The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-21
RESUME OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY

ports, the Manufacturers Record fio- ures that the South is now carving forward public work, including road and street building, sewerage and wa ter systems, schools and courthonses. representing approximately S20O.OOO.. oOO, The greatest expenditures are oelng made for highway improvement. and While full definite figures are not available for the entire South. it is es- tlmated that $70,OOO,0OO are now being spent for this class of construction under way, or so far advanced in pro- Jectlon as to insure it's building.
 Commenting on the facts developed by an investigation covering the whole South, he Manufacturers Rec. ord says:
 The measure of nations advance In wealth and in appreciation of the benefits of public improvements may be taken by the spirit evidenced in expenditures for highways and streets and kindred work.
 No land of poverty and pessimisrn ever does great things in public work.
 Every land of prosperity and op- timism shows its faith in itself and at the same time indicates it's prosper lty by broad expenditures for i'm provements of this kind.
 Judging the South by these tru- lsms, we can see how this section is advancing in prosperity, how it is spending millions for betterments, and at the same time We can recognize that these very improvements will add enormously to the prosperity and op- timism of the South.
 "Throughout the South and South west during the last year or two. and increasing in activity from week to week, there has been remarkable pro- gress in public improvements under way and projected. These include the building of highways, the better ment of streets, the building of sewer age systems and water-works, schools courthouses and every other line of municipal and county activity"
 During the week under review there have been in many directions signs of increasing industrial activity. This is illustrated in plans for the build ing of $500000 cotton mill at Thom- aston, Ga; a $1O0000 cotton mill at Granite Falls, N. C., and a number of smaller Improvements to be made by existing cotton millss.
 New Orleans now has plans ready for a municipality owned grain eleva- tor with capacity of over 100000 bushels and estimated to cost between $70O,000 and S800,000.
 A denatured alcohol plant, estimat- ed to cost about $1,0O0,000, has been let to contract at Baltimore, to include 12 buildings, and the product it is un- derstood to be used largely in the making of war munitions.
 A $5O,00C company has been organ ized in New York to act as agent for securing war munitlOn orders for in- dustrial interests in Alabama and the adjacent territory.
 At New Orleans a company with an authorized capital of $500,000 has been organized to build large cold storage plants and warehouses.
 At Hazard. Ky. the Kentucky River Power Go. has decided to build S3O0,0OO hydro-electric plant.
 Ober X Sons of Baltimore will spend S1OO.0O0 in enlarging their fertilizer plant,
 The Security Cement X Lime Co. of Security, Md, will invest about S1O0.OOO in additions to it's plant.
 The Arkansas Fertilizer Co.,, of Argenta, Ark, will build a $9O,OO0 sulphuric acid plant, and the Tulsa Boiler Go. of West Tulsa, Okla, will build a $6OOOO plant for making boil CTS and tanks.
 The Black River Cypress Lumber Co.,. of Sardinia, s. C., has organized with S25,O00 capitol stock to build mill with a capacity of 20,00C,OOO feet per year.
 The Upper St. Johns Drainage Dis trict of Titusville, Fla, has completed surveys for retaining 265,0OO acres of bottom lands, and will prepare plans for the necessary work.
 These are few only of the many and widely diversified industries re- ported from all parts of the South