Show ts IS BUYING STEEL RAILS RAllS ABROAD j Places Orders for Tons With Spanish Mills hills i I 1 MEXICO I I DELIVERED FOR T N LESS THAN HOM PRODUCT 4 The Phe Harriman Un hinis Are al about tut to ro re a large order or of fort foreign n raUs t thousand tortS toga thi for tor which w ws placed during Juring the earl early ot of with Spanish mule tho Altos Homos let 1 in intended intended tended pr use Ulle in CalifornIa The con contract tract price tor fr the th 1 rails d liv red in eludIng import is around m 27 a aton atea ton tea The rhe price for domestic rat rails at the is bi 5 8 and aDd to carry them to th the mast t the total cost would be 00 almost t m 3 Delivery ot of th the I rails is to be in completed by Janu I a 1 next tops tons are now on Oh their way by steamer to Galveston Tx Tex and the balance will willbe I Ibe be shipped to tan n Diego Cal For the Southern P extensions In a rail contract has hal been with the Montrey r Iron Steel cum The ot of this with witha a t rn Is due largely if not entirely l to the recent tariff Imposed lh The Merka price was wail around a ton the for tor torin in rails laid dOwn lu iii Mexico is upwards ot of 4 the tho duty being ng le 10 a aton ton ionS while the trel freight t charges etc are arc almost 3 i Another r an road Ut if to Ie a lot or of lJ J tons ton or of rails rail from the Monterey but It wU ws found Impossible to supply them within an any reasonable time as 88 the Montere mills wIll be busy for some time to on the Southern Contract Tho 11 order h has therefore heels ft Placed with th thO Altos Homes de BilbRo one or of the riu mills in Spain The rhe puce price is a shade above aboe a tou f 1 o 0 K b Of course COUnte th these s rails ivill JIl also have IUle to pe pay duty to the existing Mexican tiL ta nfl which with freight charges iII mean that they aIlI cost as a atOlL aton ton tOlL delivered or Ji I a ton lesii Ies the tho prevailing tr American rails ralla laid down dowa In Mexico |