Show SPANISH RAILS BOUGHT HERE Some American railroad men arc am even evening In matters up with the Steel trust by buying rails ralls abroad tru trusts s little habit or of Ja laying tn rails mils down in for lands more they Will sell the same rails to American pur has reacted In the Now New York TImes ol of recent date Is the story ot of the purchase or of 21 tons or of rails front the Altos do de Viscaya mills ot of Spain The rails are aro to be delivered nt at San Francisco and ond there thero Is much concerning the buyer It Is II thought by some that they may be intended for tor the th Western eWe ClUe om The ot the storY story Is not in the identity of the tho purchaser hut but in the tho fact th that t Ameri Amen enn railroad men can buy rails rail in S aln ship them to this country more cheaply then than tho they ran can buy them her herIt It Iii is ced that after the duty and nd the t lAe been heen paid the thenet thenet net or of the Spanish rails will m be 7 net nei ton Th They would cost S per tOll toli at th mills As AI the tho duty ii 4 par cr ton tOI find and the tho freight In to the neighborhood of at 5 3 it wIil be seen that the thc SpAniards Me are catty In n a position to manufacture steel rails es as cheaply as they can oon be made in the United States StatoN It was I Charles Charle M Schwab wo we believe who I Isaid said mid that the tit Steel tru trust t could sell roils rails at 18 antI and still a nice pronto profit The chances are that the Americans mell who are aro buying the tho Spanish rails are pa paying ing for them about 1 or ci 19 n a ton The Tue story is iK interesting too In that Jt It shows hoS tho th development of L a great grent ir in Spain If nn anybody bod had hatI sai said th the Spanish war that within seven years we woud be buying rails I tram from S Spain the statement would have hac i been ridiculed Spain to tobe tobe be she was in a condition Her Industries were para paralyzed she had made mad no progress or many years ears and seemed unlikely to Tho Th best thing that c could uld luwe hap bap polled to Spain was the var with this country and the tho assertion is made mude with full recollection tion or of the tact that the Spanish were soundly wl whipped s losIng he war rb o oo her most expensive possessions Cuba Cub and the archipelago ei thor ther the tho Philippines nOl Cuba yielded th the Spaniards nn anything Always there thero was war always expense piling upon expense expanse Now Spain is in a 8 po tn Dt on How welt well she is s succeeding is best n by the story herewith set oot forth |