The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-22
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 The larger furnace companies with five, seven and eleven furnaces must be making big profits. Healthy state ments are being made by all the iron companies in the state and despite the fact that heavy expenditures are be- ing made for improvements and fur ther developments. the profits are good.
 Spot iron placed on the market, as stated above, to test the strength of the market. brought $21 per ton better price has been obtained hereto fore for the product while that price is still being asked for fourth quarter iron.
 Charcaol iron Is in good demand and brings $26 per ton. The statement IS made on good authority that the prob able make of the Shelby Iron Company for the balance of the year on charcoal iron has been pretty well covered This company has two furnaces working side by side. one on charcoal iron and the other on coke The company has orders on hand for a goodly portion of it's coke iron during the balance of the year. Very few furnace companies in the county are working their fur naces in this manner, charcoal and coke at the same time. This is one of the few closed furnace companies in the South which has reported a handsome profit for the past few years every month. Announcement is made that the company has let the contract for four stoves and one of the furnaces during the coming year will be re- | habilitated, a new furnace being prac- tically built. leaving though only two furnaces as Is the case now. but with larger capacities.
 The railroads continue to do their share of the work. in the Alabama market both as to transportation in | the raw material fields and from the | furnaces. No small amount of the | iron production Is being consumed right in the district but large quanti- ty Is. finding it's way to other points and will continue to do so for years to come. It is not believed that the time will evers come when the development | among the consuming concerns will be | greater than the producing in pig iron. During the next twelve months the Tennessee Coal. Iron & Railroad Com | pany will have to withdraw to a great | extent with its foundry iron from the | open market on account of the demands at the new steel plants under construe- | tion. but other companies will short ly delelop to furnish the iron as before | Foundries and machine shops ap- pear tt have steady line of business on hand with fine prospects for the future. The cast iron pipe plants can hardly turn out the product fast enough. The soil pipe plants report a little dullness on but this is account ed for in the fact that many places are holding off in their buying in the an ticipation of a reduction in prices.
 The rolling mills are doing very lit tie. Where an effort is being made to operate, trouble Is being experienced because of contentious among unions The Sons of Vulcan are asking for contract and the Republic Iron S Steel Company recognizes the Anal
 gamated Association of Iron X Stee
 Workers. They have a contract wlti
 the latter organization but the Sons
 Vuncen want a contract also and no
 being able to secure the srme eight!
 and more of them have quit worK
 This means that there will be a. shu
 down enforced through the summer
 There is a good demand Tor finishe
 Iron ana steel right Tow and the stoci
 houses are not very full either
 Coal and Coke--Alapama coal IS Il
 strong demand and the production con
 tinues healthy. Within the next thre
 months several mines TOW being open , ed up will be ready for steady produc
 ton. The operators do not deny Una