The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-07-23
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
IN the SOUTHLAND
SHOWS Big GROWTH
Activities in Oil Fields Take Prom'
uent Place in Industrial News
OF the South.

Activities in the oil fields take
prominent place in the industriai news
of the South for the past week as re-
ported by the Manufacturers hecoru'
new $4,000, 900 company has peeh
formed at Forth Worth, Texas ana az
Austin. in the same State, $l'ooo'ooo
company has incorporated. AT 81 'o-
senh. Mo. a company has been formed
with 100000 capital to manulac-
tire fuel oil for motor cars In "es'
virginia a s5,OOO,OO0 company, owning
40 mn acres in that State and in rex
as. also producing wells VIII ous
and develop additional properties Al
Iockhart, Texas, a petroleum com
pany increases it's capitalization from
5000 900 to 100000, A new com
many is formed at Lexington, KY WIN
s75Oo0O capital, and, in addltioh'
throughout all the oil districts there
are a large number Of new companies
organizing with capitalization ranging
from few thousand dollars up TO sew
eral hundred thousands EACH
An association of fruit growers mas
incorporated for $5O,OOo,0Oo and pur-
chased between 5000 and 1000 acres
30 orchards, citrus groves and vege-
table properties throughout the couh-
try. including the apple regions OF .he
fully-developed commercial producihe
nropositions, but later development
will, he undertaken of apples, peaches
and citrus fruits.
Among the important textile act''i-
ties are the plans of large cottoh-
milling company at Macon Ca 10
hu,,a three additional mills, the ma
chinery alone for which will cost $o'-
6oo 600 New mills will be built at
High Point and at Kings Mountain N
g.. and at Gaffney, s. c., $aoo'ooo
cotton mill is planned. Additions COST
ing s25o,O0O will be made at once TO
cotton mills at Warren and Phoenix
Md. ,.u
A a2-story Office building costing
$1,000 900 is planned for Dallas Tex
and an apartment-house will be puil'
IN the same city at a cost of $75O'ooo'
Additions costing $250,oOO will be
made to packing plant there
At Ponca City, Okla, $55O'ooo ex-
penditure will be made for hotel, OF
fee building, apartment, warehouse
garages, dwellings, etc, by an oil-re-
fining company.
In Baltimore a recent purchase OF
suburban property will mean the
building of 100 daylight homes at a
cost of 100000.
Near Miami, Fla, a rubber-ure man
ufacturer from Ohio will build resi-
dence, involving the construction OF
seawall, at a total cost ranging from
$500 900 to 100000.
A 100000 memorial building will be
erected by the University OF South
Carolina at Columbia, and at Atlanta
Ga, a $500 900 Y. NJ. c. A. building Is
!, planned. ,
At Webster Groves, Mo-, $25O,oOo
girls school and dormitory will be
built, and an academy at Guthrie
Okla, will erect building costing a
like sum.
The Federal Government will spend
over 81 100000 at Hampton Roads, va
for storehouses.
Terminal improvements are planned
at Savannah, Ga, by New York steam
ship interests at a cost of from $780,
900 to 100000.
A generating station costing $73l,'
500 will be constructed at Tulsa, Okla.
to furnish power within 50-mile rad
ius. Steel and reinforced concrete
buildings will be erected on 6O-acre
site on the Arkansas River, Near the
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