Show IRON FOR EXPORT bew york oct 29 it is puzzling with the spectacle of works dosing and et arting aaen to reach any conclusion hayg the cronage Iro nAge aa to the real volume of consumption buyers keep very celoso to hore and manufacturers decline to eatock product when its coat promises to be lower with the opening of next year under hiigli conditions consumption ia probably larger than ap acara on the surface but what is really troubling makers most is the uncertainty of the autum during winter months in normal years the consumption is lighter than at other timba ot the year and it is too much to hope that this will prove an exception with the tonnage on tho books batting away it ia dini cult to leold prices most interesting development of the week liaa tho report that a lot of tons ot pig iron has been old for shipment to manchester england if that transaction ha been put through jt means that a serious cut below our own domestic level of voluen hag been accepted the steel trade n cull and tho territory east of the is by the offerings in a market of open hearth by works usually consuming their own deteel product but now having a eur the markets for iron and fincel are generally dull and the new tonnage coming up fails tore place that which fa acin on olit orders there i a good deal of talk of export but thua far comparatively little lannge ba been So has been doieg in plates in moderate way on the badts of about bonts at mill for export orders tho extraordinary events in tho copper industry may have a very carious effect upon alie metal trade it inay show itself in an actual advance of electrolytic tro copper above the price of lake frinc the former is preferred by many copper wire maker |