The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-12
SURVEY MADE BY ENGINEERS COVERS CITY
LOCKWOOD, Greene & Co. Com plete Exhaustive Research Work With Regard to Strat- egiC Situation For Plant
 FIRST UNIT WILL CARRY HEAVY WAREHOUSE LOADS Double Railroad Tracks To Run Entire Length Of 550- Foot Structure-Mode Fa- CilitieS To Be Afforded

Lockwood, Greene & Co.,, engi- neers, have completed their survey or Birmingham with regard to Its strategic situation for a break in bulk warehouse for southern distri- button and the break bulk in Bir- mingham Bonded Warehouse cor poration is now headed to building of this s3,0o0O0o plant.
 Ample warehouse space has been obtained. The company has options on site of 10 acres In Smiths park on Fifth avenue. between Sixth and Tenth streets, north. This property is served by the Atlanta, Birming ham & Atlantic railroad. the Illinois General and the Frisco, through con- cession of the Birmingham Belt, eliminating switching charges.
 As an mitigation of what may be expected of the Birmingham enter . prise. it is stated that the Memphis Break in Bulk wasehouse bonded warehouse business has grown to such an extent that it now requires warehouse covering 175 acres and a trackage for handling 800 cars simultaneously
 Unit No. 1.
 The immediate plan calls for the construction of warehouse unit No. l. This is to be built $50 feet long. 12O feet in width and six stories high. II is designed for heavy ware der the direct supervision of Lock wood. Greene & Co.,, with every known modern electric appliance for the reducing of all costs in receiv- ing and distributing freight.
 Under the plans of Lockwood, Q. f I a1-n will run the entire length of the building. For the use of packers and produce men. there will be ev- cry required modern appliance for cold storage facilities and conven- fences with private cold storage rooms which can be operated from the central cold storage plant.
 Drawing Power.
 It is believed that the Birming ham break in bulk warehouse will have the same drawing power as they have demonstrated in other cities, where they have attracted wholesale grocers, packers, produce men, jobbers, furniture men and other highclass business requiring good and ample storage, and thus reducing distribution costs.
 The survey of Lockwood, Greene and company has been an exhaustive one, having taken several weeks of the work of their industrial experts. The conclusions reached by this sur vey determined the corporation to go ahead.
 Officers Are Elected.
 Officers of the Break Bulk in Bir- mingham Bonded Warehouse corpo- ration are Paul Chalifoux. president; T. o. Melton. vice president; W. w. Clayton, secretary and treasurer.
 R A Steel Cities Chemical works; w. L. Brown, of R. G. Dun company; Sid- ney J. Bowie, auto dealer: Paul Chalifoux, w. w. Clayton, manager Mercantile Finance corporation; J. B. Densmore. Washington, president pany; H. c. Goodman, warehouse man; T. O. Melton, produce mer- ~chant; Hugh Morrow, vice president Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron con- pany; John Walker, Washington, president of the International bank; and Lowndes Walthour, New York, cotton cloth broker.
 Capital ss,oso. o.06o.
 The corporation is chartered under the laws of Alabama at $S,030,000.
 With reference to the sale of stock it is announced that citizens of Bir- mingham will be given opportunity to purchase stock, but that Lowndes Waithour and company fiscal agents, have instructions for distribution of only e-sixth of the stock author ized and approved by the Alabama Securities commission.
 Mir Walthour and associates have been at work on this ambitious plan for several months and their most recent action was in obtaining the services of Lockwood, Greene and company, engineers of international fame. to make the industrial survey of Birmingham. That appears to have been more than satisfying and the enterprise will now be pushed as