1912–13 Volume 37 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL 251and its environs as a center for the iron and steel industries of theSouthern States.Situated as this city is, with a splendid command of those rawresources upon which the wealth of nations is founded; surroundedby the cotton fields of the South, it cannot do otherwise than bringforth an unprecedented rate of increase. Boundless tracts of coal.THREE OF THE FOUNDATION STONES OF BIRMINGHAMiron and limestone, touching the city limits is a condition found infew places in the entire world, yet Birmingham enjoys the distinctionof having iron, flux and fuel, within a stone's throw of thegigantic smelters, steel mills, rail and wire plants, almost in sightof the center of the city.Towering office buildings occupy the prominent corners, palatialhotels are in the course of construction, civic pride is at its height,as indicated by the sky scraper Chamber of Commerce building, theten story Y. \l. C. A., and magnificent Y. W. C. A. building erectedby the citizens from public subscriptions.