Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-03
BIG DEMAND FELT
 LIN SOUTHWEST FOR BUILDING MATERIAL
{ Many Million-D0llar Enter. priSeS to Be Launch
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Reports to the Manufacturers Rec ord from many parts of the South and Southwest indicate an increas- ing demand for brick and clay prod ucts and building material of every description. From several Oklahoma cities comes the announcement of new brick companies organized and additions to existing plantc. At Hopewell. Va, company has been organized for the manufacture of mi-porcelain pottery, buildings have been purchased and equipment ordered. A factory will be erected at Wheeling, w. Va, for the manu- facture of concrete products.
 Large additions are planned to a $5,000,000 chemical plant at St. Lou is. Mo. At Petersburg, Va, $7O0,- 900 company has been organized for the manufacture of shellac, chemic- als and insulation materials.
 A plant with an annual capacity of 3D00,000 pounds of steel wool will be built at Owensboro, Ky. A wheel manufacturing corporation at Rich mond, Va, increases capital from $2,000,00O to $4,25O,00O.
 At $1,000,000 coal corporation has been formed at Bristol, Va. From two Kentucky towns plans are an- nounced for Improvements and ex- tensions to coal-mining properties, and at Thacker, w. Va, company with large holdings will increase it's annual coal output to 600000 tons.
 Sweet potato storage houses with a capacity of from 10000 to 10000 bushels each will be erected in six different towns of Georgia
 A 5000, ,000g 0gallon-capacity reser-' voir will be built at El Reno, Okla. and at Enid, in the same state, d $500,00O power house and electric lighting system is planned. Shreve- port, La.. is to install 3,000 00O- gal ; lon settling basin. In West Vir. ginia town the traction plant will double capacity, and at Fredericks- . burg, Va, the Railway and Power company, capitalized at $5,00O,O ,OO0, has applied for charter to buildAan electric railway to a point on the Rappahannock river
 The capital of fisheries prod acts company at Wilmington, N. C.. has been increased by $50O,0OO for the purpose of securing additional plants and equipment for the manu- facture of fish-scrap fertilizer and oil.
 New oil and gas companies have been formed in Texas, Louisiana. Oklahoma, Kentucky and West Vir- ginia with capital ranging from $500,000 to $3,000,O0O. At Bogalusa. La, the Great Southern Lumber company has appropriated $1 ,OOO, ,O0O to drill for oil on cut-over lands. and at Shreveport producing and re- lining corporation will install pipe line and erect 10000 barrel pump ing station. The Texas company of Houston will acquire and develop new properties, extend refineries, construct and purchase steamships. lay pipe lines, etc.
 Ready-cut wooden houses will be manufactured at Mobile, Ala, by d company capitalized at $1,000,0O0. Att Montgomery q proposition is being considered for the erection of d ho- tel, office and factory building at a cost of $850,000. A $1,0O0,OOO apart 1 ment hotel will be erected at Orlan- 1 do, Fla. Charlotte, N. C., has in prospect hotel to cost $1 ,O0O. .OOO.
 Improvements to textile plants will made at Fountain Inn, Green vile, Simpsonville and Warrenville, s. c. At Spindale, S. C., cotton mills i have been formed with S2,O0O .0CO capital, buildings will be erected. 10000 spindles and 800 looms, in stalled and mill village built. Hos iery mills will be built at Norton, Appalachia, Harrisonburg, Gate City and Pennington Gap. Va. Extensive additions will be made to cotton mills at Fieldalc, Va. New cotton mills have been organized at Hick- ory, Raeford and Gastonia, N. c.