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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-19
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knows how far down towards the center OF
the earth the vein extends, and perhaps TO
one ever will know. The deposit is certainly
inexhaustibe, and that Is enough. Soft
hematite is found In the outcroppings of
the vein where air and water could reach
the ore body, but beyond this point the hard
ore only is found. The soft ores contain a
high percentage of metallic iron. and the
hard ores are by no means low-grade ores,
when it is remembered that they contain
thirty per cent. of lime, thus reducing the
amount of f1ux that is demanded in the
slack.
But the Sloss Company Is not confined to
red hematite ores it has opened at Leeds,
seventeen miles east of Birmingham, two
veins of brown or limonite ore. These veins
are in Pine Ridge, two or three miles from
Leeds Station, with which 1t has been con-
nected by a branch line. These two veins
lie close together, and an open cut gives
access to both of them. As a rule, brown
ore has not been found In this district in
a well-defned vein or stratum: it is gwen
to pockets" each being independent in
both quality and quantity; but at Leeds it
Is believed that the ore extends all along
the ridge in the usual vein fashion. Higher
up the ridge is another vein. and the COM
pany has, or soon will have, an opening
completed in the top vein, and shipments
from all three will be made daily. Every
indication and working at Leeds goes to
show that stratified veins OF limonite of
high grade exist In Pine Ridge. "A drift Is
to be carried through the lower leads to
the top lead. and then open cuts are to be
worked both ways along the ridge. In this
way all mining will BE done in daylight.
The earth that overiies the ore veins is car
ried down a fume to the tipple at the foot
Of the hill AZ present about two hundred
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Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company
by reason of its own railroad connecting
the above mentioned mines, furnaces and
the coke oven plants at both Pratt mines
ana Ensley is able to make delivered prices
10 manufacturing concerns at Ensley ap-
one dollar of freight. In other words the
proximately the same as mine and furnace
prices.
The Economic System at Ensley
In Ensley can be seen one of the most
complete manufacturing systems in the
world. Coal Is obtained from the mines of
the Tennessee company only mile or so
away, and 1t is converted into coke midway
between the mines and the furnaces in the
old-fashioned coke ovens, and by means of
the Semet-Solvay bi-product coke ovens, a
modern system OF burning coke which Is
very cheap and economic. This plant is
owned by an entirely different corporation
from the Tennessee company, but Its entire
output of coke is used in the furnaces of eth
tennessee company, which are only about
hundred yards away. The coal tar, gas and
other bi-products are already being exlen-
sively used in Ensley by manufacturing
concerns of other kinds, and they are also
being shipped away in large quantities.
The iron, dolomite and other raw mate
rails used In the furnaces Is obtained only
a few mics away, and they are brought to
the furnaces at little Or no cost. As soon
as the new steel mill is finished, the red hot
pigs, which are cast from patent casting
machine directly on to the cars, will be
taken while still red hot to the steel MILL
distance of four or five hundred yards,
where they will be thrown into the steel
furnaces.
The steel on coming from the furnaces
is cast into ingots on the top of fiat cars,
and will be immedia tely taken to the bloom
ing mill, where they are rolled into billets.
About half of the billets made by this
blooming mill are to be turned over while
still red hot to the Alabama Steel and Wire
mill, where they will be rolled into steel
rods, and they in turn into wire. From the
wire will be made nails. cables, wire fences
and other similar products. Four railroad
lines run directly by the plant and over
them the finished products of the mill will
be shipped to the markets of the world.
The remaining 500 tons of steel billets
which the steel mill will turn out every
day, will be sold to the various foundries,
machine shops and other smaller manufac-
turing concerns in and around the Birming-
ham district with whom steel Is in constant
demand. Then 1t Is expected that numer-
GUS other industries will be located in Ems
ley in the immediate vicinity of the 1eel
mill, where they can get steel direct from
the steel mill without paying freight on It;
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firm the belief that Pratt seam coal is the
best steam-making coal in the country. 1t
is steadily gaining favor in the Lower Mis-
sissippi country and in the Gulf ports, and
the time will come when Pittsburg coal will
be unknown below Cairo. The Improvement
of the Warrior river is all that stands in
pleted coal from the Pratt system will be,
found in every cotton state, North Carolina,
alone excepted In North Carolina it will
meet West Virginia coal, and the struggle
will be fierce; but in all states south of VIII
mington Pratt seam coal will easily make
its way after it can be barged at low rates
to Mobile The Sloss company do not mine
coal outside of the Pratt seam. At Bloss-
burg they have vein about four feet thick,
and there they have as complete and eff
cient mining plant as can be found in
the country. Every facility that skillful
men have devised can be seen in operation
at Blossburg.
The raw material gathered at Leeds, at
Bessemer, at Five-Mile Creek, and at the
limestone quarries is carried to the fur
naces of the company located either In the
city proper or in North Birmingham. As
1t is impossible in this district, or any
other for that matter. to mine or otherwise
procure better raw material at a lower
cost OF production, SO it is not possible to
melt such material, extracting from it the
molten fluid that rapidly becomes In the
open air pig iron, in more economical
manner than the Sloss company carries ON
Its work Of turning out 100000 tons a year.
which It sends to all parts Of the world.
The four stacks in the two furnaces are
each capable Of producing $50 tons q day.
and when larger proportion of brown
ores are fed into them. and they are given
CONTINUED on Seventh PagA)
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Vast Properties of the Tennessee
aT~ Company.
THE STEEL MILL AT ENSLEY
First Became Interested Alabama in realistically nceas-
ed Its Capacity for Turning Out lron---Now Has
Turned Its Attention Toward Locating Steel
Manufacturing Center at EnsIey.

