Birmingham state herald., 1896-03-01

able for domestic or grate and steam | purposes.
 The mines are now equipped for an output of from 1500 to 100 tons per day, l having Ingersol-Sergeant mining ma l chimes; hauling is done by endless ropes
 and mules, and the buildings at the
 mines are capable of supplying homes | for 500 miners and their families. The property mining utensils and equipments are carefully estimated to
 be worth SLIGO, ,723.91. MT. J. B. Pace is
 president, W. E. Leake, vice-president,
 and R. P. Means secretary and treasurer. MT. Pace is resident of Richmond Va, and one of the leading citizens Of that city. w. F. Leake has the active management of the companyS business He is a native of Richmond, and has had
 the management of this property for the past five years, starting in as bookkeep-
 CT eleven years ago, when the property
 was owned by the Virginia and Alabama Mining and Manufacturing company. MT. J. E. Dilworth is the superintendent of the mines and resides at Patton, Ala.
 Moore Handley Hardware Company.
 On Powell avenue, between Twentieth and Twenty-frst streets, is located the mammoth wholesale hardware and ma chinery house of the Moore & Handley company, one of the largest in the entire south.
 The business had its inception in 1882 as Moore, Moore & Handley, and was incorporated in 1887 under the present name and style. The development of the house from it's inception is revelation. Every move has been progressive one.
 The building now occupied is mag nifcent one for the purpose, being three stories high and 100 by 150 feet in di- mensons, and also adjoining this is one-story brick 100 by 150 feet, in which is carried iron, machinery and mining and mill supplies. Over 50,000 square feet of space is occupied, being the surface of an acre, with 5000 square feet of space to spare.
 The house has trackage on both sides and it's facilities for handling goods cheaply and with dispatch are unparal- elled. The stock is comprehensive and includes all that is used in retail stores in the hardware line; all that is used by blacksmiths. contractors and saw mills, and full line of cutlery, shelf and heavy hardware mining, railway, furnace and mill supplies.
 The company is made up of J. D.
 Moore the president; W. A. Handley, vice-president, and B. F. Moore, the sec
 retary and treasurer The president is native of Carroll county, Georgia, | graduate of Bowdon college, was profes- | sor of Latin and French for two years at | Bowdon and one year at Oxford founded | Roanoke institute in 1875, engaging in commercial pursuits one year later and
 locating in Birmingham in 1882. l MT. Handley is a native of Alabama | who has represented his people In the state senate and formerly represented l his district in congress. He resides at | Roanoke. Ala.
 1 B. F. Moore Is also a native of Carroll | county and educated at Bowdon and the l University of Virginia.
 The institution is one of the most prork' l inent successes of the city and one that | commands the favor and confidence of a | large trade territory. Birmingham has | need of more such men as compose this | company. and if the industrial and inn migration issue of the State Herald shall serve to interest anyone of such capacity and business acumen to the extent of interesting themselves in the city or sur
 rounding territory it will have served its l ends.