The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-02

 WILL BUILD
 BIG FACTORY Plant to Be Established in Montgomery. MANUFACTURE FERTILIZER Company Will Invest $300,- 900 to $400, ,00O Here. Will Have . Capacity of 75,00o Tons Annually and Will Employ
 400 Psrsons--Promo-
 ters Here.

Announcement was made yesterday that arrangements have been perfected for the building in Montgomery of large ferti- lizer plant which will employ about 400
 persons and that work will begin on the
 plant at once.
 A party of gentlemen consisting of
 II. c. Fisher. director in the Atlanta and
 West Point Railroad from Newman, Ga,
 and manager of the Coweta Fertilizer
 Company; Culpeper Exum. manager of
 the Alabama sales division of the vir-
 ginia- Carolina Chemical Company. and
 c. E. Borden. manager of the manufac-
 turing department of the same company.
 accompanied by corps of assistants, ar-
 rived in Montgomery yesterday for the
 purpose of taking steps toward building
 large fertilizer plant.
 The Virginia Carolina Chemical Com
 pany secured about twenty-five acres of
 land lying between the Southern Cotton
 Oil Company and the Montgomery Ferti-
 iizer Company some time ago for this
 purpose. All the plans have been perfect
 cd and contracts have been let for the
 machinery. Work will be pushed as rap idly as possible and the plant will be completed by September 1st.
 The Virginia Carolina Chemical Com
 pany proposes to invest about q, 900 in Alabama in fertilizer plants and when tuib pdEty uob uHibuCu up ttH aII1u6C- ments in Montgomery they will go to Mobile. Troy, Selma and Dothan. and per- haps one or two other points in the State.
 yet to be determined, for the purpose of securing property on which to build plants. They will also go to Jackson and
 Meridian. Miss. with like purpose. The company will invest from $3oo.000 to 34oO.000 in the Montgomery plant alone. and this will mean adding business o+ <n cial interests of Montgomery.
 The plant will be built to produce 75 1000 tons of fertilizer per annum. and will em- ploy about 400 men. The wages to the employees and the laborers will approx | innate H0o,0o0 yearly. The plant will be the largest, most complete and up to
 date in the South, and for it's Alabama business will have Montgomery and Bir- mingham as its headquarters.
 MT Exum. who accompanies this earty. l is President of the Birmingham Fertilizer Company of Birmingham. and Is large l individual stockholder in the same. While | he is interested in the efforts of the Vir- l ginia- Carolina Chemical Company in their Alabama, Florida and Tennessee terri tory, yet his individual connection and holdings with the Birmingham Fertilizer Company will continue separate and dis | tinct. and that company will be operated | dS- uCiGtOloIC, dI iiuCpCuuCht Cohpduys In an interview with a representative of The Advertiser. Mir Borden said that the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company had forty-four plants already in opera | ton in various States in the South. and
 that the Montgomery plant would make the forty fifth.
 It Is the intention of this company, he said. to localize itself in every way possi- ble and to spend the money required for the investment above stated among the manufacturers and dealers in Alabama. so far as possible, it being the idea of his company to encourage home enter prises to the fullest extent and become identified with them. In the development of the State of Alabama, which will give progress and success to themselves. "In a large company like ours," said MT. Borden. i've naturally realize that
 it is important for us as producers to get as near the fields of consumption as
 possible. and we propose to do this. and
 in doing so the natural advantage will
 come to the consumer. This has been
 proved by the conduct of our affairs in
 the past few years where we have done
 business largely, and we shall make it a
 point to see that the same line of prog
 ress is carried out in Alabama, where
 we are now entering largely. Putting it
 all in few words. we propose to pro-
 duce fertilizers cheaply by making them in large quantities. The consumer should
 and will reap the benefit"