ley in the front rank of the manufacturing
centers of the district as a location for
smalindustries. using coal. coke, pig iron,
or steel. AS such 1t has no equal in this
section. And all of these materials can be
delivered and are delivered to industries
located at Ensley without the payment of
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-19

Where
From the Detroit Free Press.
gentlemen of the jury" said the POM
pous lawyer, assuming his most imposing
mien, 81 once sat upon the judges bench
In Iowa."
where was the judge?" quickly inter-
posed the opposing attorney. and the POM
pous gentleman found the thread of his
argument hopelessly entangled.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-19

The greatest and most important manu-
featuring concern in the Birmingham dis
trict is the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Rail-
road company. 1t has the largest capital
owns more valuable mineral properties, has
moro manufacturing plants, employs more
men, and Is king bee of the Birmingham in
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-19

where they can get the steel red hot 50
to speak.
From this 1t win be seen that in Ensley
the crude iron ore Is dumped into the blast
furnace and before it ever gets cold again
1t has emerged from factory several hum
bred yards away in the shape of nails, steel
bars. wire fences and numerous other man.
ufaetured products
There are few II any districts in the world
where iron and steel manufacturing can be
conducted on such an economic basis.
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Finesse

From Tid-Bits.
Bob-How do you stand with your en-
ploycr so well, Tom? You never laugh at
his jokes.
Tom-No; but dine at the same restau-
rant, and pretending not to see him, l re-
tail all his stories, saying loudly: II can't
tell it SO well as he can, but here's rat
Ting good yarn Mr.. D. told us this morn
ing" I've been promoted three times this
year.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-01
Mems Suits.

1926 buys a good durable every day
knockabout suit, positively worth
SO.
1915 buys strictly all wool suit.
You will admit that this suit Is worth
5000.
5000 buys at this sale strictly all
wool cheyiot suit in round corner sack.
double breasted, in black, brown ana
olive shades, which we want you to
compare with any $1,000 suit made.
5000 buys d fine auburn melton
suit in round corner sack, double
breasted usually sold for $500, our
price $500.
$3.50 buys nobby mems dress suit
in black clay worsted in three styles,
round sack, double-breasted, and )
button cutaWay, usually sold as bar
gain for $1,000. our sale price 500.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-01

