The age-herald., 1900-04-22

lords the further assurance of healthful- ness, due to not overcrowding.
 .. Water and Sewerage
 The question of water and sewerage Is
 of course an important one for Ensley At
 present bored wells and springs provide for domestic uses, and Village creek for manufacturing purposes. Recognizing the urgent need of providing an ample supply
 of water for the use of large and rapidly growing population, an agreement has been reached by which the Birmingham Water Works company is to extend Its mains to Ensley during this summer. Then will fol-
 low the construction of perfect sewerage
 system here.
 Railroad Center Ensley is already great railroad center,
 being touched by the following great lines: The Southern. Louisville & Nashville, Ala bama Great Southern, Central of Georgia, Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham, and the Birmingham Southern; and the follow Ing new roads are building to this point: The Ensley Southern and the North Ala bama. The Birmingham Railway and Elec- trie company, with its immense net work Of trackage in Birmingham and vicinity, embrace Ensley, affording a local street l car service here and running a car every fifteen minutes from here into Birmisg- ham.
 It is fact worthy of special note and l will bear repetition: and that is that Ems 1 ley has the lowest freight rates to the sea- board Of any iron and steel manufacturing | center in the United States
 The Management The progressive and liberal management
 or the Ensley Land company is best under stood when we observe the personnel of
 the board of officers who are as follows:
 President-David J. McComb. President-William A Walker Secretary and Treasurer-James R. Vail. Assistant Secretary-Thomas M Ross 1, Directors-N. Baxter, Jr., president Ten nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company; A. M Shook, second vice president Ten nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company;
 Cord Meyer of New York; A. B. Board- man. of New York; James Henry Smith,
 or New York; David J. McComb, of En- sley; Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company majority stockholders. Homes for the People
 As an indication of the earnest desire on the part of the company to make Ensley a city of homes, and to encourage honest workngmen to make their permanent homes here and to become their own landowners, the following very liberal terms of sale are offered viz: Ten C0 per cent per cent cash with minimum first
 
 with interest on deferred payments. These terms have brought the company the best class of buyers-miners, mechanics and small tradesmen, who are buying them selves homes.
 Not Only a Manufacturing Center
 It would hardly be fair to write of Ensley solely as manufacturing site. She has numerous other advantages. Be- sides her delightful climate her mild sea- hal otD cha Has in ba midst of a beautifully tmbered section.
 Her surrounding forests of pine, oak, beach, gum and poplar afford every facility for natural shade and for the manufacture of structural timber.
 In some sections the mistaken idea pre- vafls that lands rich in minerals non productive as agricultural lands, whereas there is no section of the United States
 that will respond more literally to the touch of industry and care in the produc- ton of farm products, vegetables, fruits,
 hay and grapes than these lands in and around Ensley. For years before these coal and iron lands attracted the attention of miners and manufacturers, these very lands yielded abundantly of the usual
 products of the southern farm, garden, or chard and vineyard; and even today nearly all the employees of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company are supplied with vegetables
 from their very doors. However the Ensley Land company proposes to further demonstrate the value of these lands for agricultural and horticultural purposes proposes at its own expense to establish
 an experimental agricultural station at or
 near Ensley and place it in the hands of experts, that homeseekers may see and
 understand what may be offered in this particular line.
 Pages could be and will be written about Ensley. There is subject matter here for an interesting book; yes, for many books, ic frt,I ic o forceful illustration of what brain, energy,
 muscle and money can accomplish, when aided by natural environments Ensley is not mere mining camp, but city founded upon a solid and substantial basis Those factors which promised to
 make it great are already here-an increase in their number and importance must in- crease the general strength and impor-
 tance of Ensley.
 f;c"u n,ical Processes | One need not write of the economical l processes of manufacture, devised by the | inventive genius of man which are here in 1 use. What if the iron turned out of the i blast furnaces in molten shape is passed | into the steel mills and from there in billet | form is transferred into the wire nail | works, never losing it's initial heat and | saving 75 cents per ton in manufacture? What if the new process of manufactur- | ing and handling coke prevents all waste | or matter ana every pdrucle IS now utll- | ized?
 What if the waste heat of the coke | ovens is to be turned into electrical energy l for power purposes?
 | It only means that Ensley is up to date | in all that goes to make manufacturing g l success and that this favored locality | backed as it is by all needful enterprise | skill and money is to become the great | metal manufacturing center of the uni | verse; that Ensley of today stands singly 1 and alone without a competitor in the
 world of rapid industrial development; that Ensey is at an early day to become city
 of an hundred thousand people;that Ensley | today extends invitation to the laborer 1 the artisan, the tradesman, the capitalist ! and the home-seeker; that Ensley has l passed beyond the age of prophecy, and
 needs none to tell of her future great | ness. $. 1PSEf. He that lives well Is not ignorant" He ! knows that Hoods Sarsaparila will keep 1 him in health.