The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-16
COAL. IRON AND STEEL


 Birmingham. Aus. 15.-tspeclan- -- Regular customers are having their needs cared for but pig iron manufsc- turers in the Southern territory do not sRss sSsss amount % of Susiness s for futurs ms
 No. foundry Is firm at s,s.so per ton with Ssv of S,a sSSshsf .a quarter iron should bring . higher price with ease. All the manufactur- CTS In this district are receiving in- the first quarter of the coming year but as no quotations have been made yet for that period very few. if any. trades are being consummated. ern territory can sell iron if they de either. but the orders In hand and the manufacturers to hesitate when t
 The production In iron in the South : Is ,n osSut sr rsat G aSn of August over that of July will bs good. an output of a little over lO4,o0o tons being noted last month. Four the % present f time in Alabama. One fur. mace Is ready for the torch right now. making five furnaces that can certain
 Ds ssasn n Of .Ss yssr there should be an extraordinary de-
 "The larger companies in the south pig iron ahead and the smaller con cerns who do not make any effort to sell more than a three-months' make neaS S.s are n. .e m.rR sspasS sdnSon, ts Su;ns s be reported as being in . strong posi- tion.' said prominent iron man in speaking over the Iron market As company in this section should be re. ceiving inquiries for iron and should be able to sell at prevailing figures If prSys ars ss5o n sae ton ros No Is not so bad, considerably better than has prevailed in many day in the Southern territory"
 That Southern furnace companies fn- tend increasing the production is evil. dent from the preparations that are under way at the raw material source of supply. The output at ore mines in several directions in this territory fs being improved right along while moro coke ovens are being put in operation and plans are on foot for the erection of large number of others. Atten. tion is being given to the Quarries ai- so. a general interest being shown in the production of raw material for iron making.
 That the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company has in mind exten- sive development in the Southern field. especially in Alabama, cannot be doubted but exactly what win be done will not be stated for a while at least, the first and best information to be obtained will be when the plans have all been worked out and the contracts have been let for the work proposed. High officials of the big corporation. when<2pproached, are courteous and genteefsepd explain fully the disadvan- tages of making statements before the plans have all been formulated and the actual work has beent started.
 Land hasNbeen bought in great quan- tity in the Birmingham district, thous- ands and thousands of dollars being expended for that purpose. The nego- tiations are not all through yet. Some of this property will be used to over come one of the greatest obstacles in this district, the water supply. Others of this property will ke used for the construction of immense batteries of coke ovens. Still other of this proper. ty will be used Tor large plants in the finished iron and steel products.
 As stated, there will be no positive announcements until all plans have been formulated and the actual work Is about 70 start The Besssmer roll- ing mills are beig greatly improved. the plate mill being widened so that five inch product can be manufactur- ed. The old pudding mill will be transplanted with bolt, spike and riveting plant An engine with Is09 horse power has been ordered and otk- CT Improvements will be made at the industry. Exactly what other plants will So up will be known in the near future. but there are many rumors.
 The steel rail mill of the Tennessee Company has orders in hand that win warrant at least eighty per cent. of the operations lon double turn at the big plant at Ensley with good prospects of steady operations through the bal ance of the year. The rail Is being shipped out almost as quickly as It Is being manufactured. The Harrinran and foreign orders for rails announc- ed some weeks since will cover a. long time in delivery, in fact there will be more or less delivery on these orders into next year.
 It Is announced that a large portion of the accumulated iron in the Bir- mingham district belonging to brok- CTS and spectators will be shipped out in the next three or four weeks the furnace yards to be practically depict ed shortly.
 The railroads are making prepara- tions for the heavy traflc, a number of box cars being brought into this Ar- --.Ak kla.- As III A~W~