The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-02-26
HALF A MILLION
DOLLAR PLANT.
Messrs. John Carpenter and j
Ward w j Howard Will
Build ltat Montgomery.
BIG FERTILIZER FACTORY
Will Give Employ ment to 200 Work
men.-Win be Completed and
in Operation by June Is.

n Inc AlaOdnA EnoSphAte OOHpduy
with a capital stock of $780, 0U.has beer
organized az Montgomery, Ala, by
Messrs. J. II Carpenter, j. W. and w.
Il j Howard. of this city. The company
will begin at once to construct fertlli
yer factory in Montgomery which, it is
said. will give employment to about 2OO
men.
Under the articles of incorporation the
stock is divided into 1850 shares, OF
which Mr.. Carpenter is owner of 200
shares. j. W. Howard, 800. aud w, j
Howard 1000 The officers of the com
pany are j. II. Carper ter, president,
J. w. Howard, vice-president and X.
G.. Sparrow. secretary. The principal
office of the Company will be 10 Column
bia.
/ The business of the corporation is TO
own, 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
gredieuts of plant food.
The new company on last Satur-
day closed contract with the Mont
gomery Land and Improvement
Company for the purchase of twelve
acres of land in Riverside, suburb
of Montgomery, on. which the buildings
are to be located. Mr.. Chambers, who
represented the Company in the land
deal, in an interview with representa-
tive of the Montgomery Advertiser, said:
1.-THE plant will be built at once, and it
is hoped it will be completed by June
9Th. 1t lis to have capacity OF forty
five to fifty thousand tons OF fertilizer
per annum. The plant will cost 500,
900 to $2nD 600. The plans have already
been drawn by Peter s. Gilchrist, of
Charlotte, N. O., 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 $4,000 which amount will probably
be considerably increased within the
year.
1.-The stockholders Of the company are
large owners of rock deposits in Tennes-
see, being the principal stockholders 10
the International Phosphate Company,
the Virginia 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, Alabama, which is being de- |
veIoped. This ore will be used for the |
of suipburic acid to be |
used 10 making acid phosphate"
1.-The Montgomery ground" Mr..
Chambers continued, "cost this CON-
pany 81, 500 Notwithstanding they were
offered free sites on the railroads in
Atlanta, Columbus and Dawson, Ga.
Their object i'll locating here, over these
other cities. is to secure the best facili-
ties. Their mines are located directly
Oh the lines of the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad Company. Again, they
preferred Montgomery on account of its
superior railroad facilities for bringing
ia crude material eud distributing the
goods into most excel
ent agricultural Territory.
1.-THE company will give employment
20 at least 2nO,men, and it is the intention
If the promoters of the enterprise if
uitable ground can be obtained to build
number of houses for their tenants.
n order that they may be near the
york."
1.-The power for the operation of the
lew plant will come from Tallassee,
continues the Advertiser, land it is
aid that the decision of the Tennes-
eeans to locate in Montgomery was due
srgely to the completion of the great
lectric power plant on the Tallapoosa
liver"