The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-28
Some Details Of the
 Tremendous Work NoU
 Making Sheffield Hun,
Government Work Is Foremost, But Other Indus tries Are Contributing Enormously to the
 Building of a Greater Sheffield"
By H. FoNrA1NE LITTLE

station on Spring creek is nearing com pletion
 To safeguard these great plants, num- erous guards are on duty day and night and many secret service men are em- ployed. A high steel picketed fence has been ercted around the grounds. The strictest rules are observed and no one IS permitted to pass into the grounds without pass signed by Capt. Hamphill or Captain Byrne, who are detailed here by the war department. They are being assisted in the work by large number of lieutenant officers and more than a score of enlisted army men and many civilians.
 EAST SHEFFIELD PLANTS
 On the site of 220O acres of land To- cated on the eastern boundary line of Sheffield. the governments cyanamid plants are being erected. Work of com struction on these plants was only re- gently begun. But the force of 2500 men are rapidly erecting buildings Up to date 60 cantonment style buildings have been completed, and these and others in the course of construction will be used for housing hundreds of the men employed at the works. Including of flee and administration buildings, prob ably 75 buildings are now complete. None of the main buildings to be erected
  under construction. But materials and labor and other agencies are being rap idly assembled and organized prepara- tory to beginning work on the big plants. Announcements have been made that fully 15,000 workmen will be employed on these plants when the building pro- gramme is we'll under way. It is con strued that the building of dams at Muscle Shoals, one and one-half miles distant from this nf tivity, will be in conjunction with build- ing the cyanamid plants. Several ac- struction companies will be engaged jointly in the vast undertaking.
 An electric car line will soon be in operation between this city and the East Sheffield field of activity. This car line service and two good roads leading from here to the site will facilitate the hand ling of the heavy traffic to and from the site, distance of probably two and one-half miles.
 OTHER INDUSTRIES
 Actual operation of the Sheffield roll ing mill plants were begun in Novem- Der, but inability to procure raw mate rials on account of the general rail road congestion has delayed full opera ton of the plants. These problems have already been solved and preparations are now under way for immediate opera tion of the plants on full 24-hour basis Announcement has been made that J. Campbell Maben Jr., formerly vice pres- ident of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company, will become actively as- sociated with Messrs. Armstead and Fulbright in the operation of the Shelf field rolling mills. Large Improvements will be made to the mills, which will modernize and increase the output sup ply of finished products. Fully 300 skilled and unskilled laborers will be given employment and the monthly pay roll in the aggregate will amount to at least S10o. 900.
 The Sheffield Iron Corporation an- nounces that work of rehabilitation on it's three iron furnaces here is about completed, and probably within 30 days furnace No. will be blown in. The company's ore washers in Franklin county, IS miles south of here, are in full operation, and shipments of ore from these mines are already arriving in Sheffield The coke ovens of the com pany are located at Jasper and are ready for fires to be kinded. The re- sumption of work at these iron furnaces here will add largely to the industrial life of Sheffield