The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-19
Big Plant s Ready for
 Operation.
TRIAL SPIN HAD YESTERDAY
Independent Fertilizer Company
 Representative h City.
EAe New Cesapany Has sesursa oen- trsi os tAe Ceatr.st fer the De- Isysxy es Cooper Cems.ay's <. z
 suIphurse Aesa.

George Hafer, IT.. representfng the sf3uffalo capitalists who are financipg the Independent Fertilfzsr Company and who have purchased the Germosert fertilizer plants in Montgomery and Atlants. will start the local plant go- snr today. Thursday the srnachineFy was started on . trial spin and sev- eral tons of the fertilizer were made. 1t was found that everythtng ts 9oing all right and the plant ready for She seasons work. -Szfzs~s s4.
 Today. with the big force all at their posts, the plant wiil commence its work for fherun of. the season. The capacity of the plant hers. ts grsaser Nhan any fertilizer manufacturtng plant Id the world. The branch splant in At tenta having the same capAcity. 100000 tons of the finished product. each sea- In buying the Germofsrt Montgomery and Atlanta plants. the Tndspendent Company has secured the contract for- kneriy held with the Tennssses Copper Company for their output of sulphuric acid This contrAct ts ecnsidsrsd the ksysto1e of the manpSscturs of aeid phosphate In America. Tn smelting the copper at the Tennessee plant, poison 'ous fumes are released and to make ft resaihIe for the workmen to handle the stun without having their health im- paired. the BowernFpent pAssed law acquiring the ccupany. and all com panies in America in similar work. to rapture the fumes and condenee the awapor. In doing thia the government saccidentaIly put the copper srneiters wise to . gold mine. The gas thrown ofg. when condensed. was found to be the highest grade of suiphurio acid. the best for the manufacture of. acid phoephate. :,
 Immsdiatsiy the rennssses Copper Company, placed the suiphuric acid they distil1 on the market. w. B. , Enisholm. one of the pioneers of the .southern fertiiissr businasa was nrst to grasp what this meant to the 3ertt- Ql9er trade, and contracted for the eFi- tire output of the big copper concern. n getting this sulphuric acid, the ac- tive principle of acid fertilizer, the ne% eessity for burning phosphate rock, to get aulphuIc acid was eliminated and Mn enormous expense saved.
 The possession of this contract alone 4s valued at e2.0oo. .00o. and that amount land something more the Independent Company paid to the Gerznofert people lxor the contract and the i've plants at lafontgomery and Atlanta. Compared ito the acid contract, the actual plants fare simply A consideration, although fthsy are the largest and most modern . E
 Nc TArea1 cufting. |
 With the two big plants now run Enln@. and with the acld contract in Ethetr possession, the new concern fn Exsa6y to give the old line conlpaniea Iuaere than a run for their money. but ktt is understood that there will be no lehRoat cutting. The added strength of &ne new concern is now such that the l@ther companies will recognize than has equals and. by thoee who are in touch with the situaeion. it Is said there kwff1 be no reduction In price of ferti- l1izera the alleged fertilizer trust" be- ling ready and willing to quote the same price all the way along the eev- eral grsaas.
 The Germofert Company has by no lmeans gone out of business. they have Iplants near Charleston. $. C., and in 5Florida that are doing an enormous tbusiness and they viii continue, al- though going back to the old method of getting their acid from phosphate rock, great fields of which they own in Carolina, Kentucky and Florida.
 The size of the sheds of the local plant do not denote, anything like the capacity Of the plant. for as soon as s4he fertilizer is' made 1t Is shipped away. making room for the machines ito continue work. In the local plant the machinery is situated in the middle of the building with the enormous sheds stretching away 300 feet on either side. The compartments are eighty feet wide and fertilizer can be piled up to a height Of nearly eighty feet. The mixing aparatus sends the product up by conyeyors to a double track line of cars that distribute il along the length of the plant This work Is now going on and after a run of few days the papers of the trans- company's two new plants here will go into the hauds oe the new owners