The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-14

lea, which will be held in Birmingham tomorrow. It Is known that the union has gone down wonderfully, but it is not known to what extent the officials have been active of late and done some recognizing work. The meet ing of the miners will not be attended by a very large number of delegations. That is known to a certainty as the meeting will be held in the office of the union. The. operators have an- nounced their intentions, with a few exceptions, of never again dealing with the organized miners. The state ment is made that as soon as the outcome of the meeting Is known there will be much activity started up In the mining fields.
 No. foundry Iron Is being held firmly at $11.50 per ton, minimum while some sales have been announc- ed during the past week at SIP and even better. None of the furnace companies in this district are willing yet to sell for delivery during the last quarter of the year under SIP per ton and already $12.50 per ton is being sounded. One or two furnace com panies have sold some special brand or special analysis iron above SIP per ton.
 There Is some iron being shipped oGf the furnace yards now in this district and an opinion Is expressed that If the improvement that Is looked for continues there will not be much of the product left in short while.
 Inquiries for pig iron have been coming in lately by telegraph showing a disposition on the part of some consumers to provide for future use as quickly as possible. This inquiry Is not taken as a sounder of the mar ket for the buying in the North and West has been so steady of late that more plants have been put in opera ton to keep up with the demand which means that some of the con sumers have already been suggested to make inquiry in the Southern ter ritory.
 But little previous notice was given as to the resumption of operations al the big steel plant of the Tennessee l Company. Many rumors had prevail | ed that some orders for steel rail had been received and that the big plant would have to start up again but noth- ing definite was given out at the gen eral offices of the company. President | c. G. Crawford was even out of the l. city. Around Ensley 1t became noisec that the orders had been sent to the foremen to get ready to light up the open hearth furnaces, four of them al least. The actual order followed a few hours later and no time was lost in getting these furnaces a going.
 There is enough basic iron on the yards to keep the steel plant going for some little time without having to start up some of the blast iror furnaces. An order for twelve thou sand tons of steel rail was announced enough work with the four open hearth furnaces going to last about twenty to twenty-five days In the meantime it is believed there will be additional business received and nc further cessation of operations will be necessary. Some negotiations are now under way for more business, which promise to result In deals. While some of the labor formerly employed at the big steel plant has left the district the greater part of 1t remains right in the district and will get back In harness just as soon as their services are needed.
 A general resumption of operations at the big soil pipe plant of the Bes- semer Soil Pipe Company at Bessemer, twelve miles from Birminghan was another incident of interest in the metal circles of this section. This