The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-12
UNI TILED TONNAGE OF STEEL REACHES
 ENORMOUS TOTAL
Local Steel Plants Headed for Prolonged Period of Activity-Pig Iron Mar
 ket Continues Firm


 States Steel Corporation on June SD' shows an increase of St,0o0 tons over the previous month, and that showed an in crease of 2660,o00 tons over January
 The unified tonnage of the corporation has been increasing month by month un- | til it has reached the enormous total of 1o,97s,ooo tons. This compares with S,2S5, O0O tons on January l.
 The unified tonnage figures stand for that much steel on the order books of the corporation that is to be produced in it's various mills. These mills include the plants of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, the American Steel and Wire Company and the Chick saw Shipbuilding and Car Company in | Fairfield and Ensley. The unified tonnage means that the Birmingham district auxiliaries of the | United States Steel Corporation are headed to a prolonged period of activity. l All the steel works of the Birming 1 ham district are at as near maximum as labor and receipt of raw materials will allow. The production was never quite so great.
 Output of Birmingham district steel
 
 week when the National Steel Products Company of Bessemer began operations at it's very extensive plant. This plant has been under construction for more than a year, and is the last word in modern steel mill building. The programme of new sanitary pipe shops in Alabama is practically complete, all the new plants having begun opera tions either in toto or partially. The latest to come in were Kilby, Iron City and Birmingham Pipe and Fittings in Birmingham and Emory and Eastman, in Anniston
 The Alabama production of sanitary or plumbers pipe has been doubled. The Birmingham Pipe is already making cast ings. It and the Kilby are in partial op- eration, but headed to early going in full.
 The pig iron market is firm at $42 for rest of the year. Consumers do not question this price, and are buying for the last quarter at that figure During the week an order was booked for Italian delivery and another export order, destination not yet stated, was also booked
 While it has been hard pull, all the twenty-seven active iron stacks in Ala bama have come through the coal car priority order without the banking of single one.
 The coke market is very strong. Al most any price could be secured. Fur mace coke is selling at $10 and standard foundry at $l2.50 and up. Eastern fur races are paving as high as SIS for coke.
 GREATER CONSUMPTION
 Coke dealers report a 25 to 40 per cent greater consumption of coke in the dis trict than there was at the same time last year. This is owing to the greater activity at machine shops and foun- dries.
 The southern iron melt is the greatest in it's history,
 About 5000 tons were added to the Alabama iron yard accumulations dur ing June, but, even at that total stocks of all kinds of iron are not over so,09O tons. This cuts little or no figure in a market like the present one
 Car service on movements of steel and iron products out of the district is very poor, and there will be additional ac- cumulations during July.
 The coal car priority order has but another week unless it's life is extended Very few have commended it. and crit icsm has been heaped on it. It does not appear to have done any special good anywhere, but it has served to seriously inconvenience scrap yards, sand and slag movements, clay working plants. movements of lumber and many other commodities. They presented a mass protest in Washington the past week, and their hope is that their protest Will serve to prevent prolongation of the life of the priority order.