Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-29
new RAILROAD lines
MARK DEVELOPMENT HERE
Southeastern Capital Active
in This Work


week:
THE steady, substantial development
of the Southeast is illustrated by the
building and extension of railroad lines
that make resources more available
and help . attract new citizens.
"A contract has been awarded for
the construction of railroad between
Arcadia and Bradentown, Fla. 1t will
be built through timber tract of 1885,
600 acres that is under one ownership
and on which a number of lumber
plants will be established. The road
will serve a section which is now with
out railway facilities. The last of an
issue of bonds has been sold for the
construction of a railroad between
Tampa and st. Petersburg, Fla.
throuhg rich territory. A contract
has been awarded for the extension Of
a railroad from Norden to Lanier, Ga
A survey is being made for an cleo
trio railway to be built between Jack
sonville and st. Augustine, Fla. A com.
pany has been organized at fha-
wassee, Ca, to build a short line Of
railway between that place and some
point on the Georgian Tennessee line
Chattanooga, Tenn, capitalists are re
ported to contemplate the constructio,
of electric railways between that city
and Dalton, Ca, and Bridgeport, Ala.
Approximately $1,OOO,OOO will be ex
pended in improving a railroad il
Southern Georgia.
cat Macon, Ca, company has beer
organized with capital stock of $500,
900 to establish packing plant
"An Office building to be erected Il
Augusta Ga, by life insurance com
pany will be made either seventeen O.
twenty stories high.
"a rod and wire mill in the Birming
ham district is to be further equippef
and placed in operation at a cost OF
about $8OO,OOO
AN Alabama county will devote the
proceeds from the sale of $4,000 q
bonds to constructing good roads.
THE voting of $4,000 of improve,
ment bonds by Miami, Fla, will add
greatly to the construction activit,
in that city.
THE Florida house of representa-
ti4es approved the proposed issuance
OF $6,OOO,OOO of drainage bonds by thai
state.
Among the items of construction
work to be done, as reported this week
are:
Apartment houses, Birmingham
Ala, and Columbus, Ga; bank build
ings, Eustis and Mt Dora, Fla; water.
works and sewer construction, abod
100000, Ocala, Fla; bridge, Pain
Beach county, Fla; warehouse, Eustis
Fla; docks, Ocala and Tampa, Fla.
factory building, Augusta, Ga; hotc
building, Ocilla, Ga; paving, Gads
den, Ala, and Tampa, Fla.
Construction contracts have bee,
awarded as follows:
Bank buildings, Eclectic, Ala, am
Midwife, Ga; apartment houses, A.
lanta, Ga; church building. Orlando
Fla; school buildings, Bessemer ans
Quinn, Ala; library building, Valdosta
Ga; road construction, Jackson coun
ty, Fla; viaduct, Newman, Ga.
Industrial plants will be establish
ed as follows:
Concrete block plant, Manchester
Ga; telephone system, Gay, Ga; gin
merry and power plant, Augusta, Ga
power plant and electric light plant
Scottsboro, Ala; bagging mill extern
sion, Augusta, Ga; cotton mill to dou
BILE capacity, LAGRANGE, Ga; crate fac
tory, Palmetto, Fla.
Nineteen new corporations were es
tablished with minimum capital stock:
aggregating $40, 200. A bank was or.
ganized at Marion Junction, Ala"
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