The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-04-22
HUNDRED UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION WILL
: BEFORCEO INTO THE OPEN MAEvET FOR PIC IRON

NEW YORK. April 2I.-It is again in
timated that the United States Steel
Corporation may be forced into the mar
ket for pig iron. but IL is significant
that the reports come from interests
outside OF the Steel Corporation. The
furnaces now in use are proving unu-
sually satisfactory In output. hut no
furnace can work continually at high
pressure. Probably more steel scrap.
rather than pig iron. may be purchased
In the open market.
Worth Bros. now subsidiary of
the Midvsle steel ana Ordnance Com
pany. VIII put IN the new open hearth
furnace ON Monday next. The contrac-
tors who have been building the plant
extension have been working Sunday =
and holidays TO complete the structure.
and the furnace has also been built at
nigh pressure. indicating the cNtraordi-
nary demand Tor crude steel In an .f-
fort to secure fabricated steel for build
ing purposes quickly. the MidNsle COM
pany recently purchased the old build
ings OF the rottstown Iron Company.
which were dtsmantlod some time since.
but the requirement proved OF slight
service.
The demand Tor wire products. .spe--
ctally for wire nails. has increased in
the Central West. as consumers expect
an advance In prices IN the near future.
some sales OF wire nails are report cd
To have been made at 10 cents "A veg
over the official price Of the American
steel * Wire Company. This company
continues unusually conservative and
will make no advanc. in prices IL IL i
possible to avoid such action.
Railroad companies. large and small.
continue TO place orders FOR light. heavy
mad standard section rails. Contracts
reported yesterday aggregated about
$4,000 tons, including about 50 600 tons
be- rolled in nSylvania or AT tn. Sea-
board mill. The 5000 tons Of Bes-em.r
rails Tor IN" Havana Central. To De
shipped in August and Septemher. this
year. a. ~ undo rStood. viii he rolled az
Buffalo. The road has heretofore taken
open hearth rails and the contracts have
nearly always gone To thu Pcnnsy ivania
steel Company Traction lines placed
orders for about 5000 tons Of girder
Lorain steel Company has taken orders
Tor light sections for industrial lines
aggrcgating about 5000 tons.
The Great Northern rail contract AK
Eregatiug %. unU tons. includes - 900
tons to be rolled by tho Illinois Steel
wanna Steel Company and 5000 tons by
the Bethlehem steel Company.
Car shops have placed a fcw add.
tionnl orders for steel bars. plates and
shapes with mills in the Central West
and the Canadian Car & Foundry com
400 tons OF bars and shapes with mills
in this country. Very few new orders
for cars are being placed. The NoungS-
town Sheet & Tube Company has with
drawn recent inquiry for $50 cars.
The American Manganese. Company
viii blow in IN, No. stack ON Spie gel
cisen at Dunbar. Pa. la a few days
The No. I stack which was opcrating
on fcrro-msnganese. has been put out
FOR refining and repairs. The manga
ncsc situation in this country has been
relieved somewhat by the large arrivals
of foreign ore. especially from Brazil
and the Lackawanna Steel Company has
put in the No. Colebrook furnace on
manganese ore. Arrivals Of foretg f
ferro-manganss in this country durinG
last month amounted TO about 1900
tons. II is reported that England is
securing even larger shipments Of ferro-
manganese ores from Brazil than arr
D the furnaces in this country.
The Republic Iron 4 steel COMPANY
has secured 5000 tons ~ basic truy
from valley furnaces. and another in
dependent steel company IN the central
West has purchased 5000 tons OF Eesse-
I 500 tons month. b. ginning IN May
The 50. 900 tons 81 iron purchased by
the Youngstown Sheet a Tube Com
pany Is all Besscmer, instead Of basic.
Foreign inquiries for steel making
I iron continue more or less pressing. but
very tttrl. g. available FOR export. In
quirics from Italy and Franc" amoui
10 about $50 600 tons