Show f THE TRACE 1 cleveland 0 dec 4 the iron trade 1 has the to say rela i tive to the iron market an t tion ot lower prices is abroad in the aroa trade to an extent that prevents any large buying covering a f yet the amount of inquiry coming up week by week indicates that fon consumption is not lessening and that bluyers anra keeping close track of condi so that they may not jail of needled materials the reductions in several lines have affected tho pig iron market bringing bricca to a more conservative serva tive ansu and putting an end to any lingering boom feeling railroads have pained ground also in their attack upon 1 the freight embargo and furnaces in the central west note a marked improve ment in the coke situation if thi should be kept up aided by the release of cars that have been hurrying coal to lower lake portions for the last trips up t there will be pig iron enough to go around and every month in the new year will add io the active furnace capacity while alie ideas of tellers of aundry iron nil to the proper prices for the ece end half of 1003 leave been revised soini ahat there i little interest in eccli eales and the prospects are for a hand aff market for the next few meanwhile foundry iron for tho first I 1 quarter and first half of cabbe I 1 bought CO cents to 1 lower than gaii j poablo pol blo a few weeks ago in the south nn important development is a move to consolidate nome of the esolat fd furnaces in the part ti ala baroa with a bew to strengthening them in raw the west including the pittsburg dietrict ct bho wa a t waiting pig iron market with no ex of nn early ot i icovy buying maintains it firm ness in the faw of light buying and ben I 1 eemer billets have old at 29 I 1 at central western mill movement i lighter with no condition in i statistics for october show that the total import of pig iron atel and iron and teel product sn that month were lighter than in september while iron and exports showed an increase september a f turn in the foreign trade that will ba worth watching rails leave been th department of the of ilac it is ton i baic been od in the past fortnight chiefly for delivery in the dallof |