The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-04-06
BETHLEHEM BUILD
ANOTHER Big PLANT
Expected 70 spend $4,000 900 or $40
100000 ut Sparrows Point.

Inn April n.-ElnEH 1Le first
steel mills had been surprisingly i.sVv
rCtNlthstandlng the luli reported in a
less stil under negotiation IT. also i'm
ls'stNe a~gEregatins fully 500. 900 tonS
OF steel About half Of this is Tor ~.
ln TINS countrN Canada and Europ-.
Ahese Inquiries include bIlets .sI.
atd round steel bars. With mn. .Nr.,-
I1n OF = few urgent contracts. w'hieh
cal Tor steel late this year. most ~ n.
orders pending viii require steel deli~-
'tles during the first half OF 1917. In
~ TWO instances deliveries viii
OF next year.
railroads have placed additional
- tontracts Tor standard section
1S,ls 9~ksresatlng about $4,000 tons. for
Iohnestic shipment la 1917. Most OF
these orders nave gone TO mills A. Ga.
l~ltlsbursh district. but a few Supple-
= GOO contracts. amounting to about
,,h ~ ptVVv tons have been placed
win Independent rail manufncturers -
thls years delivery. one eastern mil
hase taken an order FOR about 4VoG
IONS. Export contracts Tor r.ils a.
k~lek"tlnS between 10000 and -. 900
ne, nave also come 20 the surface.
GUIDED In the March tonnage. N.soti.-
s.ohs continue ON about 60. 1000 tons or
nsaHy ana medium section rails Tor for
Slth shipment Most Of the inql!rI.s
LOT rails. as well as FOR steel for mint
,tohs come from the allied govern
The plan. OF the Rctbt,b.u S.
.yillany Tor the building OF a i'm plnf,
Iltht' according To reports from BsTff-
,,hhoglr' are murh more ambitious thar
on'rl a Tin Plate Company. which ar
a1t1atlon has been acquired by the
Yesterday that the tin pIats ,isnt vnnSyI
oe located al Sparrows Point. ana not
bnu5fiSn.g' 1ny The site secured FOR che
.aEA NANNN HNANNa Lille nHfWNnnN nNAr- .
lh" baltimore organization called ~
zoo WIN a capacity To produce 1900
me Sparrows Point plant IL desi.pad
d. is said, 60 hive a ctpacitv OF 9Noo .
~ hase boxes. or 10000 tons. of tiu
49,. a year II is reported that al d.
uu"."Vo VIII be spent for this purr.,..
where's the baltimore company had -,
az Canton. II is UNDERSTOOD ~ 'vSv. yvY
sIN hot Tin mills Will be fnstaiiSJ -
~Sparrows Point. "'
was reported yesterday thai On,
Bethlehem Steel COMPANY Isd a"D,t
another eastern steel plant. bun dsf.u.
are Mlthheld temporarily. It IL Tnd.r-
ihtt the Intention IS 10 .Nu.nI
,,Il sLo'vvu .nVv TO 100000 ga new
nuudlnEs. improvements and inst,iln.
bon "i new machinery at sparrow
lnlnt IN addition to the money s1u-o-
plant. "a the TN plate
N.Nt'i lNat the Observation-Disclosures
"iSlIActlo COMPANY had secured con,
irol OF the Ritter Cunlev I4ryf..t, -
,omItuy property We're c0nurw.5 To ~
In Inc M,llen interests control th.
-",' u~hlic-Aarshal rompauv ana -
',lIe are strong financially ~. "a.
iarShall company capacity ba.
'ren increased to Z-I 600 tons -.
' Oh fabricated structural steel.
The Pe~nnsylvanis Steel Compapy Inns
Tor 49,, 1toa huppIementary contract
LOT the bridge Over the Ohio rfy.. -
louisville. The Maine Cent?
lH.n me market for bridge MI
ling TOT 900 tons OF steel sbTr.S
me southern Railway bridge inqlfrv
i.Hutl TO LOO tons Of steel $50.
ter. ''"'a'lNe charac-
National TubeC COMPANY has ,r,.,
m ORDER 10 the Alliance Nfaebi1. 49,,
49, " iouTdeen cranes. with UfffIp
,Aiacity OF l25 tons Tor inlt, Ls
ut tue LorAin' Ohio. works.
sales Of soi0oo tons bas,. n,,
-i -p.'ted made IN ~phIladeIpIlt f.r
mex year At the highest nri-.s OF
lIil.d in the current movem.1t ~
Sn'Uiel dSfcel a Iron t.r+r,- ~
l'u u" nave sold fu. 600 fo,.l -
f'''e OF pig iron ia March.
by taking over the Raitlmo-.
1..I.l rate Company CONTRACT ~
i'llnrfN 20 a. lower cost .rJ
~ delivery than would Iag. ar
today. '"''' "er" made