Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-08
1907, or 80 cents above the early price
this year"

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! The Iron Trade Review saws, at now
| seems almost certain that shipments of
Lake Superior ore this year viii exceed
| those of the previous record year. 1907,
when over 100000 tons were shipped.
IN nhlshed materials the pressure on the
mnls IS more severe and promises for
delivery are in many cases being ex-
tended. About 10000 tons of plates and
| shapes will be required for lake freight
| ers.''
Importations of British foundry iron
nave begun, one cargo being chartered
winch, IT is understood, will come into
a New. England port in the neighbor.
hood of $3.50 duty paid. Several days
| ago cargo of German steel scrap was
also chartered for importation. On Mon
day and Tuesday contracts for foreign
iron ore aggregated 100000 tons for
shipment over the balance of this year
and the first part of next year Most
of the sales were of Spanish ore, but a
few additional cargoes of Swedish ores
also have been sold.
Finished products are less active as
far as new business is concerned, but
there is abundant evidence that the mills
are crowded with work for months to
come. The Illinois Steel company has
entered orders for IL 900 tons of heavy
steel rails and several additional small
sales have been made in the east. 1t is
estimated that between 100000 and 250.-
900 tons are still under negotiation for
next years shipment.
The Bureau of ordnance of the navy de-
partment received bids on Tuesday for
approximately S1,00O,000 worth of guns
of various sizes. The Bethlehem Steel
company and the Midvale Steel company
We're the only bidders.
The New York Journal of Commerce
| says that last week agents of blast fur
naces in the eastern territory rolled up
| contracts for 100000 tons since last
Monday, and it is notable that $4,000
tons of this business has been in foundry
iron. There Were also large sales in
the central west and in the Mississippi
valley, indicating that the aggregate ton
mage placed in all distributive markets
was close TO 100000 tons.
railroads are reported to be in the
market for about 10000 cars and 100
locomotives, most of which will be placed
this month, but nearly all the inquiries
for bridges are small.
The effects of the lower tariff are be
coming apparent in the eastern manufac.
ture of pig iron. The importations of
| foreign ore have modified prices of the
Lake Superior output, which in turn has
, helped the pig iron producers in the CEN
| CAttA WCSt. w I'LL a tOWeT cOSI OF manu-"
| facture blast furnaces are having a more
profitable season. Recently several car
goes of both German basic and German
| scrap have been offered on the eastern
seaboard and at prices which make i'm
| portations imminent.
The largest recent sales of foundry
grades of iron have been made to locomo-
tive works, car shops, pipe works and
| manufacturers of machinery, stoves ra-
diators, agricultural implements, plumb
ers' supplies and jobbing foundries.
A Pittsburg dispatch of the Goth inst.
states that actually reported sales of
Bessemer iron so far this month aggre-
gate about $4,000 tons.
To relieve doubt among collectors of
customs as to the classification of
crushed or ground corundum Acting Sec
rotary of the Treasury Reynolds has adj
vlsed the customs collector at Buffalo
that corundum in any form in which i'm
ported, if it has not lost it's commercial
designation as corundum, is free of duty
under the new tariff law.
The Cleveland Furnace company has
blown in a new blast furnace, which will
give employment to more than 500 men.
The Pittsburg Steamship company,
which is the marine department of the
United States Steel corporation, has
placed an order with the Great Lakes
Engineering company for three 6O0-foot
lake steamers to cost more than 81 ,000,-
900. Formerly the American Shipbuild-
ing company has received the steel cor
poration's orders for ships. This time,
however, the latter company's rival is
said to have underbid it for the CON
tracts.
With the resumption on Monday of
nine of the eleven blast furnaces of the
Edgar Thomson Steel works, industrial
conditions in and about Braddock. Pa,
reached normal conditions existing prior
to the industrial depression of 1907 The
present week will witness practically
| every plant in and about Homestead,
Du1uesne, Rankin and East Pittsburg
operating at from 50 to 80 per cent. of
capacity. The return of prosperity was
also indicated on Monday by the report
that all three of the steel rail mills of
the Thomson plant have resumed. and
will operate six days a week on double
time. working over 80 per cent. of their
| capacity. The company announced that
within two weeks all of the workmen
will be taken on.
The Grand Trunk railroad is in the
market for 1900 tons of heavy steel
rails.
1t is announced that the plant of the
West Penn Steel company at Bracken-
ridge, Pa. will be put in operation on
September %. About 500 men will be
employed.
Pennsylvania as a Wheat State.
PENNSYLVANIA S wheat crop this year
exceeds 25000,0O0 bushels. This is more
than the wheat yield of Oklahoma and
is only 100000 bushels less than that
of Missouri, although those states talk
sylvania is such a great producer Of
other things that its wheat is often over
looked--a crop that this year will re-
/ t1,r.nA thn fnr.nrnnre r,r.nlnbl,- 2)A 900 900