The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-07
BUILDERS DREAM
 IS NOW REALIZED
More Activity Is Noticed In Georgia and Alabama Than For
 Years.

Columbus, Ga., August 6-(special.)- The Georgia and Alabama Industrial In-
 dex says in It's regular weekly issue: weekly issue
 were burning the midnight electric cur
 rent in the strenuous spring months are
 now gazing with satisfaction at the re- l suit of their labors, blossoming forth as they are into beautiful structures which are a credit to the minds which
 conceived them and to the plucky com
 munities which laughed the panic to si-
 fence by investing more heavily In build
 ing operations than in years and years. An enormous amount of actual construc- tion work Is now in progress over the
 two states, and while there Is no cessa-
 tion in the formation of plans for fur
 ther building and still heavier invest
 ments of capital yet it is source of
 satisfaction that so much improvement
 is in visible, tangible evidence.
 'The week just ending was a busy and | eventful one in business, construction
 and industrial circles in Georgia and
 Alabama. An impetus has been given | the marble industry in Alabama by an-
 nouncement of plans of a $3, 900 com
 pany, organized in New York city, which will develop large quarries in the north l ern part of the state. In South Ala
 bama a s3OO,OO0 deal in timber lands was Mobile, Clarke and Marengo counties
 changing hands. Georgia's varied sources
 of agricultural wealth are again illustrat- ed by the fact that the rice industry on the Satilla river is in more satisfactory shape than in years, and on one planta- tion alone the rice crop will bring its enterprising owners something like S35, 900 in cool cash. At Columbus, Ga, con- tract has been closed with an eminent New York engineer to draw plans for a $11OO00 bridge which will be the first concrete bridge ever built across the Chattahoochee river.
 For the first time in months, perhaps, a South Georgia industry enters a com plaint regarding the scarcity of labor, it being stated that the operation of the plant, hosiery mill, Is seriously handi- capped thereby. It has been some time since such cry of distress has been
 
 to those directly affected, yet it Is sug- gestive, in a way, of a return of the conditions which existed In this section before the late panics was in evidence. About 20 new corporations entered the field of business and industry during the week, and their capitalization is quite substantial.
 Numbers of contracts for construc- tion work were let during the week, the most important perhaps being the con- tract for building at Augusta, Ga., city hall which with furnishings will cost $2OO,OO0. Over in East Georgia work on a new railroad, which was suspended so~e months ago. Is to be resumed at once. Charter was granted to a brand new railroad enterprise, the Savannah Val ley railroad. Committees are at work on the preliminary details of the pro- posed Columbus-Montgomery railroad. A railroad Is being graded from Cairo
 Ga, southward. Proposals for bridge construction on the Georgia and Florida railway are invited
 Tt is rather an interesting fact that during the week four oil mills in Geor- gia and Alabama changed ownership and in nearly every instance this means im- provements in the plants of a more or less substantial character The capital stock of one mill Is to be increased $50 900.
 "Blakely. Ga, has set out in dead earn est to capture a cotton mill. New Eng land capitalists are contemplating mak- ing investments in one or more cotton mills in the Augusta, Ga., district, and at Hampton, Ga, the capacity of a yarn mill is to be greatly enlarged"