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AT CORDOVA.
The Indian Head Cotton Mills.

About thirty five miles west of Br- mingham. both the Southern and the Kansas City Memphis and Birmingham railroads. is located the town of Cordo- va. which is one of the most interesting and important points in the State. In1 teresting because it occupies the unique position of having within ts limits tn immense cotton factory built upon the surface of rich coal lands and in the very midst of cotton fields and forests of pine timber. This is the location of the great Indian Head Cotton Mills, with its .5 coo sDindles. The coal used for steam making is mined at the very doors of the boiler house. and the raw cotton for manufacture here is grown and gathered within hearing distance of the whistles O. the factory.
 This factory makes a speciality of q class of goods suitable for export, and finds its ready market on the other s.Ge of the globe.
 Cordova deserves more than d passing notice, and it will require columns to tell of it's history and it's wonderful growth. It shall be treated and illus trated fully in a future Issue of the Age Herald
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IMPORTANT FACTOR IN
 WALKERS DEVELOPMENT The SIoss-SheAied Steel 6 Iron Company is Opening ' Mines on Its Valuable Property-A Powerful Agency
 in the Industrial Life of the District

That powerful developing agency, the Sloss-Sheffeld Steel and Iron Company, has not overlooked or neglected Walker County in a distribution of its capital, but is the owner of more than 2O00O acres of the best coal lands in this favored county.
 The America mines, formerly owned by the America Coal and Coke Comua- ny, are at this writing the only mines of the Sloss-Sheffield Company in actual operation in Walker County. but the company is now opening additional mines in the county, which will soon be in full operation.
 The America mine proper has a capaci- ty of 400 tons per day, work having been commenced on this property in the fall of 1892.
 The Ensley Southern railroad, now nearly completed between Parish and Ensley, runs through the coal lands of this company along Bakers creek, and the company is opening up mines along this road, which will have a large ca pacity and be ready for shipping the product as soon as the road is completed, which will be about the 1st of May next.
 At America mines the mode of venti- lation is by steam shuttle blowers, and the openings are four drifts, far above the water level. The thickness of the seam is four feet. A branch of the Southern railway extends to these mines, a distance of about three miles.
 At the Bakers Creek mines, onh the Ensley Southern, the company is to open by drifts, eight or ten in number, and will be enabled to mine coal as cheaply as at any point in the Alabama coal re- gions. Besides the mining of coal here, the company is to erect about 300 coke ovens, thus giving employment to a large number of men and supporting a mining town of considerable importance.
 The Sloss Iron and Steel Company was the first great corporation to produce iron in the Birmingham district on a gi- gantic scale. True, there were pioneers preceding this company, who demon- strated values and possibilities in most
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stockholders. directors and executive T fcerS propose to move it. If the coE nys seven blast furnaces today proc daily 1500 tons of pig iron, her man VI ment is aware that with seven more l .ast furnaces she can produce as much ITO 'e. If her coal mines produce 70o3 tons e. coal per day now, it is only an ins s into the great possibilities for the fut
 The Sloss- Sheffield, or its parent COT pany, was not only the pioneer in 4 work of manufacturing pig iron in nfon- ster quantities in this district, but war first to demonstrate the practicability of establishing a foreign export trade, in order to meet the emergency of de- pressed domestic market at any time. Beginning in 1894, this company exported 10) tons; in 1895, 101 tons; in 1S96 26,26o tons; in 1Sg7 50,S66 tons; in 1898, 66,927 tons; in 1899, 0,3o0 tons.
 The cause of this falling off of exports in 1899 is apparent to any casual obser- vera strong demand and high prices at home. As the foreign iron prices from time to time reach the American parity, the Sloss-Sheff1eld Com any will be ready to meet the conditions
 With land-ownings so great in magni- tude, extending over a dozen counties Of Alabama, rich in its storehouscs of the best steam coal. with supply inexhausti- ble, absolutely owning it's beds of ore and limestone miles of railroad track, fully equipped with locomotives and other modern appliances, it is TO wonder that this great company is such a power m the industrial world; no wonder it's se- curitias command so much attention at the hands of the financial and commer- cial markets; TO wonder 1t Is growing Tn strength and greatness every day. It is a wealth h-producer, a builder, develop CT, an enricher of towns, cities, counties and of the great State of Alabama, the natural resources of which make possi- ble the magnitude and the success of this gigantic enterprise.
 The organization of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company comprises an able corps of officers and managers, as follows:
 President-Mr sE. o. Hopkins.
 Vice-president-Gen. F. w. Fucker.
 General manager-Mr. Priestly Toul- man.
 Secretary and treasurer-Mr. J. W. Mc- Queen.
 Auditor-Mr. c. H. Schooler
 Purchasing and general agent-Mr. Henry Hidden.
 The executive committee consists of the following able fnancers and business men: w. G. Oakman of New York, chairman: Joseph Bryan of Richmond, Va: J. c. Moben of New York. R. 5. VanCortlandt of New York and Sol Haas of Birmingham.
 The policy of this management is ever progressive. The enormous proportions
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Cameron x Garner pumps, etc. It has capacity of 800 tons daily, producing In 1899 some 120,0OO tons of coal.
 No mine is a new drift mine, not fully developed with a present output of 100 tons and a prospective output of 800 tons. The output Is carried to the tipple at No 1 mine by double-track endless rope haulage 1900 feet long, the engine being at No. 1 tipple. This haulage carries the cars back and forth in trips, the grip be- ing attached to the front car in charge of a grip-man.r An abundance of mine timber is found on the property
 This coal Is largely used by the North ern Alabama railroad, by the Sheffield furnaces and the Russellville ore mines. It is not a coking coal.
 At Jasper the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company owns fifty acres of land near the corporate limits of the town, upon which land Is located 301 12- foot beehive ovens in three batteries. The plant is supplied with coal from a storage bin and trestle 6S4 feet long, with a total capacity of 5000 tons. There is q coal. washing plant in connection with the
 
