The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-01-10
NEW INDUSTRIES
IN DIXIE LAND

Columbus. Ca, Jan. s.-The Indus
trial Index says in its issue for this
| week:
| New Year such a welcome as 1915 has
received.
There are substantial reasons for it.
Figures for departments of business
that are regarded as barometers o.
commerce and industry show actual
Here are figures for few OF the
cities of the Southeast that reflect
conditions throughout this section:
Postoffice receipts-Atlanta, gain In
1914 as compared with 1918, S64,lIS.
total for 1914, s1,466,4 S7; Tampa, gain'
| En- 319. total for 1914. $223,157; Birm-
! ingham, gain $4,000. total for 1919.
| s544128! Savannah, gain, SS,S7S totai
| for 1914, $296.103.
building pc. mits-Savannah, GAIN
| s1561s5. total for 1914, $1,3SS6SO;
| Macon. increase of 233 in numoer to-
tai for 1914, 1915, 21o; Tampa gain,
$3.50 go. total for 1914, s1,6l5.O2S; Au-
| gusta. total for 1914, $4,000.
"On the last day of 1914. total OF
G 34o operatives were employed in the
cotton mills of Augusta ana horse
Greek Valley, Aiken county, South
Carolina. Under entirely normal con-
ditions a total of S. 425 employees work
in these mills. Four large cotton OH
mills I'm Augusta are being operated
night and day,
"Hillsborough county, Fiorioa
handed about $500, 900 last year In con-
structing brick-paced roads, ana WIZ
| axnend that much, or more, this yeai
; for the same purpose.
"a foundry at Tuscaloosa, Aia'
! which employs 400 men VIII resume
) operations January II.
AN order has been received at BIZ
, mingham. Ala, for $4,000 tons o
, steel rail-
, "a railway yard has been completed
at Birmingham at cost OF Sl,oVo'VVV
. and tract has been purchased TOT OK
tending IL at an outlay Of about sow,
coo additional.
"In the first week OF the year
twenty-one new corporations have Dee
formed with minimum capital STOCK
aggregation $44S.25O.
"Among the items OF constructiol
~ k to be done, as reported TINS Wees
are:
apartment house, Savannah, Ga
| church building, Plant City, Fla.
/ courthouse. Lincoln county, Georgia
] fraternal building. Howard, Ca FAC
tory building, Titusville, Fla; pawn,
! Pensacola, Fla: railway station MIL
1 town. Ca: sewers, Augusta, Ga.' an
( birmingham, Ala; paving ano sewer
E,ustis. Fla: waterworks system IN
= movement, s100, 900, Charleston, :. Z
- hotel building, Atlanta, Ca. permisslo
. hoa been granted by the war depart
| noant for the construction of bridge
| at Bradentown and Tampa Fla-' ia
/ near Clearwater, Fla
1 CONSTRUCTION contracts nave Dee
/ awarded as follows:
1 bridges, Bar oour county, Alapann
\ dodge county, Georgia and near WICK
RI burg. Miss; clubhouse, Valr1co' RIA
ianartnnent house. Birmingham, Ala
achool building, Fort Lauderdale, ria
sewers and waterworks system Loul
vile. Ga; road, Aiken county, sou
Carolina; waterworks imnrovemeI
North Augusta, s. G. Z. M Z.
hniIding. Huntsville, Ala: total Dun
ing 100000 Savannah, Ga
4Industrial plants viii be esta
uehed as follows: Box factory, MoDi
Ala: gas plant, North Augusta, :. !
cement products plant, Titusyille. FL;
. onto narts factory, st PETERSBURG T
,uood working plant, Greenville, 8.
,atb and single factory, Otelia, FL
bottling plant, Georgetown, ?. III
and cold storage plant Grim, u
sawuiu, DeF'uniak Springs, Fla