The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-14
bONNYMAN HEADS NEW COAL COMPANY ID OPERATE HERE Resigns From Birmingham Coal and Iron and Forms
 New Concern ASSOCIATES WELL
 KNOWN IN DISTRICT Operating Company Will Open Mines at Cardiff and Brookside.
 Personnel of New
 Companies

Announcement was made yesterday of the resignation of James Bonnyman as vice president of the Birmingham Coal and Iron company recently merged with the Woodward Iron company and the for nation of the Bonnyman-Norman Coal and Iron company.
 The new company will be officered by MT. Bonnyman, president; James A. Nor man, vice president and treasurer, and A H. Andrew secretary. Offices will be opened in Birmingham, Atlanta and New Orleans. The company will be the sales company for the Brookside-Pratt Mining company, of which MT. Bonnyman is president, A. R. Long, vice president; P. J. Garland, secretary and treasurer. The latter company will make two openings on coal seams, one at Cardiff and the other at Brookside.
 The sales company officered by the prominent officials of the Birmingham Coal and Iron company will handle coal, coke, pig iron and other industrial prod ucts with which they are familiar.
 Since the announcement that the Wood ward company had secured the Birming- ham Coal and Iron properties it has been generally known that MT. Bonnyman, MT. Norman and MT. Andrew intended to engage in the sales business for their own company. However the papers of the | company were filed only yesterday after noon in the probate court.
 MT. Bonnyman said last night that his company operating the two proposed mines at Cardiff and Brookside would open up two new mines on this desirable seam along the most modern lines. The work of opening the mines and preparing for business will proceed without delay The investment in that work is expected to be considerable. MT. Long, who is vice president of the mining company Of the Bonnyman interests, is now superintendl ent of the Birmingham Coal and Iron company plant and is one of the best known superintendents in the mining field. He is an engineer of ability and is held in high esteem in industrial circles.
 MT. Bonnyman, who heads the new companies, is widely known as an engineer of extensive technical training and an official who has made an enviable reputa- tion in .ihe local industrial field. He su-
 
 the Birmingham Coal and Iron company at Mulga and Short Creek as well as the furnace improvements at Vanderbilt. His work at Muga has been looked over by experts from all parts of America and this property has been pronounced one of the most modern mines in the country Every conceivable apparatus and appli- ance has been placed there to increase the effciency of the plant and to make the place safe He has been vice presl- dent and treasurer of the Birmingham Coal and Iron company for several years
 Mir. Norman has been sales manager for the company for some time. Formerly he was with the Republic company and is widely known as an industrial sales man. ager of wlde information and acquain- tance. MT. Andrew, Andy" has been assistant 10 MT. Bonnyman for long time and previously was with w. H. Has singer and the Republic company. He is an industrial man of ability. His method of handling the accident at Muga in the temporary absence of MT. Bonnymap earned for him worthy reputation among the leading industrial men of the district