Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1919-07-31
CONSTRUCTION WORK
AND INDUSTRIAL AC-
/ INVITES OF SOUTH
Much None. Will Be Spent In All
Parts Of the South During the
Next Few Years-Extensive De-
yelOpments Promised.

PAoAAAICAe pAdCS III Illc 1uuuSLIldl
news of the South for the past week
as reported by the Manufacturers
Record. A new $10,0O0O00 company
has been formed at Fort Worth
Tex and at Austin, in the same state
d qI,oVo,VVJ company mas lncorporal-
ca. AT st Joseph, MO company mas
Deen 1olmeu vain 9o,UUU,UU0 capital
to manufacture d fuel OIL Tor motor
cars. m west Virginia d Yo,UUv,vuu
con4pahyn owning oo,VVo acres IN JnaC
SIaLe ana IN Texas, also 1 producing
weus, VIII Duy and develop adal-
uonal properties AT Locknart lex
peJiUleum company increases 1T
capitalization IRON $oUU,vUO to
91UU,OOO,OUO. A new company
is formed at LeXlng
Ton, Ky, with $75O,OOO capital and IN
addition throughout all the oil dis
trlcts there are large number OF
new companies organizing with capt.
tanzatlon ranging from few thous-
and dollars up to several thousands
each.
An association Of fruit growers has
incorporated for $5O,O000O0 and pur-
chased between 5000 and 1000 acres
OF orchards, citrus groves and vege-
table properties throughout the coun-
try, including the apple regions of
the Applachlans and sections of Flor
ida. Activities are at present con-
lined to fully-developed commercial
producing propositions, but later de-
velopment will be undertaken of
apples, peaches and citrus fruits.
Among the important textile ac-
tivities are the plans of a large
milling company at Macon,
Ca, to build three additional mills
the machinery alone for which will
cost $5,500,0O0. New mills will be
built at High Point and Kings Noun
tain, N. c. and at Gaffney, S C $500
900 cotton mill is planned. Add
lions costing $25O,OOO will be made at
once to cotton mills at Warren and
Phoenix, Nd.
A history Office building costing
$1,O00O00 is planned for Dallas, Tex,
and an apartment house will be
built in the same city at cost of
$750,OOO. Additions costing $250,0OO
will be made to a packing plant
there.
At Ponca City, Okla, a $55O,OOO
expenditure will BE- made for hotel,
office building, apartment, warehouse,
garages, dwellings,, ETC., by an oil
refining company.
In Baltimore a recent purchase of
suburban property will mean the
building of 100 daylight homes at
cost Of 100000.
Near Miami, Fla, 1ubber-tire
manufacturer from Ohio will build a
residence involving the construction
of a sea-wall, at total cost rang
ing from 100000 to $1,00O,0OO.
A 100000 memorial building will
be erected by the University of
South Carolina at Columbia, and at
Atlanta Ga, a 100000 Y. M. C.
A. building is planned.
At Webster Groves, Mo-, $780,
900 girls school and dolmitory will be
built, and an academy at Guthrie,
Okla. will erect a building costing a
like sum.
The Federal Government will
spend over 100000 at Hampton
Roads, Va, for storehouses.
Terminal improvements are plan
ned at Savannah, Ga, by New York
steamship interests at a cost Of from
So, 100000 to $3,OOO0O0.
A generating station costing $751;
500 will be constructed at Tulsa, Okla
to furnish power within a 50mile
radius. Stel and reinforced con-
crete buildings will be erected on a
60-acre site on the Arkansas River.
Near the mouth of the St. Francis
River in Arkansas there will be five
miles of levee work at a : cost of
100000.
The Board of Public Works of Kan
sas City, Mo-, will build 12O0-ft.
viaduct at cost of $485,000.
Additions costing 100000 will be
made to an automobile plant at Fort
Worth, Tex. In Kansas City, Mo-,
a 100000 company just organized
will manufacture automobile tires,
betting, packing, etc.
A $5O0,0OO milling company has in
corporated at Oklahoma City. A
public elevator and storage corpora
ton has been formed for like
amount in Richmond, Va, and at
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, 5000, 1000 -four and
feed mill has organized.
At Huntington, w. Va, $780,
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