The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-06-02
MOTIVE POWER ORDERS
FOR RAILROADS HEAVY
Decrease in Domestic Orders Continues
with Exceptions IN a few Prom
inent Lines

NEH YORK. June 1.-Railroads con-
tinuc 10 place orders for motive power
literally. the May contracts being the
any month this year. Otherwise rail-
road equipment orders have fallen on
quite heavily and the June prospect Is
rine steel. on the other hand. continues
active FOR home and foreign shipment.
| Spec .hcations against contracts permit
the mills 10 operate at full capacity and
shipments are equally large. bat the de-
crease IN domestic buying as a whole
continues. although agricultural impie-
ment. makers have placed more con-
tracts Tor soft steel bare and more large
Iordcrs Tor snnealed sheets are develop
/ ing. Automobile manufacturers are
'piacsg more orders following more large
sales OF trucks for export. The White
Motor Company has received another
9reer from the French Government Tor
trucks making 500 sold In May by this
company. The Russian Government too
j. negotiating Tor motor trucks.
Interest is mainly centred in foreign
Iordcrs and inquiries. Recent sales have
, Included $4,000 tons OF rails FOR France
which country has taken 10000 tons in
al mere IN the last four or i've months
IAcuNc negotiations continue on marine
plates, rails. wire. blooms. billets and
rounds Zoe export. More steel orders
have been placed by domestic manufac-
! uttrs or proJeetiles and others are pend
ing
The Iron Age says: steel manufac-
Jurors IN tho past week at the largest
gathering the industry has known
agreed that high prices and fun oper-
Ial"n wiz continue through the year
lot To-Day prosperity. one year ago
Tag "a like meeting 20 per cent. opera
uon was found to be the rule.
llF iron inquiry for Italy and France
ions inactive, Is being revived aud there
laiD large foreign inquiries for tin plate
I and barb wire. Russia's requirements OF
/ the latter are put well above 100. 600
tons. but IN this as In other export nego-
LiHtons there are evident applications
There rs an Italian OFFER on 10000 tons
Tor rail blooms
/ The ability OF the mills TO take care
] of cunsidsrtbl. high priced steel ON
which delivery IL wanted in the second
[ l.'ii OF thi@ year II being demonstrated
! We 10y week. Ia spite OF the generally
] seni-tnished steel AZ concessions from
recent prices continue. but they are
example. some high carbon biliefs soII
Tat $50 az Chicago. They were intended
Tor munitions work, but were rejected
iof Sf2 and less are sim reported
/ Track fastcnings have figured on a
! large scale tn Western railroad con
! tracts. a single line having taken 1000
Isplkcs.
May OUTPUTS OF sheet and tin plat,
mills established new records"
Several new export INQUIRIES p,
| foundry pig iron In lots Of from 900
/ 20 1000 tons each came into the n1ark.t
/ N'st,rday Tor shipment to Turon. ara
. the Far East There were also sev,roI
Inquiries FOR small lots OF foundry irgt
, fgr shipment 90 South America pew
iot tht.e inquiries, however. are taken
seriously
VIRGINIA furnaces apparently are
NOR. independent than Northern s,acts
. in seeking orders for this wears deIiv-
! "ry- fwo or the large Interests are ,str.
inr $50 "a ton FOR 40. foundry Virsipi,
/ furnace. and are not seeking business
tf"r next years delivery even az tb..
price The Woodward Iron Conpar,. IL
holding No foundry ~ $3.50 HIM
| ihE ham. Tor this years shiprn.nt ptbr-
\ labama furnaces are willing b. arr.r,
, 30. ana there are rumors thar sys,
] lHl@ price has been shaded Weren't
IRON fs stll offered az s1an1450 Hi-r1-
/ hEham' Tor early shipment
4e decline In the price or pig iron -.
! Gently IL reflected IN n rcdurfi,,, -,
! p per ton In the prices asked fC- rost
/ L"n pipe by Eastern mauuf+rf.tr..-.
/ 'rl,F- Tor pipe IN the last Few u-..t.
taiien on sharply. bu the TONNE
4 pItc'l thus FAR IN 1916 has bo,~ 80,
3 1trHt'lF heavy The MassIlIon pf.. 49,
D r 'uhlrF company submitted thu rr,,..
u'N, $50 per ton. on 2T6 tons az LTD
IN cost iron pipe for deliver ~