 washing tables of capacity of fifty tons each daily, or 300 tons totaI capacity. The washing plant is complete with crusher elevators, boilers, pumps, etc. The water for washing coal and for quenching coke Is afforded by two artesiea wells three and four inches in diameter, and a creek flowing through the property. The coal Is charged from the storage bin into the coke ovens by means of a dinky locomo- tive and three charging larries running over standard guage tracks along the center of the oven batteries.
 The company owns in connection with the bin a right of three-quarters of a mile long, connecting with the Kansas City Memphis and Birmingham railroad, and d railroad connection one-half a mile long to the Northern Alabama rall- road from the other end of the trestle, thus having independent access to two railroads. The coke oven railroad track from the ovens to the point of junction with the Northern Alabama railroad, in
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They also own their pastors home the present incumbent being your scribe. They always have good congregations and rejoice over the largest Sunday school in the town.
 The Presbyterians date back about twelve or fourteen years. They have somewhere about thirty members, a beautiful house of worship, but no pas tor for the present
 They reign among us as a noble peo- pie, having some of our best citizens among their number, and they continue to labor in their persevering way just as though the best pastor in the country were leading them.
 The Christian church was organized January 6, 1901. They had twenty-nine charter members. That number has in creased to forty-nine in six weeks. They bought and paid for their church house the first of the year. They claim about thirtyfive as an average attendance at Sunday school. They have Rev. R. E. McCorkle as pastor, a well educated and wide-awake preacher. Some of the wealthiest and oldest citizens of the town belong to this church
 Nearly one-third of the people of Jas per belong to these four churches. They all live in perfect peace and harmony, and when pull is to be made for the good of the commonwealth they throw their batallions together and make them selves felt for good.
 We believe our town will compare with almost any other in the country along religious lines, both in numbers and fidel- ity to the cause of Christ and yet we are working, praying and looking for greater developments in the near future
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successful way but it was this giant cor poration which first placed a strong hand upon the resources of the district and achieved results in magnificent proper tions.
 The .Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron Company" and the "Sloss Iron and Steel Company are now written as two, tech ncally speaking; practically and truth fully they are one and the same, and shall be so treated in this articlo.
 Birmingham was in it's infancy when, in 1881, Col J. w. Sloss and his associates organized the Sloss Furnace Company, and built two blast furnaces just beyond the eastern corcorate limits of this city. Just to the west of the city the Alice furnace, under MT. Hillman's manage ment, and six miles below the Oxmoor furnace, were then in blast, and these were the only pig iron plants in the inn mediate district, but they were enough to demonstrate the value and certain success of such enterprises here.
 In 1887 the Sloss Iron and Steel Compa- ny was organized. and at once absorbed the Sloss Furnace Company. Hon. Jo- seph F. Johnston. eX-Governor of Ala bama, was it's first president and he was succeeded by MT. Thomas Seddon, who, after few years of successful manage ment. died Mr. Sol Haas was then made
 
