The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-02
rnr EAarERN:IRoN MAnKEr.
same observations About wheeling
Nails.

ID.
PHILADELPHIA, November so.
.Editor IntenIgoncen
There is usually lull in the iron trade
st.bia season, but tho present is. an excep-
Eanal period. Iron OF nearly all kinds
sShji,its n marked tendency TO advance IN
orjces. nnder the stimulus OF o healthy
SaMsnd. based on the actual requirements
~ The country. Pittsburgh iron and
Wheelin0 nails have unsettled Eastern
,nsrssla "a far as Boston, but the disturb
ance will disappear with the cause, viz:
ths disposal Of surplus stocks. Nails here
ara 81 IS. and makers are not anxious 70
,sesnre cIistomers at -less, but wheeling
T";Is by way oi Baltimore, have been
Ia A Lass. The Pennsylvania bar mills
ava IN general fairly employed, put tne
,,asreins. because OF the abnormHlly high
nr;ces al coal and the consequent hrmness
tss;g have been rather narrow. Just OF
tha time when an upward tendency began
- manifest itself, western compehuon
.,tonned In and held quotations down.
Tsat week they recovered, and bar 10 now
asns and moderately active ct 4'lV,
Ashich n NAV be "a in thirty days. Pig iron
y na.v active at SIC 90 to so 90 for forge
isora y We, Bnyets are anxious TO buy, IN
ll0n 0o,ar csses Az months stocks, but makers
sra @ not willing to sell so farin advance a.
~ ressut ANY nnsatistactory figures. An ad'
YIesee Yaa ~ from 81 90 10 So 90 per ton is an
x,,a;netSd x No. i foundry is going at 80 "
for ordinary brands and ~ W ior gC. WY
hest. which are scarce; Lower H'TTHSeo TSo
nave all advanced y ~, per ton; tl;s,!,ns aS
nTesept price does not 1usaiy tns o!0nsns -
n al idle furnaces, but good many ~ ~
awaiting the opportunity Msxs ssnt ESich Sih
n keep prices below the point as VA M5'vn ~
now idle furnaces would pe tempses y
ttoTt They are between three nres; \ MY, ~.
SiSh priced fuel, 81 80 to % % per iln .on ~.
cosI: second, immense stocks O. lotsisu a
SSon' @ GOOD. chiefly for tounaly pa, pu
,aoses. | and, thirdly, compention iL0l ~
pther iron, producing centres, IN vlew NJ, =,
these facts no mArked increase In p!s NO. ~
% III take place. The nlila on p!sts ~
strnctural iron are SO lar aola ansns ~.
sSst the temporary lull Of the p9st ieN i.s' y
InSS ,ar. n orders signifies nothing. lnquM
ay W. contIune to flow In and negotiations ~
aaS nending for bridge work; ship ogla
500 boilers, engines, &C., which wiz, VIII MI
Iass,,rsd. ~, employ the capacity Of the mii,l
S ~ ssycral weeks. There hes been no M "a
ANA "a if,ouotation and very eonsstystllY'
eaiino Tafyails in this regard. Mannise
SnSsTs seem desirous to encourage ttAos ~ Y.
ssa,S,inv ON very narrow margins. "
~ ara having q harvest. WITHIN tnn
1ui iss%oyer lS0 600 tons ot iron ana stee
gSS SSays been negotiated ioE. o. wnlcl
rannn L wsSa an foreign mills. Nearly eyet
9VoSy, 9SSv,can w mill ID sold mp to next summel
Amet1V' Am tI1Va'snt;sdons are pending for woI
and nsSy;itIAssSi XII ~ isr 10 III their books q
~ niCa C.aansin5eT oi the year. Qlotauoinl y
are, for steel $50 70 So, ane ,io. III i to,,nt
PhilSdelphia machine sheps ~ ~. tSs,, s",c,
rieg full Of work. Some o. wy N Z. ,In
establishments report themseiYss ss''I''
on orders eix or more months -