The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-28
SIGHT
FACTORIES MAY Lo-
 CATE IN SELMA.
Representatives of Big ConcerDs Con- fer With Secretary of Ccmmer- ciaI Asaociation--News of
 the Central City.
Advertiser Bureau.
 salma Juna a7.

Selma, June 27.
 Selma Is certain now of having fertilizer factory running on full time and employing quite a number of men by the time the fertilizer season opens next spring.
 While one such plant is now . cer. tainty. there is little doubt that second fertilizer plant. even larger than the assured one. will be put in com mission in Selma before the end Of the present year. This announcement was made by Secretary Slater of the Com mercial and Industrial Association this morning.
 The Commercial and Industrial Asso- ciation through Secretary Slater has been working for some time to locate a fertilizer factory here and now 1t Is almost certain that the Association has secured two such plants for the city.
 The territory for the product of such plants around Selma is large one and 1t is stated that on account of the Alabama River being navigable at this point the year round that the output of such concerns can be manufactured cheaper here than 1t is now being made at other points in the State where such industries are located.
 Secretary Slater said this morning that there was in Selma Friday three men who visited Selma for the purpose of securing sites for the establishment of fertilizer plants. Previous to the visit of the representative of one of the concerns his firm had secured an option and would during the coming week purchase from the Southern Rail- way the old Franklin warehouse prop erty on the banks of the Alabama River in the northeastern part of the city. ts
 While this representative was here Friday measurements of the building were taken and specifications for neces- sary Inducements were drawn and as soon as the property has been purchas- ed these necessary improvements upon the warehouse building will be- started and the required machinery needed in the manufacture of fertilizer will be installed and the plant put in commits sion before the opening of the next fer tilizer season.
 The representatives of the second fer tilizer concern which wants to put in a plant here came to Selma for the pur- pose of purchasing the Franklin ware house site, but after arriving here learned that the place had been se- cured by another concern.
 Later during the day this represent ative selected a site on the banks of the Alabama River and which is also owned by ther Southern Railway and which the concern expects to purchase within the next week or so.
 As the Southern Railway has no of fieial in Selma with the power to dis pose of the site the representative has taken up the purchase of the site with the headquarters of the road in Wash ington. If this site can be secured the work of erecting the necessary build- ings will be started as soon as the transfer of the property has been made. ..
 The plot selected by the represent atives of the second concern is much larger and just as convenient to the river as the Franklin warehouse, which was secured by the first concern. If the second concern can purchase the site from the Southern Railway the representative stated that larger plant would be erected than the one which the concern that had secured the Franklin warehouse would establish there.
 Secretary Slater would not make public today the names of the repre- sentatives or the names of the com cerns which they represented. He is positive that one of the plants VIII be running by the first of the year and believes that the second company will secure the lot from the Southern Rail- way and erect the second plant. He said that both of the representatives stated that their firms were anxious to put plants in Selma.
 Wants Company to Change Plsna.
 With Vice President J. M. Dewberry of the Birmingham and Gulf Railway and Navigation Company, the Commsr- cial and Industriai Association has opened correspondence, to see if by any possible means the proposed plans of that company can be changed.
 This matter, was brought before the association at recent meeting and Secretary Slater has addressed a com munication to Mir. Dewberry in Birm- ingham, setting forth the many ad- vantages which Selma would offer that company as terminus for the rail- road which 1t proposes to build and as the head for the line of barGes and boats which 1t proposes to operate upon the rivers of the State into the port of Mobile.
 The company proposes to build a railroad from Gadsden through Birm. ingham to Tuscaloosa and as soon as the Tombigbee River Is opened to op- crate a boat and barge line to Mobile. The Association here will set forth the advantage which this place would of- fer as the terminus of It's railroad and as the starting place for the operation of the boat and barge line.