Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1901 — Iron Ore and Coal in Alabama. [ARTICLE]

Iron Ore and Coal in Alabama.

E. O. Hopkins, president of the Sloss-Sheffield Iron and Steel Works of Birmingham. Ala., appeared before the Industrial Commission at Washingto the other morning and described the operations of the Sloss-Sheffield company, an enormous corporation of extensive scope. He said that Mr. Schwab’s opinion, that the supply of American coal and iron ore must soon be, exhausted was not capable of demonstration. In Alabama there was more ore than could be “worked” in twice sixty years, and coal enough to last ten centuries.