STEEL PRODUCTION • PROCESSING • DISTRIBUTION • USE For forty-tight years—IRON TRADE REVIEW

& o n t e n t 5 . . February 17, 1936

Published by Volume 98 - No. 7 PENTON PUBLISHING CO. PENTON BUILDING CLEVELAND, O. As the Editor Views the News...... 13 • Del Monte Conference Backs Steel House...... 14 JOHN A. penton . Chairman of Board Continuous Mills Since 1926 Cost $200,000,000 ...... 14 j. R. daw ley . President and Treasurer Steel Complying with Social Security Act...... 15

dan m. avey .... Vice President Financial News of the Steel Industry...... 18 Windows of Washington...... 19 R obert T. m ason .... S ecretary Steelmaking Operations for the W eek ...... 21 Mirrors of Motordom ...... 22 Men of Industry...... 24 BRANCH OFFICES: O bituary...... 26 New York 220 Broadway 35,000,000 Tons Is Estimate of 1936 Iron Ore Shipments. ... 27 Chicago .... Peoples Gas Building Pittsburgh . . . 1650 Koppers Building Petroleum and the Metalworking Industries— Editorial 29 San Francisco .... 2413 Mi!via St. The Business Trend—Charts and Statistics...... 30 Berkeley, Calif., Tel. Berkeley 7354 W Washington . . . National Press Building Metallurgy of Transmission Gears— 1 ...... 32 Cincinnati . . . 418-420 Sinton Hotel L o n d o n ...... Caxton House Press Accidents Reduced by Safety in Die Design ...... 38 Westminster, S. W. 1 Power Drives ...... 40 Berlin . . Berlin, N. W . 40, Roonstrasse 10 Surface Treatment and Finishing...... 44 Member Audit Bureau of Circulations; Associated Methods and Materials...... 48 Business Papers Inc., and National Publishers Association. Light-Polarizing Glass, a New Development...... 48 Published every Monday. Subscription in the United Conference Discusses Superheated Cast Iron ...... 51 States, Cuba, Mexico and Canada, one year $4. two years $6; European and foreign countries, Welding, etc.—Robert E. Kin\cad ...... 53 one year £ 2 . Forum on Modernization...... 54 Entered as second class matter at postoffice of Cleveland, under the Act of March 3, 1879, Copy- Parade of Progress in Pictures...... 56 right 1936 by Penton Publishing Co. Progress in Steelmaking ...... 59 New Equipment ¿Descriptions...... 62 Review of Trade Publications...... 65

M arket Reports and Prices ...... 67-87

New Construction and Incorporations...... 89 Index to Advertisements ...... 98

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February 17, 1936 11 AN INVISIBLE ALLOY

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toms are “pedantry, cruelty to subordinates and extreme stinginess.” W e venture the opin­ ike 2d.ltoi ion, that every personnel director and many other alert observers in industry will agree that the Chicago doctor is more right than wrong in his diagnosis. The condition he de­ l/ieu/â tke scribes has played havoc with morale in many units of industry. Fortunate is the company whose officers know how to keep its employes happy and contented. T ODAY the business world is watching the spectacle of a curious reversal in the re­ ♦ ♦ ♦ cent trends of two major divisions of in­ Industrial safety probably has been affected dustry. The automobile industry, which dom­ by what may he termed “depression nerves,” inated a large part of the nation’s activity in but a Detroit safety expert cites another factor. 1935, is in a period of declining production, He believes that the rush na- which may continue for several weeks. Mean­ Building Safety t“,e,of 'TO,‘I ‘f f ef »“»"ping time, the heavy goods industries, which were plants (p. 38) tends to cause sluggish during most of last year, are coming Into Dies management to neglect to pro­ back to life. In fact, developments of the past vide for safety when designing week indicate that reviving activity in capital dies for stamping. He shows practical methods goods (p. 67) may offset to a considerable ex­ for incorporating safety provisions into dies tent the lack of the customary strong support when they are in the process of being designed from the motor car industry. .... A recently developed light-polarizing glass (p. 48) promises to extend the principle of strain-testing, which has been applied to en­ The result of this sim ultaneous rise and fall gineering structures .... One of the recent in two important sectors of activity is a fairly interesting applications of hard facing (p. 50) strong situation in business generally. Steel involved the use of stellite on the teeth of cyl­ operations are at the highest indrical caissons on an important engineering Trend in Steel P°int touched thus far in 19 3 6. p r o je c t . Freight traffic is moving in Still Upward good volume and here and there are renewed signs of dif­ Being engaged in the business of dissem­ ficulty in obtaining cars of certain types. This inating information, we were particularly in­ situation gives point to the recent increase in terested in the action of the Supreme Court the purchase of equipment by the railroads. last Monday in upholding the Keeping in mind this picture of activity at Free Press principle of free speech. “The home, it is interesting to note that in Great newspapers, magazines and Britain (p. 85) steel ingot output in January Is Vindicated other journals of the country,” was the second highest in the history of British said Mr. Justice Sutherland, ste e l. “have shed and continue to shed more light on the public and business affairs of the nation than any other instrum entality of publicity .... A Chicago psychologist startled his listeners A free press stands as one of the great inter­ at the recent convention of the Am erican M an­ preters between the government and the peo­ agement association by declaring that 20 to ple. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter our­ 30 per cent of employes suffer selves.” That last sentence may become clas­ N e w Liqht from mild mental aberrations. sic. A ll of us should try to remember it when­ The symptoms of this condi- ever we are provoked because we think an Employe Moraletion, he explained, are “seclu- author or editor has abused the right of free siveness or a tendency to day­ expression. dreaming, insubordination, chronic ill health without organic basis, over-suspiciousness of associates and superiors, over sensitivity to slights, and over-tendency to errors and ac­ cidents.” Am ong executives, he said, the sym p­

February 17, 193 6 STEEL 13 methods for single dwelling through out the nation. And what do wi Del Monte Group Backs Steel find? Steel has hardly participatec at all to date in this phase of thi construction industry, and electricit; has just made a beginning. “We find that the average resi House; Urges U. S. Economy dence built in colonial days ir America was better constructed thai the average residence being built to day. You are all familiar from you: Del M onte, Calif. Steel Co., San Francisco; H. J. Ben­ own experience with the fact tha nett, Columbia Steel Co., San Fran­ there are thousands of houses bein; A RECORD breaking at­ cisco; E. L. Soule, Soule Steel Co., built now which will become a source tendance of alm ost 400 San Francisco; E. F. Watkins, South­ of annoyance and expense to the oc at the twelfth annual ern California Edison Co., Los An­ cupants throughout future years roofs leak, casements leak, doo conference of the Iron, Steel geles; and C. B. Tibbetts, Los An­ geles Steel Castings Co., Los Angeles. frames sag, windows jam and rattle and Allied Industries of Cali­ bathrooms settle, tile cracks, floor: The presiding officers— chairman, fornia, held here Feb. 6-8, and stairs squeak, plaster cracks, the; W. W. Glosser, H ubbard & Co., are insufferably hot and stuffy ii heard the steel frame house Emeryville, Calif.; vice chairman summer and a burden to keep warn lauded as a potential outlet of E. H. McGinnis, Union Hardware & in winter, term ites get into the wool great magnitude for steel, and Metal Co., Los Angeles; and secre­ work, and fire burns down from 50, 000 to 100,000 each year. adopted a resolution setting up tary, Charles H. Knight, California state chamber of commerce, San United Front Needed a committee of nine to further Francisco—were unanimously re­ it. elected. "That part of: the construction in dustry engaged in residence buildin; The conference, at which were rep­ Stimulating great enthusiasm for has no leadership. The units are ob resented steel mills, reinforcing and steel home construction and urging merchant steel bar jobbers, found­ sessed with the price complex to sucl that it be popularized, Mr. Watkins an extent that they have practicall; ries, tubular goods distributors, traf­ pointed out that steel and electricity educated the prospective home build fic managers, purchasing agents, and together had made magnificent er into a point of view where pric< other factors of the iron and steel strides in improving the standard of alone governs most of his decisions industry, also heard Walter S. Tower, construction in the great cities in the It is a disgrace to this branch of thi executive secretary of the American past generation, but that private construction industry that they per Iron and Steel institute, New York, housing lags behind the standards of sist with the same inherent fault: estimate $200,000,000 as the outlay colonial days. in materials used, methods and tech of the industry for modernizing its nique, repeating the same old fault; The downtown office building, the practices of the past. It is a pity tha equipment and adding new finishing church, the theatre, great bridges, there does not exist in this brand capacity— although no more raw steel power lines, pipe lines, subways— of the construction industry sonn capacity—in 1936. (See S t e e l , Feb. not one of these magnificent examples present impelling force th at wil 10, p. 15) of construction would have been pos­ drive on toward real outstanding bet Other speakers included James A. sible in the colonial days, Mr. Wat­ ferments. Emery, general counsel, National As­ kins pointed out. In this connection, “I wish to lay down a challengi sociation of Manufacturers, Washing­ he said further: here to the steel industry to take hol< of this branch of construction am ton; J. D. Fenstermacher, Columbia "Then take a look at the stand- offer the leadership which it has dem onstrated that it possesses, to injec into residence construction the saim Automobiles in Embryo great beneficial improvements that i has brought to commercial and in dustrial construction. “With the exception of a few build ing m aterials and specialties whicl have been developed from time t time, the prevailing methods am technique of residence constructioi involve no substantial element 0 progress. After studying the record 1 am convinced that it is quite saf Here, in the open-hearth to assume that there will be no out steel worlds at the Rouge standing improvement in these stand plant of the Ford Motor ards until steel assumes the leader Co., in Dearborn, Mich., ship, bringing with it into the pic ture the great technological co-oper molten metal is being ation which it has built up throug' poured from a giant science and engineering to produce ladle into ingot molds—- safer, a more comfortable, a rnor one of the intermediate substantial, and in every respect steps in the making of better home. "I am not in sym pathy with th steel for the new 1935 proponents of the idea that steel wil Fords. Four molds are make no progress in its entry int filled at one operation. the home construction field until i can produce a house on a comparabl price basis with those being built b other methods and with other mate • rials. That question of comparabl first costs will work itself out in normal way as the automobile, th electric refrigerator, the radio an many other products have worked i

