The age-herald., 1901-01-23
OFFICES WILL BE
 OPENED AT ONCE Southern Car 6 Foundry Con- pany Removes Its Force HEVANGUARD OF THE PLANT Captain Elliott Arrived Yesterday and Will be Followed Today by Car
 load of Records and Fix
 lures He Talks.
THE VANGUARD OF THE PLANT

The general offices of the Southern Car and Foundry Company will be opened up in this city tomorrow morning and about forty officers and clerks will thereby be- come citizens of Birmingham.
 Quarters for the company have been se- cured in the Fox building, Fourth avenue and Nineteenth street, the entire second floor having been leased for that purpose
 Capt. J. M. Elliott of Gadsden, president of the company, came to Birmingham yes terday, and his office force and the books records and other office equipment will ar rive at noon today They will come in a special car provided for that purpose.
 Captain Elliot was seen in his room at the Metropolitan Hotel last night and asked when work on the car plant would begin He stated that engineers were now survey ing and stalking off the site, and that as soon as this work is done the work of con- structing the buildings will begin This will probably be within the next two or three weeks It will be eight or ten months ready to make cars
 Captain Elliott Talks.
 The Memphis papers now claim that the Binghampton car works in that city, prop erty of the Southern Car and Foundry Company, which it has been stated, are to be removed to this city and consolidated with the local plant, will remain in Mem phis. The Commercial-Appeal says the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company has given the plant in that city an order for 300 cars to cost about $2OOO00, with the understanding they are to be made in Memphis.
 in J,ie cation in the Commercial-Appeal was true.
 You can say" said Captain Elliott, that the building of the car works here does not in way depend on the removal of the Memphis plant We are going to build a plant at Ensley to make steel cars regard less of what disposition is made of the Memphis works. The Memphis car works have been idle for a long time and it was our intention to tear the plant down and remove it here and to such portions of it were suitable in the construction of the new plant. The Memphis works can not make steel cars. If this plan has been abandoned by the company I have not been advised to that effect
 Will Reach Out for Business.
 General Manager Charles w. Prosser was in Philadelphia a few days ago. and while there closed a contract with the Choc- Jaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad for 300 box cars. If the contract stipulates that the cars are to be made in Memphis I have not been. so informed.
 MT Prosser is now in St Paul looking after somelarge orders that are to be placed some time soon. You see we are not going to confine ourselves to the South, but intend entering the North and West for business"
 Captain Elliott stated that the local car works would not be completed until fall, but that when they are finished will be the best in the country.
 The site selected for the local plant is near the Ensley steel mill lying between that plant and Slope No. of the Pratt mines. The buildings will be so situated that coal can be dumped right out of the mine into the furnace rooms.