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OTHER GREAT FACTORS
 IN HER RAPID PROGRESS
Strong Companies Whose Industrial Development Has Placed Walker in the Front Ranks Among the Coal Producing
 Counties of the State-What They Are Doing

the product of the mines and the coke ovens for the next two years is all that could be desired.
 The cost of mining this coal is less than many mines in the district because of its larger seam.
 Rates of freight are in line with rates from other mines in the district. and the coal Is being shipped to nearly all the South Atlantic ports, and even to Iexas points, while it's coke is being shipped as far West as California and Mexico IL is a fact that may prove revelation to those who do not fully understand the magnitude and importance of the Walker county coal industry that the Ivy Coal and Coke Company Is daily shipping coke to the gold and silver smelting concerns of the Pacific coast, Mexico and Kansas with a freight rate of from $6.50 to S9.S5 per ton. This snows the important necessity for water trans portation and is strong argument In favor of national encouragement to the waterways
 conservative estimate of the value of the property as whole could not well be placed below S600,00 It employs about 12O0 men, supports over 40OO peo- ple has a pay roll of $300,0O0, and it's out put of coal in 1901 will exceed 500,0O0 tons or nearly as much coal per month as was mined Gs the State of Alabama per an mum thirty years ago.
 historical fact worth relating is that before the civil war MT. Ben Allen, an old settler, now deceased. and who orig inally owned part of the land upon which these mines are now located, opened small mine on this same property where Horse Creek flows into Warrior river. There he built timber rafts, and upon these floats loaded heavily with what was then known as Black Warrior coal. Dur ing high water he foated his rafts or timber down to Mobile, selling the pro- duct of his little mine and the timber or his rafts az very high prices. This was the beginning of the coal trade of Walk CT county which has now grown to such immense proportions.
 Several illustrations of the different veins of the Ivy Coal and Coke Compa-
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One of Walker county's giant mining companies is the Ivy Coal and Coke Com pany.
 The officers of this company are the following well known business men of Birmingham: w. c. Shackleford, presi- dent; B. F. Moore, vice-president; Walter Moore, general manager; J. V. Allen,
 .ecretary; and the headquarters are in
 his city.
 The property consists of something
 over twelve thousand Q2,0OO acres of
 coal land, situated in townships IA, 15
 and Is, ranges , and 6 west, in Walker
 md Jefferson counties. The property is
 underlaid with seam of coal averaging
 seven feet in thickness and some places
 sows a seam as thick as eight and nine
 feet. Biologists estimate that the prop
 erty contains 50,OOoOOO tons of coal
 The coal makes an excellent furnace and foundry coke, and has been used for some years for that purpose and is still being used extensively. The company | claims that they produce the very best sulphur coke in Alabama
 There are several excellent streams of | water running through the property, af- l fording ample facilities for washing pur- poses in the preparation of the coal for | colIing, and for drainage.
 The Kansas City, Memphis and Bir-
 mingham Railroad tracks reach all the l mines of the company in Walker, except l Davis or Mountain Top mine which is l directly on the line of the Southern Rail- l way. Surveys have been made for a line of road connecting the Kansas City, 1 Memphis and Birmingham with the l Southern, which runs through the proper l ty for about five miles. Beginning at | Horse Creek and at Mountain Top the company is working it's seams both ways with view to reaching a meeting point l thus making complete connection and af- l fording excellent shipping facilities. The main body of the property of this | company is located within twenty-seven
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miles of Birmingham. on the K. c. M X B.. the Southern Railway and the War rior river. and the company possesses a river front of eight miles along the prom ising stream.
 The capacity of the mines at this time is 2OOO tons per day, and this capacity can be enlarged to 15,0O0 tons per day by making openings along the tracks al ready laid, to say nothing of the m creased facilities which will be afforded by the new tracks soon to be constructeu,
 The company now has one hundred coke ovens, which produce about 600 tons of coke per day. Arrangements have been made to build another battery or one hundred ovens
 This company's frontage Of eight miles on the Warrior river is of very great value Coal barges are now operated from Mobile to a point on this river slx- teen miles below this property, and the liberal appropriations by Congress to- ward the extension of the lock system of the river upon the continuous con tract system insures the opening of the stream to the property of the Ivy Coal and Coke Company
 The coal now shipped to Southern ports by barges from the section of country Tn which this property is situated IS mined thirty miles DelOW lHe punt oii thO iiNSi from which it is expected ultimately to reach the gulf with this coal.
 The mines on this property, when the river is made navigable, will be the only mines with this large seam of coal com- peting for business. It is confidently stated by the management of this com pany that this property can produce the cheapest coal in Alabama, and that it will, in all proba bility, be able to control export trade through the gulf.
 The Improvements, fixtures, etc, al- ready on the property cost more than s1O0OO0 and are in good repair and being used daily. These improvements and per sonal property consists in part as follows: Two hundred and sixty (260) good bee hive ovens and set of disintergraters, washers, with engines and boilers for op- erating same; ten rails and train tracks; about 300 tram cars; four batteries of boilers and four large hoisting engines; about fifty mules; two hundred and thir- ty-four (234) two and four room tenement houses and all kinds of tools necessary for the keeping up and maintenance of plant of 2O00 tons daily capacity.
 So attractive is this coal to the markets that this company has always had and now has, more orders than it can fill with promptness and the demand for
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VA. AND ALA. COMPANY.
One of the Most Enterprising Con-
 cerns in the District.

