The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-11
RAILROADS NOW FIND
IT HARD TO BUY RAILS
Chicago Mills Refuse Orders
Car shops Still Actively
After Metal.

understood, will roll 1000 tons Of stand
ard section rails Tor the Toledo hallway
and Light Company ami about $500 tom
for the New York Municipal Railways.
Another contract for about 10000 tons
contact rails IL still pending for the New
York Municipal and 1910 tons for the
New York Railway. which. II H. under
will he awarded to the Bethlehem
Steel Company. ON additional con
tracts for gird.r rails and also for light
amounting to about 5000 tons
have been placed with the lyorain Steel
The Texas and Pacific Hail
way Is finding difficulty in placing Is cor
tract for 5000 tons OF standard sections
for next summer delivery. II is under
stood that the Chicago mills have refused
The business.
car shops are still actively negotiating
for u large tonnage of steel bars. plates
aud shapes, but, with the sold up condi-
tion OF the mills, they find IL unusually
difficult to place orders even for third
and fourth quarter delivery. The Lenoir
car Works. leno,r. Tenn. IL asking for
prices on 10000 tons of steel bars. plates
and shapes. The Pennsylvania Railroad
= also negotiating for 1000 tons OF
plates for shipment to the Altoona shore.
The Goodyear Tire and RubbeS Com
riny has given specifications to tn"
Burger Iron Company on $500 ton of
fabricated structural steel for plant ex-
tension. This contract was reported sew
eral weeks ago. but specifications were
temporarily held in allegiance. Tho
Blaw structural steel Company recently
secured a contract for 1900 tons OF steel
- he used IN the construction of trans
mission towers at Los Angeles. cal. This
Z = .u allttianf. "a fh. a. fN.ss for rams
mission towers recently taken by MILF
ken Bros. Inc, calling for 1900 tons
of steel for delivery Ut San Francisco.
The American s~hiphuilding Company
Is on the point OF closing a contract of
1000 tons of structural plates and shapes
for the building of fivc additional boats
ON tie great lakes. II il understood tha;
the business viii be placed WITH the
Illinois Steel Company.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad has placed
an order for 200 tons Of charcoal ron
for delivery at Altoona and l. stu uego-
tiatiug on about $500 tons Of pig iron
Including 800 tons OF ii. TO . per cent.
sil.vuu. 100 tons Of high manganese ron
and 100 tons OF low silicon metal. The
Baldwin Locomotive Company has closed
contracts for about 3 600 tons of cylinder
tll . ll'pI INK Albll VIII nv lltt'fS ll fbtl
cru Pennsylvania and Is stll in the mar
ket FOR a moderate tonnage
S,ecu,stors who have made larg,
Nrct's IN purchases Of southern pit
ron have been endeiNor.uG 20 sell in ths
central West iu tn, last Two weeks The
result .t- bee. that concessions Of -
cents TO - cent?, have been made from
furnace rrices 80 . foundry, Rirau'ur
lam has has been sold At $3.50 fol
tr~, half shipment and about ST. foi
delivery over the second half of 1915
Furnaces 'tvc ob' aimed 81 for tirs'
half and $40 for second hair. wh.l,
soue uf the produce s are ASKING 81
for delivery after tho ist Of July.
At Chicago ea'es ~ ABOUT 10000 ton!
-! foundry grsieS ~ iron are reported
including one lot OF 500 tons. Their,
ARE also inquiries IN that market foI
| malleable bcssem-r Furnaces AT Buf
falo report contracts for about 20 oh'
tons OF foundry aai base iron. .ur.ud.nI
one lot Of 10 GOA iuua understood :,
have been purchased 'N .c pu.us" S'er
]CumpauN. now preparing 90 roll III ste'
produ,ts on recent contracts secured
trum both domestic and forc.ru 10
terest~. Tie iron VII l." delivered IRON
Buffalo yaris,
Il j. estimated mat about ll.OGN tom
~ pig iron will hc required hy locomo
. I'VE builders To cover the construction %
The American and Baldwin works 81,
understood 20 have recently purylasc'
about 1000 tons of pig iron. Is well a.
moI-ru tonnage of rolled and forge,
steel
The Eeouhltc ,rur and steel rotupant
according 20 % statement put cat n te,
DAYS 40. produced l.na6.l Ut tons Of 70.
ron i.oi3.li\ tons 81 steel Iugots AN
/ l.u"%.3?f ton, ut finished and scmi-ri,
i,lrI s'r,l products in l9i3. Tic pr,
du,luu Wa record hr, aklng. The prev
i'u- MAXIMUM output Was ~ 1913. who
the company produced S9J,94t tous Il
pig iron. "5s,32l tons ~ ingots and 90,
go tons "f rolled products.
The Alabama lou and Steel co'npsu
oil February . blew ~ the Iruna;o
stack ~ Etowah, Ala. TI- iuif State
Steel Company blew in :. stack Iauuar
-. The Lnwmoor company IN Virgin
* uu tn. point Of blowing one stack q
foundry iron. II Ia Understood that Vii
+iula furnaces have recently found som
difficulty IN securing All ample totnag
/ az IRON orc.
T. IL ar interesting fact that h-fur
the present war Great Britain. Nn,I
controlling half of ,hc worlds produ'
ION of tungsten ore. Was wholly d,
pcnd.ui upul Germany for tungste
metal. IN TIA" last year Great Britai
has erected urnsces and u noN Pre-
durius its own supply OF tungsten fror
burma And Australian ores " IL ~
r.,trl hereafter that England will rel
upon its own resources, II is estimate
hat burma and Australia annually pr,
luce approximately 1000 tons OF tune
stem ore. NE Indian deposits are cor
,rolled by the Government and hereto
fore concessions have been sold to m'i
Ur interests.
American steel companies engaged
rolling round steel bars now h-ing uti
tzrd IN the manufacture OF high eA
plusive shells are much Interested in III
r,uurt of d French Inspector, now
TINS country. that the percentages Of -
lection are murh higher IN this count
'Ian IN France. but tho magnitude ,
the present plant operations and q
pressure for steel 10y the allied Govern
,uents Is largely responsible for man
# the rcjecti",s.
The bennington Arms-Union Metal
Cartridge Company of Connecticut h;
ten granted permission to n%anufactur
munitions of war IN the State of Ne
Jersey. The company Is capitalized
$50, oOo, 0Oo, Of which $4,000, 600 HI
been paid in.