Mrs. II. j. Thwiug who is at the
hospital at Burlington is reported to
be no better.
There is some talk Of having some
unusual features to the concert to be
given at the Burns Club masquerade
ball on Nov. 10th. The committee
on ARRANGEMENTS meet tomorrow night
to further perfect their plans.
w. A. Wilson. who has been visit
ing in the city for the past two weeks,
returned to.his home in Brattoboro
yesterday.
Charles Laughlin, who has been i'll
for the past two weeks, resumed work
this morning at the Burk Bros. sheds,
but was obliged to give up and return
home in short time.
The search for the break in the
pipe at Jockey Hollow is still going on.
Glenn Perry and Clarence Bartlett
brought home from their hunting trip
in Orange yesterday fox, rabbit
and two cartridges.
Miss Kate West returned to work
at the post office this morning.
There were over 10 people present
at the Halloween given at the He'd
ding church last night by the young
ladies Of the Rev. j. a. Sherburne S
Sunday school class. A delightful
program was rendered and refresh
menlr served. The party broke up in
the early morning hours and everyone
present voted the affair grand social
success.
About thirty Of the young people of
the Presbyterian y. p. a. paid visit
to The s5heriIls boys Of Highland ave-
nue. last evening. AS the guests were
unlimited the boys were wholly taken
by surprise. The event took the form
of Halloween party and the evening
was spent in playing the usual Hal
loWeen games. singing and reading.
Refreshments, consisting of confec-
tiOnery,. nuts, fruit. cake and coffee,
were passed around. Mr.. Mulch. in
behalf Of the young men. presented
the SheriIs brothers with ii beautiful,
clock. the main body Of which is OF
bronze and the base Of onyx. The
party broke up about ll.3o. after the
whole assembly sang together a few
We rses Of AUD Lang Syne.
see third page for City News every
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-01
Washington County Court.

Montpelier Nov. l.-Washington
county court reconyened Monday af-
ternoon with Judges Mark Mears and
G. ID. Edgerton presiding. Several
unc0ntestcd divorce cases were set for
hearing, among which were Lulu NJ.
PrentiSs VS. Walter NJ. PrcntisS and
kiddcr vs. kidder. Fred BrasaW of
Barre, who has been confined in jail
in default of bail ON the charge Of
selling intoXicantS and maintaining
d nuisance, was brought into court
and furnished bail in the sums of 5000
in the selling and $500 in the nuisance
case.
L. VI. Manley of Sharon has a calf
born last week which is decided curl
osity. The animal has a well marked
bull dog head and the legs are precise
ly like those of a dog.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-01
Mems Overcoa ats

500 buys a heavy gray oNertoat
worth $500.
1915 buys black beaver overcoat
we'll worth $500. Our sale price
1915.
$500 buys an elegant kersey top
coat in black, blue and brown. d
beauty, well worth $500, our price
$500
$3.50 buys another kerSey oyercOat
equal to cust0m-made; raw edge, in
blue and black. Would cost at least
$1,000: our sale price $3.50
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-01
Mems Pants

Mems Working Pants, warranted
not to rip, at 69c. per pair. Extra
heavy pants, regular price $l.25, sale
price Soc.
Mems black cheviot pants at 95c.
per pair.
Mems heavy all wool pants $I.25,
$l.50, $l.15 and $500 worth double
the amount.
Fine grades dress pants at very low
prices.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-01
Are Your Horses Feet All Right ?

Does he stand on a dry floor? are
his hOOfS cracked and sore? has he
contracted feet, corns, quarter cracks
or thrush ? Have you felt that you
ought to be to the expense of getting
a veterinary to prescribe for him
Before doing SO try Morrison's English
Liniment, a single bottle kept at hand
will save you all this worry and eX-
pence, and it will also cure sore back
and shoulders, sprains, contracted
cords, swellings and lamcness. Eol
fresh cuts, cOrks, wounds, etc, an APP
plication will at once stop its bleeding
and give relief. 1t is one of the best
remedies ever used upon a horse. BE
your own veterinary by using Morri-
rison's English Veterinary Remedies.
PARLOR DRUG STORE.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-01
Children'S Suits

Children's Suits will 90 quick at
$l.l0, $l.25, $40, $l.T5 $500 $2.25,
81. 80, $500, worth double the money.
Children's listers and cape Over
coats at Sl.50, Sl.75, $500, 1928,
800, S2.7o and $500, worth double
the money.
Mems Pants Overals at SOC. each.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-01
Wanted.