A description of the mineral wealth and development of Walker county could not be properly drawn without reference to Patton and Coal Valley mines. the property of the Virginia and Alabama Coal Company, which has it's general of- fees at Patton. Ala. on the line of the Southern Railway, fifty 5O miles west of Birmingham, fifteen d5) miles west of Warrior river and two hundred and forty (240) miles east of Greenville on the Mississippi river.
 The property of this company consists of six thousand five hundred and sixty five (6565) acres fronting on the railway more than six miles, thus affording most excellent shipping facilities. The land is generally hily and grandly picturesque, rising six hundred feet above sea level. It is abundantly watered and drained by Wolf and Cane creeks and tributary streams and is well timbered with pine, oak hickory, poplar and other woods. There are five workable seams of coal on this property, viz:
 Tons. Corona seam 4S inches thick, and
 will yield .......... ...... .....-.. W,UoU,U9 New Castle seam, 38 inches thick
 and will yield ...... .... ........ 20,000,00 Rene Creek seams, 28 inches
 thick, and will yield ...... .... ,006 Jefferson seam, 30 inches thick,
 and will yield ..... ...... ...... 100000 Black Creek seam, 30 inches
 thick, and will yield ...... ...... 15, 900 The top seam (Corona) Is being worked at Patton, on the extreme Western edge of the property, and at Coal Valley mines on the eastery edge of the property Deep valleys have cut through this vein, showing it in many places, giving excel- lent facilities for drift mining and good access to the railway, and mines here can be developed to any daily capacity re- quired. Natural conditions at this point are all that could be desired for econom- ical development.
 The coal from this vein is black and lustrous, breaks into hard cubical blocks.
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months ago between the United Mine Workers and Knights of Labor, MT. Gilreath "stilled the troubled waters" st his place by recognizing the rights ot both, and declaring that neither organi- zation should be molested-that as one had rights, so had the other; and thus succeeded in keeping the men steadily at work without interruption, when so many ot the other mines were forced to close for @ time,
 MT Gilreath is ever in entire sympathy and close touch with his men They know understand and love him. At Pocahontas they have a Methodist and a Baptist church and nourshing school for whites, and a union church and school for col ored. The M E. Sunday school is under the superintendence of MT Gilreath's general superintendent, MT. Robert Maxim and he is as earnest in the work as he is in his daily occupation.
 MT Gilreath gives literally from ms personal means to the support of these churches and schools, and the writer heard him make proposition to the col ored miners to the effect that if they would build a new church and school house. he would donate lot and pay half the cost of the building. He talks kindly with his men in and out of sea son worships with them, and makes them feel that he is S most sympathetic em- uoyer. No wonder, then, that Pochahon- tas mines are proving so valuable and re- muneratiVe.
 Pochahontas is bulded upon beauti- ful site-high, dry, undulating, well drained and is perfectly healthful. The white school there Is under the superin- tendence of Prof J. D. Hollis, a most worthy gentleman, d scholar and sue cessful teacher. He has an enrolment of ninety-four, auong them a son of MT. Gilreath, Brice Gilreath, who is there away from home to enjoy the advantages of Prof Hollis superb training and the upexcclled healthf6lness of Pochahontas.
 Among the prominent citizens of Po- chahontas Is Dr. J ". Linn physician. surgeon and preacher, a large property hnide, ,i Pnehahontas and Carbon fill.
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Empire Coal and Coke Company.

