Birmingham state herald., 1897-06-16
rHE NEW srEFL PLANT.

The Ledger renews the suggestion made more than once htfetofore in its columns that the first run of steel at the rolling mills, which. will take place on July 5zzzthe day on which the nation this year VIII observe the Anniversary of it's independence be fttingly celebrated by the people of Birmingham.-Birm Birmingham Ledger.
 The Times suggested this some weeks ago. If Birmingham is. to make steel few people believe it. Birmingham has been on fhe eveof making steel for about eight years ard 1t is difficult, now, for any person to believe in it. We suggest to the good people up there. if the run is to really turn out steel at all, to celebrate the day. Let the great event be marked with drum and cannon and loud acclaim of all the people of Al9bama.-Eufau1a Times.
 The suggestion that Birmingham cele- brate the occasion of her successful steel makinli is a good ore. While our home people have long since been convinced of the fact by practical demonstration that steel can be as successfully made hera as anywhere on the globe. the many efforts and failures to produce steel has left the impression that this failure has been due. to the quality of our ore and not to the process of steel making, when in fact it was the latter. Thousands of dol lars have been expended here in the eff foit to make steel under some new fan gled process. and now that the conclu- sion has been reached that the old way is the best, practical men have investi- gated the ore found 1t all right and have invested their money in the steel plant as a business enterprise and not as stimu- lating effort for the purpose of specu- 1.f T,,f fo he faded from the mineral district and things have assumed sound business basis and the introduction of new indus tries means not only success but that others will follow in quick succession.
 Birmingham has sold thousands of tons of her iron to MT Carnegie who has converted it into armor plate and pro- nounolsss it in many respects supericr to any he has ever used. Specialists have visited the Carnegie works and other steel plants and spent weeks watching the assaults of the converting of BImr g. ham ir5n into steel, and their reports are highly satisfactory.
 The question for many months has been sto Interest capitalists to take hold of the ma ter. and now that this hai: been accomplished, it only remairs to complete the works when Birmingham vii turn out as good quality of steel as is made on the globe, and what is troubling our PennsylWa mia neighbors already is that it will be made cheaper than has ever been known in the history of steel making
 Id order, however, to forever set at rest ths prevalent idea among people net posted in steel making, many of whom are engaged in converting the product in- to implements of various Xxi ds and would take advantage of the opportunity to lo- cate sindustries of this class where the best opportunities are offered, it would not be a..bad idea to,celebIate the occa- sion<sfathe first run from the nsw steel plart in an appropriate manner, and invite the world at large to be present ard see for themselves that no problem has besn solved but simply the proper and successful methods of steel making have been adopted.