The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
NORTH BIRMINGHAM
GROWING RAPIDLY
Large Plants Recently CompIet-
ed and More Coming
AN ATTRACTIVE SUBURB
Municipality Is Well Located, Well
Governed and Well Conditioned In
Every Way-scene of Great
Industrial Activity.

All the industrlals towns around Br-
mlngham are prosperous but few of them
have such large and varied industries
as North Birmingham. With a population
of about 1850 the municipality has inside
its boundaries something like twenty-five
important manufacturing establishments
several of them very large.
Two of the Sheffield furnaces were
among the early plants erected at North
Birmingham. Since they went into blast
every year has brought new Industries.
The Dimmick Pipe Works were doubled
in size and capacity two years ago and
the Dimmicks now have one of the larg-
est and most profitable plants in the eoun-
try. During the year past the American
Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry company, of
which E. e. Linthicum is general man
ager, completed its plant and 1t Is said
that no pipe works in the south are con-
structed along such modern lines or
equipped with such modern devices as the
plant of this concern.
Another extensive industry recently
completed is that of the E<ilby Frog and
Switch company. The Birmingham Drop
Forge company is still another concern
that has a new and successful industry
at North Birmingham.
Varied Industries.
Outside of the iron working industries
this busy suburb has a number of flour
ishing plants. The American Wood Fibre
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perior product and will soon rank as one
of the most important concerns in the
district.
The manufacture OF cement from Stag
is one of the growing Industries of North
Birmingham. And 1t will be only a ques-
ton of a short while when every branch
of industry will be represented there.
President Frank Nelson of the North
Birmingham Land company will be ready
within tho next few days to announce
the location of a new plant with ample
capital, and before the spring he will have
located still larger plant.
To Be Record Breaker.
AS great progress as North Blrming-
ham has made during the past two years,
Judging from the things In sight 1907 will
be easily record breaker When the
census of 1910 is taken 1t Is safe to say
that population of 1900 will be found
within the limits of that municipality.
What makes North Birmingham attrac-
tive to manufacturers is the fact that It
has a high and dry location From a
sanitary point of view there is nothing to
be desired. And the first question that
the wage worker asks Is, How are the
health conditions. Another inducement
to workingmen Is the moderate price of
home sites. A large percentage of the
wage earners at North Birmingham pos
sess their own dwelling. The municipal
ity is well governed and the street car
service Is excellent. Church and schools
are well maintained and the social life
of the place is In every way pleasant.
The men who founded North Brming-
ham in the eighties had to wait many
years before they saw the, realization Of
their hopes. long period of depression
kept back North Birmingham; kept back
the entire district. Some of the pioneers
went broke" and some of them died,
but those who lived and held on never lost
faith in their enterprise. Today those
who invested in North Birmingham prop
erty in the years past are receiving good
dividends with every prospect of still
larger returns.