The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-04
Great Industrial
Activities I'm
The South


tivities of the past week interfered
but little with industrial activities
throughout the southern states. about
the usual number and variety of de-
velopment enterprises having been an
nounced.
In today's Manufacturers Record
appear numerous reports stating the
essential facts regarding the weeks
announcements, and they include
plans requiring the investment of cap
tai for practically every phase of in
dustry in the utilization of the south's
many great resources.
/ Among the many is the Consolidat-
ed Mineral company of Northeast,
Md, which has been chartered with
capitalization of s2,000.000 and in
tends to develop mineral properties,
principally clay deposits.
Another is the Arundel Shipbuild-
ing company of Baltimore which will
organize with s1,000,000 capital to
largely augment the facilities of an
established plant where wooden vessels
are repaired and constructed. Ship
building activity is also seen at Tam
pa, Fla, where the Tampa Shipbuild-
ing & Engineering company has been
Incorporated with 100000 capital to
acquire an established plant. This
plant will be enlarged and increased
so that its facilities will provide for
constructing steel steamships.
! Terminal facilities at Baltimore will
be improved next year upon the COM
4 pletion of the Baltimore & Ohio rail
roads new pier on the waterfront,
S45O,OOO contract for the superstruc
ture having been awarded. The sub
structure is rapidly progressing. Cot
ton milling is represented this week
1 by the Mays Mills, Mayworth, N. c.,
announcing plans for an additional
cotton factory. the cost to be probably
100000. This addition will be
equipped with $4,000 spindles and ac-
companying machinery. At Mobile,
the Louisville & Nashville railway will
invest 100000 for termina improve
ments to include constructing a wharf,
installing electric power driven ba-
mana conveyors, dredging the channel,
installing coal hoist. etc. At Bir-
mingham the Imperial Coal & Coke
company decided upon a s20c.ao0 in
vestment for opening and equipping
an additional NINE the daily capacity
to be 1000 tons of coal In Arkansas
the Crittendon county drainage dis
trict No. 3, offices at Marion, awarded
contract for the construction of
SlSO,OO0 drainage system which will
reclaim 10000 acres of land.
Included in the various other an
nouncements in today's Manufacture
ers' Record are details regarding the
following enterprises:
Florida Asphalt Block Paving COM
pany, Tampa. Fla, incorporated with
100000 capital for undertaking nav.
ing contracts.
Carolina Mining company, McCor-
mick, S. c., incorporated with 5000.
600 capital to develop gold mines.
Thompson Plaster company, Lees
burg. Va, incorporated with 100000
capital for manufacturing plaster.
| Leeckie Coal company. Norfolk, Va.
Incorporated with 100000 capital for
developing coal land.
National Veneer company. Rich.
mond. Va, incorporated with $780,.
600 capital for manufacturing veneer
Ajax Clay works, Macon, Ga. in.
corporated with 100000 capital to
manufacture silo blocks, sewer blocks
and fire brick.
Stegal Water Elevator companv
Concord, N. c., incorporated with
Sloo'ooO capital to manufacture ele-
vators driven by water power.
Wetzel Oil company. New Martins.
VILE w. Va. Incorporated with 800.
ooo capital by New York and Brook
iyn capitalists, who plan to develop
oil properties.
!
! Pyramid Refining company. Okla
homa CITY, incorporated with 100000
capital to refine crude petroleum.
Gum Panel company. Newborn. N
Z" chartered with $4,000 capital TO
manufacture panels.
Aonhime Packing company. Bristol.
Va Incorporated with $50. 900 capital
to kill and pack meat.
Stewart Manufacturing comnanv
Oklahoma Cify