The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-04
For Good of
 the Community

4 1 Every brow has been mopped and every man has asked the other when do you think it is going to rain?" Mental vigor has been at low state Only the big spirit of the district has kept it's head up.
 There has been reason for the buoy ancy beneath the surface. Down there the basic yeast keeps working and build ing for the future. Has June been an eX- ception? Has the district been taking summer vacation? Apparently not.
 About June the Herndon knitting mill on First avenue began operations, since increasing capacity.
 On June 13 the pressed steel car plant of the Chickasaw Shipbuilding and Car company began the manufacture of standard steel freight cars.
 The Hercules company took over the plant of the Aetna Explosives company so as to have hand in the trade com- manded by Birmingham as producing center.
 The Hormel Packing company made Birmingham wholesale distributing point with wholesale trade routes lead ing hence as depot of distribution
 The Alabama Power company, i'm mediately on receiving permit to build the Mitchell dam on the Coosa, an- nounced purpose of immediately going ahead with that S8,O0O,O0O enterprise.
 Representatives of the Lehigh Cement company, which purchased S250,000 site at Tarrant City, have taken further steps looking to the building of 1,000- O0O-barrel plant on that site. It will come under the 1921 record of new industries
 Representatives of the Imperial gov ernment of Japan are in and out of the district owing to the continuous purchase of railroad material and other steel pro- ducts from the Tennessee company
 All this is big stuff the kind that counts for the limitless future Fitting associate of these other important enter prises is the Age-Herald proof of the Ala bama spruce pine for neWsprint purposes. Already earnest men are formulating plans for mills for it's manufacture.
 Birmingham proper has given good account of herself in June. Her building programme has not suffered relapse. There were 121 permits issued for homes for Birmingham folks We still lead southern cities in the founding of roof trees.
 We have placed more than S3,00O,00Q in building operations with the year but half gone. We have built and are build ing 748 homes compared with 198 in the same time in 1920.
 The purchasing agents of the large in dustries have organized an association, whose purposes are to promote buying in Birmingham. That is going to clinch that long-desired habit and it is going to- bring many agencies and distributing warehouses here. The man who wishes to sell to Birmingham firms will find it to his profit to identify himself with the community.
 Just to show that Alabama pig iron sells when any iron does, the last week of June was marked by the largest sales of iron in months and the tonnage market ed by Birmingham was the greatest mar keted that week in any iron-producing center
 The wholesale Merchants and Manu- lecturers association, in conjunction with the retail merchants, made plans during the month for the entertainment here in the early fall of the merchants of north ern Alabama.
 We opened city market on June 1. Fresh tr11ck raised in Jefferson county is now available