The age-herald., 1898-12-13


 gin work shortly on the erection of 12o-
 ton ice factory which will be in addition
 to the ice plant that company already has.
 It will be an entirely new building and one separate from the other buildings of the concern. It is to be situated on Twenty second street between Avenues D and E. l The machinery is to be of the most i'm | proved pattern and the whole plant will
 be ready for operation next spring. The brick which will be necessary to com
 plete the front of the auditorium have been
 delivered on the street in front of the build | ing, but President Van Hoose of the au-
 ditorium company stated yesterday that | the work of laying them would net proceed until the amount of money necessary to l complete the work, about $600, had been l raised.
 The Birmingham Railway and Electric | company is now engaged in laying the most improved style of heavy crossings
 wherever its lines intersect with each other. or with any other lines. The cross | ing on the Ensley line at Thirteenth street | and Ninth avenue was laid last week, and | the crossing at Nineteenth street and Ninth l avenue on the cemetery lillS VIII DS put | in order next. After that all of the cross ings in Twentieth street and in other parts
 of the district will be made over in the 1 most improved style.
 If the news which comes from Chicago IS l to be relied upon, milk trust" is the | latest creation of the money-maker's brain | in that enterprising city. The Chicago Rec f01lA rfTRer fn sow | of It. "The milk trust, with a capital stock of $10,O00,O0O, is now an assured fact and application will be made within ten days for articles of incorporation. Joseph Letter, who began investigating dairying a few days ago, discovered that it was business in which there was large profit. Then he went down to Philadeluhia and investigated the milk business in that city. | The result is that there are nightly meet | ings of MT Letter, few other capitalists, | and about a dozen of the largest Chicago milk dealers. The meetings are held in diff ferent offices or at private residences II. E. Letter and William c. Seipp are to be the largest stockholders, and each will be interested to the extent of 2,500 ,0O0 Milk dealers who are taken in will be given stock according to the value of their plants. Negotiations are now in progress with the railroads for reduced rates, and the direct OTIS of the Midk Shippers union have been approached with propositions for the pur- chase of their product
 After milk has been sold for low prices until every rival has closed his shop and sold his wagons, the Trust expects to reg ulate the price of milk on the price of but
 ter. It will then retail for or 6 cents, as the Elgtn butter market may be up or down. It is not yet decided whether Joseph Letter or one of the Bowmans of the Bow man Dairy company will be the manager.
 '"To furnish pure milk, the Chicago stock holders declare is one Of the objects of the
 Trust. It will make regulations for the
 farmers, furnish them the cans, and run
 the milk through cleaner. The milk shippers regard the Trust in a rather favor able light. They have been promised fair prices, based on the price of butter" fine exhibit of the products of the southern states has been installed at 191 Clark street. Chicago, by the Southern Railway company under the direction of the land and industrial department, and which is to be kept open during the winter months for the purpose of advertising the South's natural resources in the west. The display consists of complete collection of mineralsh the products of the soil forests, mines and factories, separately arranged so as to show those interested what the coun- try produces and the opportunities offered for safe and profitable investment. The entire ground floor of the premises is filled
 
 taining minerals, embracing coal, iron, cop per- lead and zinc, aluminium and asbestos, gold and silver, stone and marble, and the hardwoods.
 Specimens of the first steel made at Bir-
 mingham, Ala, and Mddlesboro, Ky, are among some of the manufactured products shown in the iron steel line. Nearly 1000 mines are represented in this collection, taken from the mineral sections of Ala bama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North and South Carolina and Virginia The col lection of copper ore from Tennessee and elsewhere is particularly fine; and some valuable samples of gold ore from northern Georgia and North Carolina give the miner fair idea of southern gold properties. noticeable collection is made of western North Carolina tale and mica which exists in unliSaited beds near Murphy, N. C.. along the liDe oe the Southern railway. Talo Is going into use for various manufacturing purposes, and the supply in this territory is inexhaustible. Iron men will find great in- terest in the Alabama iron ores, and lead and zinc manufacturers may get 6 good
 idea of this industry. Lumbermen and woodworkers will find here an opportunity
 to study the different samples of timber and hardwoods. which abound ip abundan nee and can be purchased at prices for what the
 land commands as farms The passenger
 department contributes number of pie
 lures taken along the company's line show
 ing some of the most picturesque scenery
 in the south, including views of beautiful
 mountain landscapes in western North Car olina.
 This stroke of enterprise is made by the
 Southern railway company to aid and en- courage settlers, manufacturers and invest ors in finding suitable locations in the south. The compa . operates over 5,600
 miles of well equipped railroad and tray erses the states of Virginia, North and
 South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Missis- sippi. Tennessee and Kentucky. It holds no land grants and owns no lands, but seeks and encourages new industries and settlers. This exhibit is under the direction of J. F. Olsen, western agent of the land and in- dustrial department of the Southern rail- way company, assisted by G. E. Green, spe- cial exhibit agent. Both gentlemen are In position to assist prospeotors and invest