The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-04
INQUIRY FOR IRON
SOME SALES oF SMALL LOTS BE-
 INC BOOKED.
The Pnsspeess toe bta lfen tn ths Str nainGham- Dtstfsct Are as bsight as They oan De@-ship.
 hnentS steady.

Birmingham, Jan. S.~~tSpSciak1~-- There ts an inquirs being received in the Birmingham district for pig Iron.
 Some seies of small lots practically immediate delivery. are being booked and representatives Of large consumers ar aeAlers h iron ere h the city look. ing after future iron, according to local statenehts. The prospects are as bright at they can be. The make fe- mains steady despite the rumors that have prevailed for some time now that seversi furnaces are to be lighted at nhee. The price Of pig Iron tn thls disttlet is hfn on the SIS per too ba :. are expectlng an advance and while . faw. sales have already been made above the et5 auotsticn. businese of- tered is not boing declined.
 There is no Accumulation of iron whatsoever in this district. The ship. enents are every bit as steady as the ] production. Some stocks on the fur fsacs yards in the immediate district will shortly be attacked and if ship have 1t they will be. there will soon be no iron seen at all hereabouts.
 The inquiries that are being received show a need for iron h directions Every inquiry is being accorded a most respectful hearing. Answer Ia promptly given to the inquiry. The raiiroada win move out promptly all the iron effsfsd The bis iron high. of service h the fsw sAateFiai nsids % that the aeetstanes looked for from the railway couaranles will De forth coming. fNf
 The local consunption of pig iron is improving right along. The cast iron pipe; concerns have many erdeRs in hand and win melt no small amouAt of the product. The steel plant nesds wiii he of some ccnseqyence from now on, The Southern Steel Company tbankruptl will soon be reotEanisea Apd there will be need for iron here. It is reported that in the near future the Republic Iron and Steel Company VIII soon start, up the Gate City roll ing mills near here. The machine shops and foundriAs In this district have many orders in hand and others In sight and additional labor is being put on in this line. Other industries are beginning again to look up and there is every tiRdicati that activity will Dc reported from every side,
 The announcement that the reorGan- izatIon committee of the Southern Steel Company (bankrupt) had secured capi. tai In the East and the desired end was about to be consummated has caused much good feeling throughout this district. W. IT. Hassinger will be Fresident Of the new company, accord tnG to the plans, and he will be in charge of operations He Is very com petent for the work having had much experience In the iron business. He has selected some men to assist him fin the great job ahead of him and the in- dications are that there will be steps taken In the very near future to start up the plants, which consist of mines, coke ovens. blast iron furnaces. steel plant and steel rod. wire and nall mills. The properties are located in three States, Tennessee, Georgia and AAbama and employment win Dc given right from the start to no less than $500 men with double this number If all the plants so on full time.
 The steel plant of the Tennessee Company at Ensley lost less than one weeks time for the holiday season. When the resumption came on the past week. the labor was more than willing to set back to work. There will be more labor added little later to tho force. The improvement In the open hearth mill department of the steel plant, announced some months back, is being started on. Two of the open hearth furnaces are to be replaced. Two of the blast iron furnaces at Ems ley. belonging to the same company, will be replaced also, the construction work stated, to require a large num- Der of common laborers. Rail Is being shipped with much steadiness, from the Ensley plant. It Is stated in Ensley. not odhcially, however, that 6 delivery on ninety pound rail Is being made to the Harriman system of railroads, There Is large quantity of this pro duet in demand for this years deliv- cry. so 1t tS understood.
 train load of thiFty.nve cars of cast iron pipe left Bessemer the past week for Mobile where the product is to be loaded on vessels for Cuba. The United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foun- dry Company is filling Its Cuban order right on time. The North Birmingham pipe plants were closed down for ten days during the holiday season. There was no slack in the shipments during that period, however, stock on the yards being moved out. A better price iS being obtained for cast iron pipe.
 Coal and Coke.
 There Is a good demand for coal and the new year starts oR with quite 6 number of mines in operation and ef- forts being made to increase the out put The Pratt Consolidated Coal Com. pany has leased convicts from several counties in the state recently paying sIo per month for each convict, short and long time, no matter what class Of physical man they are. The Besse- mer Land ana Improvement Company recently made a contract with the State for 200 eonvicts. This Is all being done for the purpose of securing steady la DOT. Four coal companies now use convict labor, the TannessAa, sloss. shefleld Steel and Iron company, the Bessemer Land and Improvement and akA E1..kk HonhalidafAN