The age-herald., 1901-07-28

near the furnace. has capacity of s.oOO,- 900 gallons.
 All necessary buildings are here erected --store building. stables. office building. 12s dwellings for employees. machine shop. carpenter shop, blacksmith shop. etc. all thoroughly equipped.
 The lands connected with this plant are exceedingly valuable and consists of 25OO acres of mineral lands, 500 acres of which are located near the furnaces. and SS, 292 acres of other lands, 12,000 acres of which Is heavily timbered with long-leaf yellow pine; also 179O acres of timber grants
 The ore owned by the Ironaton division Is high-grade brown hematite. low In phosphorus, and shows an average or 50 per cent. metallic iron by analysis. II is delivered directly from the washers to the stock house at an average cost ol about 60 cents ,per ton.
 The company has here farm capable of producing the feed for the large num- Der of live stock which it owns.
 The iron produced by these Ironaton furnaces is of high grade. It Is sought for special purposes and usually com mands a premium over the average coke iron.
 The Gadsden Furnace and Ore Lands.
 This furnace is located at Gadsden, on the Coosa river, and has the advantage of the Louisville and Nashville, the South ern and the Alabama Great Southern railroads which connect here, also on the Coosa river The site consists of thirty acres of land within one mile of the city of Gadsden. The stack is IT feet ball and 75 feet high.
 It will be remembered that this furnace was out of operation for number of years, but when a few months ago the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Com. thorough repair, and now has an output of 1000 tons per week. It was remodeled and all necessary improvements. engine and boiler power were provided.
 The Ore Lands.
 The ore lands belonging to this plant are especially valuable. They consist of red hematite ore, large part of which is located within mile or two of the fur mace, and is being delivered at a very low rate of freight. This ore property, in con- nection with other valuable red-ore prop erty (about zoo acres), which has been ac- quired, constitute a Head of red ore" ten or twelve miles in length, estimated to contain 50O0,0O0 to 6OOO,O0O tons of ore above water level. It is of excellent quail ity, and with small percentage of brown ore, will make a very superior quality of iron.
 An abundant supply of very high grade lime rock, with face of 300 feet, has been discovered and is now being opened at a point within few miles of Gadsden, and not far from the Clifton or Ironaton fur naces. and from here both plants will be supplied.
 Thus 1t will be seen that all the condi- tions at Gadsden are unusually favorable for producing iron at low cost.
 Near AttalIa. A recentHatrpke Of # fprise on, the the red ore properties'M the Attalla Ore Mining Company near Attalia, Ala, and red ore properties on Shinbone Ridge, in the same vicinity. The Attalla properties already have openings, the daily output ofswhich Is in the neighborhood of BOO tons of high grade ore per day. with a solid lead of ore for four and half miles. This ore bed will be found available for the furnace at Gadsden, tho furnaces at Iron aton and Birmingham and for the general markets either at Birmingham or in the Chattanooga field. the property being very conveniently situated with reference to all these territories.
 Standard Coal company's Property Is another of the very important and val uable constituent parts of the Alabama Consolidated. This property is situated in Tuscaloosa county, on the Birmingham Mineral Division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
 It consists of 32211 acres of land. It has been estimated that 1S,OOO to 24.OOo of high grade coal for domestic, steam and colSing purposes, aggregating for the three upper workable seams 150, 900 to 200.000,000 tons. This Is independent of the coal reserves lying some 800 or more feet below. Fourteen thousand acres of this land is covered by long-leaf yellow pine timber worth at least $5 per acre. The re- mainder of the land is also well timbered with pine and hard wood suitable for min ing purposes.
 This property has been in operation for twelve years. and the mines now have a daily output of 800 tons of coal.
 At the mines at Brookwood and Mill dale there are 300 buildings Ca veritable town), including offices, houses. stores and tenement houses, and all necessary buildings for the mines.
 There are POP modern Bee Hive coke ovens. from which there Is being pro- duced 200 tons of coke per day.
 The plant is well equipped with all mod ern appliances. including coal washers, hoisting engines. boilers, machine shops, blacksmith shops, etc, and complete system of waterworlks including pumping station, reservoir, hydrants and wells.
 The construction of additional coke