 E. o. Hopkins.
 On the 11th day of August, 1S99 the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron Company was incorporated under the laws of the State of New Jersey with an authorized capital stock of $29 000,000, one-half being preferred stock and the other common. There has been issued of the total ca oi- tai stock $14,2co,0G9, of which s6,70o 600 is preferred and s75eo,00O Is common.
 This cornnanv iS ba owner Of aOa fiIr- mace at Florence and other property there; also the Hattie Ensiey furnace at Sheffield, and a large part of the Lady Ensley furnace, now organized into the North Alabama Furnace Company. The company owns over 110,0C0 acres of coal and iron ore lands directly or through the constituent companies which it con trols. It owns the American coal mines in Walker County and large brown ore mines al Russellville, Franklin County.
 This corporation owns absolutely near company-the Sloss Iron and Steel Com pany-which said latter company is the owner of four blast furnaces In the Bir- mingham district, limestone quarries, over 1O00 coke ovens, and coal mines To- cated at Coalburg, New Found, Brook side, Brazil, Cardiff, Blossburg and West BlossbuTg; two red ore mines at Sloss and one red ore mine near Irondale; also brown ore mines in several different To- calities including one-half interest in the Champion ore mines in Blount County. It also owns the greater part of the Lady ny's properties, and all the capital stock
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The Schools of Jasper.

In educational effort, Jasper is taking front rank among Alabama towns, It is a town In which the idea of popular ed- ucation has long had a strong hold on the people. In former times the Jasper Male and Female Academy occupied promi- nent place in educational circles. This in- stitution was presided over by such edu- cators as Ira Robins, T. J. Lamar Ed H. Foster, now of Howard College; and G. w. Brock, of the present State Board of Examiners At this institution were educated many of Jasper's sons and daughters who have since taken prom
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6ls per cent of the total coke production of the United States.
 It's Alabama coke ovens made 60 per cent of all the coke made Tn Alabama; and it's Tennessee ovens % per cent of the coke made in Tennessee.
 The original charter of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company was granted by the Legislature of Tennessee in 1880, and it afterward acquired the property of the Sewanee Mining Compa- ny, the Southern States Coal, Iron and Land Company and the Sewanee Furnace Company, all in Tennessee.
 In 1886 1t acquired the property of the Alice Furnace Company, Pratt Coal and Iron Company and the Linn Iron Works, all in Alabama,
 In 1892 1t acquired the property of the DaIIardeleben Coal and Iron Company and the Cahaba Coal Mining Company, both in Alabama,
 In 1898 it acquired the control of tine property of the Robinson Mining Gem pany, and built the Ensiey Steel Works.
 In 1899 it acquired the property Of tins Sheffield Coal, Iren and Steel Company and the Smith Mining Company, all in Alabama,
 In 1900 it acquired the Bessemer Rolling Mill Cempanys property at Bessemer, Ala,
 The executive officers of the company are as fellewsi
 N. Baxter, Jr., presidenti J, Bewren. vice president and treasureri G. B. Me Cormack, general manageri Erskine Ramsay, chief engineer and assistant general managerj James L. Gaines, as- sstant general manager in Tennesseei J.: E. Fletcher, Jr., secretary and assistant treasurer,
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of the Russellville Ore Company, Han ton Creek Ore Company, and other porations of like nature
 In a report made March 1, 1900, of property owned and controlled by great corporation is thus summari'
 Seven @ furnaces.
 Three (3) red ore mines. Il
 Two @ brown ore mines.
 Nine (9) coal mines.
 One Q) large limestone quarry
 S23 Beehive and 64 Thomas ovens.
 Eight G) locomotives.
 Eight G) miles of railroad track
 Many miles of tram track.
 Actual ownership of 76, ,435 acres of eral land-Lady Ensley, 32, ,4511a; n. a total of los, S,sS61a acres.
 1C90 houses
 Il stores. =H
 1855 lots in Sheffield.
 22 lots in Florence.
 About 144O acres of brown ore leased.
 These lands are located in about en counties of the State of AlabaI cluding Jefferson, Blount, Marion Is Walker, Franklin, Colbert, Lau and others.
 The coal mines of the company, lii. number, are located as follows:
 Coalburg Brazil, Cardiff, New For three at Blossburg, Brookside an ica. ..gfs
 The main bodies of coal pro e ed by this company are locat is known as the Warrior coal fo the district carrying the Pratt ssh this rich and famous field the eornpdn owns a total of about 50,0OO acres.
 To these vast possessions of natura wealth, iron ore coal and limestone. i inexhaustible quantities, and of the high est grade of excellence, the company, b a wise and progressive management, ha applied all the modern machinery an general appliances that are necessary Q that money can buy and energy and mus cle can use.
 The s-Sheffield Steel and Iron Com pany, though strong financially, and = toying full possession of coal, iron and limestone deposits in inexhal si : quantities, has not even yet atT that powerful position in the wor mining and manufacturing to whic
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MT. Cranford is employed with the large firm of the Long Richardson Mercantile Company. This bureau has all the mod ern facilities for collecting the news of the county, and it's methods are in every way up to date. The managers are eX- pecting to incorporate their bureau at an early date, when Jasper will be the only small town in the State which nas an agency of this kind.
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The Cranford-Smith Correspondence
 Bureau.

