The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-03-25
For Good of
the Community


panions here. Just about the time the pes
simist thinks he has found juicy morsel
in this community it dissolves into the
healthy glow and smack of optimism
In the Thursday issue of The .Age-Her-
aid there were recorded, among other
items, these:
Building and loan associations report
record building of homes financed by
these Institutions One of them reports
pace of business two times that of the past
two and half years. The average home
investment is from $4,000 to $4,000. The
average middle-class citizen, the bulwark
of all communities, is building his family
altar.
The building brick business of the dis
trlct one of its largest industries, is at nor
NAL for the first time since last Septem-
Der. The product is going as fast as made
to Georgia, Florida and Mississippi as
we'll as to Alabama. There has been full
recovery of normal and the trend is
toward maximum.
Experienced operators in the sanitary
pipe trade declare that business to have
shown more life in the past three weeks
than in more months than that. Three adj
spouse to the better feeling None claims
that the business is near normal, but it is
evident that the tide has turned
The Woodward Iron company, which
closed down all it's iron furnaces a few
weeks ago, has ordered one stack placed
in condition for immediate resumption.
During the non-producing period the COM
pany has worked off it's stocks of iron on
yards. When it resumes it will be on new
business Indications are that iron max
ing will be again in vogue at Woodward
next week.
Thomas w. Martin, president of the
Alabama Power company, is in Washing
ton to obtain permit from the federal
water power board for building the $1O,-
100000 dam at Duncan's Rifle on the
Coosa river. That temporarily held-up
development is headed to start again, this
time to completion.
Building permits for residences in Bir-
mingham showed a 100 per cent increase
in February over the average monthly
record of 1920 and March is going Febru-
airy better still.
All these items in one issue of the morn
ing newspaper flowing naturally out of
the days news What city it is And
just the day before we had the annual re-
port of the United States Steel Corpora
ton showing the record Of big and basic
new enterprises and Improvement of
others in Alabama in 1920 and the big and
basic work of development that has been
carried over into this year.
The Age-Herald had in Wednesdays
issue picture of the pressed steel freight
car Of 14O, 1000 pounds capacity that is be-
ing manufactured at the new plant Of the
Chickasaw company at Fairfield
In the same issue was announcement of
resumption of operations in the blooming
and plate mills at Fairfield incident to re-
lease of large export steel order thath had
been suspended.
On Sunday the Age-Herald gave the
total savings bank deposits in Birming-
ham now and year ago, showing nearly
$4,000, 900 now compared with nearly
$3,OO0,0000 less last year.
On Sunday also the Age-Herald an
nounced the movement of 5000 tons Of
steel nails from the mills at Ensley to
China via Warrior river barges and the
Fairfield City, the latest production Of the
Chickasaw yards at Mobile the latest