The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-26
GARY'S REPORT ON
 WORK AT ENSLEY
Says $3,SS7,O7S Has Been Spent on Various Plants
 in the Past Year

That s3,SS7,07S had been spent by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad com pany in the Birmingham district, and that the additions would be started at various dates during 1911 is the state ment contained in the annual report of Judge Ebert H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation, the hold ing company owners of the Tennessee company.
 In his statement Judge Gary specifies that the new work of the past year con- sisted of a 34-inch billet bill, a new wire mill, new electric power supply stations, by-product coke plants, an impoundng water reservoir and other extensive inn provements.
 Excerpts taken from the statement are as follows:
 Additions were made to the manufact- uring plants of the Tennesse Coal, Iron and Railroad company at Ensey, Ala, as follows: New 34-inch billet mill to sup ply billets to the new wire plant above described; new electrical power plant to supply power to aforementioned wire plant and to afford additional require ments for the Ensley plant; new by-prod- uct coke plant, to consist of 200 ovens of the koppers type; new water supply sys- tenn to serve the manufacturing interests In the Birmingham district, consisting of a reservoir having a capacity for ini- pounding 2,5oO, ,o00.0o0 gallons of water, to. gether with intake channel and tunnel for transmitting water to central pump | s,,x fa4f a,,I J;1t,, al x.f1 tho. therefrom. On all of the foregoing worl; material progress was made during the year, and 1t is expected that all further work thereon will be completed and the several facilities be placed in operation at various dates during 1911.
 "The total volume of business trans- acted by all the companies of the or ganization amounted to s70s,961 424.41, as compared with se46, ,3S2, .29 for 1909, or mess of the preceding year.
 For export 1,223,496 tons were shipped, an increase of 13,750 tons over the pre- vious record In exportation of the com pany's products The net earnings in 1910 were $116, ,73S, ,150. 80; the interest on bonds amounted to s29,247,S50, in dividends $50 634,S02 were paid, and the sum of $10, 772, ,3S2 .S2 was carried forward to undi- vided surplus, bringing the total of that to s164, 143,157.99.
 "The number of employees increased from 1955O0 in 1909 to 21S, 435 in 1910, and the amount of annual salaries and wages from s151, ,66S,ss4 to $174,955, 1S9
 '"The production of the subsidiary com panies in 1909 included 25,245S16 tons of iron ore mined. 13.649,57S tons of coke manufactured, 4.s50.111 tons of coal mined, not including that used in making coke, 5.005.0S7 tons of limestone quarried, H. S31,3 ,39S tons of blast furnace products, H,179,369 tons of steel ingots, 10,733, 995 tons of rolled and other finished steel products for sale, 26,777 tons of spelter, 336s4 tons of sulphate of iron and 7,0O1,- 800 barrels of Portland cement.
 'The shipments of all classes of prod ucts to domestic customers outside the organization amounted to 11,337S S79 tons of all material except cement, an increase of 75o,99S tons for the year 1909, and 6,679,4 ,415 barrels of cement. an increase of 9SS, ,524 barrels