The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-19
WILL BUILD
 LARGE PLANT
  Tennessee Capitalists are
 to Locate Here. A PHOSPHATE COMPANY It Will Employ 200 Workmen
 at Riverside. R. J. Chambers. Closed Deal for Twelve Acres of Land-Com-
 pany Files Declaration
 in Probate Court.

Declaration of incorporation of the Alabama Phosphate Company, with capi- tai stock of sl50.0Oo has been filed in the office of the Judge of Probate of Mont- gomery County.
 The company will begin work at once to construst plant in North Montgom- cry, which will give employment to 200 workmen.
 The stockholders are all iprominent phosphate manufacturers of Columbia Tenn. and are owneyB of large tracts or sr,dp phosphate n, lands 1T in the columbia dis Howard and w. J. Howard. Under the declaration the stock Is divided into 4.500 s9arss ss seo of s which J H. Garpenter Is owner W. J. Howard of 1000.
 The officers are J. H. Carpenter presi-- dent, J. w. Howard, vice-president and R.: c. Sparrow, secretary. Montgomery
 The business of the corporation is to town lease. buy. sell and operate phos- phate and pyrite mines and operating phosphate and mixing plants for the manufacture of phosphates, fertilizers, cotton seed meal and any other in- gredlent of plant food.
 J. H. Carpenter, President of the Phos- phate Company has made several visits to Montgomery. They are represented here by R.. J. Chambers, who yesterday
 
 Land and Improvement company for the purchase of twelve acres of land in Riv- erside on which the buildings are to be located.
 In an interview with a.lrepresentatiye of The Advertiser Mr. Chambers said: "this plant will be built at once, and 1t Is hoped 1t will be completed by June 18th It is to have capacity of forty per annum." The plant will cost Si5O- 900 to $2O0,000 The plans have already been drawn by Peter s. Gilchrist, of Charlotte. N. G., a chemical engineer.
 Several new features in acid making will be introduced which have hitherto been in use only in France and Germany.
 The paid up capital of the company Is A6o,O00 which amount will probably be considerably increased within the year.
 'The stockholders of the company are large owners of rock deposits in Tennes- see, being the principal stockholders in the International Phosphate Company, the Virglnia-Tennessee Phosphate Com >pany and the Leatherwood Phosphate Company. They are also the principal stockholders in the Southern Sulphur ore Company which owns valuable deposits of iron pyrites ore in Clay County, Ala bama, which is being developed. This ore will be used for the manufacture of sulphuric acid to be used in making acid phosphate.
 The Montgomery ground" Mr. Cham bers continued, 'cost this company NFsOVS tA1@WAshcsfttAAAh8 SAtCy WCAc OLLdT6U free sites on railroads in Atlanta, Coluua- bus and Dawson, GG- Their object in locating here, over these other cities. is to secure the best facilities. Their mines are located directly on the lines of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com pany. Again, they preferred Montgom- cry on account of it's superior railroad facilities for bringing in crude material and distributing the manufactured goods into a most excellent agricultural ter ritory.
 'The company will give employment to at least 200 men and 1t Is the intention of the promoters of the enterprise if suitable ground can be obtained to build a number of houses for their tenants in order that they may be near their work
 The property secured yesterday by MT. Chambers for the phosphate company fronts on Railroad Street just north of the mills of the Southern Cotton oil Company.
 The power for the operation of the new plant will come from Tallassee and 1t is said that the decision of the Tennes- seeans to locate in Montgomery was due largely to the completion of the great electric power plant on the Tallapoosa River.
 President Carpenter of the new com pany Is. expected in Montgomery about the middle of next week.