The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-16
RICHMOND LEADS
in NEW BUILDINGS
Aggregate Of Amount Represent.
] ed by Permits Granted in Janu-
airy in Excess Of Other Cities.

Especial to The Times -Dispatch.1
BALTIMORE, February 15.-Of In
terest to cotton manufacturers In the
South and In the East will be the an
nouncement In correspondence in this
Record Of plans for a 100000 cotton
mill at Los Angeles, Cal, to- make
staple goods. The plant will cover
about three acres OF land, and will bs
In charge Of Pennsylvania capitalist.
who Is also interested in textile under
takings in Alabama The principal
building will contain tho carding.
spinning and wnving rooms. and in
another building will be provision for
dyeing. It is stated that the machin-
cry for the plan. .s already under con-
struction. At first the raw cotton for
the undertaking Will be obtained from
Texas. but 1T is expected that ultimate
ly cotton grown in Southern California
will be used.
Plant at Rock Hill.
Such a project like that for Califor-
MIA outside the long established centres
Of the textile industry only emphasizes
the appreciation OF the range which
that industry is to-take before cotton
manufacturing in this country ap-
proaches in It's proportions the posi-
OtI1l1SS OIL COllOl SlOW1uS. MS dp-
probation continues to be shown in
the. South. where steady additions to
the cotton mill equipment are being
made. For Instance, contract has been
awarded for plant at Rock Hill, S. c..
to be operated by electric power. and
with "a capital stock OF $4,000. The
main building will be one story high.
137 1-2 by 80 feet. with monitor roof.
Along with IT will be built forty-two
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four rooms and ten OF three rooms. The
mill Will be built for a 1o.ooo-spindle
capacity, but only 5000 spindles will
be installed at first to make e4s to 30s
yarns for the lace curtain trade. Con-
tract has also been awarded for
1o,0oo-spindle and 300-loom plant for
the manufacture Of denims and duck
at Ball Ground. Ga. The main build
ing will. be two stories high and IS by
220 feet, the picker room 80 by rs
feet, dye-house Is by 30 feet. and
engine and boiler rooms each 40 by. 40
feet. A company is organizing to build
at Albany, Ca, an electric-driven
10.oOo-spindle mill.
Indicates New Activity.
These undertakings may be regarded
as part Of the resumption Of activity
in building operations, which were
halted during the early winter. This
may hardly be regarded as general.
for, while some Southern cities show
an increase in building operations in
January, others show a decrease. as
compared with preceding months. In
Austin Texas. twenty-seven permits
were issued during the month. repre-
senting an investment OF $4,000. At
Chattanooga 100 permits, representing
s63,3S0, were issued, and the permits at
Knoxville were for buildings valued at
s75.57o. For new buildings, additions
and repairs. the $50 permits at Mem
phis represent $102.21o. At Tampa,
Fla, nineteen dwellings. scrub house
and number OF miscellaneous struc-
lures We're provided for, and at Bir-
mingham, Ala, eleven frame struc-
lures, two OF brick, four of cement
block, and fifty-one additions and re-
pairs. At Richmond. Va. permits were
issued for flfty-four buildings. valued
at s423.984, and the permits in Balti-
more for the month represent s21o,2so.