The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-12

ny. 800, men, the Anniston Manufactur- ing Company, $50 men. the Woodstock Cotton Mills, 250 employees. Anniston Cordage Company. 200 employees, Kiloy Locomotive and Machine Works, 750 men, American Net and Twine Compa, ny,175 men, Weller Rolling Mill Com pany, ITS men, and the Anniston Yarn Mills. 175 employees. There are scores , of others giving employment to 150 men and women each and they are manufacturing nearly every article of commerce which advertises Alabama in all civilized parts of the globe. They are making cars, engines, steel rails, stoves. electric and gas fixtures, ar- tifical stone, lumber products, brick. bags. fertilizers, roofing. cloth, ropes, and other things here in Anniston ans they are a busy people.
 recapitulated statement of the in- dustries of Anniston brought down to this date shows that 2,65O men and wo- men are daily employed in making iron products. receiving s116,000 each month: 1895 men and women are em- ployed in making cotton products, re- ceiving $47.o00 each month, and 5000 men and women are employed In the other factories, receiving $145,550 each month. This gives the grand total of 7,175 wage-earners who are paid monthly $30S,450.
 New Government Building.
 The newest thing in Anniston and Anniston's boast just now, is the mas sive marble Government building. It is built of Georgia marble and granite, and cost $150.O0O Like the Carnegie Library in Montgomery, 1t is a small building. but an expensive building. It fronts on Noble Avenue 110 feet and is about 90 feet deep The building is of the finest material and workman ship that money could buy.
 The original appropriation for the Anniston public building was $75,000. When the act providing for holding the United States Court in Anniston was passed Congressman Bowie succeeded in getting an additional $75,000 for the building.
 It should be pleasure to Judge Jones to hold his court here, for he will pre- side in a court room of superb furnish ings, artistic in design and magnificent in It's appointments. He will retire to chambers as luxurious as any judge ever occupied.
 The court room and offices of the att taches of the court are on the second floor of the massive building. The postofice is on the first floor
 Throughout the building the floors are laid with Terrazo mosaics and the stairways, wainscotings and cornices are of solid pieces of Georgia black and white marble. The doors and all of the furniture are made of massive, quartered white oak
 The Government has done handsomely by Anniston, but Anniston deserves it.
 Postmaster J. NJ. Ragan, as custodian, finds his chief pleasure in showing vis- itors through Uncle Sams latest Ala bama investment He is such a thor ough Annistonian that he expects to see the building extended before he goes out of office, to accommodate the steadily increasing business the Gov ment is doing here.
 This handsome postoffice is not the only governmental investment made in Anniston during the last calendar year A weather bureau well equipped, was built at a cost of $10.000. During this same year. Anniston invested S112,000 in new educational institutions, $112,00 in industrial plants, $53,000 in new busi- ness houses, and $176,OOO in new resi- dences
 Wild Beauty of Valley.
 From any point in Anniston the view would delight the eye of an artist. Great mountain peaks lift their heads to away down the valley, looking directly south on Noble Avenue-which is twelve miles long-on0 sees Pulpit Rock. This gigantic hulk of stone rises 2.407 feet from the sea level, and is the highest point In Alabama, being 500 feet above the level of Anniston
 Pulpit Rock is on Horseblock Noun tain. and it marks the ending of the Blue Ridge Range IL also marks the