The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-12
HARRIS TO ERECT OBU|LDINC
Construction Of First Unit Of Break-Bulk Warehouse
 To Start Soon

Construction work will begin about January on the first unit of one of the largest merchandise break bulk warehouses in the south, for the Har- ris Transfer and Warehouse com pany, The new structure will be on the site of the old Birmingham roll inKs mills, the triangular tract bor- dered on the east by Thirteenth street, on the north by the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and on the south by Avenue B.
 This property was purchased Sat urday by the Harris Transfer and Warehouse company from the Re- public Iron and Steel company. An nouncement was made subsequently by George c. Harris, president of the Harris Transfer and Warehouse com- pany, that a new breaK-pulk ware house would be built on this site on the unit system, the first unit cost ing s300,000, to be seven stories high and of reinforced concrete and steel construction, fireproof throughout.
 The new break-bulk warehouse will afford accomm modation for the storage of vast quantities of mer- chandise, machinery, and products Of all kinds, and in addition will dis tribute carload shipments for local and out-of-town concerns in less than carload lots to points of consign- ment. This break bulk feature en- ables the original shipper to save the heavy freight expenses of long haul, less than carload shipments, as the warehouse will serve as the dis tribution point for many localities reached advantageously from Bir- mingham. In other words, the ship ments can be routed in bulk to the new warehouse, broken up into small lots and reconsigned to detsination. It will also afford storage facilities for many concerns which do not have their own warehouses.
 The new warehouse will occupy a site which lies in the very heart of Birmingham's warehouse district, only a few blocks from the business center of the city. Five main line railroads-the Louisville and Nash vile, Southern, Alabama Great South oern, Frisco, and Seaboard-pass di- rectly by the site, and the Birming- ham Belt also serves it.
 Present System Continues.
 Construction of the new warehouse will not interfere in any way with the continued operation of the pres ent storage and furniture warehouses of the Harris Transfer and Ware house company at Avenue F and Twenty second street, south.
 "We are making this addition be- cause there is very real need for it in Birmingham today" said George c. Harris, president. Representa- lives of many industrial concerns and wholesale houses have ap- preached us with the suggestion that we erect a warehouse of this type. We are proceeding with our plans in big way, because our 4S years of operation in Birmingham have con- vinced us that the future needs of our city will necessitate expansion. We shall be ready to build additional units just as fast as the situation calls for it."
 The Harris Transfer and Ware house company was founded In 1880 by George c. Harris, ST., father of the present head of the company. Early residents of Birmingham will recall how George c. Harris, ST.. started the business with single dray and built 1t to It's present day proportions. The Harris company has two large warehouses for storage uses at Avenue F and Twenty-second street. south. The company operates If three and a half-ton trucks, 25 dou- ble teams and 5 single teams, and does a general warehouse. storage and transfer business.
 Officers of the concern are: George c. Harris. president Arthur R. For syth, vice president: J. J. Cowan, ecretary-treasurer