Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-03-09
.pUbLIC STRUCTURES
 ARE ID BE BUILT
 IN MANY SECTIONS
Record for Week Shows I'm. portant Buildings in
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Tn the Manufacturers Record'a weekly summary of industrial news and building operations, emphasis is laid on the continued activity in the erection of important public and semi-public structures, hotels, banks, office buildings, etc. in the South One of the most ambitious under takings of which announcement has been made is 900room apartment hotel at Norfolk, Va, to be erected at q cost of $2,500,OOO. Kansas City. Mo-. will have a $500,O00 hotel and club building, and at High Point, N. C.. a hotel costing $450,000 will be
 built At Macon, Ga., $250.000 addition will be made to leading
 hotel there. A Masonic Temple cost
 ing s5OOO0O will be erected in
 Oklahoma City. An office building
 costing a like amount is planned for
 Tulsa, Okla, and at Ell Paso, Tex,
 15-story office building costing
 s4OO,0OO will shortly be under con-
 structiOn.
 In the mining districts number
 of companies are increasing their
 capital very materially, this being
 particularly true in the West Vir-
 ginia fields. At Huntington a $5,-
 OOO,O ,OOO coal company has been form
 ed, and it is announced from the
 same city that another company re- gently formed there will make exten
 sive developments in West Virginia and Kentucky. On Little Coal River, in West Virginia, 700 acres of coal lands will be developed; 1OoO-ton daily output plant is being erected and an ultimate daily output of 4000 tons is planned. A $4O0,O00 mining company has been organized in al North Carolinas town.
 A 90-foot dam will be built across the San Saba River in Texas, afford ing irrigation to 45,0O0 acres of land. The project will cost S3.000.- 900. At Ell Paso the war department will expend $1,OO0,OO0 for the erec- tion of supply buildings and at Fort Bliss $1,000,000 base hospital will be built.
 In the textile districts there were some very marked increases in capi tai last week, one mill at Kinston. N. C., raising from $30,O0O to $500., 900. and another at Gastonia from s5O0.0OO to $1,OOO.OOO. A cotton mill at Easley, S. C., increases from s;4ttOoO to $1,s0oOoo and similar in-
 eises are noted elsewhere in the eafolinas: A 12,O00-s spindle cotton yarn mill will be built at Ruther- fordton, N. C., by company organ zed there with $800,000 capital. A hosiery mill will be established at High Point and at Belmont, N. C., '5O0,000 company has plans for a mill which will install 10000 spin lies. improvements and extensions Ars being made in mills at Berryton and at Selma, N. C., new ST. ep,O0O cotton manufacturing com 'any has been formed. A s3OO,Oo0 . llk mill is planned at Charleston. ", Va. by Philadelphia parties who , doubling capacity with n two years. At San Antonio, Tex.
 S5O0.O00 cotton mill will be erected mill village built, etc.
 compress company capitalized at a,ooo,OO0 has been organized at At ahta, Ga. The men backinr the ro!ect have acquired IS plants at arlous cities in Georgia, Alabama ma Florida. Additional compressee ma extensive enlargements are damned.
 A sl.oOO.OO0 oil refinery is to be rected at Orange, Tex. From Vlchlta Falls comes the announce Aent of $5000OO oil development n the Red River. Organization of
 number of new companies in var ous Texas cities is also noted. A glass manufacturing company at huntingdon, W. Va, is reported to eild ia two additional units at a cost f S2,O0C,OOO
 nottling plant will be established | Atianta, Ga, at cost of S25O, ,OOO n Atlanta, also, preserving com any any has increased its capital to eo eoo'Ooo. At Orangeburg, S. C., ooO-ooo bottling company has been