The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-09-23

! qua, Pa. was blown in Tuesday night.
! The furnace has capacity of 10000
( tons of pig iron week and will give
employment to 200 men.
Contracts for three new freighters.
placed in Cleveland will require 10000
or more tons or more of shapes and
plates which will come from PittSburg
mills, In structural contracts the week
has been quiet, though the mills are well
filed up. The American Bridge COM
pany has taken contracts for ten addi-
tional steel barges for river traffic for
the American Steel and Wire company.
to be used in Pittsburg harbOr. The
lot win contain about GOO tons Of steel.
This will give the Steel and Wire fleet
total of thirty barges.
Business in sheets and tin pIate
reached new heights during August, the
American Sheet ana Tin Plate company
having entered during the month $4,000
tons more business than during any mid
summer month in its history. The heuv-
lest specifications in two years are be-
ing filed toy the car roofing companies.
In tin plate some companies are unable
to promise deliveries in less than ten
weeks.
\ canvass made by the board Of trade
at Hartford, Conn, shows that seven
teen industrial concerns are now oper-
atlng ono or more Of their departments
on an overtime schedule.
The rapid advance in coke has aided
the activity in the iron market. The
output in the COnnelsvilIe region is now
at its highest point this year.
OF the orders for finished products the
railroads have been responsible for about
3,oro.ur tons, directly and indirectly,
mainly through equipment shops, for
constructing cars and locomotives. 1t -
estimated that orders for cars have
slightly exceeded 100000 thus far in
1909. As compared with 1908 this is
great improvement, AZ during the whole
Of last year only 5000 cars were or
dorod, but during 1907 $4,000 cars were
contracted, and in 1906 3l4.HO cars
were bought During the FIRST half of
this year the railroads ordered go loco
motives. Since that time the number
has been nearly doubled, the total being
about 200. During 1905 l1S2 locom,-
tlvos were ordered, in 1900 34OO, and
1906 IGOO
Most of the important steel companies
had greatly expanded their plants. but
even SO output is now ut record-breaking
rates, The August production Of pig
IRON by the United States Steel corpora
ton was close to 100000 tons Other
great steel companies have been proper
tionatcly active ana it is now believed
that the production of all kinds of pig
iron last month was close TO. if it did
/ not exceed, the rate of 100000 tons
annually, which was the highest record
that Of October, 1907.
\ Pittsburg dispatch declares that lr
now seems probable that 3S.OOOOvO 10
100000 tons of Lake Superior ore A.
well rs the 10000 tons of foreign ore
purchased will be needed to meet the
new rate Of blast furnace activities Re-
Gently additional contracts for 10000
tons of Swedish ore were placed for inn
pOrtatiun and 10000 tons of Algerian ore
was secured 10y eastern furnaces, in
Guiding the importatiouS Of Cuban ore
by steel companies owning their own
mines ana merchant purchasers of Span
ish, Cuban, Russian, Swedish and Cana
dian ore, ut least 100000 tons have
been secured for 1909 aud 1910 shipment.
and other large tonnages. are under nego-
tlatiOn.
The railroads were especially reserved
in placing contracts for equipment dur
ing the first quarter of the year. bur
during the second quarter they were less
reserved in placing orders for bridges.
and during the last two months they have
released heavy contracts for all kinds of
equipment especially for oars and motive
power. Even the orders for rails, which
were withheld for many months, have
been quite satisfactory recently, orders
for 100000 tons being placed in August.
The total contracts for rails during the
last eight months are estimated at l, 100
600 tons.
The contracts placed for finished prod
ucts this year up TO the first of Septem-
Der are estimated at 100000 tons In
addition TO l,1ooOob tons Of rails. sales
have included about 100000 tons of
wire products, 100000 tons Of bars,
over 100000 tons of fabricated steel
and 100000 tons pf plain plates and
shapes.