/TEEL February 17, 193' out, as public acceptance and demand mined fixed levels, which tends al­ have resulted in volume production. ways to hold the m arket at relatively "If my experience is worth any­ higher levels, or the policy based Industry Complies thing in formulating an accurate upon scientific and consistent price opinion on the main problem con­ reduction. He favored the latter. fronting the industry today, it has W ith Security A c t brought me to this principal conclu­ sion: That no major success will ac­ LTHOUGH they are uncertain crue to any one of the fifty or more Reopens Brazilian M ines as to the constitutionality of individuals and concerns now en­ United States Steel Corp. is resum­ A gaged in selling their individual types tne fedciai social security act, ing the production of manganese in or parts of steel houses until they iron and steel manufacturers are be­ themselves can forget or will forget Brazil, after four years’ suspension. ginning to set up separate records of their own individual pride of owner­ employes and wages, so as to com­ ship in their particular patents or ply with its provisions. ideas, and pool their interests with Sees Record Scrap Year As pointed out in S t e e l ( J a n . 1 3 , the mills and the distributors throughout the country in one great Darwin S. Luntz, president, Insti­ page 10) the unemployment feature, forward industrial movement to in­ tute of Scrap Iron and Steel Inc., at requiring a 1 per cent tax on pay­ troduce and popularize to the Ameri­ a recent meeting of the Cincinnati rolls this year will mean a collec­ can people the many superior advan­ chapter predicted that the scrap iron tion of no less than $6,000,000 from tages inherent in a well designed industry is entering into a period of the steel industry. The tax will be modern steel frame dwelling.” prosperity that will be equal to if 2 per cent in 1937, and 3 per cent Mr. Bennett, also driving home on not greater than that of 1929. in 1938 and thereafter, unless the the steel house matter, pointed out that the principal sales' points in favor of the use of steel in home con­ struction are that steel can bring to Officers Chosen at Del Monte by Iron, Steel and these smaller buildings the same ad­ vantages of rigidity, freedom from shrinkage with resulting plaster and Allied Industries of California other unsightly cracks, fire safety, lightning protection and immunity Executive Committee and Officers Elected For Coming Year to attack by termites and vermin, C h a irm a n ...... W. W. Glosser, Hubbard & Co., Emeryville, Calif. that it does now to skyscrapers. Vice-Chairman ...... E. H. McGinnis, Union Hardware & Metal Co., Los Angeles Continuing, he stated that the im­ Secretary. .Chas. H. Knight, California State Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco munity to steel frame houses on the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Pacific coast to termite attack was more im portant than all other factors Northern California Southern California due to the inroads made by these in­ REINFORCING STEEL JOBBERS sects in the destruction of wood R. G. Fajk, W. C. Hauck & Co., N. E. Dawson, Soule Steel Co., Los Angeles frame residences. San Francisco Wm. A. Godshall, Blue Diamond Corp., C. M. Gunn, Gunn, Carle & Co., Los Angeles Advocates More Publicity San Francisco He recommended that the steel in­ MERCHANT STEEL JOBBERS dustry, as a whole, join in concerted G. W. Boole, A. M. Castle & Co., Harold E. Howard, Ducommun Metals & action in publicizing its advantages San Francisco Supply Co., Los Angeles and that newspaper and magazine H. M. Tayler, Tayler, Spotswood Co., Donald Priest, Los Angeles Heavy Hard­ publicity be used in covering each San Francisco ware Co., Los Angeles steel frame house under construction, TUBULAR particularly in the district in which F. F. Elliott, Crane Co., San Francisco I J. A. Crawford, Republic Supply Co., the house is being constructed in or­ Los Angeles der to give the interested public an opportunity to inspect the frame. STEEL MILLS William A. Ross, Columbia Steel Co., I P. W. Cotton, Bethlehem Steel Corp., The steel house committee set up San Francisco | San Francisco by the conference consists of three men to represent the mills in Cali­ FOUNDRIES fornia, three to represent the Cali­ C. M. Henderson, H. M. Macaulay C. B. Tibbetts, Los Angeles Steel Casting fornia fabricators, and three the dis­ Foundry, Berkeley, Calif. Co., Los Angeles tributors, the committee being auth­ Charles P. Hoehn, Enterprise Foundry C. A. Stilson, Metal Trades Manufactur­ ers’ association, Los Angeles orized to develop a plan of procedure Co., San Francisco which will obtain the active partici­ PURCHASING AGENTS pation of the steel industry through­ F. P. Summers, Standard Oil Co., E. F. Watkins, Southern California out the country in promoting better San Francisco Edison Co., Los Angeles homes built around steel. A. J. MacLean, Utah Copper Co., W. H. Jackson, Axelson Manufacturing San Francisco Co., Los Angeles Other resolutions adopted by the conference put it on record as “fav­ TRAFFIC oring every possible economy in the T. E. Banning, Columbia Steel Co., I T. A. L. Loretz, Consolidated Steel spending of federal funds on public San Francisco Corp., Los Angeles works projects by the elimination of MANUFACTURERS present wasteful and inefficient methods and practices,” and denounc­ Salem Pohlman, California Wire Cloth A. E. Hitchner, W'estinghouse Electric Co., Oakland, Calif. & Mfg. Co., Los Angeles ing the labor handicaps imposed by J. M. Culverwell, Kortick Manufacturing H. Detrick, Josslyn Manufacturing Co., unions on Pacific coast shipping. Co., San Francisco Los Angeles Chairman Glosser, in opening the STRUCTURAL SHOPS convention, urged the delegates to P. F. Gillespie, Judson Pacific Co., A. Neuffer, Bethlehem Steel Corp., carefully consider the adoption of a San Francisco Los Angeles policy which would determine be­ Charles E. Spencer, Bethlehem Steel A. G. Roche, Consolidated Steel Corp., tween price stabilization at pre-deter- Corp., San Francisco Los Angeles

