The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04
CONTRACTORS ARE
 URGING TIME FOR
 MOBILE TERMINAL
Gulf Port City Turning Out Nu- merous Ships-AII Named for Alabama ToWns-Sel-
 ma City Is Latest

Mobile April S.-(Special Extension of time for building on the contract to build the coal terminal on Blakely Is- land has been asked for the engineer s office by several contractors. Notwith- standing these requests no bids will be 1 received after April IS, the original date set for opening the bids, Major North, local engineer, stated.
 Four more requests for specifications of the proposed terminal have been re- ceived, bringing the total number of bon afide requests up to '3S. New York is still in the lead in sending in requests. nine having come from that city; Bir- mingham coming second with seven. and six having come from Mobile. Though taking third rank in the number of re- quests it has submitted the gulf city ranks first according to population.
 In another three weeks when the Selma City passes from the Chickasaw slip to pier No. to begin loading cargo for the orient, the Chckasaw Shipbuild- ing and Car company will have added SS, 400 deadweight tons of shipping to the American merchant marine. All of this will have been done within two years, and at the end of another five months 5000 additional deadweight tonnage will have been put in the water. The first Of the Chickasaw ships was launched in December, 1919, and the ninth one slid the ways into Chickasabogue waters Sat urday.
 The Selma City is the ninth, ship built at Chckasaw. The first four were of 9,600 deadweight tons and the last fiv" of 10000 tons making the aggregate SS, ,430 deadweght tons The five now under construction on the ways each will be of le,000 deadweight tons, bringing of the first building programme when com pleted up to 13S, 400 deadweight tons.
 The next ship to be launched will be the Anniston City, named for another of Alabama's progressive cities. She will be launched, according to present pro- gramme, the first week in May and three weeks later will be a finished ship and ready to take her place with the Selma City, about 96 per cent complete, which will go out on her trial trip in about three weeks, and returning to the harbor will dock at pier No 3 to take on cargo for Yokohama and other oren- tai ports.
 In addition to- the nine ships already built at Chickasaw, two steel barges of 10, ,0O0-barrel capacity each have been built for one of the big companies oper- ating fleets of steamers and other ves- sells in the Gulf of Mexico.
 ALABAMA MADE
 There are five ships now under con- struction at Chickasaw, the Anniston Clty, the AtldntlC ClLy, lne MeiHpitiS City, the Knoxville City and the Chatta- nooga City. They will be lanncned at in tervals of four or five weeks, beginning with Anniston City. prohanly the flrse week in May. Eacn of these ships will be of 10000 tons deadweight. The ships already built are the Chickasaw City, the Birmingham City, the Ensley City, the Mobile City, each of 9,600 tons dead weight; the Montgomery City, the Tusca- loosa City, the Bessemer City, the Fair field City and the Selma City, each ot 10,O0O tons deadweight.
 With one exception, all of the ships so far put into service have loaded then initial cargoes at Mobile and the Tus- caloosa City has made one return try to Mobile for cargo. The Selma Clty also will take on cargo here.
 One feature about the Chickasaw ships that is said not to be 'ars' l" ss " a7 other ships Is the fact that the 3,300 tons of steel going into each of them is made of Alabama ores, melted in Alabama TUT naces, with all raw materials coming from Alabama mines and quarries, the steel is fabricated in Alabama and the ships are built in the same state, at the