The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-23
FOR YEAR
 MAKE 191O BRIGHT Millions Will Be Expended During Next Twelve Months SOME OF THE BIG PROJECTS Corporations and Individuals Will Make Large outIays to Keep
 Abreast of Districts Phe-
 nomenal Development.

is yet only 20 days old.
 Other plans are on foot and those who know believe they will materialize which will add greatly to whats do- ing in Birmingham for 1910, and when the general public becomes acquainted with these big things which are to be Birmingham will be the most optimistic city in the country.
 As a commencer there is the 5000, ,0O( plant of the American Steel and Wire company a subsidiary of the United States Steel corporation. Engineers are busy with the plans and construction work will commence soon.
 The Tennessee company is to build 8 coke oven plant with a capacity of S00t tons of coke per day, and in connection with it a by-product plant, the cost be- ing around $1.0o0,0O0.
 Then this same company is building an impounding dam and storage reservoir which will have a capacity of 2,500000,00C gallons of water and will supply the pres ent plants and those to be built The cost of this water plant will be in seven figures.
 In this connection will be the devel- opment of Corey, the model industrial town for the employees of these plants, which will cost when completed about q, ,5o0,000 and which will be an immense advertisement to Birmingham. The new town will have every known and mod ern improvement.
 t1r1 1 has issued the official announcement of an expenditure estimated at s654 600 for new car shops at Boyles, to employ 1900 men, and 1t is more than probable that this amount will fall 10 to 20 per cent below the actual expenditure. Grading and the plant is a matter of this year, the third largest on the Louisville and Nashville system.
 The Birmingham Railway. Light and Power company has also announced s6O0.- 900 for extraordinary Improvements and betterments for this year and an addi- tonal s15o,o00 for ordinary improvements, and 1t would not surprise any one fl that amount went much higher. It all depends on the growth of Birmingham this year, for it is the announced in- tention of the street car company to keep ahead of the procession of pro- gross.
 The Young Mems Christian association has practically raised the $20O.0O0 neces- sary for the erection of large home on its property on Twentieth street, which will be a great ornament to that part of the city, a great enhancer of real estate values, and which will repre- sent another step forward in the march of progress.
 There is the ever-present talk of O new hotel, and 1t looks as though 1t must come this year, and that 1t will represent an investment of much over million dollars, for a million dollar hotel will hardly meet the requirements by the time the plans are completed and the construction work finished. How eyer, regardless of this hotel, there are plans on foot for two large buildings which will partake of the nature of ho- tels and will represent investments of several hundred thousand dollars.
 The Illinois Central railroad will in all probability announce its plans for buiid- ing it's own line into Birmingham dur Ing the present year and 1t Is said to be a good bet that this company will actually commence the work before 1911 arrives.
 The Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad, which already has its rails in- side the city limits of old Birmingham, and which Is actively engaged in the work of building into Birmingham from Bessemer and into the plant of the Birmingham Coal and Iron company between Birmingham and Bessemer. The cost of this work has not been an- nounced, but 1t Is another case of seven figures and all coming into Birming- ham.
 No one will be surprised at any time to see Mobile and Ohio trains puffing un- der the shed at the Terminal station, for it was the plan of the officials of that road to enter Birmingham two years ago, just about the time that the panic struck the country and put stop to practically all railroad plans. It will be an easy matter to make connections for the Mobile and Ohio to come into Birmingham, for 1t is part of the South ern railway system, and taps the South
 
 not many miles from Birmingham now.
 If Madam Rumor is not wrong there wip be a couple of large buildings an- nounced for the year in addition to those mentioned. A bank is reported as hav- ing the building bee buzzing busily in It's bonnet. A well known bushes man like wise has plans and definite ones, for . big building toward the latter end of this year, and one of the railroads is apt to build large freight houses in the city.
 St. vincent's hospital is to have an- other wing to cost about S50,000. work on which will commence within the next six weeks, and the courthouse is to have a $50,000 annex.
 If the government census is favorable to Birmingham--that is, if it shows the city's population to be much higher than 10000, 1t may be that this year will see the announcement of an adequate gov ernment building and postoffice here, something said to be badly needed.
 The southside Baptist church will commence work shortly on a beautiful new sdifce which will cost about t100- GOO, and at least one other big church congregation is known to be figuring on q handsome home. The architects are busy now.
 pany Is spending considerable money into Shades valley, and this Is an im- portant development which will not be overlooked in reckoning with this year . big "plums."
 So much for the industries and de- velopmenks. In addition to these Bir- mingham is getting Q large number of now buslnAss enterprises of various kinds