The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-29
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
MANY soUrHrnN STATES TAKING
 FORWARD STEPS.
PIsns UnAer Way to Provide For Bet- ter Highways--New Industries
 Are Reported fn All
 Sections.

Baltimore, Md. Aug. 2s.--(speoiai) --The numerous reports being received by The ManufacturerS Record indi- cate that the, road improvement work throughout the South is stili increas- in9 ct . steady gait and there seemS to be no signs of any iet-up in new undertakings.
 Contracts are being awarded. sur veyn being made and bonds are beins voted for still more work.
 Among the many reports received since the hrst of August are several undertakings which are of more than usual interest. Alamarfce county, North Carolina, has voted s20o,o00 for build ing approximately 100 miles of stone roads, Sullivan county, Tenn, has re. ceived bids for grading and macadn- mixing twenty-hve miles of roads un- def at sioo.o0o bond issue.
 Surveys will soon begin for roads to be constructed in Morgan county Alabama, under s2s0,00o bond issue.
 scurry county. Texas. has voted s7V 900 for road Improvements.
 Mecklenbure county. Virginia, has voted s60.00o bonds for merchandising roads in vicinity of Chase City and win also have available ss0.o00 from. the state for this work.
 Escambia county. Florida, will vote in November on an issuance of s2o0.- GOO road improvement bonds.
 Charlotte county. Virginia, will vote on bond issue of sl0o,00o.
 New Hanover county, North Care. lima. win vote on a S50,000 bond issue to continue its road improvements work.
 These few references represent sn aggregate sum of over s1,o0o,000. and aas <. A~ Az. fa~ &.afl total Of the work undertaken sti'ts month. they reflect the determination of the Southern farmer to provide him self with good highways and their resultant adyantages
 Among the, plans for industrial en- terprises of various kinds announced this week in The Manufacturers' Rec ord are the following: $100,o0o and s35.o00 coal mining companies in West Virginia: development of 10000 acres of coal lands in the Birmingham dis trict, si5,0o0 cotton gin company in Arkansas: sf0.o00 cotton gin company In Texas; .s5,0o0 cotton gin company In Misslssippi 44.0O0 cotton gin com pany In Alabarna; $i50.000 cotton oil company at Atlanta. Ga; s60,e00 power company in Florida; 00Jhorse- pow CT hydro-electric plant in Alabama; 410.0o0 company ast New Orleans to manufaeture boltless joints for rail- way constructions. s50.0o0 company to build gas engines and to operate nta- rine railway at Phoebus, Va. s5e,0000 company to drill for, oil at opelousas. La; ss0,000 ice manufacturing com- pany at Richmond, Ky; y80,060 con- tract for rebuilding and eauipping burned saw mills h Texas; blaming Hill with daily output of S0,000 feet of lumber In connection with develop ing $500 acres of timber land Tn Tus- caloosa county. Ala. $65,00 zinc min- ing. s40.o00 gem mining. s100.000 lead and zinc mining sI60.0o0 lead and zinc mining, s15.o00 sand mining and s50,000 general mining companies In various States: calls for bids on con- work Involving about i5o,00o cubic yards, In Texas; contract awarded at New. Orleans for leyeel work costing s227,000; 320,000 fisheries companies in Florida; $lo0,000 printing company at chattanooga, Tenn: blg fertilizer plant at Montgomery, Ala: the main building to be 300 feet long by 15o cornice and roofing company at New Decatur, Ala. the buildings to be probably of concrete construction; in- stallation of 15,000 spindies for cot ton yarns at Rock Hill, S. G.: cotton mills of $500 spindies in Alabama and or 6.O0O spindles in North Carolina !: the expenditure of $20.000 upon new buildings of a hosiery mill at Ports mouth. Va. and sl0,00o company to manufacture wooden troughs in Mis- souri.
 All classes of buildings continued to be planned and among the important items of the week may bA mentioned: et0.000 business building at Elkins, ". Va; $f0,000 bank building at Middle ton. Md: $1o0,o0o church at Baltimore, Md; $iO.000 church at Bolton, Texas: ss,000 store building at Nashville, Ark; two t15,000 schools at Radford, Va; ss5A0o0 office building at Birmingham, Ala; seven story reinforced concrete building at Birmingham, Ala: 930,O00 railway terminal building at Roanoke. Va: $12s.000 railway station at Hat tieshurg, Miss; $40.000 store building ct Birmingham. Ala; se5ooe. bank building at Granger. Texas; s60, 1000 of ! flee building at Washington. D. C.; s20.000 church at Vernon. Texas; ESQ., coo court house at Tulia. Texas; $25,- 900 hotel at Beaufort. N. C.: y250, 900 hotel at Oklahoma City. Okla: $35, Oo0 school at Charleston, S. S.: cotton warehouse of 5000 bales capacity at Charlotte, N. C.; $i00.0oo Masonic Tenn rlc st Kansas City Mo: and many