Show the iron and steel trade kew york april 25 taci iron age today bays the feeling in the iron trade is o 0 better but the newly acquired strength ie not yet herculean to some extent the actual advance in prices ia asked because the start haa been made from a lower level than fellers leavo been willing to ackmon leace from pittsburg and the valleys indicate a weakening nine in llesi emar pig to a under 10 in the valleys but it is pointed out eliat quantities offered are not large possibly tins reaca boft inay stop should any serious labor trouble akiho over the wages of lie blast furnace in the valleys there has been very little doing ia alie soft steel market but inquirers are coming in now for the third quarter and for the second half of the year chicago reports eliat orders for tons of billets are in sight very bueil acsa ncsa of magnitude haa been done in any department of alie finished iron and deteel trade in any part ol 01 alio country bars and sheets are hed at higher figures by agreement quite a lively business has been done on the southern pig iron our cincinnati noting sales of about tons of which tons wae done by one chicago too reports a heavy business both in local and southern irons alio leading southern furnace companies according to our birmingham correspondent have actually made sales at an advance in others markets the matter lias not apparently progressed far |