The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-05
chine shops in this section are still
 busy with no signs of an early hol1.

chine shops in this section are still busy with no signs of an early hol1. up.
 Steel Is in excellent demapd. The production is holding its own, and the shipments are equal to the production. Ground has been broken at Ensley for two additional open-hearth furnaces to the steel plant When completed. the steel mills at Ensley will produce three times as much steel as has peen manufactured at that place hereto fore. The Tennessee Company is prs pairing to supply . big demand Ter steel rail and other shapes after this year.
 The coal production in Alabama new CT was better than 1t is today. ana there is a steady demand for every ton being mined. Good prices obtain TOT the product. The prospects are very bright yet, also, in fact the coal "pc. rators believe that there will be need for more coal during the coming win ter than ever before at the same time of the year, Some of the larger com panies in the Birmingham district re- port some new contracts again TOT coal, contracts that will warrant steady operation of mines TOT sons made last week that some of the vail. road companies looking to this dlstriSl for their fuel supplies. had made con tracts for c large quantity of coA, de- livery during the summer. the product beinR stocked for winter use. Mors of these contracts have been bookeo. Development in tho coal fields Is pe- ing pushed in order that every .oh possible can be mined during the Win ter Tn the lower part of Jefferson County. where H. F. DeBardeieben is at tha head of the development. mucn coal has already been gotten out ana ia heinz stocked, awaiting the con .truct,on of a railroad line to the place. A large force of men Is at work on the railroad, but the mines are oeIns opened with more speed than the raa- road Is being built, and no tune is heinz lost, 50 the coal Is being stock7o nearby and will be loaded on the cars when the railroad arrives. Long pe- fore the Atlanta, Birmingham and Al. lantic Railroad has been constructeu to Mulray. in the southwestern part | of the county, the mines will be m l shane to be producing coal. The rah- l road will have to do some extra haro l work in reaching the place, put wnen | the extension has gotten tnat Tar. snv. 1 will have been mined already tnous- l ands of tons of coal which can be nan ! dIed right away The shafts oein6 sunk at Mulgay will be equipped pet ! fer than any shaft in the State. Eiec- tricity will predominate in the opera | tions by machinery and other equlp
 ment. Mulgay town Is being prepareo
 In an up- to- date manner and the mine.
 will be fitted out with the pest o'
 everything looking to steady opern, | lion when the railroad has been pun
 and the mining of coal has started.
 The Pratt Consolidated Coal Com
 nanv is another concern, with opera
 tions in the western part of JenersoI
 County. that is pushing It's work ol
 development. The company began
 with a few thousand tons daily out.
 put. It was increased to 12.000 tom
 a day, and 1t Is now approaching 20.0o'
 tons of coal daily. The statement i'
 made that as soon as railroad exten
 sions under way are completed. 'h'
 daily output of this company may gt
 to 25, 900 tons daily. Much of the coa
 being mined is leaving the State. Th'
 railroads are strong customers of th'
 Alabama operators and shipping inter
 ests are now looking this way. Tn
 need of coal miners is being felt -om
 in this State. Strikes in the Nortl
 may help out in the way of betterin,
 conditions as to the men. though It
 statement in that direction Is mad
 here.