The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

the men, Then, when he graduated In Il9O4, and came back home he did not | "know it all" And he still enrolls as a
 student for that matter.
 On returning to Birmingham he became resident engineer with the Republic Iron and Steel company, then under w. II.
 Hassinger. He became division engineer
 and later superintendent at Sayreton. | In 1908 he accepted the position of gen.
 l eral superintendent of coal mines with the
 Birmingham Coal and Iron colnpany
 which Is the position he holds today, and
 he is just 90 ye.4rs old. He has in charge five mines, foremost among them the star
 mine, 'Mulga." Making History
 1 MT. Fies was one of the committee Of expert mining men appointed to draw mp
 the new mining laws of Alabama. the others being Erskine Ramsay, Edwin
 Coxe Priestly Toulmin and A. H. Wood- ward.
 MT. Fles is distinctly one of the mod erns," in the mining business of this dis l trict; broad minded. liberal, progressive, and practical from the word go. He has too, that quality so seldom found among the young men of Birmingham, simply the quality of being sincere and he is ambi- tious, in a fine way, clear-cut mentally. sees straight, thinks right and goes ahead He cares too,. about his men-cares a lot One would have thought his folks had lbeen mining men for generations, so ab- solutely is Milton Fies cut out for min ing man.
 Of Pioneer Stock
 William M Lacey of the Woodward Iron company is a son of Dr. G. P Lacey of Bessemer. who was among the nrst crew of workers at the old Pratt mines in JIa bnr n RICGl- mer 26 years ago and went through the Bessemer schools, and during summer worked around the ore mines.
 He entered the Alabama Technical in- stitute in 1903 and graduated in 1907 in mining engineering. He then. started in with the Woodward Iron companyin their engineering department as back rodman Passing through the various grades he at length became engineer and in Febru- ary of 1910 was resident engineer at the coal mines, and later was appointed as sistant superintendent of coal mines, which position he now holds MT. Lacey Ihas. in addition to his college diploma and his mine foremans certificate, a cer- tificate from the government in mine res cue work
 H0nors for Auburn G. w. Postell, a sTennessee company engineer, WHO IOlOWeu Dill lAdtSy d close second, Is a Georgia boy, was born in Savannah. 26 years ago. He gradu- ated in the class of 1905 at Alabama Poly technic institute at Auburn, in mining engineering. He had some experience, during vacations, as a rodman on out
 side and inside survey work With con-
 | tract engineers, and In July, 1905, he
 started in as rodman with the Tennessee
 Coal, Iron and Railroad company, and
 was stationed at Pratt Division No. 1. | Later he was made office man, doing
 ldraughting and mapping for Pratt No.
 and No. ? divisions.
 In April 1906, he was transferred to Giae
 Creek division as transitman, and then to
 Pratt No. division as transitman, which
 position he held about two years
 During this time Pratt mine No. F
 was opened up and drift No. IA developed. In october of 1908 he accepted the place
 of resident engineer with the Roden Coal
 company, and stayed with them during the major part of thes construction of ! their plant and camp. This was excellent lexperience, he said, "as the camp and
 equipment of the Roden Coal company at