Show IRON MARKET new york march C the iron age will says r the hoods and storms have been interfering ter fering again with both production and consumption at aith when any alela is seriously annoy inga alicy threaten to prolong the shortage of material beyond the spring months and ore making more and more difficult of important interests to accumulate the finished goods in anticipation of the usual spring trade the anxiety with reference to the supply of foundry iron for the second half of the year is subsiding somewhat and the sellers have been placing comparatively little iron after alic tremendous february rush others however hac booked some very largo orders among these we about tons taken by pipe founders works car builders and the deliveries going ow the first quarter of next year and of tons of bessemer pig lyia furnace in the central west winch usually rum on foundry and mill irona of course it is probable that this scars ton will be considerably larger than tle rate of asoo and lal fiut the fact remains that there is still a reserve n sight larger than the majority iti jhc trade suspect As for the scarcity of structural material the point that itiba more apparent than acal gormerly tle bridge and structural shrift drey upon many mills for their and by distributing their orders were able to arrange for simultaneous deliveries of the different sizes since tho consolidation it has not been quite so readily arranged and it has often happened that work could not be because ten per cent or les of the matter in the shape of particular sizes or sections was not ready for delivery no further of iny consequence arc reported either inibig iron billets or finished t |