Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-18
PROFITS In PLENTY.
Bessemer and Gray Forge Irons Are
Dull, but Muck Bar Commands
JUST AS HIGH PRICES AS EVER.
Chief Arthur Put the Question of Fedora
tion Beyond Doubt.
PROJECT AMONG GROCERs BADLY HURT

The iron and steel trade experienced no
change during the past week. Trade in
finished material continues good. Business
in raw material is still of large volume, but
prices are yet on the low side.
Bessemer pig sells at from SIT IS to S18,
and gray forge at SIS. Muck bar is trans
ferred at S31 so for future, and S32 can easily
be obtained for immediate delivery. Some
reason for the continued high price of muck
bar may be found: First, in the enormous
demand for pipe iron which still prevails;
secondly, in the great shortage OF natural
gas during the last two months, which has
restricted the output; and thirdly, in the
scarcity of old iron rails, which have in
creased in value and brought muck bar
more into value.
NOT THE RATES OF LAST MONTH.
Sheet billets, blooms and slabs change
hands at $29 so, which is no deviation from
the price which has ruled recently, but a
trife under the rates oDtainable month
ago
There has been a remarkable movement
lately in spelter. Prices have taken ajump
in four weeks OF S13 per ton, sufficient to
article is largely used, point or two.
Affairs in the Connellsville region are be-
coming worse and worse as the busy season
approaches. While stock at the ovens is
piling up, the furnace yards are gradually
emptyiug for lack of railroad facilities to
transfer the product And these, instead Of
increasing as reported, is growing worse.
Many Mahoning Valley furnaces are Grip
pied for lack of an adequate supply.
In the coal trade there is no change.
While the rivermen are living in the
Micaw ber-like hope of something turning
up. to advance prices, the railroad operators
have no complaint to make except on the
score of transportation facilities. And this
plant has become such a bugbear as now to
be looked for rs matter of course. Both
river and railmen will have to face de-
mand for half cent per bushel advance in
rates in short time.
WINDOW GLASS TRADE BETTER.
Business on window glass is reported as
improving. Eastern jobbers have advanced
prices for larger size per cent, in sympathy
with the new duty. Manufacturers will
meet IN Chicago next Tuesday to help along
the american Window Glass Association"
scheme. The plan went into operation on
the 10th. Flint glass and green glass goods
are in better demand.
The utterance of Grand Chief Arthur
Thursday afternoon on the question of fed
Grafton with other branches of the railroad
science, and the manner in which it was re-
ceived by his hearers, leaves no doubt as to
how the matter will be disposed of by the
convention. The Brotherhood will remain
apart from other organizations, and will con-
tinue to conduct its affairs independently of
the others.
A report concerning the retail grocers and
certain organizations, while being away
from the real facts, the purposes OF those in
terested, has tended to defer the fulfill
ment of the project without affording any
real news to the public. One of the pur-
poses of the movement referred to was to
obtain for the grocers what was justly and
legally theirs. In this object they will be
sustained by the labor organizations as
fully as they will assist the latter in carry
ing out their line of policy.