This is one of the strongest and most progressive of all the coal companies of Walker, though perhaps among the youngest. It owns 14,0OO acres of genuine coal lands in township IA, range and west. Nearly all of this immense body of land covers the Black Creek and lief ferson seams of coal, and the company is now developing it upon large scale. The K. c. M. & B. Railroad is now rap idly constructing branch line from point near Horse Creek to this property,
 a distance of nine miles, and it is expect ed that the work will be completed with in a few weeks. Bad weather has great ly retarded this work. else 1t would have been finished before this date. The road
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YELLOW PINE TIMBER.
The Milling Interests of J. J. ana '. U
 Long.

Amonq the most progressive and sue cessf,l business men of Walker CountE are Messrs. J. J. and c. D. Long, who make their home in Jasper. Their prin- cipal business is sawmilling, and they have made it one of the principal indus tries of the county. Their mills are io- cated about twelve miles northeast oi Jasper. and they have capacity or 4o'ooo to OOO0 feet per day. They are no" cu.- ting and hauling 10000 feet per oay' There being no railroad reaching thi7 timber belt, the Messrs. Long are uslhs mules and heavy wagons. They use aal- Iv fourteen four-mule teams to bring the nroduct of their mills to the rallroad tracl, at Jasper. and it is a magnificent sight to behold these splendid teams passing through the streets ot the to"n' They own 5000 acres of maghince"' tract of timber land. These lahos aie covered with giant yellow pines' many oi which trees are perfect giants, iour anu e,,a feet in diameter and 100 feet high to the first limb, and the forest IS practical- lv untouched as yet. Many thousahus ol acres of these timber lands so ITCH anu valuable constitute much of the wealth of Walker County. Expert lumbermeh from Michigan have visited this timber belt, and have expressed astonisnmen' at what they saw, declaring it to be the richest and most magnificent forest n the South. The Messrs. Long nave cut as much as 53OOO feet off of two acres and MT. J. O. Collins made cut ol 4o, 900 feet off of one acre or the same tray.
 The Messrs. Long find ready sale Tor tbDa nroduct of their mills to the Kansas City Memphis and Birmingham Rail- road. this company using 1t along It's en- tire line from Birmingham to Kansas City for bridge construction ana car building. ,a ,oan,
 Fifty men, eighty-five mules ana many oxen constitute the working iorce u Longs mills The families or 'hese i'''ii
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The annual consumption of coal by amboats on the Mississippi river, s9amships coaling at New Orleans, 1 lisiana sugar plantations and other pts South of Greenville, Miss, inac- sible to railroad deliveries, is more 7fone and a half million tons.
 we years ago Alabama coal was prac-
 iy unknown to this trade, the SUD-
 coming from Pittsburg, Pa, in coal
 barges and other river crafts.
 nen the Georgia Pacific rialroad was
 the officials of that road having
 mind this market for the product of
 coul mines developing on line Of their
 8, erected an extensive plant at
 nville Miss, for handling coal from
 pad cars into barges and boats on river This plant stood for years as nument to the enterprise of the rail-
 not enough coal passing over 1t
 ear to scrape the rust off the pans.
 ing the year 1892 the receivers of
 Richmond and Danville Railroad
 any undertook, in connection with nc. pal operators on the line of the
 to organize a company for the pur
 of acquiring tow boats, barges and T sftff equipment necessary for trans fting coal from Greenville to New Or nens and intermediate points. The ne- ~o ~oiGti5ns were unsuccessful, and the va ert at Greenville still remained as 4o the passing fleets of Pittsburg Wnl, t some day Alabama coal would a fact |
 r4 ,, at effort to get into this market s"e,, fEa&1e during the year 1896 by the coal operators, aided by the Southern Railway Company, which had come into possession of the Georgia Pacific Rail way A contract was made with the Ella Layman Tow Boat Company of Charleston, w. Va, under which this concern agreed to furnish the necessary transportation facilities on the river and to transport the coal from Greenville to New Orleans and intermediate points, Az last it appeared that Alabama coal had secured a right of way on the river, aid there was great joy in the camp of
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Total.