The Cranford-Smith Correspondence Bureau, which has been recently organ ized, with headquarters at Jasper Ala, is an organization which has for its pur- pose the collection of news throughout Walker County, and furnishing this news to some of the leading dailes in the South.
 The promoters of this news agency are Messrs Lomax NJ. Smith and H. Wilson Cranford Mir Smith is the local manager of the Postal Telegraph Company, and
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-10-16
$500 IN G SH.

The person guessing the second nearest the number will
TWENTY Fly + DOLLAR Doublebarre SHOT GUN, now IN
exhibition a STONE & CALVERT Hardware Store
The person guessing the Srd number will Fl
TEEN DOLLAR set Of DISHES exhibition at The GILkEl
JARBOE HARDWARE co. on Chckasba
The person guessing the 4h number viii receive the
CHICKASHA DAILY EXPRESS free for year bginanc
uary 1902.
The person guessing the 9th the number
CHlCKASHA DAILY EXPRESS free for six hs. beginning
January lst 1902
Tie person guessing number will receive the
CHICkASHA DAILY EXPRESS for onhs beginning
january st 1902
The circulation of the Express has grown rapidly the past
monhs that believe it will reach the y
November st at which mein it d0es-we will
test bu judgement wrong upon this estimate win
the November 30h 1901 regardless mum Der of city
subscribers
We have adopted plan by which duplicate tie
guessed viii be issued You will receipt aiming
number guessed and viii deposit duplicate of sealed
box the Express Office thus avoiding any mistake
No guess viii be received for than three months subscr
ton SO0 pail in advance In of tie the guess
settle the matter among themselves.
The contest viii close on or before November 3ob 1901
city circulation reaches the thousand before tbs
he presents will be awarded Immediately
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-10-16
Notice.

To whom it may concern: You
are hereby notified that the pert
nership heretofore existing be-
tween J. B. Kyle and Jacob
Lorenson, under the firm name Of
Kyle q LOrenson, IS this day by
mutual consent dissolved, jacob
Lorenson continuing the business,
collecting all accounts due the firm
and paying all debts contracted by
same. Mr.. Lorenson will do bus
iness at the same old stand, and
cordially invites the public and
friends 10 give his harness horses
trial. j. b. Kyle.
Jacob Lorenson
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-10-16


