The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-30
Location of Branch Plant ot the Baldwin Locomotive
 Works Depends on Flu
 ture Possibilities PRESENT SUPPLY AMPLE FOR OUTPUT
 OF LOCOMOTIVES Survey of Water Resources to Be Made, Which Include Diversion of Warrior and Cahaba Rivers

 ! tive works in the south, it is learned lthey looked with favor upon Birming- ] ham, Representative were sent here' I so the report goes, to investigate ana report the actual conditions. the gooo points as we'll as the bad. These rep resentatives called attention to the va 1 ter supply. l According to the information obtain abIe in Birmingham the question of water for it's own use had no weight | in arriving at final decision Wlth | reference to locating the works nere ] There is ample water for all the needs l of an industry whose output IS loco- motives.k
 l LOOKING TO FUTURE
 But the Baldwin company has looked I to the future. They wanted to know
 whether the conditions in the Birming- lham district were favorable to the de- iyelopment of the steel industry on an extensive scale in the future. Not that Ithe Baldwin company expected to en- lgage in steel making, but it IS under stood they wanted to locate their south- Tern works in a place whose location land resources would make Of 1t great steel center. Birmingham possessed ieverything that might be required III steel making, according to the report, lexcept water, and that, it is sald the Baldwin representatives reported could be brought to the city from either or 1.-two or three sources at not unreasoh- liable costs. considering the other ana lrreat advantages to be found here.
 With the report of their representa- i. Itiyes before them the Baldwin company :. officials, it is said, went to washing Y ton, laid the matter of locomotive Q works at Birmingham before the gov s renment officials and asked if aid io ho e pany undertoow to build plant Tn BIT q mingham.
 s DEMAND FOR LOCOMOTIVES e As the Baldwin company is making U locomotives for the government to the
 exclusion of all other business at pres ee. ent and has been doing so for seVera \. months, and the government demane .a for locomotives is greater than plants n of that character now in operation car <, supply, it was expected that the gov :, ternment would be interested Tn th' n building of new plant. Y, Sometime ago the war industries poart 70 Q gave out a statement to the effect that nc IF new industries would be permitted 70 10 :, cate in the congested section east Q e Pittsburg and north of Baltimore uutl k the end of the war, but that whereve V. possible such new enterprises as mlsn O. be found necessary or advisable would p hit established iri the south and the west. m view of this statement it was assumed he that when the question of new plan to for making locomotives for the govern lie ment came uu location in some iron dis
 ltrict either in the south or the west woul
 be given the preference. And it IS unoer
 stood that such is the case
 REPORT OF ENGINEERS
 According to information coming Irot .o Washington to an official of one of tn 'S Birmingham corporations, the goverI
 ment has caused a survey of the Wate tn resources of the Birmingham district
 be made and upon the report of the eng
 neers making the survey the location
 the Baldwin plant here depends.
 Il In the event the government approve or and the work is undertaken, it is unuel 'l- stood that sufficient water will De a nd verted either from the Cahaba or IT it. Warrior river to supply all requlremen to for years to come no matter what indu' he trial developments may be made Tn II ,m meantime.
 as As a matter of fact, there is an apun' nd ance of water in the Birmingham ol on trict. The Warrior river, the Locu ol- Fork, the Cahaba river, and only a 1c off miles further away, the Coosa river' IT ny within easy reach Of Birmlngnail' eel their waters could be diverted here at lth very small cost compared with the elabo or ate systems built by some other cities.
 Four or five business men who attend rst the conference Wednesday. mentioned ate r,s. Ara.uara,d yesterday, will go nk ,uash;rgton in few days, it is state for the purpose of acquainting the go lie lol M oft,cia1s and officials of t of . einiions s,any with the exact conc ad tions here.
 lno Morris Adler and associates have ss. fered their property near Bessemer m- lne aa a so,,tharn iocomotive works
 They have had some corresponden us' with the Baldwin people, but so en- nothing definite has developed