The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-08
For Good of
 the Community

INVENTORIES show one where he Is \ He cannot makeNa correct inventory by glance. He must go through his stock and estimate the good, bad and indif- ferent. If he stops the inventory after go- ing over the poor stock and decides his status on~that, he is as far wrong asif he counted only what was good.
 Fact is, he is best off who sees the best and gives it full value. The man who senses sound ground under him and smiling vista ahead is not troubled by the obstacles which he must strmoupt &o att tain the forward goal
 Some of the items in Birmingham's in ventory at this time are these:
 The Warrior river has received eighty of It's steel containers for the handling of package freight between Birmingham and New Orleans, the other twenty soon to come. The two remaining self -propel ,lers will soon be delivered This will com plete the new river fleet especially adapt ed, designed and built for river traffic.
 Twenty per cent reductions from the all- rail rate between New York and Bir- mingham via the Mallory line and barges up the Warrior go in effect on Saturday. Fifteen per cent differentials apply from interior eastern points such as Fall River, Mass.
 This is distinct advantage to Bnrnfng- ham shippers and one that they have con- tended for the past ten years and more. It is another peg placed in the continuity of inland waterway development and traffic.
 The government has advertised for bids for an additional steel derrick at Port of Birmingham and onefor Demopolis on the lower Warrior. The Warriors chief port is to have it's facilities doubled and the river is to have it's fourth terminal in- stalled.
 Down at Mobile contracts are being let both for the oil fuel station and the coal terminal. They mean more ships putting in at Mobile and more Alabama coal go- ing to Mobile for export and for bunker age of ships. The coal terminals, which will also handle ore, stand for economy in the transportation of Brazilian ore to the mills at Ensley and Fairfield
 The Gulf States Steel company has just commenced the raising of ore from the Shannon self-fluxing mine by it's perrnan- ent hoisting machinery with lifting ca pacity of 2,000to 5000 tons per diem, and has completed the installation of turb- generators at-its Gadsden steel works en- abling the use of exhaust steam in the creation of electricity for plant operation.
 While the mills of the country were clamoring for the export business that arises in period of severe competition the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company walks off with an order for 10,- 900 tons for the Nanchurian railways. This is the most important export order coming to the fore in some time. Bir- mingham got it.
 The pressed steel car plant of the Chickasaw Car and Shipbuilding com pany at Fairfield is due to pronouncement of completion May 1. Ithas capacity of >15 to-25 pressedssteel cars per diem. The cars already made there are proof of the kind that are to issue They will be the last word in steel car construction.
 In the past thirty days Birmingham shipped 12,000 tons of cast iron pipe to the Pacific coast via Mobile, enjoying a saw ing of S15 per ton by reason of it's short rail haul to the coast and the use of ships the rest of the way
 The Woodward furnace relighted it's