The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-07
MARKET PROMISING
PIC IRON MANUFACTURERS IN
 SOUTH ENCOURAGED.
The Many Inquiries which Are Being Received in Bfrminghan District VIII Result h Business
 Befng Booked.

Birmingham, June 6.-(Special.l- The month of June has started on very promising for the pig iron manufac- turers in the South and many Inquiries
 which are being received. will most likely result in business being booked.
 The sales during the first week of
 the month will not show up so badly while the anticipations are high for most successful month. The United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Company was reported in the market at the beginning of the month for large quantity of iron 10 be delivered during the third quarter of the year and later and this has had consider able effect. The blowing out of three blast furnaces recently has not caused any depressed feeling, the confidence dn the futpVe being too strong. The quotations are firm. sll.50 per ton, No. foundry being the minimum for June and July delivery, while $i2 is being asked for third quarter delivery. There fs not much iron being sold as yet for delivery during the last part of the year and as far as can be ascertained the manufacturers are not so anxious to make sales for that time, expecting an advance in the quotatioha
 The output in Alabama will not make . bad showing for the month of May as some thought. The figures are be- 1nK GOMpllGQ uOWs thCAC AAA OS a difference as compared to the pro- duction in March and April, still in the face of needed repairing at furnaces the make will come up satisfactorily. Casual visits to the furnace yards in the Birmingham district show a large quantity of iron on hand. To the un- Informed this would appear as not con- ducive to a strong market fin the fu- ture. However, on this score there Is ~.n oxnrohan ai ThA afffn. auents of Iron from this territory has begun to take on some proportions and the railroad officials have been assured that there Is to be . steady movement from now on.
 That there is a need for from in many circles is evidenced by the line of inquiries that are coming in. The greater number of sales being made these days are not in big lots but in- dicate that there is some business on hand with the consumers and that fur ther orders are most probable. Two Furnaces in the immediate Birmingham district are ready for the torch any time the iron is needed. Two other Furnaces just outside of the district win be ready for the torch before the end of the month so that there can be . stfl1 better make if 1t should De de- sired. The consuming element has been assured by the Alabama producers that all business they can offer will be cared for promptly. Every order this year can be filled on time in thls dis trict is the way that some of the man. ufacturers put 1t, the iron on the yards to be used if the emergency arises
 The rolling mill of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company at Bessemer, Ala, has gotten down to steady operation again, steel being roll ed altogether. George G.. Crawford, President of the Tennessee Company, went to New York last week and some interesting announcements are looked for on his return. The repairs at the steel plant have about been finished, though there are quite number of men still being given employment in 4he plant All kinds of reports are to De heard in reference to orders having been received recently for steel rail but the indications are that there are not enough yet on hand to warrant an fmmediate resumption of operations. One of the positive statements made as IAo the big steel plant in the last few days is to the effect that tho plant will positively be started up just as soon as there are orders to warrant the same. Considerable talk has been in- SiuIged in by those who are inclined to be pessimistic that the steel plant would never be started up again save the plants of the United States Steel Corporation at Gary, Ind, sharon, Pa, and other places in the North and West secured more business than they could care for. That the plant at Ensley, in this district, will be started up again sLs soon as orders are received is the most interesting information in sev-