The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-04
ACTIVITIES HERE
 DURING OCTOBER
Chamber of Commerce Com piles List of Developments
 During Month

October was red letter month In resumption of industrial activities.
 This Is shown in tbe monthly re- port of the Chamber of Commerce. which, in review of the outstanding features of industrial operations In October, mentions these :,
 Resumption at furnace of Republic Iron and Steel company.
 Resumption at third furnace of Woodward Iron company.
 Resumption at furnace of Alabama company,
 Resumption at charcoal furnaces at Shelby and Rock Run.
 National Cast Iron Pipe and Iron City Pipe and Fittings company at 100 per cent of operations.
 Barrett company begins manufac- ture of pitch coke in ovens leased from Republic Iron and Steel com pany.
 Tennessee company exports large quantity of ammonium sulphate from by-prdouct works at Fairfield.
 Gulf States Steel reached 70 per cent of capacity in finishing mills.
 Semet-Solvay company resumes at Ensley plant to supply coke for the blast furnace of the Alabama com- pany, etc.
 Cooking Plant Resumption
 Hammond-Byrd Iron company in terests at full capacity at by-product work of Alabama By-products corpo- ration and resume at 103 beehive coke ovens at Majestic coal mines.
 End of October finds l2 blast fur naoes In operation. compared with five on August 1.
 Tennessee company's finishing mills busy and coal and other raw mate rial production practically at normal
 Prominent among the financial fea- lures of the month was that of bank clearings, which, for the first time in eleven months, showed an increase over tre preceding year instead of an average decrease of $11,0O0,000 per month.
 Building of Homes
 Building permits issued in october call for s1.031.0oo of construction, and total valuations of permits issued in the 10 months of ths year foot up $5.547. .000, which marks a new high record.
 The chamber estimates that there are now 43,040 homes in Birmingham. Capital invested in new corpora tions and going concerns in october amounted to s401.o0o compared with s6S3.500 in october of 1920.
 Among the Chamber of Commerce activities. 'conventions held in octo- Der and the like the report calls at tention to the many held.
 Corporation Dissolutions: The Fairview Realty company, N. B. Grif- fin Lumber company (Inc.). the Elec- tric company of Alabama, Atlas Ma chlnery and Supply company.
 New Business Openings: F. & II. Clothes Shop, Biltmore Eat Shop. At lantic and Pacific Tea company, state director of federal prohibition, s. H. Kress store and building (Ensley). Highland Guest house (new diet hos pitaD. B. NJ. Chenoweth X Co., Me Wane Pipe company, Warrant Export and Discount company.
 Club Interpretations: Birmingham Flying club, Continental Club of Sir mingham.
 Chamber Activities
 Four Monday luncheons for mem bers at Southern club as guests of chamber directors.
 Two hundred and eighty carloads of gEein inspected by federal agen un- dor auspices of Birmingham Grain Exchange.
 Twenty six new members elected during month.
 Seventeen new members elected during month, Wholesale Merchants and Manufacturers association 97 members now comprise this associa- tion. Railroad fare refunds to out of-town buyers amounted to s210.o1,