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Show HE PJSJOI TUBE tracts Placed for tho Past eek Alone Aggregate Sixty Thousand Tons. JEW YORK. A utr 29. Great activity I itlnucs in pig iron, especially in tlio I item territory, where contracts were fl cwl last week aggregating GO.OOO tons, i r gstcm consumers have- bought less III lie Iron for prompt shipment, but there full an native and pressing demand. I i rojitract for 24.000 tons has been I Lrfat SIS, delivered for shipment over I S first half of next yuar. Seventeen I im nt easlcni Pennsylvania furnaces a i vo x Is now the minimum, whorc--i j it was the .maximum, a week ago I' i&o iron was relatively stronger than Iff mdn-'b'rndes. with sales at $17.85 do-M do-M Ireh Stove manufacturers have .been S JTi" purchasers In the north, while j ,Vin, pipe woiks have, bought about -1 tons -Vo. 2 southern Iron at $13.50 'nsluim for this year's shipment. 1 Has been great Increase in tho t of both foundry and steel making and it will not be surprising if the Sl production exceeds that of Octo- ! I 1907. which was at the rale of i 1000 tons annually. Islicd products have continued active strong, with premiums obtained for shipments and higher prices prob-' prob-' within the next sixty days. The notable ncllvlty has been In steel s In the central west, where the de-has de-has been excessively heavy. |