The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-25
Ingalls, Iron Works Awarded Order for Structural Steel and Joubert & GosIin Obtain Mechanical Job for Equip
 ping Huge Sugar Refinery
DOUBLE TURN NECESSARY FOR BUSY CONCERN HERE
Business Booked by Corpora
 tions in District Is Largest in History of Fabricators. Organizations Getting Share of Construction Work Begun

Two Birmingham firms, Ingalls, Iron works and Joubert and Goslin Machinery company, have been awarded contracts for the struc- tural steel and machinery to enter into building and equipment of the S5,500,000 sugar refining plant of the Texas Sugar Refining company, to be built at once at Texas City, Texas.
 The Ingalls, Iron works will fur nish the structural steel. The amount will be several thousand tons and is the largest structural steel order ever obtained by a Bir- mingham fabricator.
 Joubert & Goslin are to make all the refining machinery, the melters, the Altering machines and other mechanical apparatus. In fact, they have the contract for the entire mechanical job, just as Ingalls, has the contract for all the structural steel.
 The structural steel is to begin to go forwerd in April and the or der is to be completed by July. One of Worlds Largest.
 The new refinery is to be one of the largest in the world. The initial sunit is to have a capacity of 100000 pounds of sugar a day. The site is one of 30 acres with gulf water front for reception of raw ma terial from Cuba and sh pment of the finished product. The company is to operate it's own ships in ob- taining material. Eventual capacity is to be 2.5o0o0o pounds of sugar per diem.
 President of the company Is Alex ander Smith of the banking firm of Peabody, Houghton and Company, Chicago and New York. Houston and Texas City capitalists are also interested.
 The Ingalls, Iron works has its en- gineers now in New York going over the plans for the steel and other en- gineers are at work on the job in the Birmingham plant.
 Plant on Double Turn.
 structural steel is very active" said R. l. Ingalls,, president of the Ingalls, Iron works. We are not only on full turn, but double turn has been necessitated."
 Orders being completed by this concern include the following:
 Foundry building for Central Iron and Coal company at Holt, Ala, S25 tons theatre and office building in Raleigh, N. C., 1,7oo tons; negro Ma sonic Temple in Birmingham. 500 to 500 tons. The original order in this instance was increased when two more stories were decided on.
 The company has opened an office in Atlanta to cover that territory and already has branch managers in the Carolinas, where Birmingham fabricated steel goes regularly. other shops Busy.
 Other structural Steel works in Birmingham are also busy and have obtained large contracts. In fact, there is more fabricated steel under construction and on order books in Birmingham than heretofore in its history. Among orders booked by the Virginia Bridge and Iron com pany are these:
 Two Big Jobs.
 Edwards hotel at Jackson, Miss, 1900 tons; additions to Godchaux Sugar Refinery at. Reserve. La., 300 tons.
 This company also furnished the 1,40O tons going into the construc- ton of the Phoenix Cement com pany's mill, while the Ingalls, com pany furnished a like amount for the mill of the Lehigh Cement plant now being built.
 Another large order on Birming- ham structural steel books is that of 1.400 tons of shapes for the 1 steel barges that are to be built by the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding company at Mobile for the Tennessee company for Warrior river use, ob- tained by Johnson & Thompson.
 The Virginia Bridge and Iron company is also repairing 800 freight cars each for the Seaboard and Gen. tral of Georgia and building 100 new flat ears for the Central