The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-01
INDUSTRIES
 OF THE YEAR
New Factories Indicate Better Days for Montgomery Hundreds of Men Employ ed in Plants Erected Within Twelve
 Months.
 

| At no dime in the history of the Capital | City or Alabama has any twelve months seen as great a growth in an industrial way as the year September 1, 1902. to Sen. temoer |. lsOS The year stands out as a 1 nigh water mark In the number and value of new factories.
 Going out to Irmadale, thrifty suburb | oi west montgomery. visitor Is at once struck by the new enterprises which have gone up there as if by magic. What were so recently open fields of cotton and vegetables are now sites of mammoth h buildings. representing investments of thousands of dollars. employing hundreds or hands. while the song of the cricket and frog has given place to the sound of the axe and hammer.
 The nrst one of the new plants to greet the eye Is that of the Montgomery Lum- Der Manufacturing Company, which is a consolidation of the Montgomery Sash, Door and Blind Works and the Alabama Hardwood Manufacturing Company. With additional capital, more machinery | axN better facilities, the new company VI Ndo larger business than hoth of the Sthers put together. They have a capital stock of s5o.oo0 and will employ about seventyrtive men. They will man ufacture lumbtr of any and all kinds and supply finished stun for builders whether | pine or hardwood. Tn hardwoods they will manufacture certain specialties for cotton mills. Their main building Is 75 bv 200 feet two storels high and dry kilns | will be erected in addition
 Just little beyond this factory on tract of thirty acres. with side tracks from the Mobile and Ohio and Western Railway of Alabama. traversing the en- tire property. the Alabama Rift Flooring Company is putting up the new buildings which they will require for their plant. They have a paid-up capital of $l25.000 and win employ about 75 hands. They will do general lumber business and manufacture flooring as well, dealing both | in pine and hardwoods At the present | time the saw mill building l54 feet long by 80 feet wide at it's widest point Is con- structed and nearly ready for the engine and boiler. The boiler. by the way, Is being made by the Hartley Boiler Works another factory of which Montgomery is proud located in the northern part of the city. Three large brick kilns l04 feet by 90 feet in all, will give a capacity of 5000 feet of lumber per day. The plan ing mill Is about 70 feet square and Is be- l ing equipped with it's machinery. The capital invested in this enterprise Is en- tirely Eastern capital, subscribed rrinci- | pally in Scranton. Pa, and Albany, N. Y. | By far the largest industry, however. located at Montgomery during the past twelve months IS the magnificent plant of the Alabama Chemical Company. which towers up a half mile to the south of the above mentioned plants. This is a home institution with a capital stock | of $300.000. employing about 150 hands and has a capacity of 35,O00 tons of high grade | fertilizers and fertilizer material. The main mill building and store house occu- pies a space of over two acres being 525 | feet in length by 200 feet in width. In | the furnace rooms, 75 by 150 feet, are To- cated 40 lump furnaces, while the acid | chambers. 75 by 1S feet, have capacity 1 of 250 to 300 tons of sulphuric acid per week. They also manufacture oil of vi- troll and nitric acid. In addition there is the boiler house, store sheds and other smaller buildings.
 With four separate railroad tracks tra- | versing the property, with trackage room | for 150 cars and connecting directly with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Central of Georgia and the Western Rail ! way of Alabama. they are superbly equip | ped to handle an immense business out
 of Montgomery. On the first of Septem-
 Der they will be open and ready for busi- ness, their territory being the entire Southern States.
 Along with the Virginia Carolina Chem icaI Company, whose immense plant is located in North Montgomery. the Ala
 bama Chemical Company will serve to emphasize Montgomerys well earned prestige as center Of influence Tn. the fertilizer trade.
 Going into the northern part of the | city, one's attention is at once directed
 to the hardwood plant of Robert Nixon
 & Go. located on the line of the Louis vile and Nashville Railroad and the Ala
 bama river. Representing an investment
 of about s25,0OO they employ about 50 eT1N- k..zsv- AnV IxHyaN h. | in A radius of 100 miles of Montgomery. much of it being fioated down the Ala l hama river in booms from the Talla- poosa river They manufacture hard
 wood lumber. flooring and slaves Tor eX- port shipment.
 The recent destruction by fire of the
 plant of the Conecuh Pine Lumber and Manufacturing Company will probably re- suit in that companys erecting upon the same spot a larger and more modern plant than their previous one. It will represent an investment of from S75.OO0 to slOO GOO, and will employ about 75 hands | This company has built up splendid | business in sash. doors. blinds and lum- her and their market is practically the entire United States.
 Another new industry recently started is that of the Hannon Buggy company
 which represents an investment of about SlOOOO employs ten hands and Is located in the center of the city.
 The Montgomery Mattress and spring Bed factory is recent addition to Mont gomery industries. It is located in the old power house of the Suburban Street
 Railway in North Montgomery and IS
 backed by Atlanta people. The company
 has 5000 capital stock. and will employ
 about twenty-five persons. Its capacity is | 100 mattresses d day.
 In the early spring, the Montgomery Ice and Cold Storage Company was organ
 ized by the consolidation of several othe"
 ice companies here and their immense
 new structure next to tha plant Ot the | Montgomery Light and Power Comp1nE
 represents an investment of at least NSo'- OOO They have a capacity of l5O tons Ice daily and storage capacity ot 2'ooo
 tons of Ice. employing about forty hands While there have been some other rac-
 tories started in a small way hef9 ana some of those already located have cn- llarged during the past wear. II will " seen, from these statements tna. s'> first-class industries have been added to
 the list of Montgonesy's manufacs Ir'es'