The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-01

to follow this up and get their share of the business that much accompany rail- way construction and maintenance
 Argentina is, of course, great consum- CT, and with intelligent effort on the part of American manufacturers should prove & good outlet for American products. This rule, in fact applies to all South America and other parts of the world as well.
 Speaking in a general way again, the desire for economical production makes it necessary for entire plants of immense magnitude to work on one particular line of product. Obviously no one locality or country can consume that entire produc- ton, and hence it Is necessary to seek the broadest possible field. In the United States the center of gravity of domestic demand is shifting westward. This Is being taken care of by the establishment of the great plants in our central west. Consequently the eastern mills, being re- lieved of a portion of their burden of producing for domestic requirements. are able to give considerable capacity to ex- port. As an illustration, since the com pletion of the great Gary plant the Ed gar Thompson plant has been an overflow mill.
 "The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad plant has exceptional export possibili- ties, and that great plant of the Steel corporation has had assigned to 1t a con siderable tonnage for Brazil and South America. In this connection 1t Is inter- esting to note that an immense wire mill is to be built in Alabama by the United States Steel corporation which Is to be thrown largely on export woirk.
 ''The Maryland Steel company. at Spar rows Point, Md, with It's tidewater plant, is also in an excellent position for ex-
 II efgn ores and pig iron getting the bene- fit of the drawback clause of our tariff. The Pencoyd plant of the American Bridge company is also advantageousiy located for export trade and has been do- ing 1t for long time. The Lackawanna Steel company ships not only to Cana da, but down the Erie canal and thence to foreign ports from New York Speak ing of the structural plants reminds me of very mportant-though to some ex- tent amusing-developmn in our steel in- dustry as related to export business. Not very long ago foreign buyers insisted upon our bridge plants assembling entire bridges at their works for the inspec- tion of foreign engineers before shipment. Thank goodnessl the American engineers are credited with being on par at least with their colleagues in other coun- tries, and American bridge builders are
 
 structure that will ge together right on the job without the necessity of first try ing it at home to see whether the mem bers fit.
 ''As an index to what can be accom- plished in the establishment Of world supreme American industry we have but to refer to copper Despite the fact that we are paying from s35o day and up- ward to our miners and are working low grade ores way out among the Rockies, we hold the copper trade of the world. This is wonderful illustration of what Americans do. Economy of production is the reason Our use of steam shovels in mining great concentrating plants, modern smelting methods, the introduc- tion of the Bessemer converter and the electrolytic refining process are the nota- ble agencies employed by American cop per producers in attaining their great ob- Ject.
 Not alone in copper, but in iron and steel and their products, and, in fact all classes of manufacture, the pursuit of advanced methods of production and con stantly keeping before us the WatchWoro' Economy of Production will alone pre- pare us for supremacy in the fight for the worlds trade
 The railroads intend to make the colo nizaton record for 1910 break even the great record made in 1909
 Figures prepared by the management of the Hartman lines show that the num- Der of eolonists who were taken into the Pacific coast territory far exceeded the number in any other year It is under stood that the Hill lines did not make as determined an effort to secure colonists as they have made in former years This fact Is said to be due to trouble in the colonist department of the Northern Pa cific, which led, late in the year, to the resignation of c. ". Mott, general immi- grafton agent. On the Great Northern road the illness of Max Bass, general immigration agent, which resulted In his death, somewhat retarded the work of taking homeseekers to the northwest,
 It is understood that this year the man agement of both the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific. aided by the man agement of the Burlington, are to make special effort toward populating the va cant lands along their lines in the fertile eth nf ba prt h