The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
Alabama's Record of
Progress in Produc-
tiOn for 81 Years
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plant, buildings which have cost about
SO. 900 600, intended for steel wire plant
but there has been a delay in the equip
ment of the plant, and it is possible that
the Steel Corporation may eventually de-
eide to utilize it for some other form OF
finished steel product.
Other Valuable Assets
outside of iron ore, coal and lime
stone. Alabama is almost equally as lib
orally endowed in other mineral resources,
including marbles and other building
stones, clays. gold, copper, barytes, CO.
rundum, graphite, ochre bauxite, mica,
pyrites, phosphate rock, glass sand, lime
stone and shale for cement making, dolo-
mite and others of numerous kinds and
useful for various purposes, many of
which are being profitably operated at
present. In building stones Alabama is
peculiarly rich in high grade marbles
and GRANTEES and other structural and or
namental stones. leading expert, for
many years connected with the United
States Geological Survey, has recently
said that Alabama will eventually far
surpass Vermont in the marble industry
1t has vast deposits of marble of the
highest quality, ranked by experts as
equal to the best Carrara. In clays it's
possessions range from those used in
making the best pottery.
The industrial development of Alabama
covers a very wide range of activities.
The production of pig iron has been fol-
lowed by the rapid expansion of manu-
featuring enterprises consuming pig iron.
This is especially notable in the case of
iron pipe making, in which there are
many active concerns of very large ca
pacity, using very considerable portion
of the iron product of the state in MAX
ing water and gas pipe. the market for
which extends from the Atlantic to the
Pacific coast. Cotton manufacturing has
made very marked progress, and the
state now has nearly 100000 spindles
and 1900 looms, ranking fourth in the
list of cotton manufacturing states of
the south. Cement making has become
large industry, with plants located at
various points in the state, the supply
of cement making material being appar
emily inexhaustible. There are numerous
marble and granite quarryfng operations,
some of which are conducted on a very
large basis. This is especially true in the
marble interests the demand for high
grade Alabama marble for interior work
for the most expensive office buildings
and private residences in the north being
very great. Kaolin deposits are found in
many places, some of the output being
of the quality used in high class ware,
while in other sections porcelain clay is
found in large quantities. Clays for or
dinary pottery, brick. tile and sewer pipe
are found in many sections of the state.
and large brick plants are located in Br-
mingham and elsewhere. QQuantites of
sewer pipe are also made.
Growth in Manufacturing
The growth in manufacturing develop
ment is indicated in the advance of cap
ltal invested in factories from $50, 10000
in 1900 to s173,00o,Oo0 in 1909. Between 1900
and 1910 the value of farm lands and
buildings advanced from 1S5,000,O0O to
s2ss, 100000 Between 1910 and 1912 the pro-
duction of corn rose from 29.0O00O0 bushels
to 54,000000 bushels. and the resources OF
national banks from 100000 to ss7, ,ooo,o 90.
| The wealth of the state Increased from
$774.O0O.0OO in 1900 to 100 ooo.00o in 1911.
! In the matter of transportation Ala