Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-27

| Burlington d Quincy has ordered 800
| fifty-ton all-steel gondola cars from the
| Pressed Steel Car company. The order
| for box cars from the American Car and
| Foundry company was for 5000, instead
| of 1000, as reported last week"
| Contracts have been awarded for the
erection of seventy dwellings at the new
| industrial town of Aliquippa, where the
| big plant of the Jones & LaughIin Steel
| company is being built. The new con-
| tract is an addition to one for 100
| dwellings that was let recently. The
Keystone Tube company of Pittsburg
/ has purchased ten acres of land near
| Butler, Pa, on the Bessemer & Lake
| Erie and ground for a large factory
| building will soon be broken. Steel tubes
! viii be manufactured
A speedy reorganization of the South
Baltimore Steel Car q Foundry COM
pany is expected to follow the purchase
| of the company's property at foreclosure
| by creditors, on the 2Sth ult. 1t is
proposed to organize new company
with capital stock of 81 100000, known
| as the Baltimore Car & Foundry COM
! pany, which will take over the old con-
Germ
| The Iron Trade Review says that the
| revival of building activity is reflected
/ by the large number of contracts for
| structural steel, involving approximately
| $4,000 tons. The Vanderbilt hotel, New
/ York city, will require 5000 tons, and
! Chicago and contiguous territory reports
a total of about 5000 tons. A large top
| mage of sheet piling for shipment to
| Montana has been closed by the Jones
| & Laughlin Steel company.
While no large individual orders for
cars are being placed by the railroads,
says the Iron Trade Review, buying is
| general and orders are numerous The
/ placed include the Buffalo, Rochester &,
4 Pittsburg, 500 cars; Chesapeake & Ohio,
! 800 hopper cars; Denver & Rio Grande
1850; Chicago Il North Western 1900
cars. New inquiries for cars have been re-
ceiyed from the following roads: Chicago
Burlington & Quincy 500 refrigerator
cars; Northern Pacific 1000 box cars, and
| New York Central $500. The tonnage
of standard section rails placed with the
western mills totals 1900 TONS while
/ the Denver & Rio Grande has placed
1000 tons with the Carnegie Steel COM
pany to insure early delivery.
A Pittsburg dispatch states that Off
Gals of the Jones & Laughlin Steel COM
| Pennsylvania railroad has specifications
| out for 1000 cars, of which 1000 will be
of all steel construction. Other orders
pany have arranged to bring more than
| ], 100000 tons of iron ore to the Pitts
burg district during the present season
from its mines along Lake Superior.
This will almost double the tonnage of
last year, when about 100000 tons of
| ore were brought TO the plants of the
company in Pittsburg. The plant is
operating at its full capacity, with a
larger output than ever.
The Moorehead Brothers company in
| Sharpsburg, Pa, has resumed work in
every department. The mill has been
closed down for nearly two years,
Increasing activity is revealed by a
Pittsburg dispatch to the effect that the
West Side railroad has ordered for imme
| date delivery 500 tons of standard steel
rails from the Carnegie company. The
road is in the market for four locomo-
tives of the 10-wheel type. The Ritter
Conley Manufacturing company has
| booked orders to the amount of 81 $50
600 and has just completed a gas retort
house and coal storage plant at Worces-
ter, Mass, at cost of $4,000. The
| company is now operating 50 per cent.
of its maximum capacity.
A Latin-American government rail
way. according 10 a consular report, is
receiving bids up to August on about
| 10000 tons of rails.
Some of the steel plants of the middle
west are running to capacity and the
| indications are that orders IN the pres
! ent month will be the heaviest since the
depression began.
A Baltimore dispatch says that fol
the first time in nearly two years all de
partments of the Maryland Steel com
paDy are running full time six DAYS 9
week. Orders for rails have been com
ing in at q satisfactory rate for severa
weeks, and now the tonnage on the com
pany's books is the largest since 1907
with promise of steady expansion follow
ing the re-entrance of the railroads il
the market for supplies. The latest or
der of size for steel rails was placed witt
the Maryland Steel company by the Bal
timore x Ohio railroad. 1t calls for 10,
1000 tons of the BesSemer type The
price is SIS a ton.
Pittsburg reports sales of over $4,000
tons standard Bessemer pig iron at the
price prevailing for some time past, SIT
valley, or $1,000 Pittsburg. The Youngs
town Sheet Tube company took 250OC
tons for delivery from September TO De
cember inclusive, the Republic Iron &
Steel company $4,000 for shipment be.
tween now and December /, and the
Jones 4 Laughlin Steel company $1,000
tons for delivery before January /. The
latter also took 10000 tons basic pir
iron for similar delivery at S15.25 valley
Because the pipe mills of the country
are too rushed with orders to accept new
business for immediate delivery the
| Union Petroleum company of Buffalo
has purchased eighty miles from the Ma.
tional supply company of Pittsburg. This
pipe was made about twenty years ago
and was laid in the Fort Wayne field of
Indiana about eighteen years ago, but
! is in prime condition. The pipe will be
tario, TO Sarnia. Ontario.
| OF the 5000 cars ordered By the Penn
svIyania railroad. 1895 are to be turned
out in the Pennsylvania own shops.