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Show LOW STEEL MAY QUICKEN BUYING ;Long Range Purchasing Movement Believed Near at Hand ItV VLWUT MM 11 PITTSBtRG, Jan 1 1 Price of the elgh leading 'ron and Steel prod jrts now average only 10 per cent, higher than in 1007, They average only -.1 p?r e.nt I higher than in :ul-. In 1917. tlit penk-y.rir ..f llon stt-ci, the gaitte prleeg averaged aver-aged i0 Pr cen btghcr ih..n In 1J13. These dhhv 'oiOn; Fte pr.diicts aic steel rails, plaWfli 'lri inlls, j teel beams, td.ee'. ftp nl.'iio. I !i! ets and pis iron. Taklajc a inn j :i or those -ir.d; adding tho or :. thn dlvll:ng b jo., in to strike ivrgo, 5-1 i now r-uyt what eoe-t C31 In IO17 .mi IR3 6CI In 1 f 1 3 and f i" ' l'i ' 07. FKISIG7I I IM HOI j Making all-wi-.toe C;r hiirlier. I freight rates Involved in the costs of making a ton of litest products, prices at thi mills average low ax In 1 907 i)nd close io the 1313 mark. Before tho war, .'h. cott vf ma.K-1 ing a ton of pig Iron in the Pittsburg dintii-t Included tw.81 frt ight 1 ohargas tor gsttlnx Jron ore and I toko and limestone t- the fu'-race and disposing f the slag. Thin freight co: ii".'.- Is aboyt lO.GO. Freight charges ntake up 40 per cnt of tho presem selling prLo of fabricated fab-ricated or structural Steel, according accord-ing to the Bridge Builders t Structural Struc-tural aodety. BI IN; F.OOMs Steel Industry's leaders heliovo ..hat. alnco price deflutlon has pone' so far toward normal, 1 1 1 'j steel in- j duatry is due for a long-range buy- nt; rnoyement within 90 days. i ro-dlcitlons ro-dlcitlons are that buying will i;aln momentum gradually until operations opera-tions reach normal Jn the autumn. Railroads arc making Inquiries for big orders of steel rails'. KSxport business is gaining nteadTily. In the domestic markCl vlannur' is S seasonal sea-sonal quiet month , |