. The industries of Louisville, Kentucky, and of New Albany, Indiana. ot cane, rattan, split and wood-seat chairs, and its d lini to offer thetrade the best chair in the market is conceded throui^hout the South and West, where itis sold, as also to a coiisiderable extent in the East, the aggregate trade of the houseexceeding $150,000 annually. The executive oflBcers of the corporation are all leading, progressive and public-spirited business men. President Long—who is also chief executive of the Water Com-pany—was president of the municipal council for four terms, an I oner especially note-wor
. The industries of Louisville, Kentucky, and of New Albany, Indiana. ot cane, rattan, split and wood-seat chairs, and its d lini to offer thetrade the best chair in the market is conceded throui^hout the South and West, where itis sold, as also to a coiisiderable extent in the East, the aggregate trade of the houseexceeding $150,000 annually. The executive oflBcers of the corporation are all leading, progressive and public-spirited business men. President Long—who is also chief executive of the Water Com-pany—was president of the municipal council for four terms, an I oner especially note-worthy, as it was a distinction never before or since conferred upon a citizen here. Theother officers of the chair company also possess large business experience and prominence AND OF NEW ALBANY, INDIANA. 185 THE BIRMINGHAM ROLLING MILL COMPANY. James G. Caldwell. President; B. DuPont, Secretary—Manufacturers of Bar, Band and Hoop Iron, Plate, Tankand Sheet Iron, Tram and T Rails—Mills at Birmingham Ala.: Office, No. 349 West Main Street, Louisville, Although its works are located at Birmingham, in the center of the great iron andcoal fields of Alabama, this is, in its executive dtRcers and ownership, a Louisville com-mercial and industrial corporation. And to Louisville, too, is primarily due the remarkable development since 1870 ot theentire Birmingham district, about equidistant from the mountain of red hematite iron oreon the south, and the extensive and practically inexhaustible Warrior coal-heds on thenorth. The productive capacity of this great mineral valley so bounded is practicallyillimitable, and these great natural advantages are so fully utilized by the BirminghamRolling Mill Com]iany thjit no mills in the countrj- possess greater manufacturing facili-ties than these. The Birmingham mill employs upward of seven hundred and fifty hands,has several sets of rollers for the procfuction of merchant-bar, band and hoop iron, andtram and T rails, sheet, tan
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