Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Anniston Industrial News June 25, 1891
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The Atlanta Constitution June 25, 1891
The U. S. Rolling Stock Company to Be Reorganized - Other Matters.
Anniston, Ala., June 24. -- It is rumored here that a reorganization of the 
United States Rolling Stock Company will be effected at an early date and that 
the capital stock of the company will be increased from $3,000,000 to 
$8,250,000, and that within six months all of the company's shops will be in 
operation, employing a full force of men.

It will be remembered that this company went into the hands of a receiver last 
November, and since that time only a small force of men have been at work int 
he shops here, and those only a portion of the time.  When run to their full 
capacity, the Anniston shops give employment to 1,000 men.  At present only 
about 250 are at work.

Captain F. G. Bush has been elected president of the Woodstock Iron Company, J. 
D. Probst, of New York, who was elected to that position at the recent annual 
meeting of the directors, having declined to serve.  The directors have decided 
to put one of the coke furnaces in operation in order to demonstrate that coke 
iron can be made in this district at a profit.  It is believed that when once 
started the furnace will be continued in blast and also that the other one will 
be blown in shortly afterward.  The iron turned out at the coke furnace will be 
consumed by the Anniston Pipe Works.  

Anniston's electric street railway line is nearly complete and in about two 
weeks electric cars will be substituted for the dummy which furnishes 
transportation for Annistonians at present. 

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