The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-24
EMPHASIS OF WATER
PRAISED BY GRosvENOR DAVE AS
 POWER.
Director of Southern Commercial Con- Gress Points to Time When Montg0mery VIII Be
 Transformed,

Among the many inquiries that have come to the Commercial Club since the advent of the Southern Commercial Congress. are several relative to the available water power of Alabama. This question. Is a live one locally. as 1t Is believed by most of the local pro- gressive business men to be the key note of the development of the city as manufacturing center. In speak ing of local business conditions and the States water power facilities, Secre- tary Dave said Thursday:
 T hope that every business man in Montgomery read and pondered the ar tfcle on Niagara power, written by Frederick J. Haskin In The Advertiser of December 23. If the newspaper has not yet been destroyed I hope that every business man who missed the article will look for 1t. read 1t. pon. der over 1t and learn from 1t the les son of Montgomery's certain future. MT Haskin very properly shows the future influence of Niagara water pow CT upon the commercial and manufac- turing development of the regions around about Niagara. He shows that the water power transformed into electric power Is chained to every sort Of use. including the running of a bake-shop. He also shows that the Ni- agara water power has reduced by one
 
 The men of Montgomery should re- alize that within forty miles of this city, by proper treatment and by the creation of a great dam up in Georgia. there will be available for the central portion of Alabama one-third more horse power than all the horse power so far chained at Niagara. If Niagara has transformed central New York and brought there industries, of every de- scription, positively the same effect must come to central Alabama when the Coosa and Taliapoosa give out their full strength. No other conclusion is reasonable. No other conclusion is possible. @
 Using Mir. Haskin's remark about aluminium. It issright to point 8 moral to men who sometimes doubt in rela- tion to the, things that they cannot see. Aluminium Is most commonly manufactured from a rock called bauxite. As far as known. it is only found extensively in the South. very valuable deposits having been located in Alabama. Georgia and Tennessee. This bauxite is dug here. transported to Niagara and there transformed. As sure as fate, the great center of alum mum manufacturing will be in the South at some time hereafter and al- most positively in Alabama; for both raw product and the power to trans form II are AeFe WaIIlnE 10 DC uSeu.
 These sure great developments that are coming to Alabama in a manufac- turing line should not make our men simply sit down and wait, but should encourage them to strive forward and accomplish. Montgomery will always be an important agricultural center but 1t will become an equally important and even greater manufacturing center. The young men of today particularly whn tbia and nnnSidar carefully manufacturing investments and thus lay the foundations for im- portant plants. At present cheap cleo tric power is available in this city for purposes of initial development and 1t stands to reason that enterprises es- tablished here will in the day of al- most unlimited power grow to ma jestic size.
 "I hope that the year of 1909 win see the coming to the hearts of our young men & growing assurance re- garding the future of this city These enterprises can be as varied as are human tastes; for sacrcely anything is manufactured here that Is in common demand. outside of business features related to cotton and lumber.
 While speaking of the manufactur- ing development of Montgomery, I can not refrain from adding A few plain words for the earnest consideration of the men here. In the pest great many enterprises have come Into be- ing in this city and great many have failed. Because of those failures there is among our business men. as I have discovered. time and again. disincli- nation to invest in manufacturing en- terprises. believe l am right in say ing that many of the failures that have occurred in manufacturing effort in this city have come, not because of business conditions. but because of placing men in charge of important duties simply because of relationship. The most fatal thing in any business is nepotism. A business should be es- tablished in order to win just as a war Is undertaken In order to win. Rela- tionship should have nothing to do with the most important direction of business enterprise, unless the rela" ton who is provided with a position has the necessary ability to bring a business succes.
 There Is in my judgment no bright CT prospect for general manufacturing than in this very capital city of ours and I hope to see a revived interest in manufacturing whose benefits shall come to local investors. Manufactur ing enterprises will come here in the future They could. with perfect safe ty. be brought here by local capital and should be during 1909.
 T know at present of several enter prises of a perfectly reliable character that If located in Montgomery would add to the name and fame of the city and at the same time amply repay the investor.