The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-13

occur great deposits of brown iron ore. The Birmingham district is supplied with this ore from relatively small work ings in Tuscaloosa county.
 The development of Tuscaloosa S min eral wealth is yet in it's primary stage. To one ton of minerals taken out, the earth holds thousands as yet untouched.
 In the suburbs of Tuscaloosa is a large furnace that supplies pig iron made from Alabama ore to the iron. using industries of the city. In the same suburb is coke and by-products plant that furnishes an abundance of high-grade coke.
 Among other produest manufactured in Tuscaloosa and vicinity are iron pipe, steam engines, sawmill machinery, boiler fronts, hoisting machinery. gears, grates, sewer products, logging trucks and all kinds of foundry products. There are several sawmills producing all classes of lumber. One of these. the Raul plant, is the largest in Alabama, and cuts 100000 feet per day. There are also veneer and heading plants, fac tory making patent lathes, and there are other woodworking establishments that manufacture ready-cut housse, handles, mallets, chairs and other prod ucts. Hosiery is manufactured in the district, and a cotton mill is running day and night at Cottondale, adjacent to Tuscaloosa. Owing to the fact that Tuscaloosa is in the heart of q rich cotton growing section. where abun- dant labor is available for cotton mill work, the district is attracting the at- tention of the textile industry, and ex- tensive development in this line is pre- dicted for the next few years.
 Tuscaloosa also has mattress fac tory, a creamery, candy factory and other diversified industries. Among the new manufacturing establishments add ed recently are the Fox brick plant. the Oak City Furniture company, the Kyle hosiery mill, the Central foundry cast iron pipe plant, the plant of the Tuscaloosa N1olding company, J. T. Horne sawmill, Tuscaloosa Packing company, the Rex Shoe factory and the substation of the Alabama Power com pany. Forty-six new business estab- lishments were opened during the past year.
 Abundant power at low cost is avail able to the manufacturer in the Tusca- loosa district. Steam power is produced at low expense owing to the fact that the district is in the heart of the coal fields, and hydroelectric power from the Coosa river is also available
 Labor conditions are favorable, as they are in other southern Industrial districts, and owing to the fact that liv- ing costs are lower than they are in many other sections, labor expense is less to the manufacturer.
 Transportation facilities are excellent. Railway lines extend from Tuscaloosa in eight directions, and there are direct shipping routes to every part of the country. The main trunk lines and branches of the Southern Railway sys- tenn, the Louisville and Nashville and the Mobile and Ohio railroads radiate from the city. Water transportation to the seaport of Mobile places the manu- factured articles i'll the markets of the world at minimum cost There is di- rect steamboat line between Tuscaloosa and New Orleans. Various products are delivered by cheap water transpor- tation, and it is owing to this fact that Tuscaloosa has become an impor- tant distributing point for sugar and other heavy products in this part of the south.