Very truly,
 VIM B. PHILLIPS.
 Jasper, Ala, February 24, 1891. MT. L. B. Musgrove Jasper, Ala Dear Sir: An unavoidable accident pre- vented the completion of the water an- alyss as soon as I had hoped. 1 inclose it herewith:
 The water is remarkable for the large content of the bicarbonate of soda and sulphate of potash !, It's freedom from lime renders it peculiarly adapted for steam purposes. It is a good water for all domestic and business purposes.
 Very truly yours,
 VIM. B. PHILLIPS.
 Prof Chem. Univ. Ala.
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PoCAHoNTAs MINES.
By the GiIreath Coal and Iron Com
 pany.


 These mines are located on the Kansas City. Memphis and Birmingham Railroad, about ffty-fve miles west of Birming ham, The company has it's principal of fees in Birmingham, MT, Belton Gilreath is the president and general manager; MT. Robert Maxim is general superintend- ent and MT. J. D. Roper is superintend- ent of mines. They use the fan system of ventilation, and work the Jagger seam 1 feet inches; the opening IS a shaft No explosive gas has ever been detected in this inc. The Pocahontas mines pro- duce an excellent quality of lump coal for domestic consumption, and very su- perior quality of steam coal, which finds ready market for every ton raised, The capacity of these mines is about 500 tons per day and about 150 men are here em- ployed.
 The present company assumed control of these mines about three years ago with President Gireath in direct control. At that time the place, and the mines, the workmen and all concerned, were in chaotic and disordered state, and the outlook seemed discourasing. The men were restless. strikes were threatened, and the moral atmosphere around Poca- hontas was not what it should be.
 There is not a more energetic, liberal and progressive systematizer and develop CT in the State than Belton Gilreath. He understands human nature well; and eX- ercises moral suason rather than harsh fneans in the management of measures ard men. He took hold of Pochahont IS with determination to bring order out of confusion; and today there is not better regulated mining town than that m the State, not more remuerative piece a. property, not happier or more con tented set of working men. About 1000 men, women and children live in neat and comfortable houses, with their gar dcns and fruits, in and around Pocha- hontas; all supported by the mines. The citizenship is composed of about two thirds white and one-third colored, and all work along harmoniously together When the differences occurred some
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lMPORTANR FACTOR IN
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 ~-~~------>~-~>-----~~~-- of the enterprise, which they are so sue cessfully handling the business judg- ment and financial acumen necessary to guide such an enterprise: the fact that an army of men are employed by the company, every man to his place, and every man to do his part daily. in the great work stamps this management as one of great value as factor in the ma terial development of this section, and as q management upon which depends much the future growth, development and general success of the Birmingham dis- trict, and the continued progress and ad- vancement of the industrial South.
 We write and read of the Sioss-Shef- field Iron and Steel CoIr Jany as one Of the great developing agencies of the min ing and manufacturing district of Ala bama, and one which is entitled to high position in the list of those potent agen- cies which go to make Birmingham all that she is, as a city of present strength and future greatness.
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The ,orona Coal and Coke Company.

