The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-22

ing the plant with new electrical equip. ment.
 The Saenger Amusement company has bought an extensive site on Dauphin street, in the heart of the business district, and is preparing to erect a theatre that will cost $200000 or more.
 The building inspector reports a large increase in the number of building per mits and in the total investment in new buildings. Of the number of per mits issued. a great majority is for residences built by owners for personal use, cottages or bungalows costing be- tween $1,000 and $5,0OO.
 The New Gus Meaher building, St. Joseph and St. Michael streets, is cost ing $65,000, and is being constructed in such a manner that additional stories may be added.
 Other business houses constructed included that of the Beville Supply com pany, S6O,O0O; Mobile Electric garage, $30,0O0; Fry building, $17000; Izard Moore Supply Company building, $15,- GOO; Catholic Female Orphan Asylum, $90,000; Hancock building, $25,000 Adams Tire Service building, Smiths Bakery addition, $55,000.
 In addition to the new high school the school board has constructed or will construct five or six buildings, costing approximately $245,000. These schools include the consolidated school at Wheelerville, $25,000; tile colored school at Prichard, $25,0Q0; Galvez school, $50OOO; Clark school, $30000 colored high school, $45,000; Govern ment Street Loop school, $30,0O0 Prichard school, $40,000.
 Spring Hill college is to raise a fund of $1,000,000 or more for the construction of collegiate buildings and rehabilitation of the old ones, to be used as the high school.
 Working At Capacity
 Practically every industrial enter prise at Mobile is working at capacity This applies particularly to those manu- featuring lumber and other building ma terials. The National Floor Tile com. panys products are being shipped all over the United States and to the Spanish countries. Adamantile, made in Mobile, is being laid today in Spain where the process was invented cen turies ago.
 Mobile is almost as much encouraged over the Warrior river prospect as over the state port improvements now made certain. The contract let for the con struction by the Alabama Dry Docks and Shipbuilding company of eight steel barges for use on the Warrior add POO men to immediate payrolls. The passage of the Denson bill, placing the Warrior under a $5,000,000 government controlled corporation, also is expected to help the shipping situation via the inland waterways of Alabama
 General Sibert and his associates in control of port affairs at Mobile are encouraged because of the attitude of the railroads towards the seaport. They have shown a spirit of cooperation, il is stated officially, that leaves nothing tc be desired. New rail connections with the great tonnage producing centers of the west are among the results expected through railroad adjustments now be ing sought.
 New highways that will link Mobile with the established tourist routes are under construction or contracted for The state of Mississippi is building 8 concrete road from the Alabama lin( to Pascagoula, where it connects with the several highways that reach Bilox and the other coast resorts.
 Connecting with this new road vii be the Mobile-Grand Bay link in the Gulf Boulevard, the construction oi which will begin at once under a con tract let by the state highway authori ties. This will vastly improve the gulf section of the Old Spanish Trail and is expected to hasten the con Struction of the bridge across bay, riv CTS and delta that will connect the counties of Mobile and Baldwin.
 Need Of Deeper Channel
 With the greater city and seaport comes the need of deeper channel from Mobile to the Gulf of Mexico. There Is now pending in the Congress of tho unitad States a bill providing for tn lContinned on Page Two.)