Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-08-21
South's Greatest Expendi- lures Are for Roads, 70
 Millions Being Spent.
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
Hundreds of Thousands Going Into Factories and Commercial Enter. prises in SOutll-trgenta to Have
 $9O,OC0 SMIphuric Acid Plant.

Baltimore, Md, Aug 20.-Basing it's estimates on special reports, the Manufacturers Record figures that the South is now carrying forward public work including road anu street building, sewerage and water systems, schools and courthouses, representing approximately $200,000,- i coo. The greatest expenditures are being made for highway improve menus, and while full definite figures are not available for the entire South it is estimated that $70,000,000 are now being spend for this class of con- struction under way, or so far ad- yanced in projection as to insure it's building
 Commenting on the facts developed by an Investigation covering the whole South, the Manufacturers Rec- ord says:
 "The measure of a nations advance in wealth and il appreci}t,on of the benefits of public improvoT ents may be taken by the spirit evidenced in ex- penditures for highways and streets and kindred worA.
 ''No land of poverty and pessimism ever does great things in public work
 livery land of prosperity and op- timisa shows it's faith iii itse'f and at the same time indicates it's pros- perity by broad expenditures for i'm provements of this kind.
 Judging the South by these truisms we can see how this section is ad vancing it's prosperity, how it is spending millions for betterments and at the same time we can recog- niza that these very improvements will add enormously to the prosperity and optimism of the South.
 Remarkable Progress.
 "Througtout the South and South west during the last year or two, ant increasing in activity from week t. week, there has been remarkable progress in public improvements under way and projected. These in clude the building of highways, tn :, betterment Of streets, the building o sewer2 ge systems and Water7works schools, courthouses and every othe line of municipal and country activ ity."
 During the week under reviev there have been in many direction signs of increasing industrial activity This is illustrated in plans made fo the building of a $500,000 cotton mil at Thomaston, Ga. $100,0o0 cotto1 mill at Granite Falls, x. C., and
 number of smaller improv2 ments t be made by existing cotton mills.
 New Orleans now has plans read fer a runicipally y-owned grain eleva
 tor with capacity of over 000,0O
 bushels and estimn ted to cost be tween $7OO,0oO and ss00oOo. A denatured alcohol plant, estimat
 ed to cost about $1,000,OOO. has bee
 let to contract at Baltimore, to in clude 12 buildings, and the product is understood to be used largely Il : the making of war munitions. s "A s5O,000 company has been organ s ized in New York to act as agent 10 f securing war intuition orders. for In n dustrial interests in Alabama and tn g adjacent territory.
 s At New Orleans q company wit
 an authorized capital of $o0O,OOO ha been organized to build large cold
 storage plants and warehouses. f At Hazard, Ky. the Kentucky Rive r Power company has decided to bull e Ia s30O,OoO hydro-electric plant. S Obar & Sons of Baltimore wil : spend $10O 900 in enlarging thel F fertilizer plant.
 T. The Security Cement & Lime com
 pany of Security, Md, will inves
 about $100OO0 in additions to il Iplant.
 ,l Argenta Acid Plant. The Arkansas Fertilizer compan ! of Argenta, Ark, will build $9O,0o sulphuric acid plant, and the Tuls ] Boiler company of West Tulsa, Okla , will build $6O.0o0 plant for lnak'n boilers and tanks.
 , The Black River Cypress Lumbe company of Sardinia, s. C., has or ganized wish $25Q.000 capital stock !. build ia mill with capacity of 20 GOO 900 feet per year. The Upper st. Johns Drainage dls