The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-23
INVESTIGATE HEAT
IS SELMA HOTTEST PLACE IN THE
 sTATEs
Ths Question is to Be Solved by the Commercial and Industrial As- soeiation--New Road to
 Selma.

Selma. July 22.--(SpectaL )--Tha question, Is Selma the Hottest Place in the State? is going to be fully in. vestigated by the Commercial and Tn. dustrial Association. .4ssi
 Selma's reputation of being the hot test spot in Alabama was brought to the attention of the Commercial ana Industrial Association at the meeting of that body tonight by Colonel W. R. Nelson, just before the meeting closed. Colonel Nelson stated that he had noticed in The Advertiser that the tenn perature here was always much great. CT than at other points while the min imun compared most favorably with places in the northern part of the state. which were several hundred feet high. CT. Other members also stated that they had often heard traveling men speak of Selma as the hottest place in the State and that the city had such reputation throughout the State and it was he concensus of the meeting that having such reputation was injurious to Selma.
 It was advanced that the excessive heat as shown in the weather tables was on account of the government ther- mometer here being low to the ground and where reflected heat shown upon 1t, while the thermometers in other cities were placed in high positions The question will be taken u1 by the association with the local observer and with MT. chaffee at Montgomery.
 While the meeting of the commer- cial and Industrial Association was at- tended tonight by only small crowd much interest was manifested by those present. President Ullman in his re- port, told of the location here, during the past month. of three fertilizer plants and of the probability of locat- ing stove works here within the next few weeks. as two of three or the largest stove works factories in the South were considering Selma for the locating of an adjunct plant.
 Secretary Slater in his report, told how, last week. while in Birmingham, he had called at the office of the Bir- Imingham and Gulf Navigation Com pany. and discussed several matters of importance with the vice president of that company. One of these matters was the defiection of the road of which the company proposed to build from the Birmingham distrct to Tuscaloosa. He stated that the officers of the com pany looked very favorably upon Selma and while they were nom -committal, he had reason to believe that eventually the plans of the company would be changed and that the road would be built to Selma, as Selma was at the head of navigation upon the Alabama river from one years end to another. while it would be years before the river could be used from Tuscaloosa.
 Steamboat service and the wharf question was also discussed with the officials by Secretary Slater and he stated that the company had already looked ino the wharf question at this point and had made an offer, that 1t had estimated that 1t would take be- tween $25,000 and $30,00 to fix up. the wharf and put in an elevator. that the company was willing to send their en- kfneer to Selma to figure out plans for the wharf and to pay for the wharf in shares in the company if Selma would make the wharf according to their plans and they were willing to make the same offer to any company formed for this purpose. The propo- sition advanced by the Birmingham Company was very favorably receiv- ed by the meeting and Secretary Slat- ter was instructed to communicate with the officials of that company and to invite them to come to Selma with their engineer and to discuss the prop osition more fully with the association and assuring them that in all hkeli- hood their proposition would be taken up. The question of secretary for the association to take the place of Secre- tary Slater whose term expires Au- gust 1, was brought up. It was stated that numbers of applications had been received and that selection of secre- tary for the association would be settled at a meeting of the board of directors of the association which will be held during tomorrow.