The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-13
THE FRIGHT or CAPITAL.
Mobile Feels the Pinch of Adverse Leg fslatlon.

Mobile Feels the Pinch of Adverse Leg
 islati0n.
 Mobile Register.
 Recent developments tend to show, according to gentlemen in positions to Know whereof they speak. that Mobile is not alone in suffering from the ad- verse legislation of the past few months. This handicap IS claimed to extend to q number df cities as well as to the sawtfiil and lumbec plants. 1 President John Craft of the Commer. show that at least two large wood working plants have abandoned their intention to locate at Mobile because of the adverse legislation enacted and believed to be threatened, which is held rearrariEgment re P m t of freight rates.
 The president of .l a large wooden ,sa vile, Ky, spent some time in Mobile last April and every arrangement was practically completed for it's removal front, was secured from MT. W. 4. Hill. This corporation employs 300 workmen, of which number 150 is skill
 u TSis plant demands a three story brick structure for It's machinery ana other work shops and would have been iocatsd Tithin ,s ths and the ocePs did not desire cash donations of any kind from the citizens of Mobile. II meant new money spent m MonlAe' Wleii 300 wage earners given active em- The other concern is casket facto- ry. now maintaining headquarters m Hsw Srocured x0Is for this itss Company and every arran cement apparently satfsfactorIiy arranEed. The Commercial Club of11 cials felt confident Of the early bsst pHIsal ,et ters recently received postpone the re- aIization of these hopes. at least in- aeni ofieers of these corporations state that everything had been arranged m Mobile to their satisfaction and tnat they had proposed to remove nere. af ds the adverse legislation already en- acted and the unsettled condition oI promised Legislation, these gentiemeein, ei, have altered thels hscornes 6essEi more ciarifsd as to probable conditions.
 President Craft states that the names of these concerns are & witnne,ic h,,c,t1 f9r oths & CT commercial bodies in other clIes would immediately endeavor to entice the plants to their localities s. to tnS nS their being ultimately located in Mo- O'lri Timbermen are also complaining of the effect of the adverse iesffsitahs0n thay,1 baa been encouraged to expect cont tinuance of the remarkable betterment undertaken by all or tHc LdiAAOo.NS tipSe ago, necessitating the use of large amount of lumber and tim1er Ssrsd oI corporations had announced tSat aadl- tional Improvements were to pc un9er ue taken. especially throughout the middle and southwest and plans were laid ac-
 The claim has been advanced that .he adverse railroad legislation or the the several states has caused suspenslon of much of the work actually under way as well as the abandonment of tnat m car shortage had presaged renewed ac1 tivity with the ear builders: If1tie tea e0l 0l actment > of the legislation of recent ' While the proprietors of the saw mills and lumber buyers are e averse io so th cir business activity, it is admitted that expected contracts are not snorMSiinss s ,n and that railroad and car building Corporations tacitly acknowledge geu ;n- Ge- ,ornWements and construction until the law making bodies complete their nr 1a- oUghly understood and estimated