The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-18
NEW DEVELOPMENT
 OF WEEK IN SOUTH

i mental enterprises were numerous and 1 important during the past week, all
 the new and enlarging plants being
 included in the industrial news of the
 Manufacturers Record of Thursdays
 issue. Nearly every phase of industrial activity in connection with the devel- opment of southern resources is men,
 toned, Including details of big plants and facilities which the government is
 establishing in the south.
 Among the big projects is a s4,OO0,- 900 corporation planning to build steel
 works in North Carolina. a s2,5OO,o 900 | to $6,000,000 expenditure for the gov
 ernment at Port Wentworth, near Sa-
 vannah; a $2,50o,o00 automobile assem- bling plant and salvage station for the government near Baltimore, a s1 .50o,- 900 company for developing oil prop critics in Arkansas, a $1,000, 900 com pany for refining oil in Oklahoma and
 Kansas. and a $1,000, 900 investment for i mining plants and industrial towns in | developing 5000 acres of Kentucky l coal land.
 The many enterprises reported in the
 Manufacturers Record requiring an in
 vestment of $100,000 and exceeding this
 amount may be briefly outlined as fol- ! Ilows:
 ], New York and Florida manufacture
 CTS have chartered a $4,000,000 cor poration to establish steel works at or near Raleigh, N. c. Their plans con- i template a steel furnace with annual 1 capacity of 100000 tons. blooming mill,
 bar mill, tube mill, etc, for manufac- 1 turing seamless steel tubes and mer- chant bar steel. The electric power | | Il posed to build hydro electric plant
 developing 1O.o00-horse power for fur nishing the electricity 1 From $2,500, 900 to s6,000,000 will be i expended by the war department for building a drydock at Port Wentworth,
 Ga. This dock will have accompanying l facilities for general repairs, and the contract for it's construction has been | awarded. It has not been determined whether the dock will be of steel, of
 wood, or of wood and steel 1 General construction contract has been awarded to Chicago firm for building the s2,500,000 automobile as- sembling plant and salvage station
 which the war department decided to 1 locate at St. Helena, near Baltimore. l This plant will handle motor trucks l and other army vehicles from canton
 ments in 16 states. A 100-acre site has been secured for the, plant with it's ac- companying cantonment for 100 officers and 2000 men. There will be 75 build | ings, and 50 of these will be of con- crete-steel construction. l Colorado and Arkansas capitalists have formed a $1,50O,000 company to | develop oil properties near Forth Smith, Ark. They have leases on 7500 acres and 300 barrels daily oil re- finery, which will be doubled Wi1mfngton (Del) investors have chartered a $10o0.o0o company to de- velop and refine oil in Oklahoma and Kansas.
 l Kentucky, Ohio and Rhode Island l capitalists will develop 3000-acre coal l land lease near Hazard. Ky Their plans 1 provide for an expenditure of $1,000,- 900 for mining plants and industrial l towns.
 1 Cotton manufacturers of Gastonia. l N. C., will organize another cotton mill company, the capitalization to be s500.- 1 900. This plant is to spin hosiery yarns. | Washington investors have chartered a $350,000 company which plans to develop 500 acres of sulphur land near Toyah. Tex. It is stated that the sul- phur beds reach the surface 50 per cent pure and that the development will be by steam shovel. Lead and zinc properties near Okla homa City will be developed by a s250.- 900 company, which Oklahoma capital ists have incorporated. Maryland investors have organized a $200.000 company to build hydro electric plant and a mill with daily capacity 800 barrels of four. Oklahoma investors have incorpor- ated a s200,000 company to mine lead and zinc ores near Shawnee, Okla. Philadelphia and Florida investors have chartered a $150000 corporation,
 which has plans for building ship yards at Carabelle, Fla. Missouri and Oklahoma investors have chartered a $150,O00 company to
 mine lead and zinc in Oklahoma. Oklahoma and Texas investors have incorporated a $2o0.00O company for the general development of minerals in Oklahoma
 A s125.000 cotton mill company has organized at Charlotte. N. C., to es- tablish 4000-spindle mill with electric
 power drive for spinning hosiery yarns.
 Leather products will be manufac-
 tured at Dayton. Va. by a s10O,0Oo company which Virginia and Maryland manufacturers have organized Virginia manufacturers have incor- porated $100.000 company, which will
 establish plant at Norfolk for manu- featuring folding paper boxes. IeNdS lu1nDeT IlduuldCIurSTS nave 1n- corporated a $100,000 company, which plans to establish mills at Texarkana, Tex.
 First -aid splint packages will be manufactured by s100.000 company
 organized by investors at Lynchburg,
 Va.
 daily output of 5000 tons of coal
 near Wilson, Md, is planned by Penn
 sylvania coal operators, who have purchaed 3350 acres coal properties near that town.
 A Canadian engineer who has located at Savannah plans to establish ship
 yards for the construction of concrete
 vessels. He contemplates erecting his
 plant at or near Savannah, and expects to complete arrangements soon for building a 3000-ton test ship of rein
 forced concrete.
 Cincinnati capitalists and a Cincin-
 nati chemist are organizing a corpor- ation to build a plant for manufacture
 ing nitrates, ammonia. chlorine and dyestuffs. They propose to establish
 their plant at or near Muscle Shoals, Ala, where the government is building
 it's $30,000.0O0 nitrate plant.
 Freight ships will be constructed at Savannah by company which has se- cured contract to furnish 30 large car- riers for the French government. This
 company is one of the best-known con-
 struction corporations, with main of
 fees in New York, and paid more than
 $150000 for shipyard site. including
 2700-foot frontage on the Savannah a river.
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