The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-30
FERTILIZER PLANT
 LATEST INDUSTRY
Pipe Plants And Other Con- cerns Enjoyed 25 Per Cent
 Increase In 1923
ANNTsToN BUREAU 1
 THE AGE-HERALD

AnDtstou. Alas, Dec. 2D
 Expansion and 25 per cent in- crease in output at most all of the pipe and other manufacturing plants In Anniston Is reported for 1923. The net result Is that the Model City has become more firmly fixed as one of the substantial and dependable man. 2 uracturtng cities in Alabama
 One of the most notable programs Of expansion noted in Anniston dur ? Ing the year 1928 has been made at he plant of the Federal Phosphorous company in the extreme western part ef the city, doubling almost of the capacity of the big plant having been effected during the last half of she year.
 Significance of the intense type Jan be attached to the fact that the Annfston plant has begun the manu- lecture of highly concentrated fer tillzer during the latter part Of the year. while politicians and others have been wondering and talking g about the Henry Ford bid for the Muscle Shoals property, and by the opening of the spring planting season It Is safe to say that Anniston will have become fertilizer producing center after the type predicted for the Tennessee river property now b. ing made into huge producing plant by the government.
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 Erects Addition.
 The Federal Phosphorous company has recently acquired several hun dred acres of land immediately south of the big plant, at which variety of products are manufactured for shipment to every part of the United 2 States. The company has also ac- quired considerable tract on the west side of the Anniston plant and xx-Ir ,s1 eF .ka aa1 p buildings on that side will give the Anniston plant dimension equal to the largest in the United States.
 Early in December & furnace for the manufacture of concentrated fer tilizer for sale and distribution first to Alabs ma farmers was put in op- ~erstion at the plant here, the plan for that product having been con- ceived in the mind of Theodore Swanp. president of the company, who, along with the staff of experts now engaged in an extensive program generally used products has at- tracted attention of the most favor able kind to the Anniston center of prod uction.
 Other and moro extensive improve ments are being planned by the ex- perts In charge of the Anntston plant for the new year and by the end of 1924 1t Is confidently expected that the twin plants, Federal Phosphorous and Southern Manganese, will have on It's pay rolls moro than double the number of highly paid experts who are now employed.
 Electric Plant Expands.
 The Anniston Electric sten cor poration Is another Anniston plant which has developed wonderfully during the last year and for which still greater expansion Is imm ediately ahead. From its organization few years ago and the taking over of the old car works plants by experts who know their game, each month has marked the addition of some new section in which production of a high order has come.
 Pay rolls, It the electric company -pll 1t~have grown to dimensions three times as great as when the plant was first started and the business ele- ment of Anniston has come during the year of 1923 to regard the pay day at the Anniston Electric company as one which can be counted upon to promulgate large sums of money into circulation among them.
 During the last year the plant of the Central Foundry company has been enlarged to the point that the present capacity of the plant Is nearly twice what 1t was year ago, and the program for continued expansion there during 1924 calls for still further improvements and enlarge ments.
 At many of the old pipe plants tr Anniston new and modernized meth ods of handling the raw material as it comes in to the plants and for re- moving the finished product have been installed, and practically every plant in Anniston has In contempla- tion a program of expansion that will equal in producing effect the sa, Ioca- similar plants in the Anniston zone
 Growth of the most substantial kind has been noted at the plant of the Anniston Cordage company during the last year. and as fast IS the op. eratives can be employed and trained