Permission granted the Atlanta
bank to establish an agency in Cuba
was welcomed in Birmingham, which
does a large business there and sees
in the Atlanta agency a means of
promoting business with Cuba. Cuba j
is now taking several cargoes ot j
sugar house machinery, including
twenty cane carriers being made by |
the Birmingham Machine and Poun- j
dry company.
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Cargo Itoad Contracts.
The state highway department lo*
contracts for $1,000,000 worth of roads
List week, one of which will be road
through St. Clair county, which will
give Birmingham a connection with
Gadsden via a modern highway. The
highway department announces more
than $8,000,000 worth of roads now
being built in Alabama.
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Itocord Cement Production.
Cement makers say Alabama
cement production this year will be
3.000,000 barrels, a 25 per cent in
crease, and that the increase of con
sumption in Alabama alone this ,
year has been about 50 per cent. The
increase of consumption in the ad
joining states, which the Alabama
mills also serve, has also greatly in
creased. It will be third record
cement year. The new Lehigh mill is
to come in August.
Birmingham’s auditorium contract
has finally boon let. Award was j
made to Day and Sachs at something
over $100,000 for building alone,
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'I he Iron Market.
Tlie Birmingham iron market was
steadier at close of the w<-*-k than in
the past ten days, during which a
one-stack maker had been <»:f--ring
and selling iron at $25. whi 1 • • tin
others held and *<> -I small he - for
$27. The onc-stm s m;tk< r . now
understood to have .-•-id * i;.- f
third quarter and t-* on: ..f it
that period. All .ithn m.i\vr.
