The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-03
REVIEW OF WEEK.
Pencil FIant Is established In South
Georgia.

Columbus, Ca, June 2.-(Special.) THE
Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index
will say tomorrow in its regular weekly
issue:
Down on the Georgia coast the cedars
in the low counties and on the islands
fringng the seaboard are to be reduced
to pencils, one of the largest pencil man
ufacturing concerns in the country having
established a plant at Frederick for the
purpose of cutting the wood to the proper
size and lengths to be shipped to the
factories in the north. Up in Atlanta
Ca, preparations are being made to build
a ss4OO,000 candy and cracker factory
which will be the largest enterprise of
its kind in the southern states. Down in
south Alabama, Mobile is rejoicing over
a 100000 appropriation from the federal
government for the building of an ele-
CANT postoffice, and Flomaton, Ala. is
preparing to erect a $4,000 hotel The
news from the great mineral district of
north Alabama fairly bristles with an
nouncements Of resumng industries and
plans to enlarge present plants. At Au-
a representative of northern capitalists
has secured an option on land On which
it is declared a $1,OO0,O 900 hotel will be
built In middle Georgia preparations
to construct the Atlanta, Griffin and Ma
con Electric railway and Americas and
Albany Electric railway. at a cost of
millions of dollars, are in progress, the
~,;x, 6a hot xxtit, in,
electric cars will be running between
Macon and the Georgia capital, while
in middle Alabama the stockholders of
the Birmingham and Gulf Railway and
Navigation company have, at a meeting
just held, increased their capital stock
from 100000 to 100000 and will pro-
coed with their ambitions plans of es-
tablishing electric railways and barge
lines to be operated to the Gulf of Mex
leo in connection herewith
The above are simply few of the
industrial and construction items and de-
velopments of the week, selected almost
at random from the reports to the Indus
trial Index, showing that business ac-
tivity and enterprise continues to assert
itself IN all sections OF THESE Two great
southern states, and that the development
of their wonderful resources of all kinds
proceeds steadily.
During the week IA new corporations
applied for charter in Georgia and Ala
bama, with aggregate minimum capital
stock of $4O3,290
Among the construction and industrial
items of special interest may be men,
toned the following: Darrell factory.
Fort Payne, Ala; brick and thing plant,
Milledgeville, Ca; marble quarry enlarge
ment, Gantt's, Ala; 100000 tobacco enter
prise with headquarters at Atlanta, Ca;
abattoir, Augusta Ca, Huntsville, Ala,
and Mobile Ala: clubhouse. Savannah,
Ga: depot, Fitzgerald, Ca; engine house,
Savannah, Ca; depot Fitzpatrick, Ala;
hotels, Augusta Ga, and Leary. Ga;
school buildings, Bonito, Ca. Dadevlle.
Ala, and Giarard. Ala; sewer extensions
and street work. Cedartown, Ga.
"A good many real estate deals are
reported. among them $4,000 land sale
in Atlanta.
"A great deal of construction work
OF minor character is reported. Peo-
pie in the towns and villages all over
the two states are taking advantage
of the present low price of building ma
terial and are erecting residences and
business buildings