The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-26
HUNDRED PER CENT
 0F OPERATIONS AT
 VARIETY OF PLANTS
List Includes Radiator, Sewer Pipe, Cast Iron Pipe and
 Cement Works - Rail Mill on Double Turn

Showing the activity of residence, store and office building in the south, the plant of the American Radiator company in Birmingham is on production of 100 per cent plus.
 The plant is shipping its make. Officials say: Business is fine and the prospect is excellent"
 The rail mill of the Tennessee company is scheduled for double turn this week. That means a production of about 5000 tons of rails, compared with an average production of 6,000 pany continues speeding up. From an average of about 40 per cent In August. September is showing a pro- duction of so per cent.
 The recent advance in wire mill products served to stimulate jobbers to lay in large supplies. This was especially the case with nails, which are 70 or so per cent of the total new business with the wire drawing mills Wire and wire fencing come next, then bars.
 Pig iron is firm at the base of SIS with some business placed at $19.50. Prices have advanced S2 and S3 in the north and this has opened the competitive territory in the middle west to Birmingham furnaces in a moderate degree. Some business has been booked there.
 Iron melt in the south has in- creased and many consumers are in the market for fourth quarter sup plies.
 Furnace Resumption
 Alabama company. has fixed Octo- Der 10 as date for resumption at the Alabama City blast furnace and ore mines have resumed in order to sup ply raw material. Holt furnace of the Central Iron and Coal resumed last week. Republic Iron and Steel will probably blow in furnace about the same time as the Alabama com pany does,
 Iron stocks are so low and ill-as- sorted that more than one iron maker must resume soon in order to remain in the merchant iron business. Prob ably not over 60,006 tons of mer- chant iron will be on Alabama yards at the end of the month.
 At 100 Per Cent
 Among other plants reporting full operations Is that of the Southern Sewer Pipe company at North Bir- mingham. makers of clap pipe and hollow tile for factory purposes. The plant Is making and shipping 15 car loads per dieme
 Also on a 100 per cent base of pro- duction are the Alabama Portland ce- ment works, that of the Atlas com pany at Leeds producing and ship ping 4,5o0 barrels day, the National plant at Ragland making and shipping 5000 barrels a day, and the Gulf States plant at Demopolis making and shipping 1000 barrels a day.
 South's Record Best
 Record of group cement plants. which includes Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, Is an increase of 63 per cent in shipments and 36 per cent in production in the eight months of this year over same period in 1920, com pared with decrease of 1 per cent in shipments and an increase of per cent in production for the cement mills of the entire country. The rec ord of the southern mills is far ahead of that of the other 10 to 12 groups.
 Face brick plants are at normal The demand for Birmingham face brick Is equal to the production. Opelousas, La., has taken 75,000 of fancy face brick for high school. This order followed satisfaction over use of Birmingham face brick in similar buildings in the city of New Orleans.
 Gadsden car works went this week from a four-day to a turn of six days a week, owing to greater ac- tivity in car repairs.
 Heavy Merchandise Movements
 All railroads entering Birmingham report a marked increase in the movement of cars loaded with gem eral merchandise going from Bir- mingham wholesalers and manufac- turers to local stations in Birming- ham trade territory. The Southern freight office took in .$110,oOo more in August than in Julysand Septem- Der bids fair to make still better showing over August This means that the country merchants have bought literally of Birmingham job bers and wholesalers and expect to realize handsomely on the incoming cotton crop.
 The steamship Craster Hall of the Isthmian Steamship line, is on her way from Brazil. with cargo ot manganese ore for the Tennessee company. The ore will be unloaded at Mobile and come up the river in Warrior barges
 Coke Plant to Resume Incident to resumption of the fur mace of the Alabama company, the Semet- Solvay by-product works at Ensley will resume operations. This plant supplies the Alabama com pany with it's coke, the latter fur- nishing the coal with which to make