The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-26
Birmingham Facts Complied By the CiUic Association

Containing a list of Birmingham as- sets and an analysis of local conditions the year book compiled by the Birmlns- ham Civic Association is now ready TOT distribution.
 The volume contains definite in- formation furnished the secretary of the association, c. l.. Harold, by offis cials of the industries of the Birming- ham district.
 Copies, when sent for, are free to members of the association. The volume is on sale at local news stands
 BIRMINGHAM FACTS Some of the high lights in the year book are as follows: sr s4S
 The total coke production of the Birminghnm district averages A. 344.OOO tons per year.
 Capacity of Portland and slaE cement plants in the Birmingham district present and projected is 3,756,OOO barrels annually.
 Graduate hospital nurses in Bir- mingham number 1855, upiI nurses. 2I5; Red Cross nurses, 96; public health nur cs, IF, and emergency nurses, 50; total nursing resources 5OS.
 Birminghnm's rolled and other steel products manufactured here approximate m annual valuation of s1OO,OOO.OOO.
 Bfrmingham's surgical and medi- cal specialist number 03 and the general practitioners of medicine In Birmingham number 400.
 Birmingbam has coke by-product gas, the cheapest domestic and in- dustrial gas supply in the south, outside the natural gas regions.
 the hmm district manufactured annually about l5,- 900 tons of steel hoops and cotton ties.
 Birming ham Is passing point for pig iron prices, enabling her iron melting industries to send their product to the four corners of the United States.
 Birining ham's main public library and branches contain 72.42l volumes, has 42,557 registered bOr- rowers and recorded the circula- ton for IO10-192O of 100000.
 Bir4 ngham has 1Oz lodges of se- cret and benevolent organization.
 Birmingham has II railroads en- tering the city, of which nine are trunk lines. These railroads reach initinlIy 32.12O miles, giving the district n distributing power of 24 per cent ns against per cent for Nashville, per cent for Chatta- nooga and 15 per cent for Atlanta.
 The Birmingham district hns S4.- S4s industrial employees.
 The Birmingham Civic Associn- tion is fighting to have Birming- ham established as n steel bnsinK point on an equality with Pitts burg.
 In the Birmingham district arc nEO vAI i'm he manufacture of iron and steel pro- duets on the average.
 In the manufacture of building materials other than iron and steel the total average of employees Is :SO32.
 The estimated annual production Of cottOnseed products In BirminE- hmm is S4,36D,074.
 In the milling of grain Birming- ham has advanced to the point to where the estimated value of her manufactured grain products amounts on the average to *4,474.- 900 annually.
 Birmingham enjoys national su- premacy in the manufacture of east iron pipe. In the industry there be- ing 4.080 employees who produce annually approximately $13,OOO.OOO worth of pipe.
 Birp,in hams packing houses employ 3i5 men and turn out prod uets vniued at $2.664.538.6S per annum.
 The Birminsham Civic Associa- tion is working hard to locate at Birmingham the State Bnptists hos pital which will represent an uIti- mate investment of $2,OOO,OOO.
 There are in the Birmins ham dis trict 52 manufacturers of products. portion of which are exported.
 Four iron and steel producers in the Birmingham district own to- Eether 511,l53.04 acres of mineral and doiomitc land situated in Jeff fersOn and contiguous counties, In fee, surface or mineral rights.
 The average metallic contents of the iron ore now being smelted in the Birmingham district is: Hard I-----