The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20
IRON MARKET IS
 BECOMING PRIMER
IT IS NOW WELL ESTABLISHED AT $e.5o FOR NO. 2 FoUNDRY-TEN- DOLLAR IRON IN SIGHT.

Rogers, Brown & Co.'S Cincinnati cir , cuar of yesterdays date follows: '"rhe market for southern iron seems to be firmly established on basis of s950 Birmingham for No. ? foundry, and number of companies are asking from l 25 to 50 cents per ton higher
 There has been a considerable number of orders placed for small amounts dur ing the past week, but the tonnage nat uraly has not been so great as it was at the lower range of values. It is well known, however, that at present prices there is no profit in the business and consumers are not running any risk in placing contracts for what they may need during several months to come.
 An increased activity is noted in north ern irons at a somewhat lower range of prices While there has been a heavy curtailment in output few of the fur naces seem disposed to work up their raw materials at a loss rather than to carry them over.
 Tt is believed that the next thirty to sixty days will be a period of readjust- ment of wages, and after settlements have been made it is supposed that the consumption of iron will increase. Not much is looked for in this direction until after the beginning of the new year."
 Here in Birmingham $1000 iron seems to be in sight. Manufacturers as a rule are refusing to make contracts for spring de- livery at figures below $10-0o on a No. 2 basis. With iron at 5000. every furnace in the Birmingham district will be work ed to it's full capacity, for there Is a profit in the pig metal at that figure.
 
 seventeen years, and that the detectives gave him some glasses and money bags to keep.
 A little jewel box made of brown leather was shown the witness which he identified as having been taken out of the yalise.
 Four money bags were also produced and identified.
 Inc glasses were also put in evidence. There was a spy glass and fine sur veyor's glass. The witness said one of them was taken from zinc trunk found in the station, which he remembered as being checked from Warrior to Birming- ham, and the other was taken from the hole in the floor; that the instruments
 
 MT. Turner took them up over the ticket office to try them through the hole.
 He testified that while Turner was upstairs Captain Johnson opened the safe by the use of the combination.
 The witness said he also turned the combination while MT. Turner was up there and that as he stopped on a num- Der Mr. Turner would call it out cor rectly from above; that while he was upstairs he also saw some bottles of water and a tin can.
 B. M. Allen Amuses. Attorney Allen caused considerable amusement by questioning the witness clearly regarding the newspaper accounts of the various details of the Bibb affair. He asked about the experimental dem onstration'' and who was the press agent of the party; he asked if the morning paper did not publish about two columns saying they had found out Bibb was the man and that officers were going to Nashville after him. He also wanted to know if the papers didn't herald every fact about the investigation as soon as it was discovered.
 The witness testified that when he bought the lock for the ticket office door there were three keys with it and that he had three others made by the Yale Lock company and that those six keys were the only ones in existence so far as he knew
 The examination of the witness was finished at 5:35 o'clock and court ad- iourned until 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing.