Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06
BIG EXPANSION
in STEEL TRADE
Corporations Untitled Orders
100000 Tons; Values
Have Big Total

Unified orders with the United
States Steel Corporation for 100000
tons Of steel products. orders for
Russia, a decrease in the production
of pig iron and great expansion in the
entire iron and steel business as
evidenced by values these are the
features of this weeks review of the
trades by the Iron Age. That journal
says:
THE unusual extent to which busi-
ness now on the books of the steel
companies is in the form of definite
specifications is shown in the state
ment this week that the Steel Cor
poration, which for some time has had
roundly 100000 tons OF untitled
orders, now has specifications for c.
100000 tons. With this condition
general in the trade there is no strong
expectation of any material change in
prices this year.
The figures for Steel Corporation
orders a5 of June 80. to be published
Monday will show little change in the
month. ana there may be a slight de-
crease.
with strictly domestic business
lessening, as has been the case for
some weeks, such a showing is con-
firmation of the very considerable new
contracts for war steel reported in the
lttteG part of June. One of these
taken by the Steel Corporation is for
100000 forgings for large shells.
Late shell-machining contracts are
further confirmation, two just closed
in Ohio representing $4,000 tons of
steel
saOF +bo D,,.,yao ron ;ro,,iriae
which were for $4,000 tons, inde-
pendent rail makers have taken rela-
lively little thus far. They are believed
to be quite we'll sold on rails through
the first quarter of 1917. The Steel
Corporation has booked nearly ZOO,
600 tons for Russia, deliveries running
to July of next year
Pig iron production fell off about
400 tons a day in June. The total
was 3,211,5SS tons, or 107,053 tons a
day, against 3,361,073 tons in May, or
10S,422 tons a day. Furnaces have
been pushed so long that nearly all
districts last month showed poor
working. Thus the capacity rating
came down from 10S,422 tons a day
for 321 furnaces active June l to 107,-
053 tons a day for 32S furnaces on
July /, the month showing a net gain
OF two in the active list.
THE marvellous expansion of our
iron and steel exports appears in total
values of s72,91S,000 for May, as
against S26, ,536, 900 in May, 1915, and
total of $545,41S,000 for the II
months ending with May, or nearly
100 per cent. greater than the previous
II months record of S279,0O0,000 in
the period ending with May 1913"
With u. S. Marines. During the
recent revolutions in Santo Domingo,
L. Allen Walker, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles L. Walker, 165 South Second
street, was with the United States
Marines that guarded the American
consulate. He enlisted with the
marines at Youngstown, Ohio, in May,
1915, and was assigned to the Tennes-
see, which was stationed off Haiti last
August. The Tennessee is now the
Memphis.
Award Contract. - r. V. Fairlamb
has been awarded a contract to fur
nish the school board with stationery
for the coming term.
Many at Recital. - Last evenings
audience at the organ recital given
by Gatty Sellers in the First Methodist
Church was one of the largest that
sVer attended a musicale in the church
Mr.. Sellers presented a varied pro-
gram and was much applauded. Mr.
Sellers will present another program
in the same church this evening"
Undergoes Opcration.-Mrs. Dorothy
Pagnelli, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
George Crump, was successfully oper-
ated upon for appendicitis at the Har-
risburg hospital last evening.