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Show ENGLAND BUYING GREAT AMOUNT OF SUPPLIES (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) BIRMINGHAM, England. Sept. 25. The principal item of interest in this market is large orders for manufacturers, who are engaged for the admiralty and war office "These are for unlimited supplies of iron fencing, barbed wire, galvanized sheets and road axles. The orders for various kinds of hurdle and wire fenrina; run into thousands of tons and full prices are to be given. Other branches are for enormous quantities of soldiers' bottles, to be made from "block plates," and nian,r thousands of mess tins, to be produced pro-duced from tin plates. Another favorable feature is that merchants mer-chants were called on to place orders for the F'-neh .'ind Russian crovernment fpr immediate execution which manufacturers manufactur-ers previously had not heard of. For i . . . these purposes orders had been sent to the iron works without waiting for the market for common bars, wire rods, materia ma-teria for tubular fencing, angles and tees for other fencing. ( These contracts put the manufacturers in a cheerful mood, as they can go on full time through part of the next quarter. quar-ter. The shipping houses are distributing orders for some kinds of finished iron, though- deliveries are to await instructions instruc-tions about reaching ports. Canada wants large supplies and merchants trading with the fciouth American markets are for ?up-i ?up-i plies for firms which hitherto favored Germany. Steel makers have done a satisfactory booking of billets, tees, bars, angles and plates. |