The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-01-03
NEW INDUSTRIES
IN DIXIE LAND

Columbus, Ca, Jan. 2.-The Indus
trial Index says in its issue for this
week:
THE evidence of the business i'm
provement and the promises of great
prosperity in the Immediate future are
SO substantial that the beginning of
the New Year will be marked oy a
confidence which would be notable
even under normal conditions.
ct has been several weeks since the
business depression caused by the war
in Europe reached its lowest point, and
gradual improvement has not been
rapid, it has been unceasing, and now
the evidence of 1t are thoroughly APP
parent.
"One of the most satisfactory and
substantial features of this evidence
is the resumption of operations on full
time of manufacturing establishments
that have been running on short time,
and the resumption of operations by
some industrial plants that have been
closed. In some instances manufactur-
ing plants are being operated overtime
to fill the orders for their products.
"The expectation Of cotton continues
to increase. There is improvement in
the lumber trade. Business was better
just prior to Christmas holidays than
was expected and it is reported that
this business was fully up to normal
years in some c,c.es of the Southeast.
Business men are gratified and en-
couraged that now, after the worst has
long since passed, conditions are not
so bad as they feared, and they are
/ looking to the future with firm conf
dence.
FLORIDA has broken all records for a
week in the amount of citrus fruit
| shipped. Savannah's exports for a week
were third in value for the cities of the
Atlantic sea board. Receipts of cotton
| at Savannah on December % establish
ed new high record there for day
| this season. Several million feet Of
crossties are being shipped to Eastern
! ports of this country through the port
| of Pensacola, Fla. Large sums are
being disbursed in the payment OF
dividends by banks, industrial estab-
lishments and other business institu-
/ TONS A new cotton mill is to be placed
i in operation at Alexander City, Ala,
/ and a plant at Brunswick, Ga, which
/ gives employment to more than two
! hundred people will resume operation.
/ Bank clearings and postoff1ce receipts
at Birmingham show increases as COM
pared with last year.
Among the items of construction
work to be done, as reported this week
are:
Apartment house, Atlanta, Ga, bank
building, Valrico, Fla; bridges, Angus
ia, Ca, and Jacksonville, Fla; hotel
building, st. Augustine Fla; factory
buildings, Homestead, Fla, and Union
Springs, Ala; roads, Lamar county
Alabama, and Quitman county, Geor-
gia; arrangements are being perfected
for erection of city hall at Barlow
Fla, and oids have been Opened fol
erection of a hottl building at Savan-
nah, Ga.
CONSTRUCTION contracts have beer
awarded as follows: Hospital build
ing equipment. about $35,000 Augusta
Ga; hotel building, Buena Vista, Fla;
paving ST. Augustine, Fla; sewer and
waterworks systems and electric light
plant, Bay Minette, Ala; theater build
ing, West Palm Beach, Fla.
Application has been made for fran
chise for establishing electric light ant
power plants in Bay View, Greer
Springs and Safety Harbor, Fla. Ice
plants will be established at Home.
stead, Fla. and Union Springs Ala
Miami, Fla, will establish a destructol
plant.
"A bank with capital stock of $50,00l
/ has been organized at st. Cloud, Fla.
lamar county, Alabama, voted roat
construction bonds.
Eight corporations were formed
with minimum capital stocks aggre
eating $4,000
L. w. Nelson, attorney