The age-herald., 1897-08-03
SPIKE WORKS PROBABLE Northern Capitalists Viewing the
 Field. THEY ARE COMING SOUTH To Locate Spike Works That Will Consume Our Steel Product--G General In-
 dustrial Notes.

Messrs. T. F. Johnston and J. D. Hemp hill. of Hollidaysburg Pa, are iH Bir- mingham with view to selecting loca- ton for spike works which their com pany recently bought. and which E is their intention to remove to some south ern city.
 Mr Hemphill is pre- sident and MT. John- ston secretary of the Hoflidaysburg Iron and Nail company. and for the past two or three months they have been in con- munlcation with interested parties in number of southern towns, endeavoring to find the very best place for the manu- fracture oRspikes.
 IA week or two ago a telegram was sent out from Sheffield stating that that place had been decided upon for the new loea- tion, but Messrs. Johnston and Hemphill negatived that statement yesterday in conversation with a number of Birming- ham gentlemen. The mill it Is intended to immediately remove to the south has been located at Roa nol1e, Va, for num- Der of years, but was recently sold to the Hohidaysburg Iron and Nail company. This company has in operation alt Holh- da ysburg a rolling mill and nail factory, which they will also bring south at an carly date This is the third visit these gentlemen have made to Birmingham and o,Iher southern points in the past three or four morths, and it is probable they will decide definitely on the new site for their plant before they return to Penn- sylvania They go to Sheffield today. !. rsesuming Work.
 The settlement eff the. differences be- tween the manufacturers and the Amal- gamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers means the resumption of work at the Birmingham rolling mills and the Alabama rcliing miIls,' which have been idle since July 1, on account of the strike. The manufacturers and the puddlers made terms at Youngstown, O.. last sun day. Ths local mills will likely be started up within the next few days. a .a,,f,
 nsold Wil,es.s saai.
 pr. Eugera A. Smrh state geologist, has arranged to spend the next two or three months in Cleburre, Clay and Kan dolph counties, where he will visit per sonal1y the prospecting work of that sec- ttion and will also do some prospecting himself Seve~<l new gold mines in that section are be.vg opened and from the in- dications will prove paying investments. MT Brewer, local representative of the Engineering and Mining Journal of New York. who is an authorty on mining. re- ports splendid progress in the develop men. of the gold fields of Alabama Production of Pig Iron.
 The production of pig iron in the United States for the first half of the pn sent year shows a falling off as co1npared wi h the first half of 1S96 but handsome in- crease over the last half of that year. The output for those three periods was as follows: First half of 1897, 4,463,416 tons; first half of 1896, 4,976,236; last half of 1897. 3,64S, ,S91.
 fThe output for the enire country, by sections, for the first six months of the present year was as follows:
 1st 1st Last
 half half half
 1897. 1896. 1897. New England, N. Y. &,
 IN. J... .......... 27,91s s.171 16.521