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 15 act later is held unconstitutional. Columbia, where employers provide gage of $100,000,000 on the proper­ Contrary to some reports and opin­ more than a third of the entire pay­ ties of the company, under which ions, according to tax experts in the roll of the country, now have unem­ $40,000,000 in bonds will be issued industry who have been watching the ployment compensation laws. In many at this time to meet the expense of situation closely, no effort has been other states bills proposing such laws a continuous wide strip-sheet mill made anywhere to obtain a court de­ are being introduced in legislatures estimated to cost $25,000,000, and cision on the federal law. now convening. The success of the $15,000,000 for other capital ex­ The reason is that so far “no one federal social security act as a means penditures at Aliquippa and the has been hurt”, and therefore cannot of reducing the economic and social South Side plant, and to retire a base a complaint. The tax will not be disturbances of unemployment will present funded debt of $5,248,000 collected until the close of the year. be dependent on the states. T here is outstanding from a $25,000,000 is­ When the returns are due, an em­ no unemployment compensation for sue in 1909. Considerable more than ployer could refuse to pay and thus the commercial or industrial worker the required 50 per cent of the com­ have his reasons reviewed by a court. until his state has an approved law.” mon and 75 per cent of the preferred The only alternative that some law­ In any event, benefits will not be­ stock approved the expansion plan. yers have been able to figure, to ob­ gin before 1938, and they are lim­ The new mill will be let immedi­ tain a test as speedily as possible, ited to $240 to one person in one ately, inasmuch as plans have been would be for an employer to dismiss year. drawn. In anticipation of approval of an employe on the ground that he its expansion program, the manage­ could not pay the tax, and then to ment of Jones & Laughlin has en­ have the employe sue him. No em­ larged its personnel, as noted in ployer apparently has wanted to take Continuous Mills S teel for Feb. 10, page 25. the initiative. The new continuous strip-sheet Despite the fact that the federal mill will enable Jones & Laughlin to act provides that 90 per cent of the Cost $200,000,000 compete more vigorously in the mar­ tax paid by an employer shall be ket for consumers’ goods, which has placed to his credit, through state pproximately $200,000,000 recovered more quickly than the channels, when his state passes a will have been expended for market for durable or capital goods. “ conformity” bill, many employers continuousA wide sheet and strip mills do not want their states to pass such since 1926 when mills now authorized bills. or in process of construction are com­ Bethlehem Vindicated in See State Acts Upheld pleted, according to the American Iron and Steel institute. This ex­ War Shipbuilding Profits The reason is that they do not penditure represents overall costs of A master who has been weighing want a state to pass such a law when constructing 21 continuous 4-high the disagreement between the federal the federal act might be held uncon­ mills with an aggregate capacity of government and the shipbuilding sub­ stitutional and the state act might be 9,000,000 gross tons of hot-rolled sidiaries of the Bethlehem Steel declared valid. Hearings before state sheets and strip annually. Corp. announced a finding in Phila­ legislative committees indicate that Six are in Ohio, four each in Penn­ delphia last week that the govern­ they do not want to be bound by a sylvania and Indiana, three in Michi­ ment owes Bethlehem $5,661,154, state law, based entirely on an un­ gan, two in Illinois, and one each in and that the government’s claim of constitutional federal law. In Wis­ New York, and West Virginia. From $19,654,856 against Bethlehem consin, the state conformity law has 1926, when the first continuous 4-high should be- dismissed. boen declared constitutional. Its pro­ mill went into operation, until the visions, closely following the federal end of 1929 a total of eight continu­ Involved in the proceedings were profits made by Bethlehem and a security pattern, will remain in ef­ ous mills was built with a capacity policy prescribed by Charles M. fect, regardless of how the United of 3,000,000 tons. Since 1929 thir­ Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem, and State Supreme Court may rule on the teen additional mills have been con­ during the war general manager of federal act. structed or projected with a capacity the Emergency Fleet Corp. of the The Social Security board, Wash­ of 6,000,000 tons. shipping board. ington, created under the act, has is­ Demand for continuous mill prod­ sued a pamphlet in which it stresses ucts has been relatively much strong­ The litigation started in March, 19 2 5 , with Bethlehem asking for the advantages to be gained by the er than for other steels the past six $8,800,000 and the government coun­ states in passing conformity bills. It years. In the 6-year period 1924-29 says: total production of sheets and strip ter-suiting for $19,654,856. The find­ ing is considered a vindication of “The federal tax will bring money and black plate for tinning was Bethlehem and Mr. Schwab. into the general treasury, for the 47,015,642 tons or approximately general purposes of the government. 22.5 per cent of all finished sheet “This means that a state which produced in those years. During the passes an unemployment compensa­ 6-year period 19 30-35 output Plate Fabricators Re-elect amounted to nearly 35 per cent. tion law will be able to keep nine- In 1935 output of sheets, strip and Steel Plate Fabricators association tenths of this payroll tax at home black plate is estimated at 10,700,- re-elected its officers and directors . . . Nor will the state which acts 000 tons, highest total yet produced. at the annual meeting held in Chicago, promptly be at any competitive dis­ This tonnage is estimated to be over Feb. 11. Officers are: President, advantage with other states, for em­ 52 per cent of the total finished steel Merle J. Trees, Chicago Bridge & ployers in states which do not act output in that year. Iron Works, Chicago; vice president, will have their payrolls levied upon W. H. Jackson, Pittsburgh-Des in any event. Moines Steel Co., Pittsburgh; treas­ “The difference between the states urer, A. O. Miller, Petroleum Iron which pass unemployment compen­ J. & L. Stockholders OK W orks Co., Sharon, Pa. Tom R. sation laws and those which do not, Bonds for New Wide Mill Wyles is executive director. then, is simply that the state which The association has carried on as acts will get the benefit of the payroll Stockholders of the Jones & an industry since the termination'of levy, while the state which does not Laughlin Steel Corp., at a special the NRA code and includes in its act will not get this benefit. meeting in Pittsburgh Friday, ap­ membership the major plate fabri­ "Nine states and the District of proved the creation of a first mort­ cating capacity of the country.

