The age-herald., 1899-09-21
VAST INDUSTRY
 CREATING WEALTH
Scenes of Activity UnequaIIed in
 the World.
GREAT PLANTS TO START UP
At Ensley Within Sixty Days-Four Miles of Great Work and What It All From
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The mammoth steel plant al Ensley will begin the work of steel-making within the next sixty days
 The great steel rod and wire mill, the only one of it's kind south of the Ohio river, and one of the most perfectly equipped in the world, will begin opera tons at the same time.
 And within the same period the great cooperage plant and the cement works be- gin to turn out their products.
 Meanwhile there are scenes of industrial activity at Ensley unexampled in the his- tory of southern development.
 "From Pratt City to coal mine slope No. 9, of the Tennessee company, distance of four miles and a half, there is today hive of creative industry not equaled in the world!' declared Colonel A. M, Shook as he sat on the verandah in front of the steel plant offices yesterday afternoon and looked before him and up and down the railway lines.
 I've are creating this wealth from the raw material mined from the earth. We dig the coal and make the coke; mine the ore, run it through the furnaces, and be- gin almost immediately to make into steel, which, in part, will pass on to the rod and wire mill which will draw the rods and wire, cut the wire into nails, put the nails into kegs made hard by of timber cut here, and so send the products to the markets. About the only thing We will send away for will be the dies that stamp the nail kegs.
 I've are building hundred new coke
  another hundred two miles away, and yet another hundred three miles off Thus We have miles of creative industry going for ward, you may say, night and day. And more must follow. The steel plant and the rod mil will bring other industries-nut and bolt factories, blow factories, wagon factories. steel freight car works, ax and pick factories and numberless like indus tries''
 The immense shears of the steel plant is now at work cutting up scrap steel, of which is an immense pile near the main works. This powerful machine is driven by 0 great wheel run by steam from one of the engines at the furnaces near by.
 Work on the steel plant was very con siderably delayed by unfayorable weather 
 spring. But the work on every uncom- pleted department is being rushed now with the greatest energy; a large force of men being employed.
 The steeel rod and wire mill will be op- erated by steam power from the engines of the steel plant, and it will be completed by the time the steel plant begins to turn out its product.
 The cooperage plant, an adjunct of the rod and wire mill, will be operated in the same way. It will be completed in a very short time.
 The big cement works, east of the fur naces, will begin operation about the time the other plants do. Work on this splen- did industry has beeen delayed because or ders for machinery have not been promptly filled. Manager Given is bending al his remarkable energies and ability to the com pletion of the works He is the type of man that fails at nothing he undertakes; but he could not undertake the manufac- ture of the machinery for which he has been waiting.