A case of scrotufa, eczema, salt
rheum, piles, open Sores chatting,
chapped hands or lips that Lady poor's
Ointment will not cure. Money re-
funded if cures are not the result Of
it's use. Parlor Drug Store. Price,
rs cents.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-01
Mems listers

We don't begin to have space to
mention prices on them. To make it
Short and give you an idea we say
$2.9S, S3.9S, S4.9S, 1919. 37.40, all
worth 5000 to 5000. Take a look
at them, they will surprise YOU.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-01
NEW ADS. TO-DAY.

ID. r. Bisbee-InSuranc
l.. Nj. Averill-Stoves and Hardware
Art Novelty Store-Specials
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-01
We will Pay a
Regular Salary

and a commission to a selected
number Of high-grade agents. We
want the best men or women TO
be had-thosc Of experience, and
who can be relied upon for faith
full work: persistent and ener-
getic, of good. address, and with
"gumption" and the tact to Sc
cure what they attempt. Re
tired ministers, school teachers,
or those seeking outdoor life,
make good agents. Regular SAL
airy and a commission on each
order to the competent man or
woman.
Call at this office for full par
ticulars.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-01

'beWitt's Little Early kiSerS.
The famous little pills.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-01

All Trunks NaseS, Umbrellas Macknt ale N"c
JeWeIy, landkerclie O'eral
tlbbelS Rubber BoOtSand Mems lNeSOe Hats
Hundreds nave
space mention in this advertisement.
Come and yousefand will lind H
sale. COME Az ONCE choice don't
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-01

A North Barre lady was finding
fault with the city government this
morning because there is no light at
the Berlin street bridge. A promi-
nent citizen with good store of
Yankee wit was standing near and he
remarked that she was quite right
but that the light ought to be started
with Kerosene and shavings.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-01

This is All Saints day and it will be
observed in places of Christian wor-
ship very generally. At many of the
churches of the country services for
the unwilling and conservation of
memorials to the dead will be held.
Services were held at the church Of
the Good Shepherd this morning.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-01

DR.. b. w. Braley of the Seminary
trustees has received a letter from Dr..
Caverly Of the state board of health
stating that the report on the Semin-
larry investigation has been completed
and that it was mailed on Sunday
night. 1t will go to the other mem
bers of the board and may possibly
reach here tonight.
, 1899-04-28

BARRELS OF SAMPLES.

OVER Two HUNDRED THOUSAND
TRIAL BOTTLES SENT FREE BY MAIL.
By special arrangement with the
manufacturers of that justly famous
Kidney medicine, DIR. David Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy, the readers of the
JOURNAL are enabled to obtain q trial
bottle and pamphlet of valuable med
ical advice absolutely free, by simply
sending their full name and post office
address to the DIR. David Kennedy Cor
poration, Rondout, N. Y, and men,
tioning this paper.
OF course this involves enormous ex-
pense to the manufacturers, but they
lay received SO many grateful letters
from those who have been benefited and
cured of the various diseases of the Kid
neys, Liver, Bladder and Blood, Rheu-
matism, Dyspepsia and Chronic Con-
stipation, and all weaknesses peculiar
to women, that they willingly send
trial bottles to all sufferers.
Upon investigation 1t was found that
81 per cent of those who had used the
trial bottle had received such benefit
from it that they purchased large sized
bottles OF their druggists.
1t matters not how sick you are or
how many physicians have failed to
uelp you, sem IOr u trial DOIIle OF lnlS
great medicine, it costs you but a pos
tai card, and benefit and cure will most
certainly be the result.
Put some urine in a glass tumbler
and let it stand "a hours, If it has a sed-
iment or if it is pale or discolored, milky
or cloudy, stringy OF ropy, your Kid
neys or Bladder are in q bad condition.
DIR. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy
speedily cures such dangerous symp-
toms as pain in the back, inability to
hold urine, a burning scalding pain in
passing it, frequent desire to urinate,
especially at night, the staining of linen
by your urine and all the unpleasant
and dangerous affects on the system
produced by the use of whiskey, wine
Or beer. DIR. David Kennedy's Favo-
rite Remedy is sold at all drug stores at
Sl.OO for a large bottle; six bottles for
$500.
, 1899-04-28


