Birmingham age-herald., 1894-11-04
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Three colonies from the west have re- gently settled near Triton, Ga., and will engage in fruit and vegetable farming.
 MT. John H. Inman says: "Atthe pres- ent price of SC. .50 per ton for iron the Ten- nessee company makes about 70 cents ton profit.'' This makes the cost $5.76 per ton. The freight to market is about s2. 50 ton. Birmingham can lay down iron 800 miles from home and make profit of s1 q ton.
 The Birmingham district is building up a big trade with Mexico. We have both rail and water connection with Mexico, and, on account of proximity, can under. need our coal, coke and iron, and will pay a good price for 1t. About 60 per cent of Mexico's s trade Is now with Europe and 40 per cent with ths United States. This con. dition should be reversed. We need Mexi- can coffee, dye woods, leather, etc., and the vessels can get cargo both ways. An exposition of American goods will be held in Mexico and Birmingham should be rep resented. Americans have not used the efforts to secure Mexican trade that the Europeans have, but now they should ex- ert themselves. We should send Spanish speaking representatives to that country and learn to pack goods for shipment into the interior.
 The Howard Harrison Pipe works at Bessemer obtains iron at $6 ton and can afford to sell pipe for $15 a ton. No other pipe works in the world can afford to sell for less than S18 ton. Hence the Howard Harrison Pipe works can easily sell as much as it can make. When the enlarge. ment now in progress is completed it will be the largest pipe works in America. The orks will soon have capacity of 3oO tons day. One hundred coke ovens to furnish fuel for it's cupoias will be erected. The escaping gas from the ovens will be used as fuel under the boilers and for dry ing the molds and cores. The railroad tracks will be increased a mile and half, the motive power of the works will be changed from steam to electricity and more boilers and blowers will be put in. The hot air process for drying molds and cores and gas for fuel under boilers is something new and the operation will be watched with interest.
 Virginia is one of the most favored of the southern states in it's natural advantages, but capitalists have not yet forgotten her state debt trouble. Alabama's credit has been maintained, thanks to an honest and able democratic governor, and capitalists do not fear to invest their money here.
 Where the East Tennessee railroad crosses the Tennessee river, about thirty miles south of Knoxville, is the Lenoir es- tate. A few years ago it was fertile farm, now it is occupied by the Southern Car works. Theee works are now engaged in making 500 hopper bottom ore and coal cars for use on the Southern railway.
 
 The business depression of last year caused the steamship line between Pensa- cola and Cuba to suffer loss in revenue, and it was reported that the line would be discontinued, but the Louisville and Nash vile management now gives 1t out that the line will be continued on account of increased business.
 The Young Mems Business league of Meridian, Miss, has succeeded in estab- fishing enterprises in that city requiring an investment of $250, 900.
 NElevsn vessels cleared from Baltimore for Brazff1ast month"; laden with flour, lard, cotton seed oil and canned goods. The value of the cargoes exceeded $a56, ,6OO.
 This week S3, ,OOO, ,0OO company wac or ganized for mining coal in Kentucky. Other Urge companies for operating in the south were organized during the week.
 Messrs. Charles and J. R. Smith are get ting out ore on the top of Red mountain at the head of Nineteenth street. The vein forms the crest of the mountain, and no underground work is necessary. The ore is rolled down into the cars on the Mineral railroad few feet below.
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