The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-14
Over 1000 Men Given
 Employment. WEEKLY PAY ROLL RUNS
 OVER 5000 WEEKLY Seven Large Fertilizer Factories Now in Montgomery. with Total output of 2e5,ooo Tons of Fertilizer Annually Msntgem- cry Ranks second in the ceua- try-AIso Has Largest Plant
 of Ifs Kind in the World.
BY CAMPBELL l.. CORY.

Now that Montgomery has yawned and turned over inner lethargic sleep. which perhaps has lasted for many years, and from which she has arisen not only refreshed. but full of life and vim. and energy, and with the very atmosphere redolent with the slogan. Get together for Montgomery 1t tails to the lot of many to forecast a gold en future for the old Capital City, and in this golden future there will be no greater factor. which will aid in making Montgomery a Southern met Topolis. than the fertilizer industry of the city today.
 Fate and the mere meanderings of the mortal mind of man do not cause great, splendid, creditable buildings and industries to spring up in a town as If made by magic. but slowly and steadily the fertilizer industry has grown in this city, until today Mont gomery can boast of seven large fer tilizer factories. with total output of about 2e5.000 tons of fertilizer per annum, which places Montgomery sec ond in the country as the largest and greatest fertilizer manufacturing oen- ter.
 When one has witnessed the growth of this industry and the coming marks of progress along this line. bespeak- ing the energy or her people and their confidence in the future of the place, 1t Is easy to see what this great in- dustry means today for Montgomery, and it is not difficult to imagine what it will mean for this city in the next few years of her yelled and hidden fu- ture.
 Today there are seven large fertilizer factories in Montgomery namely: The Buffalo Fertilizer Company of Ala bama the Bigbee Fertilizer Company, The virginia-Carolina Chemical Com pany. the Alabama Chemical Company. tue Sellers and Drum Fertilizer plant, and likewise the plants in connection with the Alabama Cotton oil Company and the Southern Cotton Oil Company, representing a capital stock of about si500,0OO. Combined, these seven fac tories give employment in the busy season to almost 1.200 men. with a total pay roll of about 5000 per week, all of which is generally spent in Montgomery, besides the gross product of these seven plants of 265,o00 tons of fertilizer per annum brings into this city approximately s3.5o0.o00 in a years time.
 According to the gross product or the total output of this manufactured fertilizer. Charleston, s. C., ranks first in the country, Montgomery comes sec ond with Atlanta third. and Nashville fourth. although 1t Is sometimes dis puted by some that Atlanta ranks sec ond. but however. the factories of this kind in the Atlanta district are with in a radius of forty miles of the city, while in Montgomery the fertilizer plants are either right in the city, or situated within a stones throw of the city limits. The machinery of most of the factories in this city is driven 2 by electricity and the cheap electrical rate granted the factories here has been a great factor in tn elocation of these plants in Montgomery.
 Largest Factory Building.
 The factory of the Buffalo Fertilizer Company. formerly known as the Germofert, is situated in North Mont gomery, on the main tracks of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. and is said to be the largest plant of its kind under one roof in the world. The factory building is TOO feet long, 132 feet wide. and eighty-two feet in height, and the total output of the plant Is 100000 tons per annum In the busy season about 300 men are em- ployed at the plant.
 The factory of the Bigbee Fertilizer Company, which recently absorbed both the Pensacola and the GouldinG Fertilizer Companies, Is also situated in North Montgomery. where about b0,0O0 tons of fertilizer is manufae- tured each year. The company also runs a plant with a similar capacity at Goulding, just outside of Pensacola, Fla. The officers of the company are: D. R. Taber, president; J. H. Car penter. vice president: W. Dec. Kess- Ter, vice president and treasurer: and H. c, Warren, treasurer. with main ofFices in the First National Bank Building.
 The plant of the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company. which Is possibly the largest corporation of its kind in the country. is likewise located in North Montgomery, where about 200 men are employed in the busy season and from which almost 50,000 tons of fertilizer are turned out each year The main offices of the company are located in Richmond, Va, and the com pany operates about forty other plants all over the country, with three oth- CTS in Alabama, one at Mobile. another at Dothan, and third at Opelika.
 The Alabama Chemical Company em- pIoys about 250 men at It's plant at