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Show IRON AND STEEL. Trade Dotmn.Tted hy Demand for Wee Material. NEW york. Sopt. 11. The eteel in-duslry in-duslry was still dominated by the enormous- demand for material lo he used In the manufacture of war munitions., yet sales tu DtoOQfl) billets and lars this week, er lima led at 160,000 tons, were smaller than liirlns lam wepk. The Inability nf th mills lo aseume additional heavy obligations for the bftt" sue, of tns calendar year was the single OailSS for contraction In soles and. In conjunction with the prealnn; demand, rfhnlled Iti a wide ranye fnd higher prices for seml-fint?hed at eel. Wales of foreign binomo were mad1 at $L'4 '0 per ton. rcrolllng billets sold at 19 to $3F per ton. fnrplng btiletP at $2 'o $4 per ton and round bars commanded 8,78 C9t lo 41.25 cents ppr pound. Sr.ni pt 1 11,-1 urnl ae well as rail rrllla have hepn Mimed upon bare to help rel've ihe preednrs for prnjeetile here and abroad.' There. wpr new Inruii rtea from France for 5o,oon tons of hloomf and SO.OOn ions of oa re and blUete for foirth-auarter shipment, hit unlet Qelilverfes aftar Jsniiary l are accepted thero arf email prospects of nales. ftaly is in the market mar-ket for 20,000 tons of round barn. Railroads: ha ve shown signs of in-creappd in-creappd buying- Thp Louisville & Nasf-vllle Nasf-vllle ordered 43.000 tons and the Atlantic Coast i.Iup 33,000 ton? of rafis from th TCnsley mill and the Snta fe closed for 003 tons at '"hlcagn for early 1916 shipment. ship-ment. The Pennsylvania , New York cvtitrai. Northwest em, Southern Pacific and Northprn pa riff o ar preparing' rail Fpeciflctions. Orders for 700 oars arp pending. ChiQftfro & North,.est?rn bought thirty-four locomotives, thp Omaha ten, the Texas & Pacific twenty-two and the Buffalo. Rochester & Plttshura; ten. Th A tnerlcan Locomotive company took a Spanish order for twenty-five engines. The August output and shipments of steel by tlie Steel corpora t Ion were record rec-ord brpaklng. while orders booked were less than In July or .Tune, although almost equal to full mill capacity. The moot prominent structural work placed Was 0000 tons of shapes for extension to the Bethlehem Btpel company's plant. The largest pig Iron pale was about 50.000 tons of basic to the Lukens Steel company com-pany for the firet half of 1916 shipment. |