The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
Steel Mill Work At EnsIey Is ts Be Carried Out As
 Planned
TWO NEW STEEL MAKERS
 BEHAVING BEAUTIFULLY
Rail Production Will Soon Be Some. thing Like 35,ooO Tons a Month. Five Blast Furnaces In
 Operation.

Gordon Crawford, the new president Of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Rail- road company will arrive in Birming- ham Saturday. He will be accompan- led by John A. Topping, retiring chair man of the Tennessee. With the cleo lion of MT. Crawford to the pres- dency of the company, the office of chairman was abolished. Mir Topping is president of the Republic Iron and Steel company, and as it's executive head will continue to visit Birming- ham from time to time.
 While the es-Schley syndicate was in control of both the Republic and the Tennessee, the two companies had the same head, and the Republics Alabama properties and the Tennessee company's properties were operated by the same officials; but now that the United States Steel corporation owns the controlling interest of the Tennes- see and not having any interest in the Republic the dual management in this district will, naturally come to an end F. H. Crockard, vice. president and gen eral manager of the Tennessee com pany, and vice president of the Re public and general manager of it's Ala bama ena has not yet severed his con neetion with the latter company, but he stated yesterday that he would probably soon do SO.
 In speaking of the Tennessee com pany under its new ownership MT. Crockard said:
 Carry Out Present Work.
 "The Ensley properties will not only continue to be operated to tn cir fullest capacity, but the plans for extending the steel plant now under way will be carried to completion. That is about the only information relating to the operations that l have received. Mat ters of detail and development policy in general will be known after MT. Crawford, the new president. arrives"
 Mr. Crawford and MT. Grockard are personal friends. and each managed a large plant for the National Tube, one of the most important of the United States Steers subsidiary companies. Mr. Crockard resigned his position with the latter concern a year and a half ago to accept the general managershi ip of the Tennessee and the Republic in this district.
 Crawford Native of Georgia.
 MT. Crawford is a native of Georgia. He was a student at the school of technology in Atlanta and graduated with honors in chemistry tn ere; and as ha hapap bic iudustrial oa roar as oba,, ist at the Sloss furnaces in Birmingham he comes to the district not as a stranger out as one thoroughly famil- jar with southern conditions and Ala bama furnace practice. MT. Crawford is about 40 years of age.
 Of the four large, up to date open hearth furnaces of the new steel plant at Ensley, designed by Mir. Crockard and built under his supervision, two are in operation and third is now being heated and will be in operation before the end of the month The fourth fur mace would also be ready for work but for delay in the delivery of some of the brick In three or four days after the brick arrive the furnace will be completed.
 Steel Producers Behaving We'll.
  in operation are said to be behaving we'll to be giving indeed the very high est satisfaction. The Tennessee com pany had II open hearth furnaces when MT. Crockard took charge of operations but the four new furnaces more than double the capacity of the steel plant.
 The rail production will soon be some thing like 35.000 tons month, and this output after converting about 5000 tons of ingots into billets every month for the Tennessee's rolling mill at Bessemer.
 In addition to the four big open hearth furnaces which MT. Crockard planned and all but one of which is completed, two others of his design are now being constructed making six new ones, thus giving the Ensley steel plant ultimately IT furnaces all told.
 The Tennessee company is running five out of it's six blast furnaces at Ems ley, all the pig metal there being turned into steel Owing to the extreme dull ness of the pig iron market, the Ten nessee company is operating only one of it's furnaces outside of Ensley and that is at Bessemer.
 All Rolling Mills Running.
 The rurnor that the Tennessee's rolling mill at Bessemer had shut down was without foundation. The rumor that the Republics rolling mill at Gate City had shut down was likewise untrue. While orders for rolling mill products are not as plentiful as they were few months ago, the hope is expressed that both the Republics Birmingham rolling mill and it's Gate City mill will continue to run indefinitely.
 
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