The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-12
WO0DALL EXPECTS
APROSPEROUSF ALL
Birmingham Products Are
Being Sold in Florida and
Georgia

| The coming fall season will mark the
beginning of another period of pros
perity in the southeastern states, Ill
the opinion of w. C. Woodall oil the
Industrial Index. who is in the eitS
| from Columbus, gathering data regard
| ing the industrial and construction
progress in the Birmingham district.
"The spirit of enterprise that mas
| been developed in this section oil the
country in recent years is rather re-
mark table" said Mr. Woodall, and TINS
! is true of cities and counties as well
as private citizens and corporations
The disposition everywhere is to I'M
prove existing facilities, to build bet
| ter roads, bridges, schoolhouses'
churches and to enlarge and rearrange
| industrial plants so as to. improve the
processes of manufacture Just few
years ago the sentiment for good roads
expressed itself only in talk TO-DAY
the southern states and especially Ala
bama. Georgia and Florida are build
ing high class highways by the hun
dreds of miles It is an exceptional
week in Alabama when bids are not
ihFitSu iOi iit6iE
in more than one county in this state
recall that in a recent week bids We're
invited for work of this character III
something like half dozen Alabama
counties.
Georgia has developed into real
good roads state, for in recent years
1t has had its convicts busy building
roads. Convfcts are now in great de-
mand by the progressive counties OF
the state. Our county, Muscogee. has
not only used its own convicts III
building highways, but has leased
those of neighboring counties when
ever it could. The nearby counties are
catching the same spirit, however, and
only recently one of them, Harris, took
back the felony conyicts 1t had loaned
to Muscogee and announced that 1t was
going to buy first class road machinery
and build good highways.
Florida is developing into one or
the prize good roads states of the south
Many miles of brick road have been
built in the rural districts and a great
deal more of this work has been
planned. Much of the brick used for
this purpose was made right here III
the Birmingham district BY the way,
it is rather remarkable that Birming-
ham brick are shipped all the way to
Florida to be used In building country
roads and no brick at all have been
used for this purpose in Jefferson
county.
THE feeling in business circles in
this section, broadly speaking, has dis
tinctly improved in recent weeks. crop
prospects in Georgia are now much
better than they were three weeks ago
The showers of the past two weeks
have not only helped plant life but
have refreshed humanity.
"a great deal of construction is
planned for the coming fall In Geor-
gia. The coming of new cotton money
along in the latter part of August will
be the signal for the actual beginning
of many of these projects
Here in Birming CHAM much is going
on, much more than the casual OBJ
server realizes. The two skyscrapers
now being erected in the business dis
trict--buildings whose giant steel fin
gers reach little higher into the air
each week-illustrate the substantial
character of the construction In this
city.
Every manufacturing plant in Co.
lumbus is running on full time" con-
cluded Mr.. Woodall. "a few miles north
of our city, on the Chattahoochee river,
a $2.000,000 power plant has recently
been completed and this will supply
electric power to Columbus and other
cities and towns in that section, Civ
ing great impetus to continued in
dustrial development. Not long since
the city of Columbus completed $780,
600 concrete bridge across the Chat
tahoochee river. 1t is interesting to
note that immense quantities of Br-
mingham district cement was used in
the construction of this dam and
bridge. And Birmingham brick is be-
ing used just now in paving Columbus
streets"