The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-30
IMPROVEMENTS
ARE TO BE MADE
Central Foundry at Admission TO
be Enlarged.
SCHOOL WINS "A VICTORY
The Alabama Iron Company Has Leas-
ed the Langdon Iron Furnaces,
and Will Begin Operating
Them at Once
SCHOOL WINS "A VICTORY

Admission, September 29-(Special Gee
rard schuma cher of New York secretary of
the Central Foundry company spent yester-
day in the city accompanied by r. A.
Register, second vice-pvesident of the COM
pany, and W. IL. Weller, big stakeholder,
inspecting the Tyler pipe works here which
Is owned by the Central Foundry company.
Secretary Schumacher said that the ca
pacity of the plant would be doubled at
once and the output increased from twelve
and half to twenty five tons day. The
present buildings will allow this doubling
of capacity. Secretary Schumacher SAYS.
however, that ne will recommend that the
buildings be doubled in size, giving the
plant four times its present capacity and
this will doubtless be done during the en-
suing year. Another increase of wages was
ordered to go into effect Monday which will
make a total increase of 20 per cent. in the
last few months.
Captain T. G. Bush president of the Ala
bama Consolidated Iron and Coal company
in interview states that the furnace at
Ironaton which is being refined will be put
in blast in about two weeks and the other
lronaton furnace and the one at Gadsden
ing and remodeling the latter two is being
pushed rapidly as possible and it is
hoped to have ii completed within that
time. A large stock house of 100000 tons
capacity has Just been completed at Irona-
ton and.two large steam shoves and many
private contractors are raising ore there.
Three ore washers are in operation at
Ironaton The Consolidated has just bought
the Priors and Hematite brown ore proper
ties in Polk county, Georgia, and Cherokee
county, Ala, aggregating 700 acres of very
fine ore lands The company contemplates
building 400 or 500 additional coke ovens al
its Brookwood coal mines during the win
ter.
Litigation of a three-cornered nature
which has been in progress for several
months past between the holders of the
city bonds, the city council and the board
of education has resulted in a victory for
the schools and the mayor and city coun-
ell last night appropriated $3.50 for school
purposes. This with the money which
comes from the state will be sufficient to
operate the schools nicely and they will be
started up Monday with a large attend
ance.
The Bell Mining company has recently
purchased at East and West Junction,
about fifteen miles north of this city on
the Southern railway, .orty acres of land
rich with barytes and will Immediately be-
gin mining and shipping it on an extensive
scale.
President H. c. Weeden of the Hercules
Iron and Supply company has appointed w.
ID. Ross, Jr., superintendent of the Her
cules Pipe works to succeed j. I. Tidman,
resigned Superintendent Ross is busily en-
gagged now getting his men together and
hopes to start up next week.
The Alabama Iron company, composed OF
Birmingham and Pittsburg persons has
recently leased with option of buying
the Langdon iron furnace and ore property
at Langdon, forty miles north OF the city
on the Southern Railroad. G.. Chisolm of
Birmingham is president Of the company
and Thomas Ford of Pttsburg, Pa, treas
urer The company will mine and ship iron
ore on an extensive scale, increasing the
present output from 125 TO 500 tons day
Two washers are in opera ton now but
third will be added and all three run to
their full capacity. The furnace which has
been idle for several years is out of date
and in bad repair but if the company buys
the property as it probably will, the fur
mace will he overhauled and rebuilt and
put in operation a once.
The city council last night elected Talbot
Foard as councilman from the First ward
to succeed o. j. Henderson, recently pro-
NOTED to the mayoralty to succeed MAJOR
f. NJ. Hight, deceased.