Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-30
A BOOM Is IN SIGHT.
Iron Manufacturers Are Looking for
an Improved Market.
GOOD RESULTS OF TIE ELECTION.
Poor Prospects for the Reported Window
Glass Combine.
AFFAIRS OF THE GREAT INDUSTRIES

Local iron manufacturers say the market
has perceptibly improved since the recent
election Orders are increasing daily and a
large surplus of stock that accumulated
during the dull season will soon be disposed
of.
G. A. Steiner, of Shoenberger & Co.,
said yesterday: 81 think there is, without
a doubt, better feeling throughout the
iron business since McKlnley's election.
We shall begin to plainly realize this fact
about the first of the year, and by March
business will be very brisk. Had the
Democrats carried Ohio it would have de-
pressed business to a greater degree than be-
fore election. Railroads have now become
very busy. They need rolling stock, rails
and much other material. For years past
the roads have been buying very little frop
the manufacturers. Many of the roads have
made as few repairs as they possibly could
and keep up their equipment.
New Equipments Necessary.
''The rolling stock was allowed to decrease
because there was no freight to handle.
Now the big crops and other freight have
wonderfully increased their business. They
need cars and at present they have not got
them. They will have'to equip their roads
anew. These necessities on the part of the
companies will boom the iron business. In
fact we can say when the railroads are busy
business in all parts of the country is good
81 have heard within q short time that q
reason for the many wrecks recently is be-
cause the companies have failed to renew
their rlils. The rails have been used so
long that they have become thin and break
very easily. 1 should not be surprised if
this were partially true, as the demand for
rails for some time has been very light.
notwithstanding the poor business of
the year, the production all over the coun-
try has been very heavy. Nearly all the
mills have been running as full time as pos
sible. This heavy production has stocked
the market and brought prices down re-
markably low. The reason of this produc-
tion is that the cost is counted.
Must Go Oh Producing.
eff firm whose general expenses are
81, 900 produces one ton of iron, it is consid-
cred that the one ton cost 81 900. If 1000
tons are produced the cost is 81 per ton, and
if the production is 10, 900 tons, it is esti-
mated that each ton cost but 10 cents. The
fact that the production is heavy is no indi-
cation that business has been brisk A firm
will always operate its plant with the ex-
pectation of selling the stock when the mar
ket becomes better.
'There is nothing in the reported war on
the AmalgamRted Association. The manu-
facturers have never talked of it. Next
spring I suppose if the manufacturers and
association cannot agree on wages the
trouble at Moorhead's mill at Sharpsburg
will only be repeated with like results I
should not be surprised if next spring the
should ask for a more eQuit-
able distribution of wages in the depart
ments where rollers are employed. How
ever, it is too early to talk of the scale. We
have never even thought of it.