New-York tribune., 1922-10-23
Full Employment
And Better Tone
AT Chattanooga
Manufacturing Plants Gen.
orally Are Running at
Capacity, With Orders
Ahead at MANY factories
speeiar rfnancsa, Correspondence

npecf0I Fff0fscfdt correspondence
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Oct. ie.--~
Movement of cotton at around 81 cents
and resumption Of capacity production
by practically every industry in tho
Chattanooga region have brought full
employment and better feeling in all
lines.
Industrial resumption hal begun be-
fore the shipments strike July /, and
signs OF promising outlook were not
then wanting. The strike. with It's in
terruption OF supplies and deliveries,
banked up orders for the makers and
has now resulted In s general capacity
business. Several Of the industries In
which demand is seasonal. normally
ceasing about September 1, h,.ve orders
on hand for two 10 three months un-
interrupted production. Examples Of
this are the clay, soil and sever pipe
works. The seven plants Of this cate
CORY here are all at 100 per cent.
Iron and steei fabrication in general
is in good condition. Southern rail-
roads are in the market for msileahie
pies are in active demand. thanks to
the tremendous home building progrars
pat under way in tho South this spring
end summer.
The mammoth new bath tub factory
OF the Crane Enamelling Company,
owned by Crane q Co, of Chicago,
has already attained 70 per cent pro-
dnct1on and will operate remaining
part OF ITS capacity as soon as new
modei molds are received. Plans are
In contemplation for an additional unit
TO duplicate the present structure.
Already 700 men are on the pay roll.
Sales OF oil we'll machinery arc de-
pendent more on crude oil prices than
on general business conditions, and 90
Auesy Manufacturing Companies plants
are at only about IS per cent capacity.
Present low price Of crude oil. with
large supply on hand, holds little pros
peet Tor Lucey in the immediate future.
a recent shipment OF considerable sixe
was Slto,o00 order Of the Sun Oil
Company, which went TO Venezuela,
where Sun has recently obtained con-
csssion to some unexploited oil fields
Ihs oil concern is affiliated with the
Sun Shipbuilding Company.
Judson Buchanan, manager of the
Chattanooga Plon' Works. owned by
international Harvester Corporation
said that business was now about so
pet cent capacity. compared with low
ebbs OF 80 and 35 per cent reached in
the last two years. Other agricultural
| implement makers are reaectinp i'm
pfovement. The Chattanooga Imple.
ment. Company is having more demand
tor balers, huliers, etc. and Newell
Sanders Plow Company, makers OF
disk plows, report Improvement, psr-
ticularly in export.
Even wagon makers, who for seyera,
years have been hard hit in good times
as we'll as in bad--due to the auto.
mobiles rural influx--are doing better
Chattanooga Wagon Company has Mad
fairly brisk wagon trade shis fall
During the last two years there has
been somewhat Of q tendency es
farmers in the South to abandon trao-
tors and trucks in favor Of horsedrawr
plo"s aad wagons. The fact that !
farmer could raise corn and hay or hi,
! spn~ stble, ~
,Wagen companies have also laruel,
adapted themselves to new prodnet,
to piece out their business. Chatta
nooga, Company Is making auto beds
ana ana bodies and other wooden parts
Customers for special Jobs" Keen ur
THIS trade and company Is shown
balance in black ink for first time IL
fve years. Florence Wagon Companv
at Florence, Ala, is reported at ca.
| Paclty on waSSGs alone