The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-05

our coming to the State. on the con- trary, we were led to come to Gadsden becaur~ vve considered the mineral de- posits of this district richer than those of the Birmingham district. we are sat isfied, well satisfied with our Ala bama experience"
 My talk with MT. shuier was Tn his once located in one building or resi- dence that stood upon the cotton plantation long before 1t was ever proposed to build steel mtil at that place. The building Is filled with of- fices of the company. It Is a large corporation and its business demands a biz once force. The private office of Prestdent shuler. is bare room, there are two chairs in 1t, filing cabi- net, a flat top desk and number of profile maps on the walls showing the wealth of the minerals or the Gadsden district.
 shuIer, the Capitalist.
 MT. shuIer Is e millionaire. multi millionaire, common reports has it. He is of average size and of slender but airy build On first appearance he would be taken for one of the upper bosses. one of the men he has brought to Gadsden to direct the intricate msiS- ing of steel.
 That impression vanishes, however. on the first straight look into his face. There he shows, the resoluteness, the will and the resourcefulness of the in- dustrial leader. The force. the boise of character could not be mistaken.
 He Is of the German Saxon type.
 His hair and mustache are frankly red.
 He wears a dropping mustache of the German Chasseur style and his eye is frank but penetrating. He discussed. not effusively or ostentatiously, but rather in a reserved way his plans and the plans of his company for increas- ing their field of endeavor. He spoke of his recent purchase of the rich and extensive Underwood coal fields on Biount Mountain. This deal at the time attracted general attention throughout North Alabama. The Messrs. Shuler bought nine miles of coal lands on Blount Mountain. paying for it the sum of s350.0o0. The coal Is and has been mined for several years They are taking out of that property 800 tons a day.
 In reply to 0 question Mir. Shuler said: NO, we will not mine the coal of that property for commercial pur- poses. The entire output will be used by the company In its various manu- featuring enterprises. We will not have any to sell after the demands of our steel mills and our furnaces are met. The Louisville and Nashville. you know. has extended its line from Gadsden to Blount Mountain on this side. It has. moreover. extended the Alabama Mineral division of it's line to Blount Mountain on the other side A big tunnel Is now being cut through the mountain. The tunisei Is about half completed. When it is finished 1t | will be 2,40o feet in length. Its com pietion will give the Louisville and Nashville a complete circuit through the rich mineral district of Gadsdep and Birmingham. a circuit which will touch Anniston and Gadsden. The | circuit will also touch the coal prop | erty which we have just purchased. It
 will enable us to put cheap coal at our Gadsden and Ensley mills.'
 Their Most Recent Purchase. The purchase of the Underwood coal
 property is only incidental to the in- l dustrial enterprises of the Shutters. It
 is of moment when compared to their | investment because 1t Is their newest. | their most recent enterprise. In the same way they bought the l electric line running through Alabams City, Attalla and Gadsden. For this property they paid the sum of SITS, ,000 | Then, as other side lines. they bought | the ice plant and the electric light | were not needed in their business and had no special connection with 1t. In discussing their purchase the Shutters are quoted as saying: We have built up other towns with enterprises and | we have seen other people reap the 1 financial rewards In enterprises like these. Gadsden has a great future. It | is going to be a great city and we nat urally have a desire to reap a part of the prosperity that we hope to assist in bringing"
 The Alabama Steel and Wire Com
 pany has a capital of two and a half | million common stock and two and a | half million preferred stock. It's off, | cers are E. T. Shuler, President; c. |. H. Shuler, General Manager: R. D.
 Carver, Secretary. Interested in the | company and members of the Board of Directors are John Brindley, President
 of the Brindley Hardware Company of Pittsburg. Pa, and Courtland Van
 Camp, President of the Van Camp Iron
 and Hardware Company of Indianap- I oils, Ind. These two gentlemen are | especially prominent in furthering the
 investment and the welfare of the Ala
 bama Steel and Wire Company.
 In the Gadsden and Birmingham dis- | tricts, it is common saying that the
 Shulers can get all the capital they WanCs Ine Irutn or tnlS IS apparent. They have not only their own large in-
 dividual fortunes to put in good prop
 ositions. but they have the complete confidence of Northern and Western capitalists and no project of theirs will languish for want of ready money. They own a complete finishing steel plant at Ensley, a furnace and coal mine near by. At Gadsden they own big furnace. the blooming mill and the steel mill. They own also in the Bir- mingham and the Gadsden district rich ore mines. In discussing the affairs of the company. Mir. Shuler said:
 There Is one feature of the com pany's business in which we take special pride. Our company is per- haps the only one in the South and one of the few in the United States which mines its own ores. digs its own coal, manufactures it's own articles and, in short turns out its finished product. It Is one of the few companies In the United States that takes ores right out of the earth. and without any assist ance from middlemen or other manu- facturers turns out the nnisher prod uct.
 From Earth to Commerce..
 Our steel mill here turns out steel billets These billets are made from ores dug from our own mines and made Into pig iron by our own coke and coal. The steel billets are then shipped to our mill at Ensley. where they are turned into steel nails and barbed wire. Our market is practi- coufh aIfhnn0h