The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
BIRMINGHAM TEEMING
 WITH PRESENT DAY ACTIVITY
AIabama's City of Now, Ships it's Manu ufactured Products to all Sections of the World. Wage-earning Class Is Paid One MlIliOIs Dollars Every Week,
By J. B. BABB.

Birmingham makes history so rapid lye that there Is little opportunity for retrospection. It Is a City of Now.
 It's career began in 1879, with the building of the Alice furnace, aSthough the city had been laid off eiglls years prior. It's sue, ess in iron making is known far and wide. for It's furnaces fix the price of pig iron throughout the markets of the world. These cept for repair and during the great depression following the panic of 1893, which settled upon the industries of America, the blast furnaces of the Birmingham district did not cease operation, but laid down their pro- duets in England, Germany, France and other European countries, in sue cessful competition with the furnaces of those countries. This can be done again, whenever the home demand slackens, so that the iron making in- dustry of Birmingham district is as immutable as any human enterprise can be.
 The prominence so long enjoyed by the iron furnaces is now being shared by the steel mill, located at Ensley and operated by the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company The output of this mill is sold months ahead and so sup GElOT lb the bLctl Idll thdhb NACAVt NAAe@N 1t commands on the open market dol lar per ton more than the best rail in the Pittsburg district The Tennessee Coal and Iron Company has already broken ground for the erection Of an- other steel mill and In the near future a steel output of two thousand tons per day is assured. This second mill Is but the precursor for other Finished industries to follow, until the Birming- hnA fnE ufactories.
 shipping to old Countries.
 Already the products of the machine shops and foundries of Birmingham are in demand in foreign countries-- engines are sold to Japan and China plantation and mining machinery are shipped to Cuba, Porto Rico, Mexico the Philippines and the orient. as well as to other foreign countries New territory is constantly being opened to the manufactories of the district and no opportunity for extension of trade is neglected by the wide awake and progressive business men of Birm> ingham.
 There are other industries not allied to iron and steel making that are con- stantly increasing in importance. In the past few years the opportunities af~ forded by the fine and ample clay de" DOSlES or the ulSNIANls hdN1 bNNAA braced both by local and foreign capi" tai, with the result that clay working is now valuable department of the ctiy's commercial activity. Soil. sewer, and drainage pipe, fire-proofing pot tery and every variety of brick are being turned out in increasing quanti- ties. but still unequal for the demand.
 Cement making is a new and prom ising industry in this vicinity. TEe
 ' uUa YsnV AVTf an investment of $500,000. Allied to this, is the concrete block manufac- ture In the nelghborhood of dozen companies have been incorporated in the past year to manufacture concrete blocks of various kinds.
 As lumber market, Birmingham is forging to the front. It's propinqui- ty to the timber regions of Alabama and Mississippi make 1t a natural lum- Der market. This business has shown and enormous increase in the past few years
 Birmingham has been so identified with iron and steel manufactories that many of it's opportunities and advant- ages in other lines have been over- looked.
 Few have ever regarded Birmingham as a cotton market, yet next to Mont gomery 1t handles more cotton than any inland town in the state. Last years receipts approximated 10000 bales. The Warrant Warehouse estab- nshed here for the storaEs of e0ttnn-