The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-13
SOUTHEAST VERY
PROSPEROUS AS FALL
COMES ON
Vast Amount of Public improvements
Going on Indicates Progress
Everywhere

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Columbus, Ca, Sept. 12.-The In
dustrial Index says in it's issue for this
week:
! 1.-THE Southeast is not just expecting
fall business season of prosperous
conditions. 1t has begun. Manufac
turing plants are being operated stead
lily to full capacity, and many of then
, on extra time, and industrial payrolls
are long. Cities and counties in 6
number of sections are making public
improvements that are adding much
to the money in circulation. And the
marketing of cotton at good prices
that will add many millions more to
the money circulated in the South has
been begun.
1T is a season of prosperity that
has sound basis, and it is going full
steam ahead.
"Gains in building permit valua
lions, bank clearings and postal re-
ceipts continue steadily. In one city
the gain in the August clearing was
nearly 20 per cent as compared with
August of last year. In another city
the postal receipts for August were
greater than for any previous August
in the city's history. In still another
building permit valuations are setting
notable high record for the year.
"The good prices that are being re
ceived for cotton have placed smile
upon the face of the business in the
Southeast and this section is confident
that the fall season will be one of sub
stantial business.
"Some extensive construction work
is in progress in the Southeast, with
much more in prospect, and the buy
ing of building materials is referred tc
as one Of the features of general bus
mess activity.
among the items of construction
work to be done, as reported, this
week, are:
Bank building addition, Springfield
S. c.; bridge, Baldwin and Monroe
counties, Alabama; church buildings
Empire, Ca, and Eustis and Miami
Fla; club house, Tampa, Fla; fac
tory building, Atlanta, Ca; municipal,
building, Gainesville, Ca; paving, Mi
ami, Fla; roads. 100 miles, Grenada
county, Mississippi and so miles KEN
per county, Mississippi; % miles o.
sewers and six miles of water mains
Columbia, s. c.. school buildings
Conway and st. George, S. c.; and
Empire and Stillmore, Ca; theatel
building, Moultrie, Ga; warehouse
Manatee, Fla. Cave Spring. Ca, has
voted bonds for constructing sewers
and waterwOrks, and Damascus, Ga.
will vote upon waterworks and cleo
trio light plant bonds.
Construction contracts have beer
awarded as follows:
Apartment house, st. Petersburg
Fla; bridges, Broward and Dadt
counties. Flarida; church building
Avon Park, Fla; factory building
Montgomery, Ala; hospital building
cambridge, Ga; levee. Washington
county, Mississippi; paving, Atlanta
Ca, and Birmingham, Ala; drain Pen
sacola Fla; school buildings Hartsell'
and Piedmont, Ala; sewers, Green
vile, S. c.; passenger station, Triton
Ga.
Industrial plants will be estab
lished as follows:
4 Creamery Lexington, Miss; ic,
plant, Gadsden, Ala; grist and feeC
mill, Dothan, Aala.; naval stores plant
Calvert, Ala; hat and glove factory
Montgomery, Aa.; hydro-electric pow
er plant on Board river, 80 miles from
Spartanburg, S, c.; capacity of syrul
refinery to be doubled. Montgomery
Ala; planning mill, Dorchester, S. C.
stave mill, Troy, Ala.
Jacksonville, Fa., has sold $250, OOl
of school bonds at premium of SIG,
GIG, the bonds being a total of $3.50, 90,
sold out of an issue of S1,OO0,00C
voted
Twelve corporations have beer
formed in the week with minimum
capital stocks aggregating s62O,0O."