The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-29
SELMA EXPECTS
 NEW INDUSTRIES Cotton Belt Mill Proposes to
 Locate AN EDGE TOOL FACTORY Free Sites Have Been Offered By the City to Northern concerns-The Office of Selma City Attor-
 ney Is Robbed.
AN EDGE TOOL FACTORY

Selma, July 2S.-(Special.)-Th Com- mercial and Industrial association is mak- ing a strenuous effort to land two new in- -dnstries in this city The chances at pres ent seem very favorable for Selma, all though as yet nothing definite Is known. While the association Is working hard after the above mentioned two manufac- tories they are also keeping their eyes open and are at present in correspond ence with some other concerns which are contemplating moving their plants to the south.
 That the efforts of the Commercial and Industrial association will be successful there seem but little doubt, and in the course of the next few weeks 1t will be known whether any of these plants Will come to Selma,-~The untiring efforts Of the association to build up the city is to he greatly commended and 1t should have the individual and hearty support Of ey- cry citizen within the confines of the city.
 The first of the two new industries with which Secretary J. T. Slater of the Com mercial and Industrial association is in correspondence Is plant which manu- factures exclusively a cotton belting which Is used for high speed machinery. The goods which they manufacture Is far superior to the rubber and other belting which has been-In use so long. It Is an endless belting and does not have to be braided together at the ends. The plant manufactures 1t in all sizes and the end of the same are woven together and Tn this way is made more durable than any other class of belting that is made today and the output of the concern is always disposed of before it is made.
 The reason which the concern that man. ufacture this belting gives for wanting to move south is because they want to get near to the raw material. Their proo- uct Is made of seine cord which can be made very readily by either of the cotton mills in this city. While this plant Is comparatively small one 1t Is neverthe- less a most desirable one as the labor which they employ Is of a high grade and would make most desirable citizens.
 The other concern manufactures knives and saws and Is now located in Penn sylvania. The concern is quite large one and employs a good number of expert workmen. They give two reasons for wanting to move their plant to the south and seem very favorably impressed with this city One of the reasons for wanting to come south is stated that at present the owners are greatly worried with 
 ened with strikes.
 The second reason is that they also want to get near the raw material, from which their goods are manufae- tured, as we'll as to the market In which they are largely sold. The plant if located here would be near tho great Birmingham mineral fields. whero steel is now being manufactured in great quantities and which, under the work tof the freight bureau, can be brought to Selma in billets at about 10 cents Another reason why this city strikes this concern as a most favorably loca- tion for their plant Is that we are in about the center of the saw mill dis trict, to which business they cater the most. There are more saw mills located close around Selma than here is prob ably any other city in the south, and then again there is the natural advan- tage which the city has in the river Secretary Slater has offered free sites to both of these plants.
 Labor Day.
 A movement Is on foot among a number of the members of the local unions to get up a large parade for Labor Day, September 3. The move- ment has taken no definite shape yet but 1t will meet with the hearty ap- proval no doubt of all the working peo- pie of the city It would no doubt be joined in by all of the different unions of the city and a very creditable parade could be worked up between now and the day which is observed as Labor Day
 During the hours of Friday night a thief visited the office of the city at torney. Robert c. Young. which is To- cated in the Leva building on Water street The thief Is supposed to have entered the office through window and when he left to have opened the door and walked down the hall to the stairs, down which he went to the street.
 Although the thief prowled around the office he took but little and left all of the laws books In the office as he found them. Probably the principal article which MT. Young missed from his office when he went to it yester-