The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-30
Takes in Rolling Mills, Furnaces,
Green Springs Park and
Baseball Park
EASTERN TERMINAL LINE
HUGS BIRMINGHAM CLOSE

Territory as the Whole South
Side of Blrmine-
ham.
Quietly the inhabitants of Elyton slipped
up on Birmingham yesterday, and by a
vote of Al to 10 incorporated a town
which includes Birmingham's new prop
erty at Green Springs, Idlewild park. the
Birmingham Rolling Mill and Alice fur
naces, as we'll as the baseball park
The new town is almost as large as the
whole Southside of Birmingham and in
eludes some of the most valuable prop
erty. 1t is a huge square of land, in
GLIDING all that could possibly be found
! between the borders Of Birmingham,
West End and Greymount.
The twin cities are now realities. Grey
mount has been followed by Elyton upon
the roster of incorporated suburbs of Biz
mingham, and now the westward wall
is complete against the advancement of
Great Birmingham
The startling fact is that the new town
comes up to the very limits of Birming-
ham, following all along the western line,
and thus taking in the rolling mills, Alice
furnaces and several other important
properties, which the Birmingham incor-
poration left out.
The vote of the two towns shows con-
clusively that for the present at least
they do not desire to come into Birmlng-
ham.
The voters of Elyton nearly all work in
! Birmingham, and were so confident that
the election would carry that they did not
approach the polls. OF course the oppo-
sition was there in full force, but their
feeble voice only amounted to ten votes
against forty-one for the affirmative. The
! election was held at Walkers store and
J. A. Miller, w. A. Brown and j. M.
Dupuy were the inspectors.
- Limits of New Town.
According to the papers filed in the
probate court these are the limits of the
town: Beginning at the intersection of
the present corporate limits of the city OF
Birmingham, with the north side of Sec
ond avenue, north, of said city of Bir-
mingham; thence northwardly along the
| said present corporate limits of the city
of Birmingham to the intersection of the
south side of the storm water canal; run
ming westerly from the corporate limits
of Birmingham through what is known
and called Smithfield; thence westwardly
along the said south side of said storm
water canal to the intersection of the
bpresent corporate limits of the town of
West End; thence southwardly along the
present eastern corporate limits of the
town of West End to the intersection of
the center line of section 3, township Is,
range west, running north and south;
thence east to east line of section II.
township IS, range west; thence north
to the intersection of the present corpor-
ate limits of the city of Birmingham;
thence westwardly along the said present
corporate limits of the said city of Bir-
mingham to the point of beginning.
steel bars and plates: Year ending De-
cember 81, 1904 1926 gross tons; year
ending December 81, 1905, 402,31S gross
tons; year ending December 81, 1906, 4O1,-
$50 gross tons.
Increased Capacity
while a general rehabilitation of old
equipment has been taken care of by lib
eral maintenance, your executive commit
tee has realized the necessity of in
creased steel and rail productive capacity.
and have authorized the construction of t
modern steel works and rail mill. These
extensive improvements are expected to
double your steel output and rail capacity
and radically reduce your costs of pro-
duction. The benefits expected from these
additions to plant will not be operative
until the last half of 1907.
Blast Furnaces.
"rhe same policy as applied to your
steel works and rolling mills, In respect
to betterments and maintenance. has also
been applied in building up your blast
furnace department. Aside from the lib
eral expenditures appropriated for main
tenance the work of reconstructing your
entire Ensley group of furnaces, along
modern lines, was authorized by your ex-
ecutive committee, and by the first OF
July, 1907, you will have three modern
furnaces In operation, viz, Nos. 4, and
6. Ensley.
ION completion of this work. recon-
struction methods will be applied to the
remaining stacks of this group. The
practical benefit OF this work is now re-
fected both in your costs and by in
creased production. On completion of the
work, Ensley's pig iron capacity will be
substantially doubled
"Pig iron productions: Year ending De-
cember 81, 1904, 475314 gross tons; year
tons; year ending December 81, 1906, 641,-
sS7 gross tons.
Iron Mines and Quarries.
ITO meet the increased demands of
the blast furnace department, your ex-
ecutive committee has authorized liberal
expenditures In opening up new slopes on
Red mountain, authorized the construc-
ton of large number of tenement houses
and also an additional dolomite quarry
at Ketona. These extensions are all under
way and substantially increased produce
tion will be realized during the year
1907.
'In addition to these extensions, heavy
maintenance charges were absorbed at
various operating points. The following