The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-06-28
SITE FOR STEEL
MILL SURVEYED
Next Step to Break the Dirt For
the Foundation.
CITIZENS ARE REJOICING
Some Of the Benefits as Seen By
Business Men.
WILL DO MORE THAN ANYTHING
To Develop The Wealth of The District-The
Merchants Anticipate an Increase in
Population and usiness-W
Benefit All Classes

Although the officers of. the Tc1nessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad company are not
giving out much information about the
new steel mill, to all appearances ev-
erything is running smoothly. m
The survey of the ground and the lay
ing off of the site at Ensley has been COM
pleted and the next step will be TO break
the dirt for the foundations. The date
for this has not been fixed as yet.
This does not keep the citizens of Biz
mingham, however, from rejoicing over the
establishment of this great enterprise and
predicting the brightest of futures for Bir-
mingham.
"a steel mill of the size contemplated by
the Tennessee company said General L..
" Clark yesterday, will benefit every
class of business in the district. 1t will
give us large population, will keep more
money at home, and will naturally bene-'
fit all of us
VIII DO More Than Anything
Build the steel plant, and build it quick"
said w. M. Bremen, land we will take
care of the benefits that follow Ii L were
asked to select any one agency that would
do more toward the up-building of the dis
trict than any other, L should certainly
plated at Ensley.
1.-The greatest blessing" said Ben NJ
Jacobs, that l think will follow the build
ing the steel plant will be the inevitable
erection of great numbers of smaller in
dustries; indus tries that employ skilled OPP
eratives, and these l consider the bone and
sinew of a community. Wherever these
manufactured wares go, there Birmingham
will be advertised, much more SO than
where we now ship the raw products. Biz
mingham has reached its capacity as a sim
pie mining town, which is all that the city
can be called under the present system Of
mines and furnaces only. We need a home
market"
II don't know where to start to enumer-
ate the benefits that will follow" said 7.
C. King. 1--WE will have more industries,
of course, and consequently more men in
the city Their wages will double many
times the amount of money now being put
in circulation in this district. l suppose
northern capital will receive large share
of the profits of the concern, but II they
will only spend their money here and give
us men to put in circulation, why we
won't kick in the least.
Can Keep Money at Home
1.-THE steel mill will enable us to keep
nearly all of our money at home said
Judge Porter. "A pound of steel manu-
featured into useful articles will be worth
many times more than a pound of crude
pig such as we now make. Instead OF the
northern cities, to which we are now ship
ping making the big profits, they will all
be made by Birmingham firms"
"rhe new steel MILL" sand Robert j.
Newman, sis the crown into which we can
put our jewels-coal and IRON.
1.-The greatest advantage l see in great
steel mil',' said Olivre Cnalifoux, 'is that
the mill Itself and the numerous industries
that are sure to follow, will attract class
of skilled labor that will obtain much bet
ter wages than those now paid to the most
of the laborers in the district at present.
These operatives will be corrspondingly
thrifty and less dependent upon the COM
missary. natural expenditure of money
will result, so that the entire commune
ty will be greatly benefited.
Z 1.-THE greatest good that the steel mill will
do. said Sol Caheen, "is that the smaller
industries that will follow in its wake will
do more than all else to abolish the COM
missary system that is so obnoxious to all
the merchants. Excepting the fact that
the iron furnace are necessity, [ think
that the steel mill is of greater benefit to
the city than all the furnaces put to-
gether.''