The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-06
|ATLANTA.CALLED
 GATEWAY CITY
Empire City Seen As Great Distributing Center
 Of South
By 8. c, FORBES

s IN THE SoUTH. March 5.-Every- where in the southeast you hear At- lanta spoken of as the coming city.
 It is the gateway to large part of the south. It is, therefore, a great dis tributing center. Moreover. it has SUI lent railroad facilities. It has strong progressive banks and bankers. It has a favorable labor supply and buildings can be erected on very attractive terms. Its climate Is good for worSers, being neither hot enough to induce iaziness nor cold enough to interfere with eff cheney. It has excellent electric power in unlimited quantities, extremely low rates for large users.
 And, as told in my previous column, it has a long list of aggressive business and financial leaders interested in the upbuilding of a clean, well-ordered, , prosperous city. Incidentally, the gov ernor of the state. Clifford Walker, is cooperating actively with Atlanta's leaders in furthering the, interests of the city and state. s
 An idea of how Atlanta ranks among the larger cities of America may be gathered. from the fact that it ranked fifteenth, in bank clearings for the whole country last year., being closely behind New Orleans, which was four teenth. ss
 New buildings were constructed last year to a value exceeding $27 ,000, ,000. One of its banks, the Atlanta Lowry, headed by MT. Maddox, has upwards of $6O, 900 ,00O deposits, while the Federal Reserve bank of Atlanta. guided by Governor Wellborn, has more than S225,0o0000 resources. p Georgia is out to attract more indus tries, more distributors, ,. more mer-
 
 all kinds. "A fund. of. S1 ,000, 900 is to be spent in analyzing, thoroughly the re- sources and facilities and other at fractions of the state with a view to laying the complete facts before capital and the outside world in general. Gov ernor Walker has appointed a live wire committee to undertake this work and to make known the. facts to the world "a very sensible move.
 Meanwhile, the industrial bureau of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce has prepared a useful book. .Tndustrial At lanta: Its Facilities and Opportunities. |"
 Here are facts drawn from this au- fthoritative source: .
 More than 500 northern and eastern manufacturers and producers have tsales agencies in Atlanta, many of them carrying stocks here.
 Atlanta's relation to the South At
  I to ones open hand. The city has eigh- teen good hotels, and next month will open the~ finest in the south, the At lanta Biltnore, with 560' rooms. Many 1 new office buildings, ranging from six to twelve stories, are either ready or nearing completion. The great diver sity' of the manufacturing interests of Atlanta make it possible to secure al- most all kinds of labor: An employers association furnished a service of in- estimable value in reducing labor turn oyer.i Atlanta Is an open shop city The white; labor is 99 per cent Anglo SaxonI As there are a number of plants employing male laborr a large number of girls are available for other plants There are unlimited numbers Of excel lent sites for factories ~
 1 Atlanta is at the hub of the inter- connected transmission system of the water power companies ofsthe southeast with total installed capacity of ], ,S50 ;O0O horsepower. The. railroad. commission of Georgia recently reported tfiats At lanta has the third lower average power rate among American cities.
 Atlanta Is within 200 miles of the coal fields of Alabama, Tennessee and Ken