The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04

peak O1 prOQuCLlOn called Tor Dy aC- tual demand for present consumption. There is no speculative production. What is being made is to be used as soon as delivered. 4
 The new high production records made by the Tennessee company In 10 different departments, which was given in detail in Saturdays Age Herald. is direct reflex not only of conditions with the leading interest, but with all.
 In order to get still more iron for steel-making purposes the Tennes- see company has diverted a Bessemer furnace from foundry to ingot mold iron. Two Bessemer stacks remain on foundry and the six at Ensley and Alice are on basic.
 Feature of this weeks operations .will be the going on double turn of the Bessemer plate mill. The same maximum pace will continue at the Ensley ingot, blooming and rail mills and the Fairfield tie-plate plant, structural mill and car works of the Chickasaw Shipbuilding and Car company.
 The iron market is firm at SPA to S25, with the latter price becoming more and more the base, especially for second quarter. One maker has booked 1,200 to 1,500 tons a day this week and closed the week Saturday by booking 5000 tons. Delivery is for St. Louis, Indiana. Illinois and midwest territory generally as well as for the south. No small tonnage is obtainable under s25. Chicago has taken 5000 tons of northern Ala hama iron deliVerqble Inv rail and water.
 The Alabama company will not be able to blow in its second Gadsden stack before next month due to necessary arrangements for &C., c1mulating raw material.
 Active Pipe Market
 The pressure pipe market is being overrun with new business. The United States Pipe has taken 300 tons for Pleasant Ridge, Mich; 300 for Omaha, and 1,725 for Milwaukee. A large order for Pasadena has speci- fled De Lavaud pipe. The base Is now $45.
 Sanitary pipe remains very strong, with prevalent price base of s65 fol standard, s70 for fittings and s60 for extra heavy Jobbers are in the market for additional requirements.
 Wire Mill Full Up
 Gulf States Steel and American Steel and Wire have all the business they can handle. Regular customers are being cared for by discriminating allotment of the production. North ern mills are not accepting new busi- ness in sheets and pipe.
 Coke is in great demand and all most all ovens are in operation, the Alabama company having fired 150 additional and the Semet-Solvay com pany having fired its last 30 idle cnes. Prices range from SS on con tracts to sS.50 and S9 for spot. Large shipments of by-product coke are be- ing made to Chicago and the north west. the Sloss- Sheffield alone ship ping 20 to 30 cars day.
 Rails to Alaska
 A feature of outgoing movements u is week will be a cargo of 2,700 tons of Ensley rails for Seward, Alaska, consigned to the Alaskan En- gineering company Ten thousand tons of Ensley rails were shipped to Alaska, two years ago via Port of Mobile and the canal. The rails go to the Gulf by the Warrior river, thus saving 20 per cent of the all- rail rate.
 More French Potash
 The third ship bringing potash from Alsace-Lorraine for the French government put in at Mobile yester- day and a fourth Is on the way. Mobile has been made port of entry for this movement, which is to be a continuously large one. Cast iron pipe and steel products leave Mobile for the Pacific coast every week to ten days in large cargoes. The pipe movement to Pacific coast in January is estimated at 25s000 tons.
 0ne-Piece oil Tank
 A new Birmingham product is 2,600 gallon one-piece steel tank made by the Welded Products com pany for the Wofford Oil company, and mounted on a Packard chassis. The one-piece welded steel product