The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-28
No Slo,U Down in the Pace
 OF 55 Per Cent at the MiHs
 Of7he Tennessee Company
Wall Street Comments Purchase of Gulf States Stock Birmingham Pipe Going to Five Pacific Coast Points by Canal Route-Three States
 Order Brick

The Birmingham district continues to lead other steel centers in the per centage of production.
 The Wall Street Journal, a high authority, says Steel Corporation &C., tiyity at large is b2 per cent. and that of independents 40 to 50. That of the Tennessee company is and for some time has been 55 per cent.
 It operates five of tho nine open hearth furnaces to produce steel. That is 55 per cent.
 It's Ensley rail mill turns out 6,ooo tons week.
 The Chickasaw car works at Fair field turns out IS standard steel freight cars per diem. After com pleting the Louisville and Nashville order it has one for 300 cars for the Steel Corporation.
 Bessemer plate, guide and bar mills operate this week.
 Tie-plate mill at Fairfield operates regularly to keep pace with the rail mill in supplying track accessories.
 Gulf States Steel Is breaking rec ords in Cts departmental work at Gadsden steel plant. If demand for wire mill products has eased up. there was lot of orders on hand before 1t did. and mills are at ID per cent capacity.
 Corners Steel company is operating one of its band and hoop mills at Woodlawn.
 At Capacity Plants
 American Radiator company con Al in deliveries.
 Cement plants are at capacity.
 The National Cast Iron Pipe is at capacity. Sanitary pipe plants had a splendid three months of 1t In Au- gust, September and October, and arc still busy. HammondByrd Iron company is operating nine of these plants, three in Anniston. three in ,Gadsden and others at Talladega and South Pittsburg. They also repre- sent the Shelby Iron company. whose blast furnace at Shelby Is in opera ton, and the Alabama By-Products company. whose East Birmingham plant Is in full operation. The Brad ford beehive coking plant. which IS also in their family, is at capacity. The 15 to IS plants In the Hammond Byrd aggregation are all operating and most of them on full turn.
 Brick Business Good
 Face brick business has been good all this fall. John w. Sibley of the Birmingham Clay Products company reports orders for a church at Bel zona. Miss, store at Tampa and high school at Crowley, La. Birmingham brick seems able to travel far afield.
 Dig iron market is resting up north and south. but orders for railroad cars and rails are coming to the fore. It Is estimated that steel require ments for western car orders recently placed are 2S0.000 tons.
 oil field demand for steel pipe Is coming with a rush. Pipe line tom mage Ioofns large. One Texas interest has closed for 250 miles of pipe, Hum phreys Pure oil company Is in the market for 200 miles and Sinclair OH for 1eo miles of pipe.
 More Rails for Japan
 Trade papers mention purchases or 5000 tons of rails for Japan. It requires no guesswork to Know where rails will be made. Japan gets her rails at Ensley. Ensley mill has or- der for 45.0O0 tons of rails for South ern Pacific for 1922 delivery.
 Lincoln Park, Mich. let contract for 1900 tons of cast iron pipe to the United States Cast Iron Pipe company. Same company took 200 tons for West Carrollton, O.
 Gulf States Steel
 New York Is interested in the re- cent purchase of stock of the Gulf States Steel, the Wall Street Journal saving: Gulf States Steel stock gained 10 points in two days. A large part of the buying could be traced to a southern source. Once more the name of a southern iron and steel man is used in connection with the buying. It is reasonable that Gulf States improved position result ing from reduced production costs. improved plant facilities and excel