The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
Peoples Natural Gas Company Rooms 429 to 437 Brown-Marx Building
 Both Phones 1717

fI77lE young. We are vigorous. We own gas lxx field. We going to build pipe lines to Bir- GsseaJ mingham, Tuscaloosa and Columbus, Miss. We
 pioneers and we know we are right. We owe no debts We are not handicapped by any burdens We making new departure in the industrial world. We saying to the people who want to make more earnings their money than paid by the savings banks than is paid by borrowers to look into and examine proposition look properties look at what own look, and if satisfied, join with us. We have the goods, need the money to properly handle the propositions before Is it not better to join with in the beginning than to wait until the door is closed Iis aim to make the Peoples Natural Gas Company of the greatest developing agencies introduced to the public We will organize minor subsidiary com- panies like the Peoples Cement Company, that will hold and control the majority of the stock and have each company organized strong helping money earning off
 spring, be proud to feel that the creator of We know we'll anyone else that if have any enemies, they the whose toes tread. The vested interests apt to look and frown. We know they will say to you: 'Keep your money in the savings bank Don't buy the Peoples Nat
 ural Gas Company's stock bonds' As matter of fact don't they talk that way you? Don't they say don't? Now if you listen to them what do they propose to- do for you Do they offer you anything that looks so good? Do they say they your friends? Don't they that you ignorant that you swallow any cheap yarn you hear? We know we can and will earn large dividends stock We going to interest yith us the PEOPLE. We know our cotton and cotton seed crop this year will bring the farmers of Alabama about hundred million dollars in cash We know this means nearly fifty million dollars practically surplus cost. We are here ready to sell the with the money something safe investment Some thing safe producer of dividends and not hampered afraid to say and to back the sayso by showing the goods The croaker and calamity howler has no place with us. We don't need him. We are de- velopers, builders and money makers. We want you partner stockhoder and sharer of the profits going to make. Take any of figures state ments, boil them down. anayze them, show them to tho croaker, and if right join wrong tell your neighbor Every big enterprise has its beginning This is beginning. The croaker will tell you that the monopolies, the octop, will swallow up, will swamp and such kindred talk that emanates from those who are hit. Don't think that throwing down the gauntlet to the powers that be" that practically all public utilities for fun. We in earnest This is simply the beginning of our campaign We want the people to join with and help create here in midst antagonist worthy of the steel of such foes
 With natural gas at Tuscaloosa for fue the greatest
 best cheapest fuel on earth we know we can produce the cheapest cement in the world. With the Warrior river open, know can, in our own barges, carry the cement to the Gulf of Mexico for less than oneha
 of one mill per ton per me Or at such low rate of freight that are certain will have competition worth mentioning. Do you know that cement is mix ture of shae clay and limestone properly ground and burned? Do you know that the limestone be quar-
 red at the pits the Worrior river and delivered the banges at the plant going to build for less than fifty cents per ton? It is fact Do you know get the shale at the plant for less money? Now do your figuring at say fifty cents ton for each fig
 cost of transportation to New York; New Orleans Boston,
 Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Lous Memphis Pittsburg and Chicago figure your distance and multiply your