The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-22
LEH|GH COMPANY
 WILL SOON BEEN OPERATIONS HERE
Fifth Outstanding Industrial Development Of Year Is
 At Hand
NEW PROJECTS REPRESENT ALMOST FIFTY MILLIONS
HydroeIectriC Power And Cement Supply Doubled
 In Brief Space

III Dl ICl S'JdOC
 Fifth outstanding industrial deve!- opment of the year is about to come in.
 The Lehigh Portland Cement com pany expects to begin grinding lime stone by August l and will be deliv- crins product to the trade by end of August.
 The mill is No. 16 of the Lehigh chain of mills The nearest sister mill is at Richmond, Va. The Blr- mingham mill is for the southeastern field. ,,o
 The mill will have cost $3,0o0,oo0, It will have an annual capAclty or 100000 barrels
 Construction began on it's tract of 25O acres near Tarrant City last No yerber. It Is all steel and concrete massive and permanent The plant begins operations at a period or great demand for cement. Business already offered has been given to other mills. Prospect for remainoeF of the year is pronounced excellent Business this year has been far be- yond all preceding years.
 Thi. Years Entrants.
 Other outstanding industries com ing in tsis year have been the l0l- lowing: nix Cement company at East Bir- n,incham of dimensions similar 10 that of the Lehigh
 The merchant bar mill of the Ten nessee company, filling the demanu for reinforcing steel in the d', sou" and for export. The mill is gradu- aiiv working to it's capacity or 10000 tons a month.
 The new steel foundry of the Ten nessee company at Fairfield Wher@ the largest steel castings are turhea The structural steel works of the Nashville Bridge company Whlch lo'i'' has been busy since it began operations a few weeks ago and has pooheu 4ts bridges and buildings all over the southeast.
 Mitchell Dam.
 The list of important new lndus- tries entering into Alabama eXpah- sion in the first half Of the year would be incomplete without men tion of the largest Of all-the Mitch- eI eiIA 6am of the Alabama Power comnany on Coosa river, with 1Zo,oVV of horse power when fully equipped. Tbrae units of 24,000 horse power each are already installed. ,s The Alabama Power company s carving this power to the cotton ',';ii saction of eastern Alabama over towards Opelika by an S0-mile trans mission line from Mitchell dam.
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 Coming In Soon.
 Among the important lnoustrtes oIeo to come in this fall with the Iehigh Cement company p4a"' ''''-' be mentioned these o-.,,, The new foundry of the NaIlohdi Cast Iron Pipe company, Where ~ is installing four machines Tor nanu
 
 facture of pressure pipe uhoeA DeLavaud patent. |, nleting installation of five adaitl9nial on, DeI,avaud machines in It's NorIh Ds1 mingham plant to meet demanu 5S; tUt this kind of pipe. Botn these Nc tions and the new planI pdd tn oI cnme eng , in tional Pipe are eNpeceeN '' during August r,ov Tn fine way of new work under way and of outstanding nature may pc chronicled the following;
 New Work Started.
 The Tennessee company is build mo a fiye-mile ore-carrying rall- road from Red mountain to tne pIaSI 1iI fnrnaces across the valley. Thls Vii not only increase the ore-settihs facilities, but it will install ahotHea economy in iron manuIact ure UI ,,,i1I mart of the company. rms roau VIII inst something like $4,0OO,OO0.
 The Alabama Power company has baenn work on the power dam aI Cherokee Bluffs. This marks the start of S1o,O00,0Oo investment. Birmingham industries vii oe e" nouch the beneficiary of thls new sunniv of 132,OO0 of horse power as any hecause the total supply or the different dams and steam power nlants are so hitched that power nav be shifted as desired accorolhs to demand.
 Represent s5oOOO.0oo.
 Total cost of these major indus +riaI developments, those completed and those begun, will foot close to s5O,oOO, 900. They stand Tor thal much money invested in the eNpah- sion of enterprises already a sue oa.s and the further development and hringing into service of the raw ma terials of the state. r-,..,rio
 Within a year the hydroelectric nower supply of the state mas been doubled and the cement productlon oL the state will have been more than doubled. ,.,..n. o+ tbe Birmingham district has been further expanded and comes at the dullest part of the year with all shops on full turn and having all the DUST ness that they can handle'
 Woodrow Wilson Dam.
 An outstanding event of next year will he the completion of the Wood row Wilson dam with it's 30ooO0 or horse power. That power will have been permanently installed.
 Industrial observers regard as or great import the merger of the De Soredleben. Corona and Empire coal companies, whose opportunities for development of export and bunker coal business are regarded as pracu- cally without limit.
 These are a few of the big thlngs 1andscape of Birming gham and Ala hama this year and point out that continuity of development which mas marked the past few years.
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