Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-05
II GOES LIKE HOT CAKES The Basic Iron of the Tennessee
 Company. ANOTHER FURNACE IS AT IT Orders Are Coming in Fast-Remarkable Out put of Eleven Furnaces Big Coal
 es Tonnage for August.
ANOTHER FURNACE IS AT IT

Mir. J. Bowron, treasurer of the TenneS- see Coal, Iron and Railway company, yesterday afternoon gave few minutes of his valuable time to an Age Herald reporter and gave some very intelligent facts and figures as to the productions of that company.
 Of course all interest now centers in the basic or low silicon iron, which for some time, as has been stated in these columns, the Alice furnaces have been throwing out. That this grade of iron has proven successful stands uncontra- dicted, and the fact is the more patent when it is known that the
 Entire Output of the Alice. for. the next six months will be required to fill the Carnegie contract which has been made by the Tennessee company with the iron king.
 But this is not all. Orders, large and small, have been coming in at a great rate, in fact so much so that 1t was soon evident that another furnace would have to be adapted to making the basic iron now so largely in demand. Preparations were made and yesterday morning
 Bessemer Furnace No. 9. began turning out this product with equal success as the Alice plant.
 contract was closed yesterday with the Illinois Steel works, Chicago, for 10,- 900 tons of the basic or low silicon iron. This plant Is an immense one and it is expected that the entire amount of this grade of iron used by them will be gotten from this district.
 More Shipments.
 -- On Monday and Tuesday 300 tons of basic iron were loaded and forwarded to Jones & Laughlin, Pittsburg, Pa, from the Alice plant.
 Yesterday two carloads of the same material were shipped to the Apollo Steel and Iron company at Pittsburg.
 It will be seen, therefore, that not only is Carnegie using Birmingham's latest grade of iron, but manufacturers else where in other cities. The above orders are merely those of late contract and as time was too valuable MT. Bowron did not go into details and give the entire number of orders and amounts of same.
 Output of Furnaces for August.
 When asked as to the total output of iron by the furnaces of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railway company for the month of August, MT Bowron stated that the number of tons was 4S,267, with only eleven furnaces in blast,
 This is an immense amount of iron, and MT. Bowron made the assertion and knowingly, too that the eleven furnaces now in blast were turning out more iron than did the entire seventeen Qnclud- ing the four in Tennessee) while in full blast.
 In fact, said he, the furnaces of Jeffer son county had during the past ninety days turned out a greater amount of pig iron than ever before in the history of its production.
 The Little Belle, at Bessemer, is run ming full time, making iron exclusively of one special mixture from brown ore for the Howard Harrison company at that place.
 The Oxmoor Plant.
 Work is progressing well on the OK moor plant and being pushed as rapidly as possible. It is expected to go in blast on or about October 10. When that fur mace goes in blast the output will be in creased 4000 tons per month
 -d Great Output of Coal.
 Figures have been completed as to the amount of coal by the entire mining sys- tenn of the Tennesse Coal, Iron and Rail- way company and the showing foots up a total in round numbers of 343,S0O tons for the month of August. The mines are all running smoothly, and prospects are brighter for a larger output for Sep fember than August.