The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-20
by RICHAnD #. JOHNSTON


The Tennessee company will con-
TRUE this week the SIS per cent of
production that has been going on
week after week without Interrupt
ton.
Operations shift between plate
and structural mills, but volume of
production has not fallen below so
per cent.
Plants active this week will be
plate, guide and bar mills at Bes
seper, car works and tie-plate plants
at Fairfield and blooming and rail
mills at Ensley. To produce raw ma
terial four blast furnaces and five
of the nine open hearth furnaces will
continue in operation. One Ensley
stack is being rebuilt
The car plant at Fairfield was idle
a portion of the time last week wait
Ing on material. This week 1t will
resume its production of dozen to
Is pressed steel cars per diem for
the Louisville and Nashville, follow
ing which II has an order for 900
cars for the Steel Corporation. This
plant went into commission July 10
last and has speeded up week by
week ever since.
Wire Mills Busy
The wire drawing mills are on
basis of around 10 per cent. New
business is not as good as 1t has
been owing to a slump in cotton
prices, but the mills were well sup
piled with orders before prices fell.
while construction keeps the demand
for nails at continuous high. Heavy
shipment of wire mill products, in
GLIDING wire fencing, was made TO
the Dominican republic out of Mobile
recently.
A recent shipment out of Mobile
was 1900 tons of rails for Japan,
along with 500 tons of track acces-
series from the Fairfield mills.
Activity in Structural Steel
Structural steel works of ingalls,
Iron company employs full crew
of men on bridges and office build
ings. One recent item is large Of
fee building for the Fulton Bag COM
pany of New Orleans. The ingalls,
company doubled it's plant capacity
this year. 1t is installing a new dis
trict manager for the Carolinas at
Charlotte.
10000 More Horse Power
Having signed contract with the
government for lease of the Shelf
field steam power plant, the Alabama
Power company will have that plant
in service by December 1, supplying
Alabama. Georgia and the Carolinas
with 10000 horse power daily
Western Cities Order Pipe
High pressure cast iron pipe plants
are more active than is usual at this
time of the year. Following book
irgs were made by Birmingham
plants the past week: 1000 tons for
Parsons, Kas, and 275 tons for Fair
field, Ia, by the American Cast Iron
Pipe company: 800 tons for Akron,
O., and zoo tons for Loup City. Neb.,
by the National Cast Iron Pipe com
pany. The latter plant is practically
at capacity.
Sanitary pipe plants are not receiv-
ing the same influx of new business
as they did in October, but are wen
provided with orders for the remain
der of the year. Very little 1879
buying is taking place in any OF the
industrials.
Radiator Plants mt Capacity.
Radiator works are at 100 per cent.
Some overtime is done in order 10
keep up with the demand for heating
apparatus incident to the tremendous
building plan all over the country
The American Radiator company is
credited with sales of 1000 sets OF
heating apparatus in one week.
Birmingham stove and Range COM
pany, which has been on a six-day
schedule, went on one of five days
last week. other stove plants are
not as busy.
Lumber Doing Well.
Lumber journals report more local
demand in the south than there has