The age-herald., 1900-03-06
FURNACES THICK
 AS MUSHROOMS
Forty-six on Lines of the South
 ern Railway.
INTERESTING STATISTICS
Organization of North Alabama Rail way Company to be Completed This Week-Rumors Con-
 cerEing Belt Line

! l.. Green, division freight agent of the Southern railway in this city, has compiled statistics showing the number of pig iron furnaces coal mines, coke ovens and flour mills along that company's lines in Ala l bama, Mississippi and part of Georgia. dn number of these establishments and their
 daily capacities will be given; also whether they are idle or in operation. The list of pig iron furnaces includes the following:
 Tennessee Coal. uron and Railway com
 pany-Brmingham 2. Bessemer ,, Ensley
 active 1 idle; Sheffield active, idle; South Pittsburg 2 active, 1 idle; totals, 16 active, idle. The idle furnace at Ensley just being built will go in blast about
 May l.
 Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company
 Birmingham ?, North Birmingham ?, Shelf
 field idle, Florence 1; totals, active, idle. One idle furnace at Sheffield is un-
 dergoing repairs, and will be put in opera tion as soon as completed. Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron eompany-Birmingham idle, Gadsden l, Ironaton 1 active, l idle; totals, active,
 idle The furnace at Birmingham is be- ing rebuilt, and the second one at Irona- ton is to be put in blast very shortly. Republic Iron and Steel company-Thom- as 9 The contract for building an addi- tional furnace at Thomas has been let.
 Woodward Iron company-Woodward 2
 Tutwiler Coal, Coke and Iron company East Birmingham 1.
 nj nH turing company-One furnace al Trussville.
 Woodstock Iron Works-Two furnaces at Anniston, both idle. An effort is being made to reorganize the company and to put both furnaces in operation.
 Jenifer Furnace company-One charcoal furnace at Jenifer just rebuilt and put in operation.
 Alabama Coal, Iron and Railroad eompa- ny-Talladega. 1 furnace.
 Shelby Iron company-one charcoal fur mace at Shelby.
 Bass Foundry and Machine company One charcoal furnace at Rock Run Eagle Iron company-One charcoal fur
 mace at Attalla.
 Southern Iron company-One charcoal furnace at TaTlapoosa, Ga, to be put in operation at once
 Jones Valley Iron company-One furnace
 at Birmingham, now ready to go in hlast
 There are also furnaces at Rome, Ga; Round Mountain, Decatur Teeumseh and Langdon, not included in the above list.
 The grand total of furnaces located along the Sourthern's lines as above shown is 46, of which number 34 are in blast and 12 idle. Within the next few months seven of the twelve idle furnaces will be in blast.
 F'orty-three coal mines in Alabama have openings on the Southern Railway or some one of its branches. Their nnonuhly output is over 16,O0O carloads.
 The number of coke ovens is not given, but their monthly otahput is stated at 3,97O carloads.
 Flour mills are reported in operation at B.rmdngqram. Pleasant Gap, Checcolocco and Sheffield, Ala. and Tampa, Ga. Statistics of cotton mills and fertilizer factories are being collected and will be
 published at an early date.
 North Alabama Railway The organization of the North Alabama Railroad company Will be perfected this week, probably by tomorrow, and the con tract for building the road will be let as soon thereafter as practicable. Captain J. M. FNalkner of Montgomery, district attorney for the Louisville and Nashville in Alabama, and one of the in- corporators of the North Alabama conn., pany, is in the city making arrangements for perfecting the organization. He stated to an AgeIHerald reporter last night that nearly all the details looking ito the organ iza tion had been attended to and that he expected to lBave everything completed by tomorrow afternoon.
 l The stock of the company has all been subscribed for.
 The North Alabama will be organized as an independent line, with a full comple- ment of officers to look ofter it's business. The road will run from Phelan's, Cullman county, through Walker county and thence to Ensley, which will be the southern ter minus.
 MT. Halls Presence W. s. Halls, Jr., of New York, cashier of the Hanover National bank, and a large stockhoIder in the Birmingham Realty company and the Birmingham Belt Rail- road company, is in the city, having arr rived at a late hour Sunday night. It is stated that his presence here at this time | has something to do with the Birmingham | Belt railroad, though no definite announce ment to that effect has been made. It | has been rumored for sometime past that | the belt road would be sold to one of two | railroad systems that are now said to be seeking an entrance to Birmingham. The | Seaboard Air Line and the Chattanooga | Southern have both been mentioned as | probable purchasers of the belt road. It is very likely that MT. Haals' visit may re-