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Show BUSINESS IN STEEL AND IRON CROWING NEW YORK. Sept. U The volume of business In Iron and steel products laat week suffered some contraction because of the labor holiday and tha Inactivity of the railroads, but miscalls neous orders or-ders for finished steel are still coming In at a rate that keeps approximately 7i per cent of the steel mill rapacity engaged. en-gaged. Auguat record all along the line were notably encouraajlrur. In finished lines the corporation reported on Saturday Sat-urday an Increase of 111.600 tons In unfilled un-filled orders, which on the first of September Sep-tember will aggregste Mtfi.M tone. New contracts were booked In August aggra. gatlnc l.a&S.aoo tons, or at tha rate of 1004 tons per dsy. exclusive or Hun-days; Hun-days; shipments were about 1 40. 000 tone. Although the recent activity haa cnn. ttnud at the expense, of prices, the sit-ustion sit-ustion was somewhat Improved last week. Keen competition .continues, however. In fabricate steel. The volume of business In pig Iron was, again light, hut some larger contracts wer placed hv New York state consumers consum-ers with Buffs lo furnaces. Borne fair business has- also been taken sine tha first of P-ept ember for export to Canada. Th production of pig Iron today lg at th rata of about 2 J. 200.000 tone annus an-nus Hy. |