Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-11
Two New Auto Firms Planned
 for the South

Industrial development in the South is noted in many cities in the current issue of the Manufacturers Record, which says:
 Two companies for the manufac- ture of motor cars have been char tered at Baltimore this past week, ac- cording to the current issue of the Manufacturers Record. One of these companies has capital of $2,00O,- 900 and will build an assembling plant for electric trucks and light motor cars, manufacturing the parts for other cities. The second com pany has capital of $25O,0OO, and will also build a plant. At Greens boro, N. C., motors corporation has been formed with capital of $2,500,000 with contemplated an nual output of 240O cars. At El Paso, Tex. $1,O0O,0OO company has been organized to build plant for the manufacture of motor trucks. A motor company has incorporated at Charlotte, N. C., with $500,OOO capital.
 A crate mill costing S1,O0O,OOO will be established in Florida town. At Highland Park, Ky, a company has incorporated at $1,000,00O for the manufacture of equipment for schools At Asheville, N. C., land and timber company has incorporated with $500O0O capital.
 Two large electric power stations and transmission systems will be built by Houston, (TeX.) company at a cost of $500,000.
 Eighteen hundred acres of coal land will be developed by company or ganized at Princeton, w. Va, with S40O,00O capital; an annual output of 100000. tons is contemplated At Asheville, N. C., an iron mining company has been chartede with $5O0,0O0 capital and $25O,0OO mining company has been formed for oper- ations in Oklahoma.
 A $500OOO phosphate fertilizer company has been formed at Rocky Mount, N. c. At Bartlow, Fla, a $300,000 phosphate company has in corporated.
 An oil company has incorporated in Baltimore at $15,OOO,OOO. At Dal- las, Tex, $2, ,50O00 oil company has been formed, and in Louisiana a pe- troleum products company has in corporated for $2,60O,O0O. An oil and refining company in Muskogee, Okla, increases from $2,OOO ,OOO to S1O,- 100000. At Shreveport. La., 7OOO- barrel daily capacity refinery will be erected.
 New buildings of importance an- nounced for the past week include a $3oo,0OO hospital at Columbus, s. C., and $250,OOO hospital at Clarksdale, Miss. A girls dormitory will be erected by hosiery mill company at Durham, N. c. A bank and office building costing S25O,OOO will be erected in Hagerstown, Md, and at Lexington, Ky, an amusement com 900 to $600,000 for the purpose of erecting motion-picture theatres. A traction company will incorpo- rate soon at Gainesville, Texas, for $1 ,50O,O0 for the purpose of build ing it's proposed line from Gaines ville to Sherman, Tex, about 40 miles; estimated cost of construc- tion is $1,50O,00O An interurban el- ectric railway is under contempla- tion from Detnen, Tex, to Gaines vile, distance of 35 miles.
 Continued activity is noted in the building of modern highways throughout the South. One hundred and forty miles of concrete and rock macadam roads will be built by the commissioners of Hunt county, Tex; 8 fund of $1.600,000 is available Twenty-seven miles of highway will be constructed between Raleigh and Fayetteville, N. c. The state high way department of Arkansas has let contracts for highway between i North Little Rock and Jacksonville Ark, at cost of $7O0,0O0. The state highway commission of Missouri has approved estimate for improving 1Ss miles of state road in Polk county Missouri, at cost of more than S5Q0,- 900.