The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-25
REVIEW OF WEEK.
Another Large List of New Enterprises
In the South.


Columbus, Ca, November A.-(Special)
The Georgia and Alabama Industrial In
dex will say tomorrow in its regular
weekly issue:
Another long list of new enterprises
and Improvements in Georgia and Ala
bama is reported for the week ending to-
day and the specific instances afforded
that investment is once more seeking
profitable fields in this section are quite
interesting. The United States govern
ment set the pace by practically award
ing the contract for building a lock in the
Black Warrior river In Alabama that will
cost nearly $500 coo. Big construction
companies in the north were represented
in the bidding, but the lowest bidder, to
whom the contract will be formally
awarded, is a Columbus, Ga, contractor,
who has built many dams and bridges on
southern streams. Another interesting
contract recently awarded was that for
sewer pipe for the new system being in
stalled at Monroe, Ga. The money does
not leave Georgia, for a Macon, Ca, sewer
pipe manufacturing company received the
contract, which is one of substantial
size.
( AT Roelimart, Ga, a company applied
for charter with $125,OO0 capital stock and
will manufacture brick and mine slate for
roofing purposes. Macon, Ga. brick
yard is to be rehabilitated after having
been idle for three years. Athens is to
have a $4,000 courthouse; Vidalia. Ga,
building material factory; Atlanta a $780,
900 cotton bag mandatory, and Blakely,
Ga, a single mill. Among numerous
farm sales reported during the week are
several in which the consideration was $40
per acre and over There is a long list
of new corporations for the week in the
two states.
Fitzgerald, Ga, and Americas, Ga,
have new $4,000 lumber companies, while
a lumber company is to be formed to de-
velop fine cypress and pine tract in
Baldwin county, Alabama. A new bank
is reported for Scale, and there is a move
ment to establish one in Phenix City.
Western capitalists are setting out pecan
trees on a tract of $500 acres they re-
Gently purchased in south Alabama.
I'm Atlanta permit was issued for the
building of $4,000 six-story office build
ing Gadsden awarded contract for side
walk paving, and at Selma contract for
building an elegant clubhouse costing
nearly $4,000, was awarded Churches are
to be erected at Eastman, Ga, Franklin,
Ga. and Birmingham.
"A Columbus, Ca, hosiery mill which
did not stop a minute during the late
panic, Sunday excepted, and is now rum
ming night and day. is to build an addi-
ton which will increase its capacity one
third. A big new cotton mill recently
completed at West Point, Ga, is running
"a hours out of the day. A railroad is to
put on an extra train to handle pig iron
shipments out of Alabama.
petition for charter for a company
which will build a railroad between Val
dosta, Ga, and Moultrie, Ga, was filed.
Substantial improvements are to be made
in the street railway system at Montgom-
cry, which recently changed hands. Con-
tract has been awarded to build hotels at
Rome, Ca, and Cochrane.
Georgia and Alabama continue to man
ifest the keenest interest in the Southern
Commercial congress to be held in Wash
ington December 7 and 8, and delegates
are being appointed by the governors,
mayors and city councils and various
trade bodies. 1t is said that one south
ern governor has become so impressed
with the Importance of this convention,
and it's possibilities for this section of
the country that he Is considering issu-
ing a proclamation on the subject The
programme, already strong and compre-
hensive, is being added to as the date of
the congress approaches, one of the latest
additions being an address by Gen. Luke
Wright, who will speak as the represen-
tative of the federal government. having
been requested by the President to do
So