The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-24
Iron Production GroUs
 As Prices Keep Rising;
 Tw0 MoreA Stacks
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company Remains at 100 Per Cent of Steel Production-Pipe Shops Busy-Agricultural Machinery Is More Ac-
 tive-Live Industrial Items

has been no mine trouble. Present large production is due principally to increased furnace operations.
 Steel Works Sold Feature of the week was purchase by the Virginia Bridge and Iron com pany of the structural steel mill properties of the bankrupt Birming- ham Steel corporation, President C.. E. Michael says the plant will be also adapted to manufacture and re- pair of froight cars.
 Prestige of Birmingham face brick has gone east through architects us- ing it in the south John w. Sib- ley, secretary of the Birmingham Clay Products company, has placed agencies in Norfolk. New York and Washington. Face brick plants are on full turn.
 Ordering Locomotives
 Southern railroads are ordering locomotives Mobile and Ohio, Ala bama Great Southern and C.. N. O. & T. P. have ordered 10 MilSado type engines each of the American Loco motive company.
 Southern Railway has placed order for 1,900 freight cars at Lenlor City works. Southern Railway has asked interstate commerce commission to allow Issuing of S9.300, 900 of equip ment trust certificates to pay for new equipment New rails will be placed with the Tennessee company In all probability.
 Ship repair facilities at Mobile will be equal to any emergency when the Todd Shipbuilding company. which acquired plant of the Mobile Ship building company, completes improve ments The company is now floating a 10,00o-ton dry dock from New York and will install a new slip 600 feet long and build a 500-foot pier.
 Shipping Gas
 Warrior river transportation ser vice is doing a regular business of shipping oxygen gas In cylinders 10 New Orleans and Mobile warehouses of the Linde Air Products company, this city. The local plant supplies Alabama. parts Of Georgia and the territory of which New Orleans is the distributing center.
 Items of Interest
 First National bank has let con tracts for extensive enlargement and Improvement of it's quarters in the First National bank buildlng taking in the Jemison and company quarters.
 Henry and Richard Going have had residences on Fifth avenue near Twenty street, torn down 10 make room Iaf live modern LWo- story business houses.
 American Radiator plant at North Birmingham remains at 100 per cent plus
 Unit Stove and Range company is on five days q week It Is preparing car load shipment of hot air fur naces for Texas to go next week Large shipments are made regularly to Illinois for middle western dis tribution.
 Vulcan Rivet company. which has made a success of the manufacture of rivets, has purchased machinery for the manufacture of spikes and ex- poets to have them in operation at an erly date.
 Farmers Buying
 Local warehouse of the Interna- tional Harvester company reports business much better in the past 30 days. Farmers are active in the purchase of motor vehicles and trae- tors. Planting machinery is also go- ing well again. Thirty different styles are carried in the local ware house. which has a floor space of S0,00O square feet and serves the en- tire state with the exception of four counties north of the Tennessee river served by the warehouse at Nashville