The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-05
1.-THE SHULERS' AND THEIR
 GREAT WORK AT GADSDEN

predict at this time. what would be the ultimate end of our investments At Gadsden the company has ar enormous steel mill, a great bloom. ing mill and an immense furnace. They are huge structures. with scores of smoke stacks, and the air about is I ciouded with steam and coal smoke.
 Along the sides of the steel mills are hundreds of glass windows. The
 buildings stand upon strong and huge 1 steel pillars. There are noisy tram | ways and moving cranes lifting tons of ore and steel about.
 Near the entrance and within the grounds stands and old-fashioned well | of pyramid shape and made of wooden boards. A negro woman came out oi an old plantation log cabin. a cabin l with swelling. buiging chimney ! made of clay and sticks. She went
 to the well and slowly drew a bucket of water to the top by the old style chiming in with the rattle and the roar of the steel works. She filled a well secured bucket, it's brass and cedar sides shining from a recent ap- plication of lye and sand. She placed the full bucket on her head and witt her arms akimbo she walked back to the cabin door singing as she went The path she took led around and old cotton house. its log sides and its rooi of big boards falling in from since, weight of age.
 And all the while the caranes. creak- ed and sang, the trarnways rattled, the and the white and black smoke rose in clouds over the big plant.
 The old and The New.
 So close as this is the New South treading upon the heel of the Old South. So close as this is the old ways of the South lingering to greet
 the energy and wider endeavor of the | new. So close as this are the ideals of | the new and the old Southl Just this | slowly 1t might be said reluctantly is | the old South giving place to the new South.
 The site of the Gadsden property of l the Alabama Steel and Wire Company
 is upon an old cotton plantation. The city of Gadsden gave the site to the | company. a tract of land containing a | thousand acres.~ It Is half a mile broad
 and a mile long.
 | The establishment of this big en- | terprise the securing of 1t over all other competitors Is splendid com mentary upon the enterprise and pub | lie spirit of Gadsden. It costs the town I city and a small city at that to pay for
 one enterprise. Gadsden has perhaps Il a little more than 5000 inhabitants I yet the people made up $35. 900 to bring the Shuler to Gadsden. It is now say l ing too much to intimate that Gads. l den has set an example for larger | cities of the State. When a town car | give over s5 for each inhabitant tc l bring an industry to the city, 1t is c | e. Hhnw1 i of more than ordinary interest.
 The town will be well paid for itt investment. There can be no doubt oi that. The coming of the Shutters mark, | ed a new era for the Queen City oi the Coosa. Property values increased
 at an unparalled rate and the in crease of population was almost equal. | ly as rapid. A new future rosy with | promise opened. It brought the town much nearer the time that 1t had | dreamed of the time when its great
 mineral advantages and the great min eral advantages of Its district would bt exploited and made known to the out. | side world. s5> tG Big afiH at EnsIey
 The Messers. Shutters previous tc | their coming to Gadsden and built ar enormous steel mill at Ensley. The Shutters were we'll known in the indus. | trial world long before they ever came to Alabama. They were engaged ir the steel and wir business in the north the business that has made the for. tune of Andrew Carnegie, Charles
 Schwab and John ". Gates. Tn theil line of business was similar to that oi John Y. Gates. that is they had been en. | gagged in the making of steel nails ant barbed wires. It costs big money tC get in that business in a manufactur. ing way. but their must be enormous l money in 1t. once man gets to manu.
 featuring the goods
 | E. T. Shuler is from Chicago. Ht l was, before coming to Alabama, Treas.
 urer of the American Steel and wir,
 Company. His brother. G. H. Shuler
 was the Manager of the Ohio mills ot
 the American Steel and Wire Company Their father before them had beer
 actively and profitably engaged in the
 steel and wire business.
 | asked MT. Shuler. knowing tho prosperity of the business of the Amer.
 ican Steel and Wire Company, what in. l duced them to come to the compara.
 lively unproven field of Alabama fol
 their enterprise.
 l Principally. the cheap price of pig iron" he replied. Iron can perhaps
 be made in Alabama cheaper than any l where in the UnuIted States. At the price at which iron could be made here the manufacture of steel must necessarily be profitable. We saw the