Thomas W. Lawson. yaehaman.
copper king. multimiilionaire. horse
breeder, dog fancier. and gas agitator.
Is going to build a miniature Venice
on the rugged coast Of Maine. He has
bought two islands of StoHi7ston on
Deer Isle. and has an option on twelve
others. which he will pay for whom
the titles are proved to his satisfac-
ton. These islands are situated In
Isle Au Taut bay, and are about IS
miles from the mainland His plans
contemplate the building Of the most
remarkable summer resort In the Uni
ted States The islands are all close
together and many Of them can be con-
nected with bridges. On Saddle Back,
the largest Of the group. about forty
acres in extent, Mr.. Lawson viii erect
a magnificent palace for himself. The
whole matter win be placed in the
hands OF a landscape artist, who viii
furnish plans which win transform the
islands into a Venice of America"
The smaller islands will be cleared OF
everything unsightly. but everything
which shows the rugged beauty Of the
group viii be left untouched. On some
Of the larger islands there win BE- con-
and vine-coverod yesti-
Dules. Miniature parks viii be filed
with deer. bears, gray squirrels, part
ridges. and every game animal that
ives in Maine. The whole cost Of the
project viii be above 81 900 ,0e0.-Bos-
on Correspondence Philadelphia
North American.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-10-16
Priza Eating Contest

"Ihey had ain eating contest the
other night at Pin Hook sch pol
house.
Who won?
ben Sputters-he ate nine head
Of cabbage"
"Didn't it make him sick?"
"No. lie just took a spoonful
OF Dr. Caldwelrs Syrup Pepsin.
That prevents stomach trouble Of
any kind, they sayiv
AT d. 6. Hart's.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-10-16

A gentleman who mas made a study
Of the subject has come to the con-
ciusion that the American face IS not
distinctive in any sense Of the word.
Or II It has any distinctive feature il
is In the fact that there is no strong
characteristic that would dinerenuate
It from other faces OF superior races.
There Is nothing that will cali II I'D in
the mind from the worlds group Of
Caucasian faces.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-10-16
FOR PNEUMONIA.

Or. @ J Bishop, Agnew, dch.
says: II have used Foley's Hon
ey and Tar in three very severe
cases of pneumonia with good re-
suits in every case Beware OF
substitutes. Jas. Pettyjohn.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-10-16

Mr.. J. W. Patterson, night pO-
lice IN Nashua, Ia. says: sin Jan
aaIy l had a very bad cold on my
lungs, and used half a dozen diff.
lerent cough medicines and pre-
scripliOns from two doctors. but
grew worse all the time. ] final
iy bought a bottle of Foley 8
Honey and Tar and after using
two-thirds Of it, l was entirely
cured rs. Pettyjohn, druggist,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-10-16
Pecans in the Jar and Get $25, or a Double
Barrel Shot Gun, ar a Set
of Fine Dishes.
YOUR GUESS COSTS NOTHING.

WE have decided to give away several valuable presents abs
utely free to the readers of the DAILY EXPRESS.
desirous Of increasing city one
and copies and have decided make the following splendid
We have large glass ar-an aquarium with pecans
no knows how many there the jar which Will be
securely and j exhibition at Office.
Every subscriber of the Express who pays three
scrpuon Sl 00 either subscriber renewal viii be
entitled free gusss the number Of pecans in the JAR
seon CITY CIRCULATION has reached thous-
and 000 bon fde subscribers the 30th day November
1901 will have committee composed of three representative
business Ell Of whom shall be dneresed parties the
pecns guessing the number number
necans will receive absolutely FREE present Of
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-10-16
Cheap Insurance

Many a man has been insured
against Brighps disease. diabetes
or other dangerous ailment by a
fifty cent bottle Of Folcy's Kidne
Cure.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-10-16

DO you want that $1,000 in
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months subscription in advance
on ihe Daily Express, and guess
az The number Of pecan in the
jar.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-10-16
VIM. Cameron & Co.

HAVE The Largest Stock of Lum-
Der and other building material
ever shipped to the Indian Territ'y
The quality Of all our stuff is the
best Of the grade--Our Lumber is
all in Sheds, perfectly dry and our
sheds constructed so that is easy
to load. We have plenty Of almost
everything in the building line, We
carry very large stock of sash
and doors and doors. Lime, Cement
and there is hardly bill that we
can't fill.
d located South of Early Hotel, on {
ner Of Iowa and 3rd Street.