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Show structural steel orders. peared some three weeks ago was sustained as to volume last week, and for the three weeks total sales are estimated at between 400,000 and 500.000 tons. Bookings by Chicago Chi-cago furnaces last week aggregated nearly 100,000 tons and prices are so low that some consumers have placed orders for delivery over the remainder of the year. As evidence that consumers' stocks are running low, demand has been made for shipment on iron that had originally original-ly been ordered for third quarter delivery. , The increase in demand for steel, while much smaller than that for I iron, is in evidence nevertheless, r Last week's structural steel orders aggregated 30,000 tons, the largest in more than two months, in which time they have averaged about 20,-000 20,-000 tons weekly. The most optimistic optimis-tic development, however, is the fact : that in the last two weeks new m-- m-- quiries in excess of 100,000 tons ! have been put out. Tank awards for oil storage ac- counted for the bulk of last week's LARGE DEMAND FOR PIG IRON i (From New York Commercial.) Pig iron, the most sensitive oJ business indicators, is nointins defi nitely upward, not as to prices as yet, but in volume of demand. Th buying movement in iron that ap |