The Alaska daily empire., 1915-07-23
WAR ORDERS" TAKE
 IMPORTANT PLACE
 IN sUMMER's TRADE

lmPOhIAN F-HSE
 IN SUMMERS TRADE
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 PITTsBURGH-AlIIes have placed additional orders In Pittsburgh for 2OOO,OOO bayonets, 100000 rifles and s92O.OOO worth of trace chains, ac- cording to Pittsburgh banker, who declined to give further details
 On account of the increased num- bor of orders received recently, be- tween 500 and 900 men are working night and day at the plant of the H.. K. Porter Co., The largest order is from the Russian government, which calls for % locomotives weighing 72 tons each, and for n locomotives weighting 67 tons each. The com pany also has a finishing order for S3 locomotives of a lighter type from Havana. Cuba. Orders also have re- gently been received from the govern ments of Brazil and the Argentine.
 NEW YORK.-There has been no let.up of the placing of war orders with American manufacturers in the last few days. Bankers estimate new business reported in that period at close to S1OO,OO0,0OO.
 It is said that war orders to the value of s5OO,OOOOOO have been plac- ed through the firm of J. P. Morgan & Company to date, S4OO,0O00O0 of which is for the account of Great Britain.
 Recent orders covered a wider range of commodities than hitherto, indicating a more general demand by the Allies for American products be- ing aside from those which are strict ly munitions.
 Great Britain, for instance, placed a new order for 115,OOO,OO0 younds of granulated sugar. valued at S5,25O,OOO Shipments are to be made at 4.65 cents per pound net cash in bond. The French government is reported to have bought 2,69O,OOO pounds in San Domingo raw sugar at 3.72 cents per pound, c. i. f.
 Apart from that tendency and the placing of the American order, the feature of last week was the distri. button among the smaller manufac- turers of orders given to the big companies
 Rapid progress has been made in distributing General Electric Co.'S or der. big slice of which went to the International Steam Pump Go.
 The Lackawanna Steel Company has closed contract with French in terests for 25,OOO tons of shrapnel steel The total shrapnel steel or ders taken by the Lackawanna Steel Company are close to 100000 tons.
 The Colt Patent Firearms Manufac- turing company decided to double its plant at Hartford, Conn.,, to fill the huge war orders for machine guns, One of the factories to be so utilized has not been used for firearms man ufocturs since the close of the Civil War.
 Work on the Canadian Car & Foun' drvl Company's mammoth structure to be used for filling shrapnel and high explosive shells near Lindhurst N. J.. made much headway, and the building is expected to be finished in month or two. It is 1850 feet long and S27 feet wide.
 The Republic Rubber Company, oi Youngstown. Pa. took an order foI S5OO.OOC worth of solid rubber tires
 The Hendez Manufacturing Com pany sold 5000 motorcycles for wal purposes, the value of which is ap proximately S6OO.O00.
 One of the other import features or the last few days is the develop ment of the export movement of war supplies to the rush point. In the past few months shipments of sup plies have been confined largely to powder. food stuffs and horses, but now the exportation of shells is be coming feature The Bethlehem Steel Company is shipping 25.OOO big shells a day.
 The return of Sir Thomas Shaugh' messy and the arrival here of D. A. Thomas added ned interest to the complaint of the Canadians as to the way they have been treated in war orders. It is understood Sir Thomas returned with enormous orders that are expected to keep all tho Canadian plants busy at capacity fwor great many months. The business will be handled through the purchasing de- pertinent of the Canadian Pacific.