The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Rlrmlnnham pIstrlot.

Prosperity in the Birmingham district was never so marked as 1t is now" said a prominent citizen yesterday.
 "The pay rolls for work done in oeto- Der win be very large-probably two and a half millions-but the November pay rolls will be greater by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
 Not only are all the industrial com panles busy. but the Louisville and Nash vile Railroad oompany's new coal road being constructed from Hughes through the Warrior field to a point beyond Linn's crossing means the employment of hun dreds of men, and the seaboard Air Line road being built from Coal City to Bir- mingham adds largely to the pay rolls of the district.
 Seven hundred men and several hun dred mules are already at work be- tween here and Coal City and the num- Der of men will be increased to a thous- and or more Provisions are being sup piled from Birmingham in large volume to commissary points along the line of construction.
 "The Louisville and Nashvilles coal road will cost about three quarters of a million dollars and the development of mining property that will follow this important enterprise will add fully twen- ty thousand souls to the population of Jefferson county within the next two or three years
 "The coming of the seaboard Air Line to Birmingham will mean an expenditure of s20oO,OOO in this district
 "The Tennessee Coal. Iron and Rail- road company Is expending a vast amount in extensions and betterments in this county and within the next few months 1t will have a new blast furnace in course of construction at Ensley and will dur ing the coming year begin to rebuild ana enlarge several of it's old Ensley furnaces. The Tennessee company will also add fur naces to it's steel plant at Ensley with q view of doubling their steel output
 "The Standard Steel Car company of Pittsbnrg, having acquired control of the Southern Car and Foundry company, will build a large steel car plant at Wylam. near the Ensley line. This car factory was projected by the Southern Car and Foundry company some time ago. The site was purchased and graded by the old company and it is said that the plant will now be erected without delay; not only erected without delay but on a much larger scale than was originally planned
 When President Elliott of the South ern Car and Foundry company designed this steel car plant the cost was not to exceed s6oO,Ooo About 1000 men were to be employed. It is now believed that the | Standard Steel Car company will start off with a million dollar plant at Wylam and that when the works are completed not less than 1900 men will be employed, most of whom will be high class mechan- ics.
 "Another big enterprise that is talked of and that is regarded as almost a certainty, is a Southern railway plant at North Birmingham. The Southern needs large shops in this district, similar to those at Spencer, N. C. First Vice-Presi- dent Andrews and Second Vice-President Finley are committed to the North Bir- mingham idea and President Samuel Spencer is believed to favor it.
 "other development work projected for 1 Greater Birmingham might be mentioned but the above list of big things doing should suffice for one Sundays read ing"