Evening star., 1923-09-24
|SOUTH IS RUSHING
NEW CONSTRUCTION
Contracts for Past Eight
Months Total $3.50, ,44S, ,0Oo.
Big Gain Over Last Year.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. September 24.-Dur-
ing the first eight months OF 1921 as
shown by compil lations by the Manu-
facturers' Record. contracts for con-
struction- work in the southern states
aggregated s3S0.44s,oo0, or s113,o0o,-
600 more than for the corresponding
period of last year, and $1S3.000, 900
In excess of the amount for the first
eight months of 1921.
These figures do not include any
operations costing less than $4,000
and IL the smaller buildings -were in
cluded the actual amount of con-
tracts from January to August in
elusive would probably aggregate at
least $3.50, 100000.
Total Figures Enormous.
During the past eight months the
preliminary announcements of con-
templated construction projects indi-
cate an ultimate expenditure on them
OF $3.50, 100000. which practically
equals the total for the whole year
OF 1921 and also forNall of 1922.
Many enterprises of unusual impor-
tance have been announced during
the week. The Santa Fe railroad has
let contract for $5.0o0.O00 terminal
include nineteen story office build
ing and three warehouses, one ten
stories and two eight stories each.
"A. $5Oc.O0O paper mill will be built
at Jackfonville. Fla. bS the same IN =
terests @hich own large paper mill
burg, in the same state.
Nineteen New Hotels.
Figures compiled BY the industrial
bureau OF the Tampa !3oar1 OF Trade
Florida. shows nineteen hotels and
twelve apartment houses under con-
struction in southern Florida at an
estimated cost of SS.725, 900
The New England interests which
recently invested about $4,000, 600 in
the purchase of cotton mills in South
Carolina have now bought another
group of mills In the same state. hav-
ing total of 226.ooo spindles. These
with the four >Pelzer mills lately
bought by these interests.
LOUISVILLE people are projecting the
puild1ng tsn ing OF s5,ooo;ooO bridge across
Wst,enso, We on@ river . to r. known as the
memory of Henry watterson
Wolfe Summit Coal Company.
Clarksburg. w. Va. will increase
capital cap nad stock from s75o,Ooo to ST.
oVObVUV =
Richmond May Expcnd 81 10000
The city of Richmond. Va. is con-
sidering election. on S1.500,000 Of
tens.
Redlands Grove Homes Company of
Homestead, Fla, and Albany, N ",
recently incorporated with a capital
Of s350.000 and will develop tract of
160 acres of land near Homestead for
home sites =
Rhodolite Company of New York
has leased abrasives mines of the
Carolina Abrasives Company. Col S.
A Jones, president. WaynesviIle,
counties, n. c., claimed to contain
6o0,ooo.o0o tons of natural abrasives
desopits.
Canning Plant to Cost S5oc 900.
Florida Fruit Products, Inc, Stuart.
Fla. which was lately noted incor-
porated with a capital stock of $780,
600. viii build plant to manufacture
jellies. etc.
Unusual activity is reported in mu-
nicipal and county and state work,
especially in building of highways
Among the items of this kind report
ed for the week are the following:
CITY OF Chattanooga, Tenn, will re-
ceive bids until September 25 to lay
concrete pavements on a number of
streets
Tayler county, Texas. will vote Oc-
tober Is on s35o.ooo bonds to hard
surface two highways across the
county.
Palo Pinto county. Texas. will build
two roads of twenty miles to cost
West Eirginia'S Plans.
The state of West irginia will re-
ceive bids until September 90 for s5.-
100000 road bonds The Alabama
state highway commission let con-
tracts for fifty-one miles of road to
cost more than 1886, 600. The Mis-
souri, state highway commission let
contract for more than fourteen
miles of road to cost s6S6.193 The
Missouri state board of fund COM
missioners will receive bids until
November for $4,000, 900 road bonds.
Hines county, Jackson. Miss, will
vote October l on $500. 900 road and
bridge bonds. Rogers county, Okla
homa. voted s650.000 bonds for roads.
Pinellas county, Florida. will receive
bids until October 16 to build eight
roads which will require $4,000
square yards of construction: also
plans to relay 100000 square yards of
vitrified brick surface with bituninous
filler.