The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-10-27
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MANY new PLANTS --'-
ESTABLISHED IN
SOUTH LAST week
Report Of Industrial Actively In the
- South During the Past week
90 So Is Encouraging.

Baltimore, Md, October 16.-(Spe-
cial to Public LEDGER. = The past
week has been noteworthy for the
size and Importance of new Industries
and commercial enterprises contemp-
lated or. established throughout the
South and Southwest, according to
the current issue of the Manufacturers
Record. Typical of these is the an
nouncement that sugar corporation
chartered at Miami, Fla, for 100000
600 will grok sugar-cane and manufac-
ture sugar, its first mill to be con-
structed costing 100000. A 25-story
hotel costing 100000 Is contemp-
lated by a combination Of hotel inter-
ests at Kansas City, Mo. Plans OF the
light and power company at st. Louis,
Mo, call for a $1,000, 900 power plant
addition in that city.
Several large pipe line and refining
corporations have been chartered IN
Oklahoma and Texas during the past
week. At Tulsa, a $10,000,O00 pipe
line corporation has been formed; at
Fort Worth, Tex, oil refneries, cas-
inghead gasoline plants, pipe lines
and pumping stations will be built by
a s5,OO0,OOO organization; at Wichita
Falls, Is miles Of six-inch pipe line
will be built by concern which re-
Gently acquired rs tank cars. At LIB
erty Tex, a 100000 oil company
has incorporated. While these OPP
erations are much larger than the av-
erage, they are indicative Of the ac-
tivity that is taking place in many
parts. Of the Southwest due to-the oil
industry. .y. ....... .....-.-. ....-. -
An electric generating station ex-
tension. costing 100000 is contemp-
lated at Port Arthur, Tex, by the
traction company there. Installation
of a water-wheel and generator and
the construction of an 11-mile trans
mission line is planned from Goat
Rock to Columbus, Ca, at a. cost of
approximately $350,OO0.
Properties including more than 1OO.-
900 acres Of timber land and the towns
of Bagdad and Munson, Fla, together
with so miles of railway, locomotives,
ships, ETC., have been purchased by
Alabama and Florida interests. and
extensive improvements are planned,
including doubling the daily capacity
of a 200,000-foot lumber mill.
A 100000 corporation has been
formed at Macon, Ga, for refrigterat-
ing and .cold-storage purposes, the
plant to have capacity of 20 carloads
of fruit and vegetables. At Macon al
80 g. $25O.OQ0 company has organized
for the construction of a canning
picking and preserving plant.
AT Huntington, w. Va, factory
buildings will be erected at cost OF
100000 for the purpose of manufac-
turing thermos bottles, and at Char
lesion smokeless coal company has
been Incorporated by New York par
ties for s2.500,OOO.
A 100000 plant will be construct.
ed at Dallas, Tex, by casket many
facturer,
TN. the textile districts several new
mills have been organized, 100000
concern at Spartanburg, 8. c., con.
templating an output of 700 pounds o.
yarn per week. In the same city, cot
ton mills have been chartered fol
$500, 700. A mill organized at Mari
eta, Ca, will have daily capacity o.
800 to 400 dozen women's hose. Al
Spindale. N c., a cotton mill hal
been chartered for $1,000.00O.
---Ineludedin road building and stree
improvement activities in Texas ar
plans at Rockwell for over Is mile
Of concrete brick road grading ant
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