The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-24

capital StOCk IS 9l,UUO,OOO. The total 7 transactions of one bank alone in Bir- mingham for one year amount to about $1,000 100000 This bank has surplus of $600,000, making total working capital of something more than one and half million dollars.
 THE little city of Ensley furnishes more railroad tonnage than all the rest of the state combined outside of Bir mingham.
 BIRMINGHAM pig iron is turned into finished product 10 times in value to what it was 10 years ago.
 GEORGIA is a great state and talks much about railroad tonnage. but the tonnage of that state does not equal that of Jefferson county. Alabama.
 IN the Birmingham district the rail roads are hauling 130OO 900 tons of coal annually and about 5,0o0,O00 tons of iron ore.
 OF the enormous coal product of Alabama the railroads consume about 5,000,00O tons.
 THE coal and iron tonnage of Ala bama is as 8 to 1 compared to the en- tire cotton crop of the state. hence
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 PURE water and plenty of it is essen tial to the health and prosperity of any city. Birmingham is now supplied and more is to come for future demands.
 
 OF the 125,Oo0 wage-earners in the Birmingham district every one is factor in the development of wealth.
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 WITH an investment of almost $200,- 000,000 in furnaces steel plants, iron and coal mines and smaller manufac- tories. the Birmin gham district extends an inviting hand to men of muscle and 4 frain.
 CLIMATIC conditions in Birmingham are superior. Jones Valley, wherein we dwell, is especially salubrious; and this is an invitation to increased popula- tion We want more people to come and dwell among us.
 THERE are 132 miles of street rail- way tracks in Birmingham covering all the principal streets and connecting this city with all the suburbs and out lying cities.
 =. BIRMINGHAM has the most thor ough1y appointed warrant warehouse in the whole south. It was built two years ago on the plans discussed and approved by the Southern Cotton asso citation, and is in successful operation. Birmingham has two congresses and is now an important cotton market.
 NINE railroad trunk lines entersBir- mingham-the Louisville and Nashville, the Alabama Great Southern, the Southern, the Seab oard the Central of Georgia the Frisco, the Illinois Cen tral. the Atlanta, Birmingham and At lantic and the Mobile and Ohio. In ad- dition to the trunk lines operating here three mineral roads are doing a heavy business-the Birmingham Mineral. owned by the Louisville and Nashville, the Birmingham Southern and the Ems ley Southern.
 
 THE Birmingham district produced 14,424S6S tons of coal last year and 1,sS6,e74 tons of pig iron.
 LARGE development work in the coal fields of the Birmingham district is in progress and the strong companies both iron and commercial, are greatly increasing their capacity. BIRMINGHAM is justly proud of it's water supply. The filtration plant in- stalled by the Water Works company four years ago at cost of $500 900 is a model in the way of hydraulic en- gineering. THE Birmin gham Water Works com pany pumps four million gallons a day more than the Atlanta water works. | These figures are based on a years 1 average. BIRMINGHAM has the largest and | most magnificent passenger station in | the entire south. It will cost when | completed, more than $2,000,000. TEN years ago comparatively little | of Birmingham's pig iron was con- verted into the finished product. Now a | good percentage of it Is turned into l steel. The steei industry, the pipe | works, the foundries and the pudding l .c.<s.c.c.c.ss.ss.c.c.c.@9.o.c.c c.c