The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-13
| MIR. HOADLEY TALKS ABOUT PLANS FOR COMP PANY'S FUTURE Expects To Build Mineral Rail- road To Connect Proper
 ties With Warrior STEEL PLANT AT GADSDEN
 WILL ALSO BE ERECTED Prior to His Departure the President of Alabama Consolidated Renews Expressions of Unbounded Con-
 fidence In Birmingham.

Joseph H. Hoadley of New York, pres ident of the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron company, who has been here about four weeks, looking over the con- pany's properties. leaves today for St Louis. Mrs Hoadey and Miss Hoadley, who have been with him in Birmingham, leave for home this morning and he ex- poets to return east after a brief stay in St. Louis
 q came to Birmingham expecting to remain only a few days" said Mir Hoadley, but have extended my visit to nearly a month. While the Alabama Consolidated always interests me. could have got through with my inspection in a weeks time or less; but the people here have been so hospitable that I have not tried very hard to get away. ln- deed, no four weeks ever slipped by quite so fast.
 q had examined the company's plants and mines with . good deal of care on former visits, but accompanied by Vice President and General Manager Guy R. Johnson, have made even more thor ough inspection this time. From phy- sical point of view, our properties arc in splendid condition.
 Up-to-Date TippIe. .sThe tipple at searles which was burned last August has been rebuilt at a cost Of u25,000. It is of concrete construction and is finished in the highest class or workmanship.
 we are extending our No. 1 mine at Searles which will give us a daily ca pacity there of 250o tons. This work is practically completed and the mine ,s the finest that I have ever seen. It is double-tracked throughout. While the ca pacity is now, or soOn will be- 2W, IL Is safe to say that we win operate at Searles at an average output of 20OO tons daily. This one vein can be count ed on to yield 200O tons day for 10 years. And reckoning with other veins at Brookwood and Searles, it is esti- mated that we have on our property 2,ooo, 900 900 tons of coal; and it is all high class coal.
 important Railroad Project. 'Tt Is my intention to build railroad within the current year from Searles to l the Warrior river below Tuscaloosa The length of this line will be IS miles and it can be built for about S12,0oo a mile. l do not anticipate any diffAculty in raising | the money as soon as I go back east
 
 be made at once.
 q am planning to open up No mine at Lewisburg and to build a tipple there 1 which will be q duplicate of the one at Searles These new tipples, it is believed l will mark q new era in coal mining in this district, for we may develop the fact I that no moro washing of coal will be necessary.
 T expect to extend the Mary Lee rail- road from Lewisburg to Searles, dis tance of 90 miles. This would give q line from Birmingham to the Warrior and would afford us water transportation | to the gulf.
 Five hundred additional coke ovens are to be built at Searles, bringing up the | total to 1h00 ovens. Our coke ovens, equipped with the latest pulling and load 1 ing machinery, will be models for high ] class coke production.
 '1 expect to install new blowing engines at our two furnaces at Ironaton. At Gadsden, where we have two furnaces, a new high record was made this week when one of these pig-makers turned out 250 tons. This stack was built for a 1 capacity of 200 tons q day. but 1t av- erages far above that; rarely ever less than 22o on any day.
 Steel Plant.
 ''The Alabama Consolidated is getting ready to build steel plant at Gadsden. With this project In view 'concentrator' for cleaning ore has already been or | dered
 At Gadsden was greatly interested in the wire. rod and nail mill which the Southern Iron and Steel company is completing. I marveled at the mag nitude of that mill. 1t is an immense plant and 1t is the finest thing of Che kind I have ever inspected. The yards i present network of railroad tracks the most up-to-date yard trackage iA the country. so far as I know. The Southern Iron and Steel company has most efficient organIxation and the Hassinger Is pushing improvement work is sure to be remaked by all who visit I the plants. t.....
 Far-Reaehing Effect.
 The visit of Judge Gary. the official head of of the United States Steel cor | poration, to the Birmin gham district, had q far-reachinG effect on the future of mineral Alabama. Tho visit of no individual ever meant so much for Bir- mingham. Judge Gary's remarks about this section were expressed in his well known optimistic vein and no inter- view concerning the district and of ! Alabama's vast potentalities were ever I so widely read as his Only the other day I received paper from Paris which contained this interview by ca 1 ble.
 Prophets of the Birmingham dis i trict have been picturIng wonderful things, but the industrial development 1 that will take place hereabouts within the next few years will make the roseate talk of earlier days seem tame indeed. .