY; $2t7,s35, at Dallas, Tex;
s215,Ss4. at Nashville. Tenn; 1881 81, at
Memphis, Tenn; sos. $780, at Chattanooga.
Tenn, and s74,l75, at Knoxville, Tenn.
More Cars Wanted.
Another sign OF these times when there
is SO much talk Of a Limitation Of railroad
energies, Is tho fact that a car works in
the South, which has just about completed
a contract for. S55 cars for the New Or
leans and Northwestern Railway, has
been given orders for $500 cars. includ-
Ing 500 dump cars for coal and orc, for
| tho Illinois Central Railroad, and 500 fiat,
cars for the Gulf and Ship Island Rail-
road. An order of 100 box cars for the
Texas Central Railway. one for 200 stock
cars for the st. Louis, Brownsville and
Mexican Railroad. and one for 5000 tons
OF steel rails for the Norfolk and Western
Hallway, arc among other reported pro-
visions for the future.
Railroad Building.
Equally hopeful are plans for new
"a ;; i, the South. Among these.
/ the Savannah and Southwestern Rail-
road, to build about ESQ miles from
savannah,| Ga, to Apalachicola. Fla,
and the Gull; the Kentucky Highlands
miles long from Frankfort to Versailles
] and Lexington. KY: a hundred mile
extension Of tho Velasco, Brazos and
i Hampstead, Texas with q twenty mile
4 branch to Houston: the Panhandle
q Short Line Railroad. to build e70 miles
from Hereford to Stanton, Texas: the
Kansas City, Oklahoma and Gulf Rail.
way, to build ITO miles from the north.
9ern boundary Of Texas to Athens. ir
4 that State, and ultimately to Galveston
the Brandon and Laurel Railway, tt
Laurel, Miss: the New. iberia, st. Mar
tins and Northern Railroad, TO built
: thirty-tive miles from New 1bcriastt
j, Port Barre, La; the Macon, Americus
, and Albany Electric Railway. to operat,
Il line 100 miles long, connecting til,
!, three Georgia cities named: an electro
: ( railway, looking to connecting Wash
ington. ID. c.. with Frederick, Md. ant
!. Gettysburg. Pa, and two extensions o
3 railroads in West Virginia.
Many New Banks.
The growth Of financial institnt ton
$ insthe South shows no aba tement. Dur
Y ing the past four weeks, ! n new bank
: OF trust companies have been organize
$ there This is an average of NOR
4 than forty each week, md 1t shows tina
Z the remarkable deyelo pmcnt of MI line
OF Industry In the South is compellin
q provision for banking facilities q
i many interior points some fof whic
: have never before. enjoyed them. G.
9 large number OF these banks are IN
= situations OF small capital. which fae
J. dclnonsctrat that people are.becomin
% used to avail themselves OF bhnkin
u accommodation and to appreciate IL
!, convenience. and security Of the fnal
= 4 clal institutions. q s