The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-12

sI3.O00. 900 CONTRACTS


District Chief Warren Johnson, New
Orleans, representative Of the United
States shipping board. was in mobile
Wednesday. He confirmed reports that
Mobile during the week had received
s13.00o.0o in shipbutding contracts.
| divided as follows:
Kelly Atkinson Construction com
pany, Is steel and wood vessels, totai
approximate cost. s5000000.
Alabama Dry Dock and Shipoulld-
ing company, four cargo vessels 81
000. 600
Thurman shipbuiding corporation.
four cargo vessels. 100000,
In addition the Henderson Iron
works, now Incorporated as the Hen
derson Shipbuilding company IS
building four submarine chasers' tolal
approximate cost. s1S0,000.
The Alabama Dry Dock and snip
building company has about completed
a large schooner which may be SOLO
to the government. The schooner Was
laid several months ago to keep tis
plant busy during period OF DUST
ness slack. This company mas aDouO
completed rebuilding of the oil tanker
San Christobel. $247,000; and also the
old Mississippi river railroad Terry
boat B. L. Winchell. costing SlSO,0oV
or thereabouts The Winchell Will also
be an oil tanker and is about ready
for sea. Henceforth 1t Will De Know
as the Susquehannah. 1t was mace
from half of the ferrEboat. AFTER IN
craft was sawed in twain at New Or
leans one piece was sent here and the
other rebuilt in that city into an oller
The latter tanker viii be called the
Juanita.
The san Cristobal was destroyed by
fire at sea and towed to Mobile over d
year ago.
These are only some of the many jobs
of repair and building work done by the
Alabama company during the last year
BIG DOCK IMPROVEMENTS
Significant with the volume of ship
yard work comes assured Improvement
in Mobiles dock facilities in preparation
for the 3O-foot channel provided by the
present Congress. Sometime ago the
Gulf, Mobile and Northern railroad
stockholders meeting in New York APP
propriated 100000 for a grain elevator
and modern docks on it's property at
Choctaw point, in the southern part OF
the city. The first unit will begin at
once and calls for an expenditure Of
| s5oO,O00.
ARLINGTON DOCKS
Monday, August 10, the voters of Mo-
bile will vote upon a big municipal VEN
ture, the Arlington docks. The city pro-
poses TO issue DOnuS IOIalnB SouO,uVV IoI
the building of storm-proof docks, etc.,
on the Arlington site, low-lying piece
of ground connecting Mobile bay and the
mainland at the mouth of Mobile river.
There is no open opposition to the
Arlington project and political prog
nosticators declare that the Improvement
will be Overwhelmingly carried.
The Arlington docks, when built, will
connect all railroads entering the city.
II will be constructed on concrete and of
other substantial materials, having sheds
and railroad tracks SO arranged that
/ loading OF vessels can be perfected with
great dispatch
/ The above are the real important
! things happening or soon to happen for
Mobile. Local shpbuilding plants have
any number of smaller contracts for
barges and light craft. The Kelly-At-
| kinson company's shipyards will be be-
gun just as soon as possible. The old
Hieronymus site is being cleared for
I that purpose. The Alabama Dry Dock
and Shipbuilding company, which con
Germ during the week purchased valu-
able site for charging its plant and con-
/ struction of two ways, will rush that
work through. There is plenty of work
here the only problem is to get sites
/ to care for contracts already signed.
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