The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-01
SHOPS AND BOUNDARIES.
They Require Skilled nnd Intelligent
 WOrkmen.

They Require Skilled nnd Intelligent
 Workmen.
 The industrial importance of Mont gomery is again emphasized in iron and steel working establishments. In fact the size and importance of indus tries of this character is surprising in view of the city's location in the heart of the agricultural district and its sup posed dependence and devotion to agri- cultural interests and pursuits.
 . It's immense railroad interests, Its signal claim as a railroad center, natu- rally demands the location here of shops for the repair of locomotives and cars and for the manufacture of many of the parts that go into them. The prosperity of the boiler works, foun- dries and similar plants of Montgom- cry is a reflection of the prosperity of Middle and South Alabama. New in- dustrial enterprises demand new ma chinery as old machinery wears out and additions and Improvements are made to plants already established.
 Two distinctly local institutions have assisted Montgomery in its growth and have called attention to the city throughout their wide market by the excellency of their work. These are the Hartley Boiler Works and the Jan ney Foundry. The Janney Foundry is in its way as historic as the city in which 1t is located. How many years 1t has been a standing advertisement of Montgomery may not be told. But its products decade after decade have been known to ginners, mill men and oth- CTS of similar businesses.
 The FOundries of Montgomery.
 The growth of the Hartley Boiler Works is from twenty-eight years of v-ia h.av ner and extent of its business is knowu to only an inconsiderable portion of the population of Montgomery. Yester- day it may be said the company finish ed a contract for tanks and boilers for big Carolina concern, today it Is en- gagged in putting in a steel Hume eleven miles long for big Griffin, Ga, corpo- ration. Yesterday a fine pair of boilers may have been shipped to Louisiana town, today a lot of castings and fine smoke stack are sent out to some Flor ida mill. The concern does business all over the Southern States.
 The plant of the Hartley Boiler Works Is located not far from the Union Passenger Station on the Louis vile and Nashville Railroad. J. H. Hartley, sometime alderman of the city of Montgomery Is and has been proprietor O fthe plant since its estab- lishment twenty-eight years ago. The plant represents an investment of $20, 0,000. and on an average employs six ty men. The time frequently comes, however, when the boiler works has on its books one hundred and sixty men. It manufactures boilers, smoke stacks and all sorts of foundry work.
 Our business Is not limited to Ala bama," said owner J. H. Hartley, We do business all over the South. Only recently we put a large number of oil tanks in Savannah, Ga, for big oil concern. We have only lately complet- ed a contract for a lot of tanks and plate work in South Carolina. We are now engaged in one of the largest con- tracts ever undertaken by an Ala bama enterprise similar to ours."
 We have secured a contract to build seventeen miles of steel Hume from the Kowaliga Falls near Griffin, Ga. into Griffin. This Hume will be used for the transmission of water from these falls to be turned into power for the operation of the cotton mills of Griffin"
 Our boilers. stacks and foundry work is shipped to nearly all Southern points. As sample of the sort of work done in Montgomery I want to call your at- tention to the immense smoke stack of the Montgomery Light and Water Pow CT Company. This stack is one hun dred and eighty-eight feet high, twelve feet in diameter and 1t contains 20, 900 pounds of steel. It rests upon a base twenty-six feet In diameter and thir- ty feet high. We take pride in the fact that this stack which we turned out Is equal to any stack of any con- cern in the South and 1t is evidence of our claim that we can do as good work of that sort as any other concern"
 Where the Material Comes From.
 Much of our material comes fir on Birmingham and the East. Our cast iron comes mostly from Birmingham. The steel we use is shipped from Penn sylvanla., Tools are the very important part of equipment and we get these is of a special kind and it requires skilled labor to do It."
 We do not keep travelling men on the road all the time, but we send out a couple of men every now and then. We have agents in the different towns fin which we expect to co business and they keep in touch with the people in our interest"
 Last year wa3 a good year for US. a very good year, Whatever any year has been, however, we nave got our share of the business"
 And in this class of industries is the natural place of the extensive rail- road shops of Montgomery. Each of the principal railfoad lines centering in Montgomery have built and main tained finely equipped shops for the repair work. These shops incidentally manufacture many important pieces that go into locomotives and cars.
 The presence of these shops has drawn many skilled and intelligent workmen to the city. These machinists form a valuable part Of the citizenship of the community.
 The amount of money invested in