The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-25
WIRE MILLS REFUSE
EXPORTERS ORDERS
Call for Products Continues
Enormously Heavy-Bridge
Steel Buying.

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. after
placing an order for $50 tons Of bridge
work with the Fort PITT Bridge Com.
pany. has put out new inquiries for
bridges TO eliminate street cross
ings In Chicago. calling for 1900 tons
Of structural steel. The Erie Railroad
Ia eth considering The placing Of an
order for a bridge at Rochester. N. y.
calling for 500 tons, bids for which
have already been submitted BY the
bridge builders. Several other in
quiries for small bridges are still In the
market for Eastern roads and about
1000 tons Of similar miscellaneous work
Is pending In he central West.
The Samuel l.. Moor6s Sons Corpo-
ration has finally raced the contract
for a new foundry. calling for 400 tons
Of structural steel. with lowering 4
Garr,gues. IL II understood that an ad-
ditional tonnage Of steel will be fur
nished by the Bethlehem Steel Company.
The contract for an addition to the
Mohegan Hotel at New London. Conn.
calling for 200 tons Of steel. has been
awarded to the American Bridge Com!
pany. Bids have been submitted on
the general contract for construct
ing the substructure Of the Thames
SS.n ,J.van "a ~Iia,+,orS pa,i'
800 rnsr. .. snn. do,h, Tho, .ts.i
o.Is.o, Iii ~. n.oS.S a. a, WV n.
noss,hi. % u,iiiza uood 7, 1, under
.t,oa ,b,t ,h. A,n.r,can Rrid~a C,om-
nanv viii furnish 7oO tons Of stric-
,uraI s,e,l for the building Of a garage
on broadway near Eighth street for
Jnhn Wanamaker. The InterbuOueh
RAND Transit Company has come into
the market for 500 tons Of structural
steel 10 be used In the building of st2-
sss
W. +. Plass & Co.. who submitted
OF the pier at tho foot Of Forty-stxth
street. have not yet qualified. There
was :. m yesterday that the contract
award would lie mad to the next low
est bidder. and that the steel required.
1900 tons. would he furnished by the
Jones n l-aughlin Steel NJ
day.
the Grassrii Snem'cA COMPANY "a
placed contracts TOT p'ait eA.e"s,o" !"
various sections ealing Tor i'oss .onS
of structural steel WIN tne W. ~. AfSe
ger Company. This Includes 40 tohs Ior
the h works az Miles, WV tone TOT
ore docks ana ou,idinss IN ne" 1srsey,
40 tons for the Indiana plant ahd 80
tons for the West virginia WORKS Inc
contract Tor l.oVo IONS OF st!ucturai steer
for the construction or the cnwa.
store at Ell Paso. TEX. mas oeeh aWarueo
To an independent iapr'cator. WINS 'he
virginia bridge ana Aron WORMS WIZ uur-
nish AIS tons Tor q viaduct AZ DuiaS.
Tex. h American br1dge
will fabricate +oV TONS TOT u opper Smei-
ter 10 be constructed Az SaIneio' o'ah-
The Carnegie steel VIII iur.
n'sh 5000 tons OF rolled ana Forged steel
for the building OF locomotives AZ we
Lima Corporation plant TOT
the New YORK central Raiiroad. It's
understood that an add'tionai order TOT
about, 5000 ions OF steel has been placed
with the Carnegie company oy the Amer
lean company TOT similar
work.
The demand Tor wire products con-
tinues enormously heRVy TOT ooth 10
orders are hein. refused almost DAILY
by independent wire drawers as well as
nv the american steel n wire Com
rahH' AS an Illustration OF the scarVaty
or an pressure Tor specla' grades or
steel Nire " may be noted that one wire
drawer has recently taken a contract
for about hfty ions or wire RODS TO he
used in the manufacture OF window
shade rollers at Toe. a pound. This Is
equivalent TO apout s3oo per net tor.
ton II considered an extremely nigh price.
Another illustration OF the condi-
TONS prevailing throughout the steel in
duStrN Is the sale or a by-product by
one or the large steel companies on the
lakes az an dNance OF nearly 800 per
cent. frior TO the war this
h~y-prod1ct WAS sold at - a ton. Within
the last Few days one sale wa made
at $50 a tor. and another Is on the
point or heinS closed at va a ton. Not
many years ago this by-rroduct was
being given away practically. but the
now conditions surrounding manufactur-
ting Industries. especially the makers of
DIVES. brought ABOUT ny the war. nave
developed an unusually active demand
Tor nus particular COMMODITY
The G!amorgan fIpe n Foundry
Company or 'lrH'nia has neen awarded
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