The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-31
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
TREMENDOUS STEEL PLANT AT
 BRUNSWICK, GA.
Open Hearth Product from Alabama Ores and Foreign Ores Will Be Used for Bessemer
 Steel.

Baltimore. Jan. 0.-(Special )-About fifteen years ago the establishment of a great iron and steel plant at Baltimore to use foreign ores was regarded as a very bold move, indicating the possibility of trend backward to the coast where it had originally been established of the iron and steel business of the country, but the vast ore discoveries in the Mes saba range shortly afterwards checked this tendency ands concentrated the larg- est development of iron and steel-makng in the Pittsburg. district. Another strik- ing move Is now made towards the coast. This weeks issue of The Manufacturers Record publishes special dispatch giV- ing an interview with Frank A. Umsted. President of the Mohawk Valley Steel and Wire Company, recently incorporated with a reported capitalization of $25.0O0- 900, announcing that contracts have been closed for the building at Brunswick, Ga., on a s4 OO0, 900 steel and wire plant to em- ploy 1000 operatives and turn out finish ed product of 500 tons day. The Mo hawk Company is new corporation con- trolling a number of established steel and wire concerns in Ohio and Pennsylvania. President Umsted says: |"
 "The plant to be erected at Brunswick is to be independent of present plants fin the North. We control several plants in
 
 | be consolidated at Brunswick as a nucleus and to which will be made extensive ad- ditions embodying every new mechanical device in manufacturing all kinds of commercial iron and steel from bar iron | to the railroad steel rails and ship-build- | ing material. We will also erect a ship building plant with all the necessary ad- juncts. Our people also own extensive coal minds in the South and several CO., | operating railroads and interests in oth- CTS, which will afford us ample facilities | for getting out raw material to our plant at Brunswick. We will manufacture open hearth steel from Southern ores largely Alabama ores, and Bessemer steel from | foreign ores which we will import from Cuba, Spain and other countries.
 The aim of this company, it is under stood, is not only to unite foreign and | Southern ores in the manufacture of steel, | for the finished product as we'll as for | ship-building. but also to get to the sea- | board for foreign trade; and in these particulars it marks the most important industrial move ever made in the develop ment of the iron and steel business of the Southern States.
 The trend of industry and commerce to | Southern ports for outlet to foreign mar kets is also emphasized in a dispatch to l The Manufacturers Record giving the | particulars regarding the proposed ship ment of 100000 head of cattle through Pen | sacola for South Africa. following a re- cent trial shipment of 600 head of Texas cattle which. having proved successful, is to be followed by the establishment of a regular steamship line for carrying out
 the 10000 head contracted for. And in the same connection is a dispatch from | NAce-President Harahan of the Illinois
 CWtral Railroad stating that the pres
 sure of freight on traffic bound to New
 Orleans, as on traffic over the trunk lines.
 is practically beyond the ability of the
 road to handle expedtiously. MT. Hara- 1 han says:
 Tt is my opinion that the Gulf ports are
 not and will not be prepared to handle
 grain business for export as expeditiouslv as they would like, owing to the very heavy business that these roads have
 been doing for some time This has more
 than taxed their capacity, and they are
 at present behind in the movement of
 local business, which they naturally feel compelled to move. We are malxin. ex. traordinary efforts to handle as much as possible of the grain offered. and with o.
 dinary weather conditions hope to take
 reasonable care of this class of traffic" :"