The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-17
A HUGE BUILDING PLANT
Different Structures
Now Under Way - Cover
Acres of GrOund--Manufac-
ture of Aluminium Will Beuin
Not Later Than Next Year
Baden Town of 5000
}AlbemarIe Enterprise.)

'<NiptlldllS enterprise. !
Have you been to Baden yet TO see
what the Southern Aluminium Com
pany is doing there? You've not! |
Expect to go soon? Well, you had
better go soon, for there's something
doing there all right. You'll think
you're in the midst of life as it is pic
tured in novels and stories of adven-
ture. Something big? You just bet
your sweet life that there's something
big there.
The Southern Aluminium Company
is q French corporation with almost
unlimited capital behind it. 1t is one
of the strongest organizations now
doing business in America. 1t has
come to this country and has taken
It's leaders from the biggest American
concerns. Its engineers are the best
money car get.
Baden, the new city on the heights
overlooking the raging waters of the
Yadkin River Narrows, is growing SO
fast that the dreams of the widest
fortune hunter would with difficulty
keep pace with it. Buildings are go
ing up, ten and fifteen at a time. Be-
fore Summe has come and gone, a
magnificent little city with it's mod
ern water system, modern sewerage
system, parks, lakes, and a thousand
and ~ other convenience will be
basking in the mild rays Of the sun.
The city is ideally located. On one
side PUSHES the swift waters of the
Yadkin On another side rises a
wooded hill, almost "a mountain. On
other extend fields, slightly rolling,
which will be covered in the summer
with truck farms and corn-fields.
Back of all this is a long range of
small hills, which in the neal future
will likely be carpeted with grass, and
herds of dairy cattle will feed there
on during the entire year.
Connected With AlbemarIe.
Although this city of more than five
thousand people will have a separate
government with it's own light plant
etc. it, in reality, is connected with
Albemarle. From the edge Of Abe
marie to the edge Of Baden is only
five miles. Already part of the lan(
between the two cities has been solo
for building lots. A hard clay roat
is just now being completed between
the two places. This rOad is SO leVe
and so perfectly constructed hat tn
steepest grade is less than 4 per cen
and mud is a rarity. Automobile driv
ers say they can easily make the dis
tance in ten minutes.
In Albemarle an election is TO b
held in the near future to vote on
franchise for an electric railway with
III the city limits. This railway Wi
extend from Albemarle TO Baden. Be
fore many months a boulevard WI
connect the two cities, and the rus
Of the street cars will be heard at a
times.
For fear some doubling Thoma
may think all this is an exaggeratiol
a mere bubble from a bubbling brain
here is exactly what the SOutheT
Aluminium Company is doing and Wi
do. The information comes from tn
head officers themselves and man
~ th. br,il1i,, orc eR,o now under cor
struction. There will be one clu
house, five executive houses. lively
forelnen'S houses, seventy-fve Wort
men's houses that will be occupied I
six families each seVenty-nVe Wori
mems houses that will be occuple
by five families each, seventy-il'
workmen's houses that will be occ1
pied by four families each, and II
tbree-room negro cabins. In 9th
words, there will be 1,245 famllles
workmen and officers alone. II the
are no more than o to a famli
there will be about 5000 inhabltan
TO begin with. This does not inclu'
The people who will go there as blu
ness men.
A railroad operated by the cor
pany extends from New london
Baden, q distance of twelve mlie
When the electric line from AID
marie goes in, there will be ready a
cess TO all the main lines IN TINS Sc
ton Of the State.
The aluminium plant will be one
the largest similar plants in the Wor!
Vt is without an exception the pl
sest thing in North Carolina.
course, some of the railroads ha
more money invested when we CO
slider the entire mileage, but Tor
plant in one place, there is nothl
in the State that will equal it. L
dam across the Nadkin river will