The age-herald., 1901-01-20
GROWTH OF THE
 LIME INDUSTRY Wonderful DeveIopment That is Being Made in Alabama.
 Some Facts

The lime industry of Alabama Is much greater than most people imagine. It's growth in the past few years has been wonderful, and it's possibilities are yet to be ascertained. Something more than half a million dollars are invested in the differ ent plants in the State, and the production last year aggregated nearly one million barrels of lime.
 The markets for the Alabama product extend from the Carolinas to Louisiana and from Tennessee to Florida. In common with all other industrial lines in the South, the lime business in 1900 made rapid strides, and the prospects for 1901 are bright for even a better trade than in 1900.
 John B. Lagarde of Anniston, president of the Lagarde Lime and Stone Company, has compiled some figures for the Age-Her aid which will be intere sting in this con- nection MT. Lagarde is one of the most progressive manufacturers in Alabama, and has built up an important business in the Anniston district. In discussing the lime industry he says:
 ''The lime business for the year just pass ed naturally shared the same activity and phenomenal proportions of other raw mate- rials in this State which entered into the construction of new enterprises and gen
 
 so markedly. The many millions of brick and stone laid in the last twelve months in the construction of what seems almost a veritable tidal wave in the way of new cotton mills and other buildings for indus tries kept pace with the wonderful stride of activity that has unabatingly framed commercial fancies into towering struc- lures of work and system in this wonder full Southern country is indeed unprece- dented. Then Louisianas great sugar in- dustry uses large proportions of Alabama s annual production of lime for the clarifica- tion of cane juice The quantities used for that purpose, however, vary in accord ance with the size of the crop, which for tn year just passed and for several years previous has been noticeable for it's con siderable increase.
 A Conservative Estimate.
 "A conservative estimate of the physical capacity of Alabama lime plants, situated principally in the Anniston and Calera dis tricts with less than half a dozen smaller plants in other parts of the State, shows the same to be nearly million barrels a year. The name and location and daily ca- pacities of the different plants in the two districts referred to are as follows:
 "Anniston district-Lagarde Lime and Stone Company Lagarde, 600 barrels; Woodstock Iron Works, Rock Springs, 300 barrels; Anniston Lime and Stone Compa- ny, Cobb City, 25 0barrels; Alabaster Lime Company, Tredegar, 50 barrels: total daily capacity of the plants in the Anniston dis trict, 12O0 barrels.
 ''Calera district-Longview Lime Works, Longview, 800 barrels; Calera Lime Works, Calera, 175 barrels; J. B. Randall, Calera, 150 barrels; c. L. O'Neil, 100 barrels; R. E. Bowdin 75 barrels; Wagner Lime Works, 75 barrels; total daily capacity in the Ca- lera district, 1075 barrels.
 ha al Ire of Chauac1a with 200 barrels capacity, and the Fort Payne Lime Company of Fort Payne, with 75 barrels capacity, make a total for the State of 2550 barrels per day, or 91S,0O0 bar rels as the annual production of lime in Alabama.
 Tt is conservatively figured that all of the above plants enjoy business that en- ables them to run at least within 50 per cent. of their physical capacity, which would make the actual annual output of lime in the State about 1000 barrels, of which about 100000 barrels are used in the