Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-18
GEORGIA COUNTIES BUSY
in WORK OF PROGRESS
Record of Week an ExCGE.
tiOnaI One

in the Southeast is furnished this
week by reports of improvements -
be made by counties. Plans for road
building have been formulated in Har-
ris, Pierce, Baldwin, Screven, Talbot.
Dougherty and Johnson counties,
Georgia; Barbour and Montgomery
counties, Alabama, and Bradford and
fernando counties, Florida,
Bridges will be constructed in Mon
roe, Warren, Hancock, Towns, Screw
en-, Pierce and Johnson counties, eGor-
gia Escambia and Calhoun counties.
Florida, and Russell and Morgan coun-
ties, Alabama.
These are but some of the counties
that will make improvements of the
kind, and as has been reported, cleo
lions are pending in number of
counties upon the issuance of improve
rnent bonds.
Arrangements are being perfect I'd
for a survey of the entire Everglad,
territory of Florida, preparatory TO
the issuance of bonds for complet-
ing the drainage of that vast, ricn
section
"A syndicate of Northern and East
ern men has purchased industrial
plants in number of Florida cities At
a total outlay of about $750,OOO and
will improve a number of them.
Among the items of construction
work to be done, as reported this
week are:
Apartment houses, two; Tampa,
Fla, two Atlanta Ga, and Americas
Ca; bank building, Girard, Ala; hotel
buildings, Tarpon Springs, and ST.
Petersburg, Fla and Blue Springs, Ga !:
school buildings, Starke, Fla, Canton,
and Cuba. Ala, and Demopolis and
Mobile, Ala; waterworks systems,
Louisville, Ala, and Conyers, Ga.
church buildings, Hartselle and ITALIA
dega, Ala, and Cordele and Gencoa,
Ga; theatre building, Tuskegee, Ala, g,
jails, Clearwater, Fla, and Carriers
vile, Ga; paving. $4,000 square yards,
Birmingham, Ala; courthouses,
Spring Place Gla; city hall and Jail
Vidalia, Ga.
Contracts have been awarded as
follows: Apartment houses, Birming-
ham, Ala, and Tampa, Fla; canal
$4,000, near Starke, Fla; lime PLAN,
Gainesville, Ga; clubhouse $102, 800
Tampa, Fla; fraternal, Vidalia, Ga
levee gates, $50,9O5, Augusta; Y. M. c.
A. building, $277,16S, Atlanta, Ga.
Industrial plants will be establish
cd as follows: Bottling plant, Pensa-
cola, Fla; and bottling plants in cities
of Alabama, Florida and Georgia by
company organized at Macon, Ga
with capital stock of 100000; ginnery
Morven, Ga; fertilizer factory, Tampa
Fla; ice factory and electric lightins
plant to be enlarged, Fort Myers
Fla; lumber plant, Tuscaloosa county
Alabama; three companies organized
to engage in mining in Birmingham
district; telephone systems, Flowery
Branch and Aston, Ga; oil mill
Union Point, Ga; company organized
to construct electric railway between
Tuscaloosa and Gadsden, Ala; electrt
belt line in Tuscaloosa and electric
hehting plants; franchise granted for
electric railway line at Miami. Fla
construction of electric railway in Fo :,
Myers, Fla, and vicinity, proposed;
city of Ocala, Fla. contemplates build
ing electric railway line.
twenty-five new corporations have
been formed with minimum capital
stocks aggregating $1,09S,520.
National bank with capital stock OF
100000 is being organized at Wav.
cross, Ga, and bank has been Or.
ganized at Girard, Ala,
Dublin and Lyerly, Ga, will vote
upon issuance of municipal improve
ment bonds"