The Prescott daily news., 1915-09-28
-r11rRN INDUSTRIAL ACTlVI- SOoi TIES.

n.r;ewing the lnduS'ii"'
 fe'''b contb for the week the Manu-
 of ns s Record gives in detail the fa''us, s;tures that are being made at apsnd,'eafs %rIaans in" in the building of ST. s"a Ne" mn grain elevator by the munich % aut Authorities, contracts .,i for ss the f0un snd da'lOn .ress a of the Public Warehouse a'..sr 'as p,oS which is being built at a cost S!s'sl ! DO s0O 900. in connection with oth- a ,s,se enterprises planned and pro
 q ..ai ~I hv the city and individual inter-
 |s''' " Counting the improvements
 s'1, ssd. bv the city during the last few n's's .s and now under way or definitely ''sansd ''s New Orleans authorities es- p's.,s l...s that over $1OO,OOO,OOO will be 1, '..rssented in these expenditures with ", view to preparing that city for handling the enormous increase ex- . .,tod in traffic from Southern ports. rho Baltimore X Ohio Railroad Is
 .,or;nc plans for a new coal pier
 to be built at Baltimore at a cost or u XII, 900 and to have an annual ca % s.s;tv for handling 10,000,000 tons of coal.
 There are signs of increasing acti- ritv in the textile industry in the midinv of mills and the enlargements If existing plants. The West Point Manufacturing Co.,, of West Point, Ga, has awarded contracts for an ad- GtiOnal mill at a cost of about S50O,- OW to be equipped with 25,OOO spin Hes and 800 looms. P. H. Hanes l Knitting Co.,, Winston-Salem, N. C., will install 10000 spindles with ac- cOmpanying machinery to manufac- tup yarns for it's additional knitting mill recently reported. The Hogans- vile Mills, Hogansville, Ga., has de- cided on its plans for an additional mill to be equipped with 5000 spindles FEC. Lineberger, Belmont, N. C., will organize a s2O0,000 company to build ! cotton mill. The Norcott Mills Co.,, Concord, N. C., has awarded a con- tact for its proposed mill to be supped with l2,000 spindles. The Elk Cotton Mills, Fayette, Tenn, will enlarge an existing building and in- stall 300 spindes. The Alden Mills, New Orleans, let contract for a three story brick addition to present plant for manufacturing knit goods.
 The Carnegie Steel Co.,, of Pitts burg will build a power-house and ex- tend its warehouse at Baltimore and enlarge its facilities for storing and handling its foreign trade in steel products.
 The Maryland Steel Co.,, Sparrows Point, Mdr is preparing to receive Sds for several of it's projected inn proyements including a new machine shops to represent an investment of S0OOOO.
 The National Tube Co.,, of Wheel ng, w. Va., is reported as planning an expenditure of $5,OOO,OOO for en- Algement of its plant.
 inc Consumers Portland Cement 70, Chicago, has been organized to 0ud a Portland cement plant at Fore man, Ark.
 inc Jefferson Coal and Coke Co.,, 'arNersOrg, W. Va, has been in- ''pOrated with S3OO,0O0 capital stock "ueVelOp r coal properties.
 me Seminole Phosphate Co.,. of isV'' s,vOA Fla, will build plant with ss saly capacity of 200 tons of phos- phate rock. f0 .iV"i every part of the South come ,r p', m S ol increasing business activi- If g , me great grain crop of the year ... Aeafiy 2S per cent increase over of a'' ..; years yield shows a percentage ss,s gan Of from l3 per cent to 15 per pom,a.. ao'e than the rate of gain in
 Mi a'iOn the same period.
 natch,, increase in grain is in part nnmh dnsa by large increase in the the Ss[ ss.'. ol hogs in the South, although not e,' sS1 or the big grain crop will ers..a a'u iull expression in the in- gsn 'i !, 0l !, hogs until next year. The Sors U. ., the South in the number of last st vss. ss compared with September of virso;aa' runs from ? per cent in West olipa n,;. VI -o per cent in South Car States s,n w.t., gains in other Southern cent snd running from per cent, 5 per The incr.o Der cent up to 10 per cent.
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