The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-29
REVIEW OF WEEK.
Growing Demand for Timber Lands Is
 Reported.


 Columbus, Ga, July -(Special.)-The Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index will say tomorrow in it's regular weekly issue:
 ."The general improvement in all bus mess conditions is well illustrated by the growing demands for timber lands. Re- gently several large tracts of pine in the southeastern states have changed hands, and the demand for hard timber seems keener than ever. Among the deals of special magnitude during the past week was the purchase by the Massee- Felton Lumber Go. of Macon, Ga., of 2O,OOO acres of hard wood timber lands in several middle Georgia counties at the round sum of $135O0O. Sales of farm lands at satisfactory prices also continue and tile figures indicate steadily advanc- ing values In Sumter county, Georgia two farms were sold during the past week at $30 per acre, good illustration of the prices brought by plantations in southwest Georgia.
 Several incidents of the week could not but have impresseu the student of business conditions with the variety of native resources and industries of the two great states of Georgia and Ala bama, which an enthusiastic Pennsylva- mia reader of The Industrial Index in an interesting letter to the paper this week refers to as the New York and Penn sylvania of the South From Hayneville Ala, a solid carload of honey was shipped to Ohio and it is stated that another large shipment will soon fol- low. At Brunswick, Ga., hundreds of carload of cedar wood, cut on Little Si- mons island are being shipped to one of the factories of a big company, there to be converted into the pencils of com merce. During the week another big sale of south Georgia wool was had thus calling the attention of the busy world once more to the fact that wool growing is an important industry in this southern state. Dirt was broken at Huntsville, Ala, on the Nashville and Huntsville railroad, which will connect North Alabama with the Tennessee cap ltai. Up in the mountains of North Georgia improved roadways is getting to be a live topic and good roads meeting has been called for August at Toccoa.
 Among the construction and industrial items of the week may be mentioned: Boilerworks, Birmingham, Ala; apart ment house. Decatur, Ala; manufactur- ing plant, Rome, Ga; barrel head fac tory, Gadsden, Ala; car wheel works, Atlanta, Ga.; laundry, Birmingham, Ala. |; mining company, Anniston, Ala com press, Athens, Ga.; warehouses, Athens, Ga, Repton, Ala, Statesboro, Ga, At lanta, Ga., Triton, Ga., and Quitman, Ga.; plans for churches in Montgomery, Ala, 'Headland, Ala, and Eufaula, Ala i; cannery, Americus, Ga.
 During the week IA new companies asked for charter with minimum cap- ital stock of $254,0O0 Announcement was made that a charter would be applied for at once for a railroad between Co., lumbus, Ga, and Montgomery, Ala, a distance of IS miles. Dublin Ga., com pleted it's plans for street paving and will invite proposals for the work. A Georgia firm received a $1OO0OO contract for installing waterworks and sewer system in a North Carolina city
 An improvement that means much for the great manufacturing district around Ensley, Ala. is the installation of thor oughly modern waterworks system, which will be, constructed at once. By a scientific process the water is made soft" and suitable for use in boilers and pipes. The formation of scales in boil CTS, pipes and heaters, from which there is some complaint at present, will be reduced to a minimum when the water is 'softened' by being relieved of It's ob- jectionable mineral deposits"