The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-30
MILLIONS SPENT
ON NEW BUILDINGS
Handsome Structures Being
Erected All Over South at
Enormous Cost.
MONEY SEEMS PLENTIFUL
Sums Spent on Individual Edi-
foes Frequently Range Into
Five Figures.
MONEY SEEMS PLENTIFUL

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more.l
From lle II Southern States and
from Oklahoma and Missouri the
Manufacturers Record has re owed
this week letters from architects, con-
this week letters from architects. con-
tractors, builders and others at va
rious points giving details Of improve
ments aggregating many millions of
dollars In cost under the auspices OF
State, county. municipal or Federal
governments, for corporations and for
individuals. recently completed. now
under way or definitely planned. These
letters, which fiji nearly five pages,
reveal n notable activity in building
operations OF many kinds, in road
and street Construction and in home
building, in railroad and levee work.
In bank and office building, and IN
sewers, water works and other public
utilities.
Last year showed decided revival
OF such operations in the South. and
though at some points there is now
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tightness in the money market the
general situation in the South has be-
come normal. and for that section
normal means activity all along the
line In city and country.
One firm of architects. for example.
has since the first of the year COM
pleted plans for six churches aggre-
eating In cost s15s.000, three resi-
dences ranging in cost from $4,000
TO $4,000. two jails costing S33.oO0
and stores and offices costing $4,000,
and has Under way plans for three
churches aggregating $4,000 in cost.
AT another point a construction COM
pany Is bringing to completion a
s250.o00 bank building and con-
tractor will finish within the next
three months bank building cost
ing Sl,b0o,0o0, and has Just started
upon a factory building to cost $780,
5000. In a suburb of Texas city
contracts are nearing completion. rep
resenting an aggregate expenditure of
nearly $500, 900, and In a Florida city.
where a railroad system Is preparing
to build a passenger depot $50 feet
front and 100 feet deep. the general
situation Is described as n-thous-
and-doilar residences are more nu-
merous now than five thousand dollar
residences were few years ago"
Work In filter beds for a municipal
trainage plant costing $4,000. upon
a three-mile extension of railroad
costing $4,000. upon macadamtzing
about three miles of public highway
costing $4,000 and upon mile OF
embankment across marsh costing
$4,000 represent the activities of an
other contracting firm- A 500. 1000
building, part steel and part reinforc-
ed concrete, for retail grocery COM
pany, ard 1900. 900 office building OF
steel and either reinforced concrete or
tile, a $16, ZOO clubhouse. three school
houses costing $4,000. $4,000
Young Mems Christian Association
building, a $40, 600 planning mill oct1t,
$4,000 water works and electrie light
plant. 100000 cubic yards OF le1ee
work, a $4,000 heating contract
S400, 900 worth OF lock and dam work
In river improvement, q $49,ae9 oase-
bali park, an $4,000 hotel. a Sis.u00
postoffice. a s22s.0o0 hotel. a $4,000
efnce F6nilding, a $4,000 dralnage
contract. 5000 900 OF street improve
ynents, a s125.000 sewerage system, a
$4,000 country club. $4,000 stors
building, 100000 boulevard. q
$500, 600 work of tunneling. $4,000
OF miners houses at one point and
many private dwellings ranging IN
cost from $1,000 to $4,000. are
among the many other items mention
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