Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-10-12
MILLIONS GOING INT0 ENTERPRISES
 IN THE SOUTH
New Ventures Include S450, ,000 Baptist College at Jones'
 bOrO, Ark.

A number of large and important office buildings and semi-pnblic structures are under contemplation in various Southern cities, according to reports in the Manufacturers Re cord.
 Dallas, Tex, will have new office building costing sl 100000, and ho- tel company there will build an an- mex costing s900,0O0. At San Angelo, in the same state, S3OO,OOO hotel is being promoted. A Baptist college costing s45O,0OO will be erected at Jonesboro, Ark, and at St. Louis, Mo-, a merchantile building costing $350,000 will be built.
 The cotton mill districts show con- siderable activity. At Laurel, Miss, a S6OO,O00 company has incorporated and will continue to operate the plant recently purchased there. Cot ton and hosiery mills in Bynum and Durham, N. C., are increasing their capacity and capitalization. At Co lumbia, s. C., cotton mill is adding 12,000 spindles, and at Granting, in the same state, yarn-spinnlng mills have organized at $300,00O.
 A $600,000 expenditure is planned at Kansas City, Mo-, on uncompleted terminal facilities, with further plans for later expenditure of $1O,0OO, ,OOO to complete entire project. A bana- na wharf will be built at New Or leans, La., at a cost of $390,000, and the dock board of that city will build and equip an additional compress shed for the cotton warehouses at a cost of $46O,000 A cotton-oil com- pany at Augusta, Ga, contemplates a pulp from cotton lint.
 A coal dock will be built at Super for, w. Va, at cost of $500, ,00O, and at Huntington, in that state, $35O,- 900 coal company has incorporated.
 A corporation for the manufacture of motor cars has been organized at Birmingham, Ala, with $1,O00,OO0 capital; will manufacture at first by assembling; later the plan is to pur- chase equipment and manufacture all parts of automobiles.
 At Kansas City, Mo-, a structural steel company will build $3O0,0OO additional, increasing capacity 50 per cent, and at Roanoke, Va, an iron company has been charted for $35O,OO0.
 A $600,0O0 company is planned at Fort Myers, Fla, for the cultivation of 15,OOO acres of sugar cane, the building of sugar mill with daily capacity of 500 tons, and other devel- opments. At Tampa a steamship line has incorporated for $300,000.
 A company at Hattisburg, Miss. will remodel it's plant and manufac- ture paper from refuse after pine tar products are extracted from the wood; annual production of gum pro- ducts 100000 barrels.
 A clay-products company has been organized at Thurber, Tex, and con- templates a $750,000 plant for the manufacture of drain tile, flue lining sewer pipe, segment blocks, etc.
 One hundred and forty thousand acres : of land will be reclaimed 1T the Tensas basin of East Carrol ant Madison. parishes. Louisiana, involv ing an expenditure of more than hall a million dollars. At New Orleans { $250,000 company has been organized for the purpose of importing mahog any logs and manufacturing and ex porting mahogany lumber.
 Throughout the South there is con tinual activity in the awarding o. large contracts for road and stree improvements. The city of Ada Okla, will expend $350,000 for stree improvement; 96-mile broken-ston'
 road will be built in Arkansas at . cost of $500,000 by the Western Doad Improvement District: at Grif fin. Ga, II miles of federal-aid roat will be constructed at cost of $350, 900. The State Highway Board o, Missouri has approved IA road pro iects of various kinds at cost o. over $3,000,00O.
 A number of new oil companie! have incorporated during the pas week, several of them for large sums The Allied Oil corporation of Nev York is developing S5,000 acres o,