The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-12
Fl Better Feeling PreUdils
 ln Alabama Pig Iron Market

ern Steel Company, bankrupt, set for tomorrow at noon before the court house of Jefferson county In Bfrming-
 ham, The reorganization company is
 prepared to make bid on the prop critics, knowing full we'll the conditions
 surrounding the sale by reason of the litigation started by the O. Fl. schuier
 interests who have sought for the past two or three weeks to ret . re- view of sale and have appealed . de- nial of the same in the Federal Court here to the Court of Appeals ct New Orleans. The reorganixed company appears to be well supplied with funds with which to not only make the pur- chase of the properties but to operate them when they have secured control It is not believed that arrangements
 can be made after the sale has tax en place for the transfer of the af- fairs for at least thirty to sixty days
 but q, the end of ninety days 1t Is expected confidently that the various
 plants will be in full operation. Em- ployment wiii thus be provided for several thousand men in Tennessee, tssorgia and Alabama. The big steel -od. wire and nail mills. located at
 Ensiey. Ala. near here. win probably
 be the most important works of all to be started up. It might be pos UlDl6 I0T lne lVnu08aC0 NOaAt AEVM 4iiu
 Railroad Company to sell some steel
 nail mill can be operated for . while until anyway the steel plant at Gads- den. Ala. can be gotten in condition and started up. The properties of the Southern Steel Company, generally speakine. are in fairly good condi-
 ton. But. little work will be rieces-
 sary to get everything Into the best
 of shape and start them up after the
 litigation matters have been ssttled
 more or less.
 The cast iron pipe makers in Ala
 are well supplied with immediate busi-
 mesa But few of these plants are idle
 and 1t is understood that if the own-
 CTS or those in control desire to they
 can start the works up just when they
 want to. There ia a big shipment of
 pipe from Birmingham and Bessemer going on at all times now and one of
 the active men in the business is as-
 thority for the statement that there
 is enough business in hand or in sight
 to warrant . steady and full up opera ton right along. Eoii pipe makers, too.
 are beginning to ship large quantities of their product. Much progress has
 been made on the rebuilding of that part of the plant of the Central Pipe Company at Annlston that was destroy ed . short time back by Are The con tractors have made considerable prog ress on the addition to the soil pine works in Bessemer. general report was made of the soil pipe trade at Q conference that was recently held in Birmingham by prominent manufactu- rers in this line in the South. There will be no slashing or gouging to get business but the trade will be lock-
 ed after carefully by the soil pipe men. The coal market in Alabama Is very quiet. The production Is at a low ehb. There is better demand for coke and
 more ovens are in operation than have been for some time. Some coke is being stacked for fixture use.
 Machins shops and foundries report little better trade. One of the iarr-
 CT plants in this line appears to have
 orders on hand that will require steady
 operation for some weeks if not
 months The future prospects with the
 foundries and machine shops are
 brighter.