The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-06
PROGRESS OF SOUTH.
Future of Iron Lies in ThIs Part oI
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| Country.
 Baltimore, June .--(Special )-"The
 future of the iron industry of this
 country Is in the South" was the state ment made by W. P. Snyder, a leading | iron master of Pittsburg, Pa, in dis | cussing recently with The Manufactur | CTS Record the development in the iron and steel industry of this country. In pointing out reasons for his faith
 In the great future of Southern iron six years the shipments of Lake ores | will reach as much as 60,000,000 tons a year, and. in connection with refer
 snce to the rapid depletion of the Lake | Superior supplies under this tremen
 dous drain, he spoke of the very great development which is taking place in the, South based on the iron-ore and l coal resources Of this section.
 The heavy sales of iron at Birming- | ham for future delivery. amounting l during the past two weeks to probably | 500. 900 tons, indicate the steady expan- sion at that point. and the announce ment, made at the celebration of the opening of the Illinois CentraPS line to that city. that that road had given a l contract for 10000 tons of Birmingham rails is a significant Illustration of how railroad and industrial development in the South so hand in hand and is sug- gestiye of a turning toward revived industrial activity.
 Other suggestions are in building operations of various kinds which win sky-scrapers. At San Antonio. Tex, new buildings under way or positively planned. represent about $S,000.000. another hotel to cost $500, 1000, a s25O.- 900 office building, a $200,00O business block, $200 ,000 bank building enlarge ment. a sso.o 900 freight depot q sloo, ooo business houses and residences, tJ- gether with $26O,00O for school build ings.
 waterworks Improvements which are actually transforming the physical character of New Orleans, La.. are ac- companied by extensive building ope- ratlons. The steel structural work upon one of the new hotels there has reached the fourth story and satisfac- tory progress Is being made upon the 900. A local club Is planning to spend $500 900 upon it's new home and exten- dences are being carried on. During the past three days permits have been issued for residences whose cost will house to cost $l5,000, while several other residences, both up and down town have been contracted for, and among those for which permits were Issued is one costing $7,200, two cost ing $5.000 each, two costing S3,4O0 each and several others costing S2,5O0 and
 The beginning of the operation by trains In and out Of Mobile, Ala. by tracks at Calvert, Ala. thirty-fve miles north of Mobile directs attention to an important railway project in that sec now extends sixty miles from Calvert to Silas. Ala, for a considerable dis 'tance through pine and hardwood tim Der land. It Is intended to continue building the line northward through Choctaw and Sumter Counties to con meet with the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad. This latter line now extends from Cochrane to Re- form connecting there with the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. and 1t is to be ex- tended into Walker County when it will from the Alabama coal helda tn deep Watera =