The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
Bush and Hammond An nounce New By-Product Industry at Boyles Aid
 ed by Government
COKE WILL BE USED AT
 SHEFFIELD PLANTS
Upon Completion of This and Sloss Project Dis trict Will Have
 1150 Ovens

Announcement was made
 yesterday of the organization
 of the Birmingham Coke and i By Products company, which
 will erect a by-product coke
 plant in the vicinity of Boyles
 on a tract of land recently
 acquired for the purpose. The stockholders of the com pany are Morris w. Bush, Hor- ace Hammond and Fl. l.. Nor
 row of Birmingham, and A. P.
 Bush of Mobile. M. w. Bush is president, Horace Hammond,
 vice president and treasurer, md H. l.. Morrow, secretary of he company.
 | | begin at once and when completed, in
 about 10 months, it will represent an | investment of between $2,5O0,OOO and
 S3.0OO,0O0; will give employment to 25O
 men, have daily pay roll of S1000, will consume about 1000 tons of coal
 and make from 700 to 720 tons of by
 product coke day.
 l The government will lend financial aid to the company and take it's prod ucts for term of years. according to 1 the announcement made by the officers yesterday
 SUPPLY. OF COAL | Coal for the plant will be secured
 from the properties of the Imperial Coal and Coke company and the Ma jestic Coal company both located with 1 in a few miles of the by-product plant. | M. W. Bush is president of the Imperial and the Majestic coal companies, A. P.
 Bush of Mobile is vice president and
 Horace Hammond is secretary and treasurer. The two companies own l 1000 acres of coal lands with an esti- mated deposit of 40000,000 tons of available high grade coking coal. l The contract for the construction and l operation of the by-products plant pro- vides that coke of a suitable quality l for the air nitrates plants at Sheffield shall be made. Government engineers | and experts, it is understood, have in- lvestigated the southern coal fields with l the view of ascertaining which of them
 are suitable for producing very high grade of coke, and from their investi- gation determined that the two prop critics of the Imperial and Majestic coal companies were among the very of ho hat produce the extra quality of coke re- quired by the air Gitrates plants The | air nitrates plants require coke very | low in ash and sulphur. The contract with the government stipuates that the I coke produced at this new plant shall l be of such high quality as to be suita- ble for the work at the air nitrates I plants.
 TO BE USED AT SHEFFIELD l The coke output of the new plant will be taken by the air nitrates plants at Sheffield and the United States ord-
 nance department will take all the {, toluol sulphate of ammonia produced | for term of years. In addition to coke, l toluol and sulphate of ammonia the I company will produce solvent-naphtha and other by.-products for use in mak- ling munitions and other war supplies, | and coke gas.
 
 new company. is interested in num- Der of industrial enterprises in the Bir- mingham district, among them the Shelby Iron company, of which he is president and the Hammond-Byrd Iron company. MT. Hammond is interested 1 in the Shelby Iron company and is pres 1 ident of the Hammond Byrd Iron com pany William M. Byrd Jr., of Chicago, 1 is vice president of the Hammond Byrd | Iron company.
 1 The same interests that own the Shelby Iron company also own the Shelby Chemical company, which is
 erecting a chemical plant at Shelby l to produce hardwood by-products needed by the government in making munitions. 1 The Imperial Black creek coal first 1 came to the attention of the govern ment about three years ago when MT. Bush and Mr. Hammond had extensive | tests made for the United States tor | pedo destroyers in the Gulf of Mexico. These tests proved the suitability -of l the coal for the navy and for export bunkerage, and since then large quan- titles have been going daily into that use This is one of the few coals 'ap- proved by the United States fuel ad- ministration for foreign export bunk craze at gulf ports.
 | With the construction of the plants of the Birmingham, coke ana By-Prod- ucts company at Boyles and the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company, in the vicinity of Birmingham, the con ] tract for which. was recently let, there will be approximately 115o by-product ovens in the Birmingham district with annual capacities of about 6,500,006 tons of coal and 4,750o00 tons of coke. OVENS IN DISTRICT The locations of the plants. the own CTS and their annual capacities, fol- low:
 .semet-SoIvay company, 24O ovens at Ensley. G99.O0O tons of coal and 477,60O tons of coke. Central Iron company. Holt. 60 Semet-Solvay ovens, S9O.OOO tons Of coal and 100000 tons of coke. Tennessee Coal. Iron and Raii- ronf company, Fairfield. 2SO kop- pers ovens, 1,7S1.O0O tons of coal and 1,102, 600 tons of coke. Woodward Iron company, WOod- ward, ITO Koppers ovens. 1.25o.OOO tons of coal and 942,0OO tons of coke.
 Gulf States Steel company, Ala bama City, 37 koppers ovens, 23O.- GOO tons of coal and 174,OOO tons of coke.
 Tennessee ConI. Iron and Rail- road company, Fairfield, building 154 kOppefs ovens at Fairfield, s77.0O0 tons of coal and GsS.000 tons