The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-01
For Good of the Community

" dDOuC SpS0QUS up at CIl0 new Car WOTKS, # about the new tin-plate plant doubling it's production, the Woodward Iron company blowing in another blast furnace. Then we read that there are 75 appli- cants for the five stores that are going up on Fifth avenue, next to the Motion hotel. Fifteen responsible parties applying for each of the five.
 A half dozen men of means-men with the money that vision brought-re- gard the certain progress of their city and rent the entire nest of stores They see how easy it will be to sub-let them at profit There are plenty of the forward kind in this wonderful community. That blowing in of the Woodward fur mace this week is of more than passing sigEificance- The company is out of iron on yards. Ithas no stock with which to do business. It3must make more iron if 1t is to retain it's customers.
 These small stocks of iron on Alabama yards point to an early and very stren- uous demand for that little. The belated and tinid melter who waits for the full tide to engulfjhim will pay the price. Speeding up at the car works. What an inspiration is that This plant began it's mission in the dead of summer, June 13. It defied the heat and the traditional had luck of that so-ca1led Hateful date It is going as fast as it can with new ma- chinery and new men. Going fast while some few still walk about with wry faces because showers of gold are not contin- uous.
 Lookingabout over the state there is goodly picture of push vim and courage everywhere Down near Verbena the Alabama Power company is building railroad and town for it's workers in preparation for the expenditure of it's S8,000,0 in building the Mitchell dam.
 Work has begun on the $50,000 train ing school addition to the Jacksonville normal.
 Experts declare there is enough spruce pine on the Warrior river near Tusca- loosa to supply not one, but 10 paper mills The Tuscaloosa Chamber of Com merce is earnestly and in businesslike fashion paving the way for that new in- dustry in Alabama, to which The Age { Herald has pointed.
 Alabama's new clover, the Hubam, has claimed the attention of experts the coun- try over and is the talk of the nation as forage plant and soil builder such as has never before been known.
 Tuscaloosa county has let contract to Birmingham firm to build 25 miles of hard road extending to the Fayette county line and soundings are being made for the new bridge over the Warrior at Northport.
 They are building dams on the Cotaco creek in Morgan county to harness the water power of that stream. In south eastern Alabama they have obtained per- mits from the federal power board to dam the Styx and Blackwater waters so as to furnish light and power to Mobile and Pensacola. It will be a wonderful state indeed when the powers of it's little as we'll as it's great streams are made to serve the people.
 Hog prices have made new high level for the year in the Montgomery stock yards
 The Satsuma orange crop of Mobile county is thriving.
 Camden farmers are building sweet potato curing house that will hold and carry over 25,OOO bushels of tubers for the spring markets and the good prices then maintaining
 Generous rains everywhere and all crops com