The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-14
BUILDING IN SOUTH
OPERATIONS EVERYWHERE SHOW
 MUCH PROGRESS.
Labor and Cost of Material Aneet Work
 In some LoeaIities, but Per 1feftsa infts show q Large t'Ft. Incremse.

Baltimore, Sept. ,iS.--(Special. )-In this weeks issue The Manufactured Record says!
 isSouthern and Southwestern building operations made steady progress last month, although the cost of material and of labor together with other con ditions affected construction work to some extent in certain localities.
 This was emphasized in Charleston, s. C., where 1t is reported that a num- Der of contracts have been held up pending a modification of building plans In order to bring the structures when completed within the amount to be expended It is thought. however, that this will result only in a tenn porary abatement of operations and that after plans have been modified the work will go on more rapidly than ever, as there are many buildings un- der construction or contemplated.
 Tn Chattanooga. Tenn. l74 build ing permits were issued during the month representing an expenditure of $70,760. This covers an unusual num- Der of separte contracts, the per- centage of mail contracts being large as compared with recent months.
 Building permits, Issued at Nash vile, Tenn, during the month call for an expenditure of $1S5,780. As com pared with July these figures show an increase of about s4.oo0, Sixty per- mits were issued in Austin, Texas. rep resentfng an expenditure of $69.270, of which amount about $55.ooo are for res- | idences.. as.
 Tn Galveston twenty-five permits were issued, representing an expendi- ture of $25.200 and making a total of 33l permits for the fiscal year and an | expenditure in that period of $396,1 ,164. "A statement of the building inspec- tor shows that 121 permits were issued | during August for improvements to cost $651,57S, making a total for the first eight months of 1907 of $4,555, ,4aS. Among the structures for which per- mits were secured in that time are 1,731 dwellings. sixty-fiye of factories and warehouses, fifty-five of stores, five churches. four apartment houses, three office buildings. hospital. newspa- per office. a car barn. a school build i ing and railway station.
 | The activity in building at Balti- more Is matched by that at New Or feans 7 where several millions of dol- lars are represented in buildings fin- iEhed during the past year. now in course of construction or definitely planned. At Louisville, Ky, permits were issued during the year ended Au- | gust 31 to the number of 2,S6g, repre- senting a total cost of $3.6s4.o72.
 Two enterprises involving the util- i5ation electrically of water power for textile plants were announced during the past week. A company at Long Island N. c. increased It's \stock from s5O,00o to s200.Oo0 for the purpose of 1 building a 5,000-spindle yarn mill and water-power electrical plant at Buff falo Shoals In the Catawba River, and I for erecting and equipping a 60x90- ] foot addition to its present plant of 5000 spindles. The power plant will cost about $30.000 and 500-horse power will be- provided for at once, though thts can be doubled when required. The mill building at the Shoals will be planned for an eventual equipment of 10000 spindies.
 "A mill company at Woodruff, g. C., has awarded the contract for construc- ton of a dam to develop power for transmission electrically tos operate the mill upon which construction will he- gin at an early date. The mill will by three stories high, 75xs2s feet, and will be equipped with 10000 spindles for manufacturing Nos. 20 to 30 cot ton yarns.
 I At Munford, Ala. a spindle mill for the manufacture of hosiery yarns is to be built, it has been deeid ed to install 1000 splndies in the mill now building at Stony Point, N. C., and 1 the mills at Hartsvilie, S. C., will add 5000 spindles and 125 looms to its equipment of 2s,0OO spindles and 700 looms."