The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-01

get it. Mobile has the advantage or us | in this respect. The market, however | is wide and our business has always | been good. The pants factory is con ducted separate and distinct from our other business. In addition to selling the product of our factory with our other lines of goods we keep three men constantly on the road selling the out put of our factory. So far our venture has succeeded beyond our expectation" l The Bradford Evaporating Company launched another experiment when 1t established its evaporating plants in
 the suburbs of the city on the Norman Bridge Road. Montgomery had seen
 nothing just like this enterprise be-
 fore. It was based on the proposition of making and selling evaporated okra.
 The plant was not long in achieving
 permanency and success. The plant is
 the property of John Bradford atd on | 1t he has invested $2000. The exist ence of this plant has served as spur | tosmarket gardening south of Mont- | gomery and many acres have been sowed in okra to supply the evaporat- ing vats. Ten men are employed at
 the plant, to say nothing of the incl dental employment it gives in the fields l to the growers of okra.
 The Montgomery Broom Factory Is
  | utes its share to Montgomery's pros perity. Sam Trum Is the proprietor of | the plant in which $500 is invested. It employs three men in the manufacture of brooms which are sold in Montgome- ry and its vicinity.
 The City's veneering Works. The City of Montgomery is fortunate in the possession of two signally suc- cessful veneering works. Both facto- ries turn out baskets of all kinds. The plants were built on local capital and they have prospered from the start. Sixty people find employment in the two plants and the double weekly pay roll contributes It's share to the com mercial activity of the capital city. The Montgomery veneering Gompa- ny's factory is located on the Louis- vile and Nashville and the Western Railroads. Forty people find employ ment in this factory which represents an investment of $10,000. Baskets of all kinds are made and sold all over the country. R. P. Stuart is manager of the plant.
 The Burton Veneering Company has also a capital stock of s10.000, and 1t employs twenty people in the manufac- ture of baskets. It is on the line of the Central of Georgia, the Western and the Mobile and Ohio Railroads. w. B. Bur-
 The Bowdoin Carriage Works. known for many years as the McManus Car riage Works affords another instance of the success of special factory backed and maintained by local capital. In the plant of this company are invest ed s1o.0o0. and fifteen men find employ ment in the works. The plant Is de- voted to the maufacture and the repair of buggies, carriages and wagons The al xxyhi tnt thAaA va- hicles comes from Alabama and the Middle Western States. w. H. Bowdoin Is the manager of the works.
 The Montgomery Ice and Cold Stor- age Company Is the largest or among the largest concerns in Alabama de- voted to this line of business. The in- vestment of this company represents $150.000. Forty people are given em- ployment by the company. The compa- ny was formed by union of the Peo- ple's Ice Company and the Woolfollr Ice Company.
 The company manufactures one hun dred and fifty tons of ice daily and has a storage capacity of two thousand tons. It sells ice in Montgomery and throughout Central and South Ala bama.
 The Exchange Ice Works of which D. P. West is proprietor is also engag- ed in the manufacture of ice. His plant Is located near the heart of the city $1O,000. It gives employment to five people and manufactures seven tons of ice daily
 The Hannon Buggy Company is a successful institution engaged in the making and repairing of buggies, car riages and wagons. Tho proprietor of the plant is A. T. Hannon. and 1t gives employment to ten people. The prod ucts of this plant arc sold in Montgom- cry and throughout Alabama.
 The splendid plant of the Southern Syrup Company Is now in process of construction on the line of the Louis- vile and Nashville Railroad in North Montgomery. The business of this lat- est addition to Montgomery's manu- featuring interests will be the refining of crude syrup and selling 1t all over the United States.
 The company has a capital stock of $100, ,OO0. and the plant, when complet- ed. will furnish employment for ten men.
 A. S. Williams, formerly of a suc- ressfuF factory of the same character in Columbus, is President of the com- pany and W. F. Vandiver is Vice. President The advantage that the new plant will give to Montgomery will be that 1t will afford a market the year round for syrup raised in Middle and South Alabama. It has been dem- onstrated that land can be devoted to no better money raiser than sugar cane provided the syrup can be sold before fermentation. The new plant will give the farmers of this section an oppor- tunity of selling their syrup every day in the year the same as cotton is sold
 The Curbow- -Clapp Marble Company has fine central location on Dexter Avenue, near the heart of the city. as a home for its extensive marble yard.