New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-20

thu lima of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, and are
now running one OF them. The hrst furnace was out
the site of Birmingham in 1870 ass cotton ded' anu
could have bought the Land for $40 an acre. now
the city has population o. 3ooVV ana iots are se,s
for $i 900 frcnt foot Colonel j. w. Sloss pudi.
two large furnaces at Birmingham in looi-o% :
Messrs DE Bardlebeer and Underwood 6nit the MAY
Pratt furnace in 1892 and the Messrs Woodwaro tne
Wheeling furnace, near Birmingham in lsoi So
The Eureka Company, of which j. d. Farris' OF O'n.
cinnat, is president b1ilt the Two o rInae' Nv
Oxmoor six miles from Birmingham. in lS76'7I
BEGINNING TO MAKE BEssEMER STEEL
@Citico furnace, Chattanooga was built by the
Ctico Furnace Company, Il. s. Chamberlain presi.
dent. in 1874 This furnace and the two lockwood
furnaces are now making prssener pig iron from the
Cranberry ore on the ne of the East Tennessee VIZ
rina and Georgia railroad THIS iron will be useo oy
the Rosne Iron Company at its mil I'd Ina''anpoSa
for making Bessemer steel rails. beginning VI TO-
rdarv This will be the nce ,tion OF the
of steel rails in the South. Captain Ill. D. Chamber
lain is also president of this company. o.,
aThere building IN TINS region eIghteen new
furnaces of large size ami best modern type, as
follows: Nine ut Birmingham i've al cheiDe,'
thee at South Ptsburg and one at Chattanooga ln
1888 there will be foryone coke ana mail
coal furnaces in he rcgon, not counting some n
charcoal furnaces. which may be regarded as aoan
doued with total assured producnon' as ""'0
AHEAD, told you of t,5000OD gross ions. ,.o,;,
"The prominent and most active men IN tols rap .i
development OF the coal aud iron industry Q, .ne
Eroch Ensey r Hillman' = WI S.G arner Of
II, ~
Alabama: j. &. Warner, A. S. Colyar r. '" ooie'
IA & Chamberlain and A. NJ Shook, OF tennessee,
and senator Brown and W. c. Morrill, OF Georgia.
John Inman of this city. has also been active IN DC
welcoming this region since 1882. He has this year
Invested more than 81 100000 in iron ana coal
properties there Samuel Thomas. the great ron
master OF PENNSYLVANIA and pre- ident of the Thomas
Iron Company has large iron and coal properties,
IT Birmingham. and he Is now preparing 10 ound
one and probably two. large furnaces there
Mr. Shook and Professor XVI lebrew are Southern
men by birth and Democrats. " by name only while
General Warner from Ohio, but is now southern
man by virtue of twenty-five years residence IN
Alabama. aud identification with Southern interests
They all agree in testiiying TO the pleasant relations
existing in their region between all classes OF men,
without egard nativity. politics. All these
questions are now discussed with as mnch non
charce as Professor Kilebrew says, as the Pelopo-
nesian War. General Warner says that the uprising
in Sou material interests which he went SontI
IN 1865 to profit by and which he has waited twenty
wears sue has at last and come 10 STAY lhes
gentlemen are all pronounced Protectionsts. ana
agree practically pc ical questions though called
by different party nan o.. and their union o. opb'o
foresbadows the tasconng union OF all patriotic ana
progressive men in the SOnth against the bonrhohs
and scoundrels OF both political parties. L. l. W.