The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-10
INDUsrRIAL PnoenEss.
Review of a week in Alabama and
 Georgia.

Georgia.
 Columbus, Ga, June 9--(Special) )-- The Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index will say tomorrow in its reg ular weekly issue:
 'Now that the State elections in Geor- gia and Alabama are over the people of the two States. folding away State politics with the camphor balls for good long season. have settled down to. their business affairs once more Both the victorious and those whose candi- dates did not fare so happily at the polls. are heartily glad that 1t is all over, and already there are evidences of renewed industrial and commercial activity throughout the two States. Each man Is concentrating himself upon his own personal affairs, and the trite motto that he who pays atten- tion to his own business will have It. tie competition is being given a try out. When the two gerat parties hold their approaching conventions and the Presidential nominations are made, bus mess the country over will be on more settled basis and when the election it. self Is held in November the whole Ma ton will get right down to business again. The prediction is already be- ing made in many quarters that 1909 will be one of the best and most sub stantially prosperous years in Amert- can history, the whole country being on better and safer bushes basis, and to the thoughtful student of eco- homie affairs the prophecy seems to be based upon sound reasoning.
 Coming down to affairs in the Geor- gia-Aiabama territory, 1t is interesting to note that during the week ending today, first contracts were let for con- struction work on the new Nashville and Huntsville Railroad, which will ex- tend from Huntsville. Ala, to the Ten nessee Capital, and that substantial progress was reported in the plan to develop the rich Tombigbee Valley sec ton in West Alabama by the building of a railroad, construction activities having already begun. A Griffin, Ga-, cotton mill applied to the courts for, permission to increase It's capital stock from $500. .090, to $1 100000. Many land pany was formed to establish the town and colony of Montpelier" in Jeffer- son County, Ala, on a P,262-acre tract that has been purchased---Vermont capital being largely interested in this enterprise. In Colquitt County, Ga.,. a large tract of land has been sold. to. a colony from North Georgia who will divide 1t into small farms,
 Fourteen new corporations applied for charter during the week in the two States with an aggregate minimum capital of $4i7,5O0.
 Among the many contracts that were awarded was one for the building of an SS0.UU0 otttce building in Birm ingham and convent in Mobile, Ala that will cost a similar sum.
 Industrial and construction items os special interest are: Canneries, at Huntsville. Ala, and Carroilton. Ga. drug enterprise, Mobile. Ala; wood working establishment, Raymond, Ga machine shops, New Decatur, Ala and Anniston. Ala; lighting plant, Rus sellville. Ala; school building, Court. land, Ala, and Florence. Ala; court house, Fitzgerald, Ga; dormitory, Birm- ingham, Ala; Y. M. c. A. building, Auburn, Ala; power plant. Florence. Ala; blaming mill, Sparta, Ga; churches Birmingham, Ala, and Blakely. Ga. From all over the two States comes news of resuming industries. and the cheerful reports of this nature from Birmingham, Ala, and vicinity are es- pecially striking.
 "Doughtery County Georgia. showed Ea progressive spirit by voting $30, 0,000 in bonds for road improvements, and Ben Hill County, Georgia. also voted s75.OOo of bonds for various public im- provements." <