The sun., 1903-02-08

ior al tHe Turai ITee ueuVery Carrierb IOf
the entire State. The free delivery from the
Birmingham Office itself covers a district
nine miles long by two miles wide.
As again illustrative Of the rate at which
the city is growing take a comparison Of the
post Office receipts. In 1897 they were
$83,228; In 1893 they were $50 ,o32; In 1899
they were $50 OH; in 1900 they were SI0i ,5i5;
In 1901 thoy were sl22 60i In five years
from 1897 they gained no less than So. .li3.
In the latter part of the year 1897 there were
only thirteen clerks fifteen carriers and no
special delivery messengers. At the close of
the last fiscal year there were twenty-three
clerks, twent y-nine carriers and four special
delivery carriers and within very short
zine this force will have to be very ma
tcrially increased.
And then as to the banking business.
which Is barely twenty-three years old here,
beginning with one little bank in 1879 with
a capital stock of $50 900 and deposits OF less
than SlOO. 900, there are now in the corporate
limits of Blrmng CHAM nine banking insti-
tutions, with a combined capital Of 81 ,sis 500
and deposits aggrcgating over 50 10000
In additio to the vast local business,
incident to the great furnaces, steel mills,
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Mont gomerv NohiI. and New Orleans
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of bnpk d.nosi,s carried nv Rirminubam
institutions and by the fact that while
the local cotton crop rarely exceeds 10000
bales, the Birmingham banks each year
furnish funds for moving about I25 600
bales of cotton. an amount representing
ono-eighth Of the entire cotton crop of Ala
bama and a money value of about s. 900 900
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RAPID DEVELOPMENT,
It might I've mentioned, also, that Bir-
minghams tax valuation of property in
jefferson county has risen from few
thousand dollars to $i5, 600, ,OOO that in one
year 5,9ss deeds conveying real estate
were filed for record in the probate Office
of jefferson county, carrying an aggregate
of SIN 900, a gain over the
preceding year of 9sl deeds and gain in
amounting to s3l2i,74 or
an increase of nearly 20 per cent in the
of transactions and an increase Of
nearly so per cent in the consideration
over the previous wear, the year ending
Nav /. 1900, to wit.
II miuht also he pointed out that the
gross volume of business in mining and
during the year 1900 was
o., inat.d nj $4,000 Uo. while the gross
volum, Of business in the general whole
sale and retail trade amounted to so7.-
600 oo. that the increase in mining and
in 1901 over the preceding
wear averaged about 10 per- cent. and the
Increase ia wholesale and retail trade for
the same period averaged about - per
cent; that this would give an aggregate
volume of business for the year 1901
amounting To sss,.JDWo and that the ag-
gregate for 1902 is going TO turn away
around the corner OF slU,wo,oO,
You might 90 on pilinS up figures OF