The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-06
STEEL RAIL ORDERS
CONTINUE TO POUR IN
Allied Governments Again Ac-
lively in Market for High
Explosive Shells.


The Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad
Company has Just received specification
on A little less than ~. 900 tons OF ninety
pound section rails for the ~. Louis and
san Francisco Railroad Company. The
Fnsley mill has also received an addi-
tivnal order for ~6.300.tons for standard
section rails from the Southern Railroad.
The Fort Dodge. Des Moines and South
ern Railroad Company has given an
order for 1000 tons Of rail to the Illinois
steel Company and the Carnegie Steel
Company is TO pll 1000 tons for the
Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton. The
marlborough Rapid Transit Company is
understood TO have placed "a contract for
1000 tons Of contact rails with the Lacka-
wanna steel Company In addition to the
tonnage previously divided bet ween the
Buffalo and Bethlehem mills. Several
new inquiries for rails amounting to
at0ut 1900 tons have come from Cuban
railroads and about l.0OO tons arc still
under l.gotiation for export to France.
One OF the most interesting develop
nents hich is a depa from the
usual practice In shipbuilding rs we'll as
IN structural shop activities came 10
lsht yesterday. An initial contract fo-
fabricated structural steel to be used In
the frame work of two ships has been
placed with All Eastern shop which
previously has confined its marine work
10 the building OF bsrges. II is to roll
and fabricate the steel ready for assem-
bling At the ship yards Just as railroad
bridges and skyscraper Buildings are
erected to-day. The getting out of struc-
tural fabricated steel for shipbuilding.
however. is more difficult and more cN-
,eusiye than ordinary structural work.
Because OF the pressure or tho ship
yards, II this method proves satisfactory,
similar orders will be placed, as II will
Be possible In this way t. increase the
capacity OF the marine ways. Less time
will BE- required 80 build "A ship when the
frame work "A be delivered ready for
immediate assembling. The one great
difficulty In the way is the pressure upon
the steel mills, which may prevent the
furnishing of plain material In large
enough quantities and rapidly enough 10
facilitate the work Of the f%abricating
shops.
The National Malleable Castings Com
pany has placed u contract for "A yard
crane runway and a foundry building 10
be constructed at the Grant Works. Chi
cago, calling for l.i10 tons OF fabricated
steel, with the Morava Construction
Company. An order for building pavil-
ions u and & at the Cook County Hos
p,al, Chicago, has been placed with
the South Halsted Street Iron Works.
one thousand five hundred and sixty-tve
tons OF structural steel will be used.
The Union Iron Works. San Francisco.
has placed an order for the building OF
a foundry calling for 500 tons Of struc-
.ural sheets with the Ralston Iron
Works. The first section OF the chill
dren's building TO be constructed by the
city OF 81. Louis calls for 225 tons OF
fabricated steel. the contract for which
has been awarded to the keysing Iron
and Foundry company. A county court
Paso. Tex. requires goa tons Of steel
shapes, contract for which has been
placed with an independent fabricator.
Tho Inland Steel Company. which is
making extensive improvements At its
works ~ Inland Ha rbor. near Chicago,
a. previously noted. has just awarded a
contract for electrical machinery TO the
Ess' Pittsburg works Of the wcsting-
house Electric and Manufacturing Com
pany.
Tho allied Governments are again
actively in the market for high explosive
shells and for shrapnel to be- manufac-
tured iu his country, as well az for
.argc tonnages Of semi-inished steel for
direct export to be used in similar manu-
fscture abroad. Negotiations continue
m a Spb-Contract for 5000. 900 8 inch
shells for the British Government. and
4 new inquiry came out yesterday for
-oo.oo" . inch shells. There was also a
new inquiry for 5000 tons of -. inch
steel bars, and another for 5000 tons
Of ingots and forgings. The inquiries
for blooms and bi,lets for direct export
amount to fully 10000 tons,
Numerous inquiries for bars. plates,
Shapes. wire. tinplate and miscellaneous
products continue in the market for az
port TO South America, Australia. Japan
Ard China as well AS to European
tries. Relatively few orders are being
taken, however. because OF the inability
of the mills to make satisfactory ship
merts within six months.
The output OF pig iron in December
established a new high record just as the
December production of steel ingots was
record breaking. II Is estimated tina
The December output OF cok and anthra-
cite pig iron was 3.20l. 900 tons, which
IS d little greater than the previous high
record, made in October. Including
Charcoal iron, the indication Is that the
1919 output was about 80, 200, 900 tons.
which is approximately the estimated
output made the latter part Of last year.
conditions in the copper industry for
sae last year have invited speculation ON
: large sca.e. There Is still "A rich field
Tor transactions OF this character. not
outstanding the dizzy heights to which
prices have risen. At the moment II *
understood that a third syndicate is op-
Grating in copper following the heavy
uslsactions In the secon quarter OF the
year. when 80, 600 tons OF metal were
iaken on speculative account. trans
ietred Ia warehouses in Brooklyn. and
Subsequently resold at a profit OF 4 to Be.
pound. II IL estimated that fully
i'''"9o tons OF copper. including the
e.oN", were disposed Of In this way in
1915.
Manufactured Of merchant steel pipe
an .ln" pii'e have advanced prices 81
i'f ton, effective al once. Bar wire has
"'''' advanced 10 &c, iittsburg base, d
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