The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-07-07
NEW RECORD IN
BUILDING LINE
INDUSTRIAL INDEX ISSUES A
MOST ENcOURAING REPORT
THIS WEEK.
Record of New Building in Georgia
And Aiaama Will Probably Be
Broken This Year-Many New In
dustries Started.

Columbus, Ga, July 6.-The Geor~
gia and Alabama Industrial Index
says in its regular weekly issue:
Banner building records of pre-
vious years in Georgia and Alabama
stand i'll serious danger of losing their
prestige, for reports OF the operations
for the first six months of 1909 in the
two states show that the reactions
from the late pane is so great that
new high-water marks in Investments
in bricks and concrete and wood and
stone will be created if the last half
of the second year Tut keeps pace
with the first half. In Atlanta, Ga.
for instance, where the highest rec
ord for building permits in year
was slightly over $4,000 in 1906.
ii is predicted that it will take the
figures $6,000,000 to express accurately
the building operations for 1909, this
estimate being based upon the record
OF the first half OF the year In Sa-
yannah, the second largest city in
, Georgia, the gain in permits indicates
the smashing of the records there,
the figures to date being an increase
over those for the corresponding half
, OF any previous year. Among the Ala
bama cities the building record of
birmingham is the most conspicuous.
and while no detailed comparison with
/ the permits of previous years has yet
been compil ID, much of the construc-
ic of 4
tial character that the capital of the
big Alabama mineral district may be
in the same class with its Georgia sis
, ters in the respect of setting up a
trand building record.
I'm the realty transactions of the
week, the heavy sales in Atlanta, Ga,
and vicinity are the most conspicuous
Their substantial nature is indicated
by the considerations, some of the fig
uraS for the more important safes be-
ing as follows: $4,000 $67,6S7, $5S.-
400, $4,000, $S2,267, $4,000 and SIS
600 A Virginia company acquired
mineral lands in Polk county, Georgia,
and VII develop them and much
activity is reported in ore lands in
Colbert county, Alabama
'The contract was awarded for the
construction of the first railroad ever
built in Heard county, Georgia. At
Griffin, Ga, the third oil mill is to be
erected Moultrie, Ga, and Madison
county, Alabamarsold bonds at a pre-
! MUM. A new bank is reported for
Cottonwood, Ala.a@I In several Of the
Alabama and Georgia cities the aggre-
gate amount paid out in the shape Of
bank dividends on July 1st was the
largest for any one dividend day in
the history Of those places.
THE o"erations of big peach Or
chard and tobacco farm, near Ameri-
Gus, Ca, are to be enlarged by its
Ohio and Chicago owners and a net
profit Of 100000 per annum is prom.
ised the stockholders. 1T Green's
boro, Ga, Millen, Ga, and Stone
Mountain Ga, the contracts for the
erection of new churches were award.
ed The stockholders of an Lnniston,
Ala, yarn mill will meet July 18th to
consider the advisability of enlarging
Ln1 pldnC.
Railroad companies have just
placed orders N the Birmingham dis
trlct for about 100000 tons of coal
Fourteen corporations were chartered
in the two states during the week.
their minimum capital stock being
$632 900. At q mass meeting of the
citizens of Cuthbert Ca, the city
council was asked to investigate the
cost of enlarging the lighting and
waterworks systems, installing sew
erage, erecting city hall and school
buildings and making other improve
ments, and then to call an election on
the issuance of bonds for these i'm
provements. An industrial school is
to be established on st. Simons island.
opposite the city of Brunswick, Ga"