The Prescott daily news., 1915-10-23
INCREASING INDUSTRIAL, ACTI-
 VITY IN THE SOUTH


 of work on the $10,00O,OOO aluminut plant in North Carolina. which was under construction by French capital ists prior to the war. American capi- tai will probably be provided for the immediate completion of the plant. and arrangements looking to that end are now being worked out.
 The Consolidation Coal Co.,. of Balti more which recently raised $7,0OO .OOO for new development work, is prepar- ing to spend about $2,25OO,OOO of this in opening additional coal mines in West Virginia and building an eight mile connecting line to the Western Maryland.
 The activity previously noted in re- gard to increased building of cotton mills or the enlargement of existing mills is further emphasized by an nouncements during the week. The Republic Mills of Great Falls, S. c. will add $600,000 to it's capital stock and build another mill of 10000 spind- les with 100 looms and 300 operatives houses, and likewise sewerage and electric-lighting facilities for the town. The Arlington Cotton Mills, Gastonia, N. C., will add 10000 spind les to it's plant. The Climax Spinning Go. of Belmont, N. C., has been or ganized with $300,00O capital stock to build a mill of 21,000 spindes and to employ about 300 operatives. The Thomaston Cotton Mills of Thomaston Ga., will put about 2S,000 spindes in it's additional mill now under construc- ton, and the Suffolk Knitting Mills, Suffolk, Va, will build a brick addi- tion 210x40 feet. Great activity is reported from Chattanooga in hosiery contracts. There are 32 hosiery mills tributory to Chattanooga, all reported as operating at full capacity with q daily output of 50,000 dozen pairs of hose. These mills are running night and day to meet the demand for hos iery due in part to the decreased i'm portations from Germany.
 The Tennessee Copper Co.,, operating very large copper and sulphuric- acid works in Tennessee, has voted to issue $3,000,000 of bonds. of which S2, 2,000,000 are to be sold immdiately for the enlargements TOW under way and additional equipment needed to meet the heavy orders for sulphuric acid received during the last few months.
 At Huntington, W. Va, a company is reported organized to build at a cost of over $500,00O a bridge across the Ohio River
 The courts having approved bond is- sue previously voted on by Houston, the city will arrange to spend $3,OOO,- 900 for wharves and shipping facili- ties, $1 100000 to complete drainage system, and S1,000,000 for sanitary sewers and disposal plants, $250,0OO for parks and $200,000 for schools. These improvements at Houston are typical of the very great activity in work in every part of the South and of the larger attention which is being given especially to the development of the port facilities of this section all the way from Balti- more to Texas.
 At Orange, Tex, arrangements are being made by the city to construct wharves. docks, and warehouses to provide ample terminal facilities for the port, and to install in connection herewith elecrtic cranes, conveyors and other facilities, while at Chatta- nooga extensive wharf development Is to be undertaken in order to provide adequate facilities for the prompt handling of freight for river transpor- tation.
 Negotiations are under way for the purchase of the Tredegar Iron Works of Richmond, one of the oldest and largest concerns in the South, which during the Civil War was leading factor in providing cannon for the Confectionery. These negotiations are as with a view for charging the plant for making munitions of war, but the company declines to give and definite information in regard to the matter as yet. Pittsburg people are reported as planning to build at Richmond an open-hearth steel plant =. I.,,r nn nd