Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-15
BANNER WEEK FOR The
YEAR 1918 INDUSTRIALLY
Shown by Reports Of New
Industries

this week:
I'm the humber of items about
manufacturing plants to be estab-
lished and construction work to BIZ
done, the news for the week prob.
ably marks it as banner week fol
the year, so far, in the Southeast.
Not only is there industrial and
building activity in the larger cit,
ties, but in the smaller ones and in
the towns as well. In a rather
surprising number of smaller cities
industrial plants are to be estab-
lished and buildings erected that
would be valuable and creditable to
large cities. This illustrates strik-
ingly the very general, as well as
substantial, nature of the upbuild
ing that is in progress in the South
east-the section of opportunity.
"A by-products plant that will
cost $1,5OO,OOO is to be established
in the Birmingham district of Ala
bama, and an electric power plant to
cost approximately that amount is
proposed for Birmingham.
"A contract has been awarded for
the erection of a 100000 bank and
office building in Augusta, Ga.
The sixth bank is being organ
lied at Miami, Fla, with capital
stock of $4,000.
Madison county, Florida, voted
$4,000 of courthouse bonds and
FIT. Payne, Ala, voted Improvement
bonds. fernando county, Florida.
will vote upon the issuance of $780,
600 of improvement bonds.
Among the items of construction
work to be done, as reported this
week, are:
School buildings, Bessemer and
Birmingham, Ala; waterworks sys-
TENS, Forsyth, Ga, Passagrille, Fla. :;
warehouse, $4,000, Decature, Ala,
paving, sewers, Tuscaloosa, Ala; roal
construction, Blount county. Ala
bama; bridges Warren and Hancock
counties and Baldwin county.
Georgia, and Taylor county, Florida,
with three .other counties contem
plating bridge construction; paving
st. Augustine, Fla; church building,
Birmingham, Ala; fraternal build
ing, Griffin, Ga; fire stations, Biz
mingham, Ala; hotel building en-
largement Miami, Fla; apartment
house, Atlanta, Ga; bank and office
buildings, Macon, Ga, and Fl. My
ers, Fla; buildings to be remodeled
for occupancy by banks, Bainbrldge,
Ga and West Palm Beach, Fla.
Construction contracts have been
awarded as follows:
Apartment houses, Atlanta, Ga,
and Tampa, Fla, bank building en-
largement, Birmingham, Ala; hotel
building, Birmingham; church build
ings, Manchester, Ga, and Palm
Beach and West Palm Beach, Fla. {:
railway terminal hosting system,
Brunswick, Ga; sewer system, Or
lando, Fla; paving, Mobile, Ala. !;
school building, Lanett, Ala
Industrial plants will be estab-
lished as follows:
Brick plant, Jacksonville, Fla. :;
lighting plant extension, Selma, Ala. :;
lumber plants, Mariana and Water
town, Fla; mining, Coal City, Ala. !;
telephone system, Carrollton, Ala;
machine ship and power plant ex-
tension, Tarpon Springs, Fla; bot
ting plants, Clearwater and Jack
sonville, Fla; oil and fertilizer
plants, Oneonta, Ala; fuel device
plant, Birmingham, Ala. grist and
rice mill, Hastings, Fla; ice factor
les, Savannah, Ga, and Miami, Fya.;
stove plant enlargement, Dalton, Ga ;
welding plant, Mobile, Ala; overaili
factory, Albany, Ga.
Eleven new corporations were or