The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-17
Tennessee Land Co. Makes
 Plan To Meet Enormous De-
 mand For Residences By
 Men At Various Industries ARMY OF W0RKMEN NOW BUSY ON AIR RAILROAD Believed New $4,000,00O
 Construction Is Preliminary
 To Large Expansion Of
 Steel Manufacturing Units
FAIRFIELD BUREAU l
 THE AGE-HERALD ! Fairfield, Ala, July 16

The Tennessee Land company, which is the real estate agent for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, will build $50 bungalows near the apartments In Fairfield within a short time. Reports to this effect were heard in Fairfield Mon day following the reported request of the company to the Birmingham Water Works company for 300 water taps in that territory. The water company, it Is stated, Is engaged at this time in it's engineering depart ment In working out the details for the large number of taps requested.
 The houses will be used to fill the large number of requests for homes new employees that will be brought to Fairfield incident to the new con struction that is planned by the Ten nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad com pany.
 It was stated Monday that plans for sewer construction to the new property had been prepared and negotiations are under way for that development now.
 
 Many Requests For Homes.
 It is generally understood that the company Is unable at this time to take care of requests for bungalows from it's employees and, although the individual building this year has been phenomenal, houses are occpied be- fore the carpenters get off the prem. ises. The situation is said to be with out parallel in this section of the south; and with it's customery vision it is believed, the Tennessee compa- ny officials are able to see that ths situation will get even more acut later on.
 Work On New Railroad.
 A small army of workmen arr engaged in construction of the over head railroad which the Tennesset company announced between Fair field and Red Mountain, costing ap. proximately $4,00o,o0O. The crew. have begun work at the by-produc division in Fairfield and at othel points on the railroad It Is stated that the engineering crews of tn, company and the construction de partment have been instructed tt rush the work just as much as pos sible. It is stated that the local of ficials want to have the line show record breaking work when Preslden George G. Crawford returns from hi Euopean tour.
 The air line will be five miles long it is stated, and will eliminate tn necessity of hauling ore from tn mines through Bessemer, and up tn valley to the mills at Fairfield ant Ensley This saving will prove tt be very large and the construction of the gravity line will save the com pany an enormous amount of none. as Its developments here are made It was stated Monday by well in formed observers that the construc ton of the overhead line simply pre- cedes the construction of the othe large units of steel manufactur which have been reported for som time as being under consideration and in many instances the stake have been driven for the lines o the new plants.
 Not since the first spade was strucl In the ground here has Fairfield bee so optimistic and the opinion stronge that the development in this city | just beginning.