The sun., 1915-11-10
FABRICATED STEEL
ORDERS MOUNT HIGH
With Elevated Railway Need
Included October Contracts
Arc Near Record.

Arc Near Record.
The Bridge Builders and Structural
Society will hold its usual monthly
meeting on Thursday at Chicago. Al
that time the secretary is expected to
show that the fabricating shops Of the
country took total contracts Of 1000
tons In october. The official award Of
the brooklyn Elevated extension and
Improvements. calling for $4,000 tons of
steel, Is still withheld, but the business
was practically placed In October. II
this tonnage should be Included In the
october record the total transactions
would lie $4,000 tons, being the second
largest month In the history OF the in--
dustry. The largest contracts ever re-
ported were in May, 1909. amounting to
elS.000 tons.
Fabricated steel contracts placed since
November l have been at less tonnage
rate than during the three preceding
months, but with several large con-
tracts, now held In allegiance, to ID"
closed
November will make n fair showing
The contract for the Public Service Of
fie building, twenty one stories In
height, TO bo constructed In Baltimore.
has been awarded to the George y
Fuller Construction Company: $500
tons Of fabricated steel will be used
Dietrich Bros OF Baltimore have Sc
cured the contract for the Emerson
apartment building to he constructed In
that city. calling for 700 tons of struc-
tural steel The Lukens Iron and Steel
Company IL taking bids on an eNtcn.
1t,asr for
l,100 tons Of structural steel II Is
expected that the ORDER will 70 Ia the
Belmont Bridge Company
The National Lead and tl Company
has placed u contract with the Amcrl-
can Bridge Company for building az
Parnassus. Pa. calling for - tons or
structural steel The contract for the
Oklahoma state Capitol requiring 2l0
tons of steel, has gone TO Christopher N
simpson. Another Independent fabri-
eating shop has secured contract FOR
a highway bridge 10 b. constructed AT
pushmat.tha, Okla, which will require
$40 tons % rlain structural material
The Boston and Maine Railroad
placed an order for u small bridge,
recurring about 100 tons OF steel, with
the New England Structural Company
In addition to the larger contracts al
ready noted that went TO the PhnniN
Bridge Company and the Fort PIT,
Bridge Company The Chicaso ana
Northwestern has. divided con-
tract for 400 tons Of structural steel
for terminal work at Milwaukee, between
the Milwaukee Bridge and Iron Come
pany and Worden n Allen. The Big
Four Railroad has given an order To
the King Bridge Company for small
bridge callinc for 800 tons OF structural
steel. Inquiries are still In the mar
ket for about 100 tons OF bridge work
for n, Baltimore and Ohio, 400 tone Tor
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, zoo tons for
the Southern Railway and 700 tons Tor
the Lehlgh Valley With these con.
tracts closed the indication Is that an
OF the present railroad inquiries VIII
have been satisfied.
Although the RAILROAD companies have
been making heavy expenditures Tor
rails, cars and locomotives. they nave
placed few important contracts Tor
bridge work indeed. there has been no
heavy buying for railroad bridse con-
struction since 1906 Nearly all Of the
transportation companies, large and
small, have carried out temporizing
policy in regard 20 bridges. but. WIN
large present earnings, there IS prob
ability of a change in this respect.
one important Eastern railroad that has
been spending $4,000 for maintenance
OF "A single structure T. now seriously
considering the replacing of TINS on*o-
le.e bridge by a large modern structure
TIL. build!n. OF such bridge would
be economical from a financial stand
point, and the only thing that has de-
ierred action heretofore was the IN.
adequate revenue. Many other railroad
companies In the same position are also
experencinG a change OF heart. opti-
mism rising with the Increased earn
mss. Word comes from re West that
some additional contracts for the Union
Railway Terminal at indianapolis may
be placed before the end OF the year,
The construction OF IA new bridge
over the Ohio River At Cincinnati by tn
Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Ia
cinc Railroad, a branch OF the southern
system Is again being talked OF. Ac'
cordng to engineers, thie bridge has
long served its usefulness aud IL seems
almost imperative that new structure
should be built In the near future. Ike
carding the indianapolis Union Railway
nal contracts was placed In February
and March calling for about 10000 tom
of steel The awards were made to the
Riter-Cpnley Manufacturing Company
and the McClintic- Marshall Construc'
ton Company II Is expected tha'
about as much more steel will be re-
auirod TO complete the terminal.
The large structural mills have agar
advanced the price of standard s,ruc'
tural shapes So per ton 10 Loo. base
Although the Carnegie Steel Company
last week made u nominal quotation
Of l.6Oc base for this years shipment
II would accept no contracts for 1871
shipment at any price. Warehouse
prices are also higher, ranging from
22Oc. to 23Oc for either plates OF
shapes In the Eastern district Inde
pendent structural mills have taker
some contracts for plain material "A
l.75c. base for this years shipment
Many OF the smaller fabrcatng shop'
/ In the metropolitan district In the las
! few weeks have placed numerous smal
| contracts for plain structural materia
at $50 TO l.70c. base with the Bethe
hem Steel Company, az well as witt
some OF the other independent shops, fo
shipment IN November and December.
1
| Shipments of plain structural ma
tcrial by the Bethlehem Steel Compan,
, in August, September and October wer'
record breaking The Cambria anC
ported TO have no plain structural ma
terial available FOR this years deliv
cry.