The age-herald., 1898-07-31
THE BIRMINGHAM
 FERTILIZER GO.
One of the Most Successful h.
 duStrieS in the District.
A GREAT FUTURE FOR 1T
Organized Little Over Year Ago-Has a Capacity of Over 5oooo Tons Annually-Controlled By Ex-
 perienced Men.

Fifty thousand tons of fertilizers are manufactured in Birmingham annually.
 This city is not only an iron center. It is the center for manufactories of all kinds. Cheap coal is an incentive to manufac- turing.
 Indeed one of the most conspicuous manufactories in the Birmingham district is the Birmingham Fertilizer company. It is one of the largest and best known fer tilizer factories in the south. Though it is but little over one year of age, its pro- ducts are all known to the agricultural masses because of the high analysis and of the productive capacities of it's goods.
 The Cahaba High Grade Fertilizer, the Birmingham High Grade Fertilizer and the Birmingham Fertilizer Company's Acid Phosphate, are we'll known and popular throughout all Northern, Central and Southern Alabama. well as in Mssis- sippi, Georgia and adjoining states
 The large portion Of the cost of fertilizers to farmers is on the freight rates of the manufactured goods. On the raw material freights are very much cheaper. The raw material is brought in bulk, while the manufactured goods are sent out in sacks and is charged for by the railroads at a much higher rate. Consequently the Bir- mingham Fertilizer company has>been en- abled to put the very best material into it's goods and send out the highest grades of fertilizer to compete with the ordinary goods made by other concerns at a dis tance.
 A Large Plant
 The Birmingham Fertilizer company is one of the largest industries of the Brm- ingham district. Its plant occupies twenty three acres of ground. It employs several hundred workmen, and is one of the wealthy and prosperous concerns of the district. The company is naturally proud of it's goods, and the Alabama state chem ist reports all their fertilizers to be of the hiPhpSt and hest er1deS All the rail- roads entering Birmingham have construct ed tracks out to their works, enabling shipments to be made without transfer charges.
 The company was only organized on June 1, 1897, and the factory was completed in October of that year and has been in tinp-f Operation since that time Mr. Louis Cohen, a private banker in Sandersvlle, Ga, and a prosperous fertilizer dealer in that state, is president. MT. Frank Bur bidge, of Charleston, s. C., one of the most experienced manufa cturers of acid phos- plates and fertilizers in this country, is vice-president, and is in charge of ,the manufacturing department MT. M L. lia- nahan is secretary, and Is likeise from Charleston, where he occupied an impor- tant position with one of the largest fer tilizer plants in this country.
 MT. Culpepper Exum, the treasurer and general manager of the company, is in practical charge of all its business. MT. Exum has had many years experience in the fertilizer business in South Carolina. He is a young man of wealth and of su- perior business ability. He believes that the best results come from furnishing the best material and it is a noted fact that the acid phosphates as well as the fertili- gers which he sends out, of the high est grades made in this country.
 The Process of Manuf lcture
 The Birmingham Fertilizer company is enabled to produce the best goods because of the fact that it manufactures its own sulphuric acid, out of the very best pyrites and sulphur ores which can be imported from Portugal It's sulphuric acid plant is an enormous concern. The process Of manufacturing 1t is extremely interesting. The ores are placed in a score of great furnaces, occupying building 5Ox15 feet The fumes from these furnaces pass through the nitre ovens and then into very large tower of lead known as a Glover tower, where the condensing of the fumes commences and continues after pass ing through and going into the acid cham bers proper. There are three of these chambers occupying a building 50 feet wide and 300 feet long. The chambers are made of lead 45 feet wide, 100 feet long and 20 feet high completely lining the great build ing. They are air tight and in them the completion of the condensing of the sul- phur fumes into sulphuric acid continues. The sulphuric acid is then forced by con- pressed air through lead pipes to the main hulding of the plant-a building 4U0 rect long 100 feet wide and 50 feet high. In this building the phosphate rock is ground into A perfect powder and conveyed to the third story by elevators into the mixing pans, where 1t is treated by sulphuric acid. The acid converts the powdered rock into acid phosphate which is then conveyed auto matically by machinery into the enormous storage rooms. The motive power Of the plant is produced by a 25o horsepower Cor liss engine, built in Birmingham by the Birmingham Machine and Foundry com pany.
 The phosphorous rock used by the Bir- mingham Fertilizer company comes from Tennessee and is of the highest grade yet discovered for making acid phosphate. To produce the complete fertilizers, western ground blood and imported potashes are used. These materials are thoroughly mix ed by machinery, with the acid phospnates, which it takes to complete the fertilizer. The Birmingham Fertilizer company im- ports it's pyrites from Portugal. The com panv is likewise a large importer or Ger man kainit muriate of potash and other compounds of fertilizers.
 Those who have used the products of the Birmingham Fertilizer company express the most complete satisfaction and 1t is predicted that the popularity of the fertil- izer made by this con cern, will, in the near future make it the largest manufacturing concern of its kind in the entire south. The goods it makes are unexcelled. 9 ETAOIN ETAO IN ETAOIN NUNu
 
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