The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
Alabama Pig Iron Again Enters Northern Markets
 By Rail and By RiUer
Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company Continues at 75 to 80 Per Cent of Steel Production-High Pressure Pipe Picking Up Buoyancy-Lumber
 Active-Increase in Loaded Cars

and December business prior to Feb ruary bookings.
 Sanitary pipe is continuously nov ing to Pacific coast and two recent movements were made to the West Indies. San Juan took 50 tons and Santiago a small consignment.
 Pipe Casting Machines
 Northern industrial journals give favorable mention of the Ninstalla- = l tion of the De Lavaud pipe casting machines in the North Birmingham l shops of the United States Cast Iron Pipe company. These machines make thinner and stronger pipe and require much smaller working force. The make is expected to come in competition with steel pipe for oil well lines. Five machines are being installed at North Birmingham and will be in operation within a few weeks. Stock of this concern has risen considerably on the exchanges recently due to favorable outlook Of the high pressure pipe trade, the in- ductiop of the new process of man l ufacture and the like.
 shop Resumption
 Shop resumption at several south ern points. recently has taken place. Atlantic Coast Line put 100 men back to work in it's car repair shops on Mo6day. Whistler shops of the Mo- | bile and Ohio resumed and the Gads- den Car works announces resumption on half time next Monday.
 Stringer Bros. brass and plumbing l speciality foundry at Gadsden. which has been idle for months, also re- 1 susnes next week.
 Columbus Boundary company, Co., lusbus, Ga, has consolidated with the Lemley Foundry at Bessemer, and | operations will be enlarged. They are makers of sanitary pipe Confirms Big Order Important announcement was made by w. l.. Mapother, president of the Louisville and Nashville, during his early week visit here. He confirmed the order of 46,000 tons of rails given the Tennessee company and said the district would get good share of the S5,000000 additional expected to be expended for equipment by the road The Chickasaw car works was par ticularly mentioned.
 Incidentally MT. Mapother said his company favored the Ford offer for Muscle Shoals and that, if Ford got it and had power to spare, the road would probably try use of electricity in locomotives on the Sheffield to Columbia division.
 Toll Plan Cotton Important conferences with South Carolina and Alabama planters on | the one hand and Albert Kuffler and 1 Victor Freeman. representatives of European cotton mills and market ling agencies, were held under aus prices of the Warrant Export & Dis- count association. result of which was that planters pledged 20.003 bales of cotton for export to Czecho- | Slovakian mills on the toll plan with 1 the export and discount company ! acting as their agent and supervisor. l Lumber fs Active l Among the market reports of the week that of lumber was especially l good.f Western Lumberman says: | Orders and production during the I first six weeks of the year have been | twice those of the same period in 1921"
 l Small Power Plant I Houston Power company has ap- | piled for right to dam Choctaw hatchie river near Newton in south east Alabama and build 1000 horse l power hydroelectric plan. River Falls Power company. in which Horse Shoe Lumber company Is i'm terested. is preparing 10 deveiop