The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-30
u. S. R PRODUCER
OF ELECTRIC STEEL
Steel Industry Being Worked to Capacity in Order to
Fill Unprecedented Demand in
Many Trades.

at AJo, Ariz, In which about 900 tons Of
steel will be used. \ contract for a
bridge over the Hoquiain River at Aber-
deem, Wash. calls for 225 tons of steel.
he californil-Haw allan SUGAR Company
has placed a contract for u sugar iuill
requiring 500 tons of steel the crucihle
Fuel Company has ordered u coal apple
10 be constructed at Rico's Landing Pa,
for which about 260 tons Of steel shapes
will he used. Three hundred tons of
structural steel will he used for buildlng
lock gates at Dam No. II In the Ohio
River by the United states Government.
Tho steel contract for the construction
OF the Chamber Of Commerce building at
Pittsburg calls for about 10000 tons OF
steel. The Newport News Shipbuilding
and Dry DoSk Company has placed a
large order for ship forsings With the
PENNSYLVANIA Steel Company. The forg-
ing shops of nearly all steel companies.
b, the way. are already overloaded with
business and delivery In the near future
Is difficult. Three Thousand tons of foun-
dry pig iron has been contracted for by
the lngersoll- Rand Company with East
ern furnaces.
There is also ar Unprecedented de-
mand for American built ships, and with
the wave Of preparedness now sweeping
the country there doubtless will he even
more. At present II is estimated there
is enough to keep the se~ coast yards
employed at full capacity at from three
g. i've years. According TO tho January,
issue OF International Marine Engineer
ing there are at the present time over
200 large merchant vessels under SON
struction totalling about 700. 900 tons. and
in addition Ia the merchant work there
tire IN private s%hipyards about ifty-nirc
Government vessels under construction.
aggreeating l6S.i52 tons displacement
while in addition To- that there are also
building In the Government navy yards
twelve vessels aggregating l76.0l0 tons
displacement. making u total of seventy.
one Government vessels of 3ii.l62 tons
displacement now building in the United
states. These figures. however. do not
include the tonnage Of forty submarines
eleven of which T-c building for foreign
navies. AK the particulars Of submarine
,,sseis have not been officially disclosed. Of
Every shipyard along the Atlantic
coast, Il is reported. as well AS the Grea,
Lakes. is filled with orders that vii
take two Yeas 10 complete, and orders
are crowding the Pacific coast yard
also. SO great is the demand that s,ee
mills lack the capacity to hill IL. Plate
mills have refused "A large tonnage oi
, plates. though one inquiry runs as high
as $4,000 tons. Delivery Is tho mait
question in steel bars, and price cut'
bu. a small figure. There is talk OF a
further advance on wire products. ans
foreign Governments and steel makers
!, are reported buying crop ends and scral
for rerolling.
Building IL brisk for this season q
the year. with Il big boom predicted Tot
spring. n view Of this contractor!
: have placed orders for shapes far ahei,
: of their requirements. II the project i
carried through 1900" tons of steel Wi
; he required for one New Work. huiidiu.
alone 10 he erected At Ftfty-uIuth sire,
and Eighth av"nu
The unprecedented conditions govern
Ing the steel industry this year max,
, previous experience of tn" biggest man
ufIcturers of it'll. value as u guide II
making predictions. one thiu- Is Ger
, tain. and that IL after the war d,maudi
Q Tor export steel will be heavy on a.
count OF rebuilding and repairing tn,
rayishes of conflict.