The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18
IRON FIRM AT SIS
 WITH SOME SALES
 MADE AT S19.5O
Steel Mill at 50 or 60 Per Cent of Normal Operation. Rapid Progress on
 Mitchell Dam
By RICHARD F. JOHNSTON

some, Blrmlngham pig AFon WAS sold last week at si9.5o.
 This Is 50 cents over the ruling pr:ce, and indicates the advancing trend of the market
 Iron at Chicago has advanced to s22. In response to higher prices in the north, southern iron has again entered the middle western territory. Chicago took lot of 500 tons, and Indiana and Ohio points, as well as Louisville. were purchasers of small tonnages. The total midwestern busi- ness was not much. but reappearance of that section in the Birmingham market is regarded as signifisant
 Holt blast furnace of the Central Iron and Coal company resumes op- erat.ons Monday after being out for nearly year. It's stock of iron is exhausted Kellerman mines. which supply this company with it's main coal tonnage. will resume next Mon day
 Steel mill operations have further Increased The Tennessee company Is at 50 to so per cent in its finish ing mills. the car works. tie plant rail mill and Bessemer mills oper- ating this week.
 Gulf States Steel company Is on a 55 to so per cent basis. Recent ad- vances in nail and wire prices caused large amount of buying in order to get under cover. Nails are under stood to be so per cent of orders on the books of one wire mill operator.
 American Steel and Wire company puts on more men this week. and Is at 60 to 70 per cent of capacity.
 Weymann Steel company is operating it's two mills at Wood lawn, the old and new one, on cot ton ties, bands and hoops.
 Structural Steel Jobs
 Structural steel operations are pro- nounced Satisfactory" at one large plant. Ingalls, Iron Works is doing big job in structural steel for he Georgia Marble company at Tate, Ga. one for the Knights of Colum- bus hall at New Orleans, and one for the ear, eye and nose hospital at New Orleans. It is also building bridges for Mississippi. the Caro- linas and Virginia.
 Pipe Orders For Birmfn Eham
 All the lettings of high-prsssure pipe announced in the competitive Chicago market last week came to Birmingham concerns. The Iron Ages Chicago correspondence an- nounces the following lettings:
 Youngstown, O.. $50 tons of to 12-inch sizes, to National Cast Iron Pipe. The same concern booked 150 tons for Troy, o. American East Iron Pipe was awarded 500 tons for Cedarburg. Wis. The U. S. Pipe got 225 tons for Chicago and 1928 tons of 54 inch pipe for Milwaukee besides 241 tons of lugged pipe and 376 tons of special castings for the same place.
 Work on Mitchell Dam
 The Alabama Power company has almost completed laying of track from the dam site on the Coosa at Duncan's Rifle to Cooper on the main line of the Louisville and Nash vile near Verbena. It Is establish ing a town and building houses. A force of 500 men are at work on and near the dam site.
 This $S,000,000 project is now well under way and the greater portion of the material and appliances will come from the Birmingham district. It will be a steady source of revenue for Birmingham during the two years of it's construction.
 The electric transmission line of the Alabama Power from near Gads- den to Lindale, Ga, Is completed and the water power of Alabama Is joined with that of Tennessee, Georgia and the Carclinas. Cotton mills in the Carolinas have been on three days rations of power for some time on account of the low stage of the rivers and would have liked some Alabama power to have been shunted over. but Alabama needs all the power available and 1t stays at home.
 Alabama Twice Forfeited. Alabama cotton mills and other in- dustries dependent on power have not suffered for power, because, al- though the water has been low in the Coosa and the hydroelectric plant unable to operate fully. the auxil- iary steam plants at Gadsden and on the Warrior have supplied a daily flow of 90000 horse power to make up the deficiency at Lock 12. Ala bama has been shown to be electri- cally independent and self-sustaining q Plenty of Electric Power | When the Mitchell dam at Dun- cans Rifle is completed and fully l installed with it's ultimate of 10000 I horse power the Alabama Power companq's hydroelectric supply will be 22o,00Q horse power, there being l installation for 115,000 at Lock F. l Tn addition to this there Is the War | rior river steam plant with 75,000 | horse power and the Gadsden steam plant with 15,00o horse power. The complete installation. steam and hy- droelectric, will be s15.oo0 horse l power.
 Young Birmingham men employed at the new dam have written back to friends and parents that the company provision for the comfort and health of the employees are all that could 1 be desired. The best kind of food is served in the mess hall and special arrangement made for sanitation in every direction. The young men l seem to be enjoying their work and there being a large force of them they are not lonely.
 County Trade Good 1 Wholesale merchants, especially those dealing in dry goods, agree that country trade has been excel. lent. Several of them have been te the New York markets to lay in addi. tional supplies. They are especiall, 1, pleased with collections.
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