The age-herald., 1898-07-31

Ol this district.
 The Birmingham smeiting company on pioys 15 men. =
 V. Glib & Son, on Avenue F, are also engaged in the brass foundry business
 The Birmingham Hardware Manufactur- ing company at East Birmingham, makes hardware speealties, farming implements, etc.
 The Hood Machine company on First avenue and Fourteenth street, has $10000 capital, and employs 70 mer.
 The Lynn Iron Works on Fourteenth streets are owned by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, and it works exclusively for this company. It employs about 100 men.
 The Lyxes Foundry and Machine com pany on First avenue and Seventeenth street employs 20 men.
 The Means and Fulton Iron company on Seventeenth street and Avenue A have SlO,O00 capital and employs 30 men,
 Robinson Wiggs Machine company, 1921 Powell avenue, have a S10,0O0 capital.
 The Union Foundry and Machine com pany, 1905 Avenue A, has a $5O0O capital and employs 20 men.
 The Warrior Machine company ,on Pow ell avenue and Twentieth street. has $10,- OOO capital and employs 30 men.
 George F. Wheelock and company, manu- lecturers of galvanized iron works, employ 25 men at their plant on Second avenue.
 The Bessemer Cornice Works have capi- tai of $5, ,OO0.
 The Birmingham Boiler Works on Twen- ty-fourth street and Powell avenue em- ploy about 100 men and turn out high grade class of boilers
 Other foundries and machine shops are:
 The Acton Iron Works, 1229 Morris ave- hue.
 Avondale Stove and Foundry company
 Birming gham Foundry and Facing com pany.
 Central Foundry company, Twenty fourth street and Morris avenue
 Phoenix Iron Works, 1101 Avenue D.
 Stoves, Pipes, Bolts and Bridges
 There are several stove manufactures in and near the city which are in successful | operation. H. D. Mauss Is the successor to the Baxter Stove Works and still con- .tinues the manufacture of cooking stoves and other kinds of foundry work. He en- ploys 125 men.
 The Avondale Stove and Foundry com pany has a capital of $50,000 and employs about 30 men. Besides stoves, it makes number of gin castings for a Georgia firm, and does other kinds of foundry work.
 The Birmingham Pipe company on south Thirty-fourth street has a $30,000 capital and employs 75 men. It manufactures stoves, plumbing materials, soil pipe, etc. It was recently bought by the Ehrens and Otis Manufacturing company, of Louisville, and they will increase the plant.
 The Southern Pipe and Foundry company at Avondale has 5000 capital.
 The Alabama Pipe company at Bessemer has $60,000 capital, and is in very suc- cessful operation.
 The Birmingham Bolt and Nut Works on Second avenue and Thirtieth street are in active operation, employing about 20 men.
 The Alabama Bolt and Mutt Works on Powell avenue and Sixteenth street was a $10,000 plant in successful operation, but was burned week or two ago. It will probably be rebuilt.
 The Southern Bolt company on Four teenth street and Powell avenue employs 30 men.
 The Alabama Bridge and Boiler Works on Avenue A and Twenty-second street, has a capital of s25 900 and employs 50 men. As its name implies, it makes a speciality of bridge and other structural iron work, boilers, etc.
 e The Southern Bridge company at Avon- dale has a $3O 900 capital and is engaged in the manufacture of big railroad and other bridge irons
 The Southern Iron and Steel company at 1514 Second avenue, has a 5000 capital, and employs 40 men. It makes structural iron and steel work.
 Car Wheels and Roofing E The Decatur Car Wheel Manufacturing company, on South Seventh street, have capital of $100,000 It is the biggest car wheel plant in the south, and Is in con- stant operation.
 The East Birmingham Iron Roofing and Corrugating company has s25O,OOO capital and is a very large plant. As it's name implies, it makes a speciality of corrugated iron roofing.
 Gins and Cotton oil.
 Birmingham is well equipped for cotton gin manufacture with two big companies The Northington-Munger Pratt Gin com pany at East Birmingham has capital of $150,000 and employs about 125 men. It makes about 700 cotton gins year, and about 400 gin systems, which, besides the gin, includes elevators, presses, etc.
 The Smith Sons Gin company at Avondale have a s75 5000 capital and $75,O00 surplus, employing 130 men. They make about as many gins the company mentioned above, but devote more attention to en- zines, pulleys etc., than to gin systems.
 The Jefferson County Cotton Oil company at East Birmingham has a $100000 capital and employs 70 men. The plant is taxed to its utmost, working night and day.
 Ice. Beer and Bottled Soda.
 The Birmingham Ice Factory company has capital of $S5, 900 and employs about 30 men. It has capacity of 45 tons daily. The Peoples Ice company has $50O0O capital and has capacity of 30 tons day The Avondale Ice Factory also has ca- pacity of 30 tons daily. The Neuman Ice company and Bottling Works at Bessemer turns out about ten tons daily. ,-In the manufacture of beer Birmingham is right at the top, having two large brew cries, each with capacity of 300 barrels a day
 They are the Schillnger Brewing com pany and the Alabama Brewing company, and almost their entire output is consumed in the immediate vicinity of Birmingham. z Birmingham is well supplied with bot fling works, who put up soda water. ginger ale, mineral waters, beer, etc. They are the Birmingham Bottling Works, the Ele- phant Bottling Works, and the Iron City Bottling Works.
 2 Miscellaneous. &The Birmingham Fertilizer Manufactur- ing compGJ at East Birmingham has a capital of sS0,00O, and employs about 125 men. It runs every day and night in the year, and has capacity of 10000 tons an- nualy.
 Conner & Co. are the only millers in the city There is no wheat grown in this dis trict, but they grind out meal at the rate of $3,500 bushels a day. The company is working night and day tO keen un with its