graphical Society of Philadelphia. The
casks have already been constructed,
and five of them were recently sent
north on board a San Francisco whaler.
Twenty-Five more will be put on the
revenue cutter Bear, and the remaining
30 will be taken to Bering sea by the
vessels of the Pacific Steam Whaling
company.
The casks are like beer kegs of 20
gallon capacity, except that their ends
are extended out to give the entire
structure a cigar shape. The casks are
made of heavy oak slaves, IA inches
thick, bound with iron hoops three six
teenths of an inch thick and 2 inches
wide. The annual thickness is to allow
for corrosion in the long drift of four
or FIVE years. The conical ends will, it
is thought, prevent the destruction Of
the casks that would certainly follow a
pressure of ice on the ordinary fiat
heads.
The casks are to be placed, If posi-
BILE, on heavy foes, according to Harry
Bryant, president of the Geographical
society, so that they may drift with the
ice. They are to be painted black. 1t is
expected that they will sink down into
the body of the ice under the action of
the summer sun and may thus be pre-
served from crushing impact. If thrown
into the open water they would be
blown about by the winds. The deep ice
is affected by the undercurrents and
will carry the casks on a more correct
drift. Mr.. Bryant says;
IA number of records will be placed
ia each cask, printed in the languages
of the principal seafaring nations, re-
auesting the hiaAer of the cask to pre-
serve it and send tbs yecords to the by
geographic office of the a~aHiopality OF
the finder, such Office in turn 70 sen.qq
to the other n~ationalities the other rec
ords found within the cask ard stating
the latitude and longitude where
found.
Professor Angelo Heilprin of the
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sci
ences and former president Of the Geo
graphical society says it is by p9 means
impossible that two or three or eyeH
four years may elapse before definite
information of any kind will be re-
eeiyed. JOHN +. WMLoUGHBy,
, 1899-04-28

CAPTAIN THOMAS CltAPO.
tightly fastened at the gunwales, is a
covering of oiled canvas, water tight.
In the middle is an opening about two
feet in diameter. which can be closed
by drawing together a canvas bag COW
Ell, fitted with a gathering string. Near
the bow of the craft rises a short mast,
about Az feet tall, and on this. man
aged by the simplest of rigging, runs a
tiny lateen sail containing only four
feet of canvas.
Captain Grape will sail his craft un-
der the flag of the American Volun-
of the cross. He means to make the trip
by hugging the bays, rivers and inlets
of the Atlantic coast.
Captain Grape will probably wheel
the boat to Providence. On reaching
that point, if the weather is sufficiently
warm and calm to warrant it. the Vol
unteer will be launched and sail around
to Connecticut ports. From New York
the vessel will go to Philadelphia, Bal
timore and Norfolk. Eventually she
VIII reach Key west, and there will
start on her longest sea trip, direct for
the Cuban coast. Later she will pro-
coed up the Mississippi valley,
Captain Grape has led an adventur-
GUS life. In 1877 he sailed a 10 foot
whaleboat from New Bedford to PEN
zance, England, making the trip across
the Atlantic in 40 days. His wife &C.
companied him on that trip. but this
time he is all alone.
, 1899-04-28

DESIGN O THE WINNIE DAVIS MONUMENT.
Grams secured a design by Zolnay and
expressed a desire to contribute the ex-
ira $3.50 needed to erect the monument.
The Zolnay design has been accepted.
1t is the figure OF a sitting angel and is
to be carved out of Italian marble. 1t
has been pronounced a work of high art
by competent critics.
The sculptor is a personal friend of
Mrs. Davis and is now at work on a
bronze statue of jefferson Davis to be
placed at his grave in Hollywood and
also is designing the Winnie Davis me-
mortal tablet of bronze to be placed in
st. Paul's Episcopal church, Richmond,
in which President Davis received the
news of the virtual fall of Richmond.
This statue will be a tribute of love
from his wife. 1t will be done in Gecr-
gia marble.
vt is the PURPOSE to unveil the three
on the occasion OF the annual meeting
of the Daughters of the C~onfederacy in
Richmond next fall. AT that time a
large representation of tine Daughters.
as well as Veterans and Sons of Vet
Grams. will take part in tie ceremonies.