The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-08
OAL,R0N ANDSTEEL
gUmBER or PLANTS WILL RESUME
 THIS WEEK.
Demand for Product is Good at Good Prices ana Operators and Work
 men Are More Hope Ef.l4 ful 1sa

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 Birmingham, June 7.--tSpecisl )--A necessity has arisen in the Southern territory to increase the pig iron pro- tuction and furnaces which are ready or the torch will be started up at once md others needing repairing will be worked on as quickly as the labor can Dc found to do the job.
 The make of the past few months Will hardly be able to satisfy the de- nand as booked for delivery during he third quarter of the year and there s still some business being handled de- bpite the fact that the quotations have Ptiffened and in some quarters an ad- Fance of 50 cents and even more IS De- Ing asked.
 The Southern iron manufacturers ap- bear to- be in a strong position as to kheir future prospects and the end Of the presidential campaign is likely to 1nd the producers in this section not n aernood to accept business for deliv- ery during the balance of this year ex- tept the prices offered are indeed in+ Eeresting. No iron is being sold in Aiabama now under SIP per ton, No. 3 Foundry.
 There is no telling what the agere- gate of the sales made during the past khree weeks will go to. There has been h little Hull in the buying In the last Few days as compared to the great &C., kivity which came over the Southern market but still there is an inquiry hnd 1t cannot be denied that it came From consumers as the size of lots in- dicated that 1t was for the real con- suner.
 There is no denying the fact that much Iron recently bought up under SIP per ton is In the hands of specula- tors and that it will be let out on the Fnarket sooner or later. There is such a healthy inquiry as to iron that pre- dictions are being made freely that i2.s0 per ton. No. foundry, will be q regular quotation before the end of the month and SIS being hinted at for in- mediate delivery. As yet all delivery can be made practically on immediate E delivery time, A
 The railroads can furnish all the cars that are necessary and there is yet much locomotive power waiting for amount of iron on the furnace yards but sufficient to i'll orders right along Hand before many days shall have passed additional furnaces will be in blast and ewery demand can be met.
 Not only is there resumption in the #pig iron circles but in cast iron pipe, Boil pipe, rolling mills and steel plants. -Four open hearth furnaces in the biz steel plant of the Tennessee Coal, Iron land Railroad Company go into opera Ition Monday morning. One by one the other departments in the big steel plant will be started up until the en- tire institution is going and there is a steady output of steel, steel rail and K bother products. As a consequence blast Iron furnaces misunderstanding basic Iron have been started up, The Besserfier roiling mills, handling both iron and steel will be in operation by the middle of next week.
 The Central Foundry Company. man ufacturing soil pipe at Bessemer twelve niles south of here, has secured some K good orders from Auburn, Ala. St. Louis, Mo, and other places and there E will be steady work for some time to come at this place. The Gadsden pipe plant. soil pipe makers also, between Birmingham and Chattanooga. has started up. giving employment to near E ly a hundred men.
 # The larger cast iron pipe plants in the. immediate Birmingham district are working on full time and with practi. caliy full E1orreB. TIsses institutions are still receiving orders and their pro- ducts are being shipped out in all d. rections. The melt at the soil and cast iron pipe plants In Alabama during the next six months will show a very large increase as compared to the melt du- ring the first six months of the year With but two exceptions the pipe plants in this State have had as dull q time as did the furnace people and many men were idle.
 Good prices again prevail for cast Iron pipe and the indications are that there will be a continued demand for the product warrantig good work for H the large number. of men in this indus try for some time to come.
 There has been no trouble expe- rienced so far in securing the old labor Hxm n1r ata NAs& .l work has been going on. As was stat cd from time to time, the labor re- mained right in the district apparently Informed that conditions in other in. dustrial sections were just as dull as in Alabama.
 When it was announced that there would be a resumption of operations. the labor sought old positions back :. Tt is believed that when the time comes for tue various departments to get back to work at the big steel plant in Ensley that the old men will be found responding to the orders as before, with the exception of more skilled steel turned to Pennsylvania or went eles- where.
 The call for men to report to work k Monday morning in the open-hearth k furnace department at the big Ensley mills will be answered, 1t Is believed. # Dy An0 enIlE9 ol0 IOCCe. rms laDOf has had more or less to do during the depression, inasmuch as the Tennessee Company continued the Improvements that were started on long. before the depression came on. and even made further Improvements in the plant With the announcement that during this week there win be resumption in the various departments so that by the 18th of the month there will be a general operation of industries at Ems ley, Bessemer and elsewhere, properties of the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Rail- road Company. it is givn out that there # will be steady employment for some time to come.
 The labor is confident that there is to be steady operation for two years at least. The reports will not down that railroads are placing orders for steel E rail. while the demand for other steel and bar iron and bar steel. despite the cut in prices is picking up some and business for big tonnage is looked for right along. t@