The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-03
MUCH BUILDING WILL
TAKE PLACE IN STATE
Many Millions of Dollars VIII BE EN-.
pended for/E.rccting Various
Plants in South.
IMPROVEMENTS AT ROANOKE
Norfolk and Western Railroad 10
Make Changes In Roundhousc--
froznpurc Company to Erect Fac
tory in Richmond and other Cities.

Baltimore. Md. Aug. MANY mill
| lions of dollars will be expended for
building the various manufacturing
and other Industrial plants, besides
additions TO existing establishment Is,
| in accordance with The past week s
announcements OF these activities
/ throughout the South. The princi-
/ pal features of thus interesting news
/ connected with the development of
I southern resources are presented in
/ todays Manufacturers Record, to-
/ se;hef with other timely Information
. relative to southern industrial dues-
tions and TO policies affecting the en-
, tire nation. y few OF the most i'm
pcrtant reports, as CLEANED from the
| Manufacturers Record are presented
IN the following brief paragraphs:
Details were stated outlining the
! Bethlehem Steel company plan for its
$50, 600, 600 Investment treceutly an
nodnced) for additional facilities at
Sparrow~ Point Nd. These additions
VIII include iron furnaces. sixty coke
! ovens, by pTUe4Ct and hcnZoi refining
plants, completion OF Bessemer open
( hearth steel plant. four -kilowatt
twin tandem gas generating units, 40
inch motordriven reversing blooming
I mill . and / &~iHeh- continuous foi4it-t
and sheet bar mills, coal handing and
storage plant etc.
/ At EdgeWood. Md. contracts were
awarded for 100000 concrete foun-
/ dations for ten 200x100-foot steel and
/ brick buildings with reinforced con
crete floors. with contracts for these
! ten structures awarded at $500, 600.
These buildings are portion of the
/ Edgewood arsenal which the govern
/ ment is building at reported cost
! of 100000
/ AT Weirton, W Va. the Phillips
Sheet and Tinplate company Increased
/ its capitalization from $500. 600 to
I $50, 600. 900. This s24, 500. 900 addition
to capital to provide funds for add
/ tional facilities. The latter will in
clude the 600-ton- pacity iron fur
| mace, fortyseven by-product coke
ovens and benzol by product plant re-
| Gently announced.
The naval operating base on Hamp-
ton Roads, Va, will be improved with
piers, bulkheads, grading. etc.
| $4,000 900 appropriation having been
! provided for expenditure by the
bureau of yards and docks.
AT Roanoke, Va. the Norfolk and
| Western railway will undertake i'm
provements to include building a Al
stall roundhouse, constructing coal
4 chutes, erecting water tanks. etc, de-
veloping fifty acres of land, the cost TO
be $500, 900
Details were determined for addi-
tons to the facilities of the Froznpure
company Richmond Va. recently
chartered with sl,250.o00 capital
They include plans for 1,500-sallon
daily capacity factories at Richmond
Norfolk. Memphis. St. Louis, Cincin-
natl, Dayton and Indianapolis, each
costing 100000 AT Birmingham the
company has a 100 gallon plant, and
| at Louisville has a 1.50o-ga.lon fac
! tory
Henry l. Britain. of New York.
president of the Mobile (Ala.) Ship
building company, and associates or
ganized the Bethlehem Steel corpora
ton with 100000 capital to build
their recently announced ship-steel
fabricating plant at Birmingham.
Engineers have determined details
and the monthly capacity will be 1000
tons of fabricated steel shapes for
steamship construction
North Carolina iron ore will be
mined by Pennsylvania and North
Carolina investors, who have charter
ed the Granville Iron corporation with
a capitalization of 1000, 900.
Plans have been completed for the
first unit. costing $500 900, of the
chemical factory which the war de-
partnent will build at Kingsport,
Tenn
An increase of capital from $3.50. 600
to $3.50, 900 and a change of name to
the Texas Gulf sulphur company was
announced by the Gulf sulphur COM
pany, Bay City. Texas. which has been
developing salt properties.
The New Orleans and South Ameri-
/ Steamship
was organized with $500 900 capital
to establish steamship service from
| New Orleans to Cuban French West
Indian and South American ports.
Jahncke Shipbuilding company,
New Orleans, now building a 10, 900
ton dry dock, previously announced,
will build a 4.50o-ton dry dock.
The navy department will expend
$3.50, 900 for constructing a fitting out
pier and for dredging, with other i'm
provements, at Norfolk.
"A s250,0o0 investment is planned
by the Hickory IN. c. Spinning COM
pany for an additional cotton-yarn
mill equipped with 10000 spindIes.
Virginia orchards will be developed
! by the Mountain Spring Orchards,
Staunton, Incorporated with 5000, 900
capital by New York investors.
| Oklahoma coal will be mined by the
| SieS Sodi luiH4ii6 Coiiif
Tulsa, incorporated with $780, 900
/ capital
Machine shops, roundhouse, toll
! equipment buildings. >etc., costing
sl5o,000 will be constructed at Fulton.
! KY, by the Illinois Central railroad
Wooden steamships will be bull.
by the Union Shipping company.
Biloxi. Miss, organized with $3.50, 600
capital and having plans for roller
rnratr f>,@ IL.
Flourspar will be mined by the Ma
| tional f1ourspar company, Paducah,
! KY, Incorporated with 100000 capt.
| tai
Rice will be milled by the Joy Rice
Milling company. Wheatley. Ark, in,
| corporated with 100000 capital
u A TpICTvVry DrDrs