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Show I COMPETING WITH THE WORLD A representative of the National Tube company was in Ogden yesterday and imparted the information that his company has so many orders ahead so much unfilled tonnage as to be unable to look forward to the day when deliveries can be made on new business. busi-ness. It is not so long ago when the manufacturers of pipe in Ibis tountry were sorely distressed by the competition of the powerful English plants. But of late, America has taken Ihe lead in iron and steel and all branches of the industry have gone far ahead of the largest European concerns. Recently the French solicit cd bids on a 10-inch oil line from Havre to Paris, a distance of 134 miles, the work to be completed in six months. The only company capable of turning out the steel pipe within 18 months was the National Tube, which will have the 134 miles of pipe ready for shipment within sixty days. This is only one of main large foreign undertakings by the sam company. In the Persia oil fields, just beginning to be exteushely opened up by English capital, the American company has contracts covering hundreds of miles of large pipe. How great is our industrial growth is nut l'ulh undeist 1 until un-til our factories and their productivity arc compared with the best effort of European manufacturers. |