The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-13
LANDS
SOUTH IS BENEFITTTNG BY MOVE-
 AfENT.
Building Operations ah a Whole, Were Active ThxOuahout ehe South
 in the Month of NOvem-

Baltimore. Dec. 12.-(Special.) )-Char- acteristic of much work being done in the farther South toward the reclam~ atton of wet lands iS the project an- nounced in this weeks Issue of The Manufacturers Record for a drainage district. including 30.00o acres of land in and immediately around Port Ar thur, Tex, and extending eight miles to the northeast.
 About &300,00O will be spent upon ditching and draining 10000 acres of this land on the border of Sabine Lake, now subject to tidal overflow, and to provide drainage for the rest of the area. This work will require the dig ging of about twenty miles of main in width and ten feet In depth to twenty-five feet in width and six feet in depth. together with a considerable mileage of laterals.
 Another important undertaking is the awarding of a contract for the construction Of dam and power house for the utilization of waterpower at Ninety-nine Islands, on Broad River. seven miles from Blacksburg, s. C About 10000 horsepower will be de- veloped for transmission by electricity to manufacturing and lighting plants. The dam will be HOO feet long and ninety feet high and will contain TO- 900 cubic yards of masonry. The con- struction contract involves about $650. 900.
 Building operations were fairly &C., tive throughout the South and South west during November, and In several of the important cities an increase Is noted over the value of operations for the preceding month. In Norfolk the aggregate cost of buildings for which permits were issued was estimated at $ss.95O, of which amount about $47.- 900 was for dwellings. The value of buildings for which permits were is- sued in Richmond during the eleven months ended November 30, was S3,- 055.86l. Eighty-nine permits were ts- sued in Birmingham, representing a value of $601.1 1sO, which is an increase over the valuation for November of last year of S45A772. Total permits for the eleven months of this year compared with a total of s1.92s.972 for the same period last year. In Sa- vannah permits were issued for forty structures a decrease of two, as com pared with the number issued during October, but the building for which permits were secured In November are generally of larger and more ex- pensive character. Operations are very active In Jacksonville. and at the end
 
 city indicated that s,067 new buildings had been erected since the biG fire Of 1901.
 At present there Is a number of im- portant structures being erected. in- cluding tSe W. A. Bisbee ten-story of- flee building. Atlantic National Bank building. Utica Investment Co.'S build ing and others. In Tampa permitsl were issued for structures estimated to cost s63.5s4.10. Permits were issued In Chattanooga during November to the number f55. representing a valua- tiCn of $69. s90. while the cost of build ings for which permits were secured in Knoxville is estimated at s29,250. 4 total of 6l4 permits was issued in St. Louis. representing an aggregate cost to erect of $1 366.51l as compared with s789186 for November. 1907. Opera ttons in Houston represent a value of ss17.710 Dallas, &222,o55; San Antonio $lsS255 and Galveston. $15,300. Ex- act figures are not available for okla homa City, but structures of every class which have been erected here during the past eleven months will ap- proximate a valuation of S2,000, 900, while in Pine Bluff. Ark. figures for the same period indicate 8 valuation of $40s,0 900. The estimated value Of Baltimore's building operations during November Is $42l,21S.