The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-08
NUMBER NEW
ENTERPRISES
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
LAUNCHING OF NEW ENTER
PRISES GROWING STEADILY IN
THE SOUTH.
SPECIAL TO THE JOURNAL.

SPECIAL TO THE JOURNAL.
Columbus, Ga, May THE Indus
trial Index says in its issue for this
week:
THE industrial development and
upbuilding and the launching of new
business enterprises that are in
progress increasingly in the southeast
help to make this section the one of
opportunity, for homeseekers and for
those who wish to employ their CAP
ital safely and well.
Twenty nine new corporations
were organized in the Southeast in the
past week. representing many lines Of
business and being largely in addition
to numerous industrial plants an
nounced as to be established immedi-
ateIy.
'sThe Southeast's greatest need is
the bringing to it from other sections
of more people to help develop its re-
sources and share in its prosperity.
Preparations for receiving them and
locating them satisfactorily are being
made constantly. At Miami, Fla, a
tract of 5000 acres is to be improved
at a total cost of about $1,000, 900,
this to include the erection of many
buildings One and one-half miles
from Savannah, Ca, towns will be
built on a tract of about 400 acres,
the establishing of a number of man
ufacturing plants to be included In
one of the best agricultural sections
of Alabama, a large tract is to be di-
yided into farms which will be i'm
proved with the necessary buildings
for the coming and settling of home
seekers.
Among the items of construction
work to be done, as reported this week,
are:
Church buildings, two, Atlanta, Ca,
Bremen, Nashville and Dalton, Ga,
and Eustis, Fla, clubhouse, Savan-
nah. Ga; depot. Lakeland. Fla;
paving, Covington, Ga, Montgomery,
Ala, and Dunnellon and st. Angus
tine, Fla; road construction, Mont
gomery, Franklin, Lee, Coosa, Henry
and Marshall counties. Alabama; no.
tel buildings Tampa, Fla; six bridges
for railway to be constructed in Flor
ida: apartment house, Atlanta. Ga;
sewer system Dunnellon. Fla: water
works systems, Dunnellon, Fla, and
Roanoke, Ala. Construction contracts
have been awarded as follows:
Church buildings. Athens, Ga, and
Elba, Ala; school building. Mont
gomery. Ala. hotel building, near
Kissimmee, Fla; apartment house,
Atlanta, Ga; theater building, Balm
bridge, Ga
Industrial plants will be estab-
lished as follows
Lumber plants, Hurds, Edenfield
and Panama City, Fla, and near VAL
dosta. Ga; bottling plant Carrollton,
Ga; concrete block plant. Braden-
town, Fla; canning plant, Macon,
Ca; cold storage plant, Orlando, Fla.
cotton mill enlargement Trion, Ca:
foundry extension, Rome, Ca; gas
plant, Rome. Ga; hosiery mill, Gads-
den. Ala, ginneries, Camilla and Fish
Ca; lighting plant, Chronicle, Fla"
and lighting plant extension, Roanoke,
Ala; cotton compress, Savannah, Ga.
Capacity of vehicle plant at Admission
Ala, will be doubled Company has
been organized to drill for oil and
gas in Jackson county, Alabama.
Preparations are being made for
building three railway lines in Flor
ida. Company has been organized at
Athens. Ga. to manufacture cotton
seed oil and fertilizer.
"A bank has been organized at
Fayette, Ala. Municipal Improvement
bonds were voted by Dunnellon, Fla.
and Roanoke. Ala.