The age-herald., 1901-07-28
One of the Most Potent Fac tors in Development
 of the State
ITS VARIOUS PROPERTIES
Company Operates Four Furnaces, 435 Coke Ovens and Mines 36o,o0o Tons of Coal Per Annum-Vai-
 uabIe Ore Lands.

witha capitalization of 5000, 900. with ties In inexhaustible quantities. with all modern appliances for mining and man. ufacturing. the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company ranks among the largest and most potent factors in the material development of this State, and the company is performing well it's part in the work of building up and enriching the mineral section of Ala bama, and in demonstrating the respon- sive qualities of our natural resources.
 The capitalization of this company is divided as follows:
 Preferred stock, $2,5O0,000 ' per cent cumulative, and s2.5OO,0OO common stock This company does not owe dollar, has not single outstanding bond and pays regular dividends to its preferred stock holders. Thus 1t will be observed that the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company occupies a happy and unique position among the great mining and manufacturing corporations of the world.
 Officers of the Company.
 The officers of the company are as fol- lows:
 President-T c. Bush. Birmingham.
 e-President-John E. Searles.
 Secretary and Treasurer-Charles T. Westcott.
 Thomas, John E. Searles, New York; ]. William Middendorf, Summerfield Baldwin. Douglass H. Gordon, Richard Fl. Edmonds and William Seddon, Bal timore. Mid, and T. G. Bush, Birming- ham.
 This corporation owns and operates four furnaces with combined capacity of 156.oO0 tons of pig iron per annum. Three of these furnaces are now in oper- ation. producing an average of 125 tons of pig iron per day apiece, and the three 125.Oo tons per year. Two of the fur naces are located at Ironaton one at Gadsden and fourth at Birmingham. Mary Pratt, the Birmingham furnace, has been thoroughly overhauled and will be put in operation.
 The capacity of the coal mines of the company now in operation is 30,000 tons per month, or 36O,0O0 tons of coal per annum. This capacity is being regularly. increased and will be much greater in the near future.
 NThe company owns 4S5 coke ovens and has a monthly productive capacity of 14000 tons of coke or 10000 tons per arnum As In the case of the furnaces and coal mines. the coke producing ca- pacity of the company is being added to and will be much greater this time next year.
 The company absolutely owns the fol- lowing well known properties. all situ- ated in Alabama:
 At Ironaton.
 The property of the Chiffon Iron Com pany with it's two blast furnaces at Ironaton. on the Alabama Mineral Di- vision of the l.. & N. Railroad. These furnaces are in the now famous brown ore district Of these No. l stack is Toftx15ft; ie. 70 feet In height, 16 feet in diameter of both, diameter of hearth 10 feet, supported by three Whitewell-Cow- per fire brick stoves, two of which are 16 feet high; two Weimer Blowing En- zines, with five batteries, two flue boil CTS, and all the necessary buildings. tres ties, tracks. etc, for making the furnace complete in its operation. Under nomi- nal conditions this furnace will produce an output of fifty thousand tons of pig iron per annum.
 No. ? furnace stack is 60ftx14ftx9ft, sup ported by three Whitewell-Cowper stoves, steel shells 60 feet high and IS feet in di- ameter. This furnace has just been thor oughly overhauled and its minimum ca pacity is 50.0O0 tons per annum.
 The ore mine equipment of this partic- ular property consists of three modern ore-washers, with all necessary boiler and engine power, etc.; two Barnhardt steam shovels, and three narrow guage locomo- lives. with all necessary tracks leading to the stock house; also two standard guage locomotives or switching cars and handling slags from furnace.
 Connected herewith are waterworks with two pumping stations, affording an ample supply of water. The reservoir