The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-03-14
Orders Placed for $4,000 Tons Of Fabricated
Steel, Including 5000 for the National Tube


NEW YORK. March I3.-Great activity
continued In fabricS.d structural steel
work Ia all sections Of the country last
week. orders being placed for building.
bridges and manufacturing plant cNteu-
sion requiring $4,000 tons Of structural
shapes. Tenders were also made on %
coo to 10000 tons additional work OF
similar character and new prospective
contracts were developed calling for 90
600 tons or shapes. In the New ohrN
metropolitan district alone plans are on
the architects boards for hotels. LOTT
buildings and apartment houses which
Will require 10000 10 10000 tons OF steel
In the aggregate.
The largest contracts closed during ;he
week included 1000 tons for the extern
sion 10 the National Tube Company
plant. which viii b. furnished by tho
American Bridge Company. 5000 tons
FOR extension 10 the MidvRle Steel and
Ordnance Company plant at CoatosNille.
Ia, 10 be- furnished by Lewis 4. shoe
maker A Co. and , 600 tons for the Cen
trail avenue highway bridge At kansas
city, which viii be furnished by the Mis-
souri, Valley Bridge and Iron Company.
In the New YORK city district che prin-
cipal contracts were two lott ouiidins7 30
calling for 1000 tons OF steel: Bethlehem
sections viii be utilized.
Railroad bridge work closed was
mainly for plate girder spans. orders be
ing placed by the Great Northern. the
iuE placed by the Great Northern.thc Erie
and the Missouri Pacific The principal
railroad inquiries in the market come
~
hngton. the New Haven. the New York
Central. the Chesapeake \ ohio. the
Norfolk * Western and the Norfolk q
southern,
The New York Department Of Water
supply. Gas and Electricity Will rcceiN e
bids March 20 on 43V tons OF six, eight
and twelve inch cast irun pipe. ilfte' N
tons OF special castings and ten tons or
valve boxes. manhulc covers, &c. De-
livery lis TO be made at Richmond Bor-
Ough. Staten Island. on the sam" date
the board will also receive tenders ga
eighty-ftvc tons of six. eight and tWelN .
and six tons OF valve boxes and mauhvlc
covers. also FOR delivery al the Borough
uf Richmond. staten Island.
The Phoenix Bridg. Company has
taken contract Tor go" tons on -lIu,-
tural steel roT stables Geo be- constructed
at Rochester FOR 90, SIbl'N l.tnds 'N
Company. The 4. l.. HsuEh's company
has taken the general contract Tor pun e
school No. % at Rochester. calling Tor
200 tons OF steel shapes.
Among the huildIug contracts peudtng.
there n a garage ON Park avenue AMI
Ihtrty-SINth street. Sew YORK. mat NAll
cold Spring iiarhoI for %. n. Kahn. re-
quiring 500 tons OF steel. a hotel for VIM
cent Aston at Fitty-fifth street and
Eighth avenue. zoo tons; a Niaduct AZ
cores Tor the Overland Automobile COM
pany Building. cdling Tor 1000 tons OF
steel
The buying of pig iron last week was
heavy In all sections. especially IN m.
central West. including Pittsburgh and
th. ohio Valley and along the lakes.
Contracts aggregated 100000 tons, htlt
Of which was steel making iron Tor de
livery during the last halt or 1910 anu
the first and second quarters Of 1917.
Tho result OF the buy luS was am adv ar'c
OF from - 10 90 cents per ton. Large
inquiries are Stiu iu the market