This company. with mines in sight or Lockhart, owns 1S000 acres of coal lands. It was one of the first mines opened af- ter the Southern Railway was built, and the company was organized by Messrs. L. B. Musgrove, H. c. Prick, Richard Coulter of Pennsylvania, and Congress- man George Heff of Chattanooga. It was first known as the Penn-Mobile Com pany. The company soon after it's organ ization bought the property of Banks, Billups X Co., of Columbus, Miss, and the consolidation was named the Corona Coal Company.
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men live near the mills, and form a hap py and prosperous little community or settlement.
 Yellow pine lumber is now the most valuable in the market, and to compute the value of Walkers great forest in dol lars and cents would be almost impos- sible Enough to say there's richness there."
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WALKER COUNTY COAL ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER
 Veopmen of the Trade Has Passed the Experimental Stage / And the Alabama Product is Fast Driving PiSbufg N Operators from the Market

will be nine miles long. The company however, is not awaiting the completion df the road, but is going ahead opening the mines and getting out many thou sands of tons of coal, which is being stored ready for transportation as soon as the railroad is ready for business.
 Ten or fifteen openings are to be made and a large force of miners are already there as busy as busy can be.
 The quahty of the coal is said to be very superior and it can be mined much more cheaply than the average. All the drainage of the mine is natural.
 Five hundred houses have been con tracted for. and many of them are now in course of construction at the mines, and 25o9 people will soon dwell within sound of the whistles there.
 Under the mana cement of MT. H. w. Ml,neT, the superintendent, the impo.tan development is going on so auspiciously.
 The slack from these mines is to be coked, and the coke will be extremely low in ash and high in carbon.
 MT H. W. Miner is well equipped for the work of developing and managing this magnificent enterprise and 1t is confidently predicted that great success is bound to follow his commendable and indomitable spirit of progress and devel- opment It is the influence of such men that is making Walker county richer ev- cry year.
 The authorized capital of the Empire Coal and Coke Company is $700,000 the actual capital S434,O The high-class coal from these mines is to be used for steam and domestic purposes, and the slack for coking. A large battery of coke ovens is to be erected at once. and an abundance of coke is to be shipped to the far West and to the foundries of the South.
 The officers of this company are: MT. F. M Davis of New York, president; MT C. A. Stnlman, secretary and treas urer: MT. H. w. Milner, secretary and treasurer.
 J. R. kilgore & Son.
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swer was: 'rhey should love each other" Tst.er
 This he declares is the full solution of the problem.
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ny's mining property embellish this is- sue of the Age-Herald, and each. one tells the story of the progress and develop ment of Walker county.
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GOOD WATER.
The Artesian We'll at Jasper.
ANALYSIS NO. 1174. Jasper, Ala, February "A, 1891.

To Mir l.. B. Musgrove, Jasper, Ala
 Dear Sir: The sample of artesian water received at the laboratory February ?, 1s91 marked Prom well at Jasper, Ala" and representing sample received from you, contains:
 Total solids, per gallon. n.........67.5 grains
 Consisting of
 Sodium bicarbonate ........ .......... 39. 50 Sodium chloride. ... ............. ...... 3.60 Potassium sulphate..... ............ .. 10.30 Silica. ...... ............ .............. .. 4.00 Loss on combustion. ........... .... 1000 Lime........ ........ ............. ...... trace Magnesia ...... ................. trace Oxide of iron. ......... ....... trace Oxide of alumnia.... ...... .... ..... trace
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J. R. kilgore & Son.

MT. j. R. Kilgore is perhans one of th best known citizens of Walker County
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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-06-29
ne s.nner ~. a AM n. GLORY.

The SsnAer Man in All His Glory.
Take him as a whole, and the sum-
mer man promises to be q garieh and
gorgeous spectacle this summer. His
shirts and neckwear are to be lesplend-
mt with the most striking of reds and
blues, %lavenders and greens, and q
general tumble Of all Of them. With
these r worn with the white ducks
and hannels that fashion 4 y win be
the eminently proper things for outing
suits. the effect will be picturesque, to
nay the least, especially as the straw
hats are to be OF a sort that will top all
this showiness very properly. White
canvas and tam are to be the colors for
footwear. and, as the knickerbockers
and plaid golf stockings will also be
proper when one is not dressed for
company, the male animal promises to
be, in his own estimation at least, a
thing Of beauty and a fitting mate for
the ummer girl.