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Show PITTSBURG FILLING MANY WAR ORDERS PITTSBURG. Bee. 2 S. Orders for 6.'..-00 6.'..-00 tons of highly carbonized steel rounds appeared in the Pittsburg district todav, SO, 000 tons for Fniuce and 10,000 tuns for Russia. Recently 21,(iiio tons of this grade of steel, used in making shrapnel whells. were shipped to Europe. Jt is understood un-derstood tliu-t Charles Ale Knight, president presi-dent of the Caron Steel company, is now in Europe in connection ith orders for similar material. It is estimated that fully 56.000,000 wort h of trenching tools, galvanized sheets, wire and projectile steel have been bought Jn Pittsburg for I lie European belligereuts in the past two months. |