The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-19
CITY HAS BIGGEST .B U IL ] l N [ BOOM EVEREXPERIENCED
New School, Hospital And WaterWorkS System Are
 Among improvements

ALEXANDER, City, Ala, August 18.-( Special )-Never in the history of this city has so much development in the way of building been in prog ress as Is in progress at this time This building includes residences, school buildings, cotton mills and other items along the line of building.
 The two biggest building proposl- ttons that are in progress at this time is the doubling and little more of the capacity of the Avondale mills. In other words, 22000 spindles arc being added to the 2O,000 spindle mill now in operationy and it will require at least 75 cottages to house the ex. tra operatives that will be- required to operate the big addition being made to this mill.
 Over on the other side of the city the Russell Manufacturing company is erecting another big cotton mill, which will make the sixth mill owned and operated by the Russell Manufac- turing company in this city, and it is quite probable that this mill will be in operation by the first of the year, adding several hundred people to the population of this community.
 TalIapoosa Takes Lead
 {, It may not be generally known, but fallapoosa county has one-tenth of all the mill spindles in the state of Alabama, ahd all of these mills but one are at Alexander City, and with the big addition to the number of spindles that is being made in Alex ander City at present, Tallapoosa county will have more than one- tenth of the spindles in the state unless other sections become more active than at present.
 In addition to the mills that are being built, new $6O,000 school building is going up, with another to be started soon, which will give the city greatly increased school fa- ci1ities. New residences are being built constantly, but they are taken up as rapidly as they are completed.
 The new bridge across the Talla- poosa river on the Florida Short Route is being rapidly built and will be completed within another ten months, which will connect the state and federal highway on the two sides of the river, and when this highway is completed the county will have a splendid road the entire width of the county, connecting three of the la~~er towns of the county.
 One # the handsomest and most complete hospitals in the south has just been completed, as well as the lew building of the Alexander City Manufacturing company, which makes sash, doors, screens show cases ana such likes &ks
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 New WaterwOrks System.
 To the above items is added a new waterworks system that will give a water supply for a city of 30,000 peope or more, to say nothing of other building projects that are in course of construction.
 The prospects for a cotton crop are anything but flattering, and this is one of the big drawbacks to this sec- : tion, but even this will not be felt, as in some sections where there is but little building in progress. The corn crop does very well, what there is CT it, but the acreage is small and this will necessarily mean a short crop.
 The Alabama Power company is busily engaged in establishing of- fees and warehouses in this city where an office force will be main tained while work is in progress clearing up the basin for the big dam at Cherokee Bluffs. The work on the basin and dam is going to fur nish employment for hundreds of people for the next 30 months, and this Is going to be quite an item in the business life of this section of the state.