The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-08
STRUCTURAL STEEL AND IRON IN DEMAND Generally the Iron Market is
 Very Quiet CONTRACTS AWARDED Several Large Orders We're Placed During the Week For Iron and
 steel For Building Bridges
 and Hotels
CONTRACTS AWARDED

l Cleveland, O., December 7.-(Special.l-
 The Iron Trade Review tomorrow will
 say:
 Structural awards are tho more inter estins. news of a dull week. Tn spite of
 a rather dreary outlook for the ore bus
 mess next year. arrangements for in
 oreasing the capacity at the head of the | lakes is being made.
 The Minnesota Steel company, a sub
 sidiary of the Steel corporation. has is- sued specifications on 1000 tons for build
 ings at its new Duluth plant. The Duluth and Iron Range railroad has contracted with the American Bridge company for an ore dock at Two Harbors
 which will require 5000 tons, and about
 the same tonnage will be used in build ing the new dock at Allouez bay. on which work will be pushed under in structions just issued by the Great North ern railroad.
 A contract for a bridge on the Pacific coast, 1000 tons. will, it is expected, be l closed shortly.
 Important contracts awarded during the week were 45o0 tons for an extension to the Boston Elevated to the American Bridge company which also took 23oo tons, for a store at Fifth avenue and Thirty-eighth street, New York.
 The Hay Foundry and Iron Works was awarded 400 tons for the building. Madi- son Square New York. and the 2oo0 tons required for the Taft hotel New Haven. will be furnished by the I.ackawanna Steel company the Cortez hotel, San Francisco, 76o tons went to the Western Iron Works A contract for 15OO tons awarded at Cleveland for a county bridge was taken by an independent interest, as was also 500 tons for the Pingree factory, Detroit.
 The continued heavy production of pig iron and increasing accumulations have been a menace to the market which will be removed if the action of the blast furnace operators in ourtailing produc- tion is continued. This tendency, which the trade earnestly hopes will be con tinued. Is shown in the blast furnace sta tistics for November when 1,910,3l1 tons Of pig iron were made, loss of 175,S94 tons. compared with october.
 The Daily average for October was 67, ,l97 tons, and Tor NoNenfDer oS,oU tons. Stacks in blast showed loss of F during the month.
 The Steel corporation Is now operating about 54 per cent of its furnace capacity. The Pittsburg Steamship company has been authorized by the United States Steel corporation to build two 6OO-foot steamers and the Jones & Laughlin Steel company will build a 600-footer to replace the wrecked Merland These and two other new lake boats will require a total of 20,O00 tons of steel.
 The Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Docks company is expected to re- ceive the award for the battleship Texas, as it's bid was regular and within the estimate This ship will require 1o,500 tons of shapes and plates, and 22,00o tons of protective deck plating, besides armor plate. The second battleship, New York. to be built in government yards is held up by the operation of the eight hour law, to which is also attributed the failure of the government to receive more than one bid on the Texas.
 It is expected that the plain material for the Texas will be rolled at Pittsburg.