Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-26
New Orleans Spending $3,- 500,000 for Municipal
 Warehouse System.
TEXTILE INDUSTRY
 BEING EXTENDED
One Hundred Thousand New Spindles Will Be Working Soon in Southern MilIs--Chicag0ans Organize to
 Make Cement at Foreman, Ark.

Reviewing the industrial activities of the South for the week the Manu 1 facturers' Record gives in detail the expenditures that are being made al
 New Orleans in the building of g l $1,0O0,OOO grain elevator by the mu
 nicipal authorities, contracts for the l foundation having been let this week and the progress of the public ware house system which is being built at a cost of $3,50O,000, in connection
 with other large enterprises planned and projected by the city and indi- vldual interests. Counting the inn provements made by the city during the last few years and now under way or definitely planned, New Or leans authorities estimate that over $100, 100000 will be represented in these expenditures with a view to preparing that city for handling the enormous increase expected in traffic from Southern ports.
 The Baltimore & Ohio railroad is preparing plans for new coal pier to be built at Baltimore at cost of $1,500,000 and to have an annual ca paeity for handling 10,000,000 tons of coal.
 Textile Industry Rooms.
 There are signs of increasing activ- ity in. the textile industry in the building of miiYfs and the enlarge ments of existing plants. The West Point Manufacturing company of West Point, Ga, has awarded contracts for an additional mill at a cost of about $5C0,000, to be equipped with 25,00O spindles and 800 looms. P. H. Hanes Knitting company, Winston Salem, N. C., will install 10000 spindles with accompanying machinery to manufac- ture yarns for it's additional knitting mill recently reported The Hogans- vile mills, Hogansville, Ga., has de- cided on it's plans for an additional mill to be equipped with 5000 spindles. F. c. Lineberger, Belmont, N.' e., will organize $200,00O com pany to build a cotton mill. The Norcott Mills company. Concord, N. e., has awarded "a contact for it's proposed. mill to be equipped with 12,OOo ;spindles. The Elk Cotton mills, --Fayetta, Tenn; will enlarge an ex- istmg building and install 5000 spindles. The Alden mills; New Or leans, let contract ,.forsa 'three-story brick addition to present. plant for manufacturing knit goods.
 The Carnegie Steel company of Pittsburgh will build a powder house and extend it's warehouse at Baltimore and enlarge it's facilities for storing and handling its foreign trade in steel products.
 The Maryland steel company Spar rows Point. Md, ds preparing to re- ceive bids for several of it's projected improvements, including, a@new ma- chine shops to represent an invest ment of $5O0,0O0.
 The National Tube company bf Wheeling w. Va, is reported as plan ming an expenditure of $5,00O,O0O for enlargement of it's plant.
 TheConsumers' Portland Cement company, Chicago, has been organiz- ed to build Portland cement plant at Foreman, Ark.
 The Jefferson Coal & Coke com pany, Parkersburg, w. Va. has been incorporated with $3OO,OOO capital stock to develop coal properties.
 The Seminole Phosphate company of Groom, Fla, will build plant with daily capacity of 200 tons of, phoe- phate rock.
 From every part of the South come reports of increasing business activ- ity. The great grain crop of the year of nearly 28 per cent. increase over last years yield shows a percentage of gain of from 13 per cent, to 15 per cent. more than the rate of gain in population during the same period.
 This increase in grain is in part matched by a large increase in the number of hogs in the South. al- though the effect o the big grain crop will not find full expression in the increase of hogs until next year. The gain in the South in the number of hogs as compared with September of last year runs from ? per cent. in West Virginia to 20 per cent. in South Carolina, with gains in other Southern States running from per cent, 5 per cent. and 6 per cent up to 10 per cent The increase of 20 per cent. in South Carolina is not ex- ceeded by any other state in the Union. and is equaled by only two. This increase in grain and meat
 production, added to the advancing price for cotton. with increasing de-
 mands, is bringing about spirit oi optimism which has not been seen lthroughout the south since the begin ning of tlre war.