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Show RAILROADS BUYING STEEL. Number of Orders Placed Last Week by Different Roads. New York. The largest new contracts con-tracts placed for steel products last week were for rails, wire products, merchant pipe and fabricated structural struc-tural steel. The distribution of 135,-000 135,-000 tons of the Harriman rail order was announced, as well as additional new contracts for about 165,000 tons. There has been but little decrease In the demand for wire products, the daily orders of the American Steel and Wire. company last week running betwefen ,000" and 1,000 tbns and specifications from 5,000 to 6,000 tons per day. The railroads have placed numerous numer-ous small orders for bridges, viaducts and terminal work, including turntables. turn-tables. Among the roads placing additional ad-ditional contracts are the St. Paul, the Chicago Northwestern, Wabash, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific. |