The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-23
For Good of
 the Community
NOTHING has stopped in Alabama.

mine, mill and factory production. None is asleep. The Hull is not state of coma building for the future is at pace that denies the charge of lethargy.
 Mexico has ordered 4,000,0OO feet of Alabama lumber to be moved thither out of gulf ports and is taking Alabama cast iron pipe for oil we'll use.
 Raul Lumber company has let contract for lumber road costing S25O,0 that will tap new virgin forests.
 Governor and domestic coal producers have effected an arrangement by which householders will know this fall what they should pay for coal in the various cities Knowledge on this subject is structural It will tend to fairness and eliminate a lot of unfounded criticism based on ignorance.
 A leading steel fabricator has added to his plant and is running on full time. He is building steel bridges for export and bridges and steel buildings in southern states.
 No other Birmingham steel fabricators have added to their plant capacity and are prepared for the return tide of busi- ness.
 Gulf States Steel has completed it's bet terments and plant additions and comes to the oncoming trade revival with double capacity of producing that which goes all over the southern part of this country and to thirty others.
 Alabama Manufacturers association has done effective work in trade at home campaign, opening the eyes of many merchants and jobbers to their own blindness in not buying at home and keep ing home plants going. Men have seen the foolishness of cutting off their own profits by stoppage of Birmingham mill pay rolls.
 Henry Ford and Dodge Bros agents have been to Muscle Shoals and the nj trate works there. Eyes of biggest enter prises in the nation are on Muscle Shoals and Wilson dam. Secretary Weeks will soon find acceptance of his proposal to let private capital take up where federal leaves off.
 We are getting pineapples from Hawaii through the canal direct to Mo bile, thence by barge line and it's connec- tions to warehouse doors in Birmingham. Our river is extending it's tenacles to the faraWay places.
 A few structural items of the year in Birmingham are these:
 Two high schools, S1,750,00O;
 grammar schools, S1,00O,000; audi
 toriun1, $750, ,000; Masonic temple,
 S750,OO0; street improvements,
 S1,O0O,000; federal building, Sl,
 OOO,OOO; pressed steel car plant, $4,-
 OO0,OOO; 621 homes in the first five
 months of the year; additions to In
 gals Iron Works, Conners-Wey-
 mann Steel and Johnson and Thomp-
 son Steel company; $1,000,OOO in
 churches; Y. M H. A. building;
 Cadenhead auto rim plant and roll
 ing mills, S200,000.
 The Unit Stove and Range company IS putting hot air furnaces on the Birmlng- ham market, the first manufa actured here. This, like the car plant, is a new industry
 Government is adding facilities to the Tuscaloosa terminals, building terminals at Demopolis, building coal and fuel oil terminals at Mobile, building coal term inals at Cordova. erecting a second der rick at Port of Birmingham and is about to place the two remaining self-propel- lers on the Warrior river, which will en- able twice week service between Bir- minghan1 and Mobile and New Orleans.
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