The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-06
ADDS FUEL TO ACTIVITY Industrial Outlook IS
 Very Bright. BIG PLANTS WILL RESUME
 -----e----- AIabama's Mineral District in Fine
 Condition. uius wm Soon Be Running Day and Night Ar.is so Meet Heavy De- maads for the Product.

has started up again in earnest.
 The rolling mills of the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad Company, at Bessenner will resume operations 1o- morrow morning. giving employment at the first to no less than three nuh- drsd employees. As far as possible, em-a pioyment will be given to the former employees. notice to that erect nav.ns been posted in the plant for severn. days. The mills will go on donpie turn just as soon as the machinery has been tried out.
 More departments in the big cast iron pipe plant of the United states Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Company at Admission will be started up this week and others stiil Will De put n operation until the entire industry is going. This same company has q large pine plant in operation at Bessemer. giving employment to a large numoer
 Work to be started on the plant to be erected by the Prowel Stove Com pany, a new incorporation in the DIT minRham district. Other announce ments are made as to a resumption or operations in this section.
 Colonel Bush Optimistic.
 colonel T. c. Bush president of the Shelby Iron Company and one or tbe best posted iron men in the district, takes a most optimistic view or the situation and the future prospects. fte says that the improvements in the ron and steel trade win be gradusi and that such an improvement is going to be beneficial. With a big rush, ne states that 1t would affect labor and do injury in other directions.
 Pig iron manufactured in the Birm- inEham district is being shipped out at lively pace or being melted right at home. The stocks on the furnace yards are being reduced right along also. There is stfIl little demand for pig iron and car lots are bringing twenty-five, cents per ton for irnmedi- ate delivery over the regular quota tions that are noted. No. 2 foundry is quoted at $12.25 per ton, with a few sales being made at $l2.50 per ton. There is no acknowledgement that Iron is being sold in this district under $f2 per ton.
 A fortnight or so ago one of the larger companies disposed of good lot of the product at Si1.50 per ton, No. foundry but the iron is to be deliver ed so that it will not affect the general market. There is not much inquiry being received for large quantities of the iron but just as soon as the Demo- cratic National convention is over 1t is ; expected that there will be an innmedi- ate improvement In conditions.
 A prominent iron man of this district who recently made a trip to Ohio. Pennsylvania and other iron and stee1 centers states that the BirminghahH district is in a better condition than all of them. f@s
 The production fin the Birmingham district as far as iron goes is about seventy per cent normal. There will be a better output reported shortly, two or three little furnaces being got- ln-- N-a- An.. 4ns Em as. to be no apprehension whatever in this district that there will be too much iron manufactured. The various coTa- panies assert a willingness even, if necessary, to carry a little iron. Snles made during the latter part of the first half Of the year will require consider. able iron to fill.
 The last half of the year starts off under very suspicious circumstances.i ThJre has been good sale, the qao- tations are firm and indications are for a better demand in the near future.
 The iron ment in thfs state is quite strong and is growing right along. Pipe plants at North Birmingham, Bea- serner, Shefield. Gadsden and elsewhere have recently taken on considerable activity and there is a large consunp- ton of iron.
 If the Western Bar Iron Association comes to an understanding this week with the Amalgamated Associated of } Iron, Steel and Tin Workers in De- trpit there Is probability of the roIl- Ting mills belonging to the Republic Iron and Steel Company in this district being started up. These mills are To- cated at Gate City and Birmingham and employment would be given to at least 2.50D men. The rumors may be faint, however, as to an early resumption of operations at these rolling mills, though ia oKn esition may be go.
 Operations at EnsIey.
 The operations at the big steel plant af the Tennessee Coal. Iron ana RalI- road Company at Ensley are stIll very active. The record being made is something like eighty rails an hour at the big plant.
 Onacials as we'll as the employees ap- pear to be in q good humor with this record and look forward to the output , being increased to something like 100 rails an hour More labor is being put on from time to time at the big steel plant. There is yet plenty of room for the labor and plenty of labor is apply ing with more men coming in every day to get employment If possible. 4 report is given out that because of the big influx of labor at Ensley the real estate dealers and rental agents are being kept busy getting up houses for these people or making arrangements for them.
 The announcement was made some time back that towards the latter part of this month a large number of Itai- ians who were formerly employed In the steel plant ae Ensley will return from the old country and seek employ ment at their old places. It is esti- mated that not less than 25O0 Italians will come to thIs district beween the 20th of July and the 18th of August. and the better part of this number will find jobs.
 The shipment of steel rail from the plant at Ensley is about as active as the production. The orders on hand are for practically immediate delivery in this line. The new fiscal year set ting in with the railroads. brings bright prospects among the Iron high . ways and it is believed that these in- terests will shortly be placing busi- ness at the steel mill and with the foundries that will be felt. There is plenty of room for improvement at the foundfies and machine shops in this district, in fact this branch of the in dustry has not been improving as rap- idly as has the pig Iron manufactur- ing, tho cast Iron pipe and steel mak- ing plants. A number of foundrymen and machinists are still without occu- patton and anxious for the resumption to come about Some orders which were anticipated have been sought re-