Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-16
Several Southern
 Cities Building
 Cotton Factories

Baltimore, July 10.-Reports to the Manufacturers Record for the past week show continued activity in the cotton district. At York, s. C.. a thread mills company has organized with $450,000 capital; an additional hosiery-yarn mill with 30,00O spindles will be built at Sylacauga, Ala; cot ton mills organized with S500,000 capi- tai at Thomaston, Ga., by New York interests will manufacture sheets and pillow castings and build village for 1000 people. At Cherryville, N. C., a newly organized company with $250,- 900 capital will build a combed-yarn mill, and at Salisbury, in the same state, $250,000 company has been formed to manufacture tire products.
 Among the larger oil. activities is the incorporation of 10000, ,000 company in Texas by Delaware capl- talists for the purchase of oil proper ties, building storage tanks, etc.; the formation of a $4,000,000 production company by Fort Worth, Tex, and Los Angeles capitalists; the incorpor- ation at Sweetwater, Tex, of $1,- 000,O00 petroleum company, and the plan of Oklahoma parties to construct a 5,000-barrel oil refinery at Shreve- port, La.
 will be erected in New Orleans. Kan sas City, Mo-, will have new $600,- 900 office building. At St. Louis a $5O0,000 apartment house will be built, and $600,0 ,000 motion picture theatre is planned for the same city. At Wichita Falls, Tex, a $350,0 apart ment hotel will be built; at Eastland a $200,000 banking structure, and at Ranger, in the same state, a $200,000 hotel will soon be under way.
 A corporation with $l,200,000 capi- tai has been formed in Huntington, w. Va., to erect dwellings,.
 Several important structure are an- nounced for Louisville, Ky.-adminis- tration and other buildings for Bap- tist Theological Seminary costing $1,- 100000; a S1,000,000 home for Ma sonic widows and orphans; a $780, 900 brick and concrete addition to a cold-torage warehouse; a $500000 Scottish Rite Cathedral an apartment house costing $600000; expenditure of half-millon dollars for remodering an office building, and picture thea tre costing $3O0,000.
 A $300,OO0 fireproof grain elevator and hay-storage warehouse is planned for Richmond, Va, and at Atlanta Ga., a $250000 cold-storage ware house will be built.
 At Shreveport, La., million-dol- lar company has incorporated and will erect factory for farm tractors.
 At Tulsa, Okla., a half million dol lar foundry and machine shop will be erected.
 A carbon company has incorporated with $600,000 capital at Mobile, Ala, for graphite mining.
 In St. Louis an automoblletire company has incorporated for S2,000,- GOO, and at Charleston, w. Na., a con- pany incorporates for $1,200,000 for the manufacture of rubber tires.
 At Jacksonville, Fla, a tropical fruit grove company has incorpora- ted for S1,500,000, and at Gulfport, Miss, pine-pitch export company in- corporates with capital of $1 100000. At Louisville( Ky, a $500,000 lum- Der company has been formed.
 By the merger of several New Orleans bank and trust companies a financial institution has been created in that city with resources of over STE, 100000, the largest bank in the South.
 A building and loan association has been organized at Petersburg, Va., with $500,000 capital, and the lamer.- can Bank 6 Trust Co.,, of that city plans capital increase from S200,0000 to S500,0OO. At Norfolk the Seaboard National bank increases from $300,00 capital to $500,00.