The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01
FACTORIES STILL COME MOntgOmery'S Industrial Growth 20 Per Cent, ELEVEN NEW CONCERNS
 Capital City is More Than Agricultural Center. Investors Are Learning the Advantages of Making Things Here--Op- portunities That Are Offered to Capital.
ELEVEN NEW CONCERNS


 stance the people of Alabama do not readily grasp the truth that 1t is one of the most important manufacturing centers of the State. It will be equally hard for tA em to grasp the fact that the city's factory interests have in- creased near 20 per cent. In one year. Factories, somehow. do not harmon ize with the popular conception or Montgomery, which will have 1t that the Capital City is a city of cleanli- ness, of beauty, and with an immense wholesale and retail trade, but without any considerable factory interests. The popular idea has Montgomery pictured as the center of the richest agricultural portion of Alabama, with magnificent roads radiating to the fertile cotton and corn fields of Middle Alabama. It gives to Montgomery the wholesale trade from the smaller towns and cities of the central portion of the State, but somehow, the public mind has not con- ceded to it It's immense and rich manu- featuring interests. The chief agricul- tural city of the State. the city with the big retail and wholesale trade, the peo~ pie of the State are hard to convince that 1t is among the cities of Alabama which employs the largest number of men and has invested the largest amount of capital. All of which will be presently shown.
 In the hurried sketch of the city's development during the past twelve months, 1t will be shown here that the development of its manufacturing in- terest has been at least in keeping with the city's growth in every other detail and in all probability it may be demon strated that In the past year the manu- featuring interests of Montgomery have increased with more rapidity than have the interests of any other branch of commercial endeavor.
 Eleven New Factories.
 During the year which closed August Il no less than eleven new manufac- ! turing enterprises were established and began business within the city of Mont gomery. The figures gathered by Sec retary L. L. Gilbert of the Commercial | and Industrial Association. show that these new enterprises represent an in- vestment of $753,000 It Is further de- veloped by those same figures that the new factories employ no less than S36 | men. Such is the growth of the city in factories of Montgomery for one year That Is doing pretty well for an agri- cultural city.
 Now word or two more on the value | of the manufacturing interests of Mont gomery A year ago The Advertiser | published an exhaustive article on the factories of Montgomery, embodyIng more detailed information on the fac- tories of the city than had ever before been gathered and representing a world of labor. The detailed figures gathered together for that article when footed up developed the fact that MontRomery had no less than $3.6S6,00O invested in | factories. The figures in that same ar- ticle showed further that the factories | of the city employed no less than 4,29u men. If the popular mind will careful 1 ly digest those figures 1t will realize | that Montgomery is more than an agrI- cultural city and more than a good railroad center. which distinction is also conceded 1t. fine commercial center with a big retail and wholesale trade, railroad center of the first rank and manufacturing city of xrea, rank-Montgomeryi is all this and more too. -::r --..
 A consideration of the figures that bear upon the factory interest on this first day of September, 1905, carries the unexpected conviction that the factory l interests have increased nearly 20 per cent in twelve months. How many 1 cities of the State can make so fine a showing? It is all the better showing I or It's Kind, too, because it Is made by an agricultural city.
 l Variety of Interests. A recapitulation of the factory he- ures develops the fact that the increase I is made up of widely diverse interests. The new enterprises in order as thev | have been established during the yeaf i just closed are: Southern Syrup Com pany, capital stock, $25, 900, employs 75 I Jones Moulded Stone Company. capital stock, $3.Oo0, employs six: Tennessee Fertilizer Company, capital stock, ] $45O,000, employs 200 men; Dixie Cotton oil Company, capital stock, $50, ,O0O. em-
 blows A0s National
 capital stock, S125.0O0. employs 100; l Nixon & Co. Box Factory, capital stock,
 $1o,000. employs 40: Montgomery Mat
 tress Factory, capital stock, $1U,O0O, employs IS; grist mill of National Cot ton oil Company, capital stock, $35,00O, employs 50; Cramton Flaming Mill, cap ital stock, $5,000, employs 30: Boeacki
 Sash, Door and Blind Works, capital
 stock, s2O,00o, employs 40; Montgomery Lumber Company, capital stock, $15, 5,0OO employs 20.
 This is the record the last year wrote
 II demonstrates conclusively that dur
 ing the past twelve months the facto- ries of the city have grown faster than
 they have in any previous years his
 tory. A comparative analysis might
 perhaps show that the factory interests
 have grown faster than any other in-
 terest of the city.
 There is no reason why Montgomery
 should not be manufacturing center
 and there are many reasons. in truth
 why 1t should be a city of factories
 There is tE" matter of freight rates
 so vital thing in the business of mak- l ing, shipping and selling goods. There
 are no better freight rates in Alabama
 than Montgomery's. It is d river town
 The city gets the advantage of river
 rates. When it comes to shipping goods
 cheaply, Montg1 mery can compete with
 any Alabama town or any Alabama
 city. Getting his goods to his custom.
 CTS at the cheapest rates is the thins
 that affects the business of the manu-
 facturer more than any other one thing
 Alabama'S Vital Spot.
 4 It has herein been incidentally men,
 tioned that Montgomery is a railroad
 center. It is in fact the hub of AIaba-
 ma. From it the railroads radiate
 like the spokes from the hub of a wheel
 Again 1t may be said to be the heart ot
 Alabama, from which the arteries oi
 trade radiate and bring and carry the
 commerce of the great State. No less
 than forty-six passenger trains each day eater and leave the union passenRe,
 station. This in it's way gives a hazS
 idea of the eity's wealth of railroad in.
 terests, which are so closely Identified Lwith the well being of the city's fac,