16 /TEEL February 17, 1936 tailed at some length in Steel for July 15, 1935. Mr. Stulen has been Meetings Housing working on a hollow sheet-metal col­ RCY CORP., Empire building, um n employing Cor-Ten steel, to be IL BURNER INSTITUTE INC., Pittsburgh, which first broke used for building purposes. reorganized in 19 35 from the Ainto print about six weeks ago on OAmerican Oil Burner association, will reports that it would soon enter the hold its twelfth national convention steel housing field, is about to build Safety and show in Detroit, April 14-18. five steel houses at Cleveland. Con­ Convention headquarters will be at struction will start with the begin­ NEW all-time safety record was the Statler hotel; the exposition will ning of open weather. It is also established by the Homestead be in Convention hall. More than 50 planned to exhibit one of the com­ Asteelworks of Carnegie-IUinois Steelmanufacturers of oil burning equip­ pany’s patented steel houses at the Corp. in January. Only three em­ ment and appliances already have Great Lakes exposition to be held ployes were injured severely enough taken space in the show. at Cleveland this summer. to cause a loss of time from their W. J. Smith, general manager, The Arcy Corp. was incorporated regular jobs, this with a force of Cleveland Steel Products Corp., with $5,000,000 stated capital as a 7519 men working a total of 1,093,- Cleveland, is president of the insti­ holding company for a number of 982 hours. The best previous record tute; G. Harvey Porter is managing subsidiaries. The principal subsidi­ for one month was four accidents in director, and C. F. Curtin is show aries are Tuscar Metals Inc., Canal June, 1935, with a similar force manager. Headquarters of the insti­ Dover, O., and New Philadelphia, O.; working only 847,623 hours. tute are at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Alloy W elding Co., New Philadelphia, New York. and Porcelain Enameled Co. Inc. The Tuscar Metals division is occupying Interlocking Directorate TO EXHIBIT AT SPRINGFIELD plants formerly operated by Amer­ Purchasing Agents Association of ican Sheet & Tin Plate Co. and may Suit Is Withdrawn Western Massachusetts Inc., of possibly acquire either lease or own­ which J. E. Connor, president, Na­ Department of justice Feb. 11 ership to the Morgantown, W. Va., tional Equipm ent Co., Springfield, withdrew the suit filed in 1935 plant of American Sheet & Tin Plato Mass., is president, will hold an in­ against alleged interlocking director­ Co., which is not now being oper­ dustrial exhibition in the Springfield ated. ates of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube municipal auditorium March 5-7. Co., Inland Steel Co., Delaware River R. C. Cochran, formerly assistant Manufacturers of products of inter­ auditor of American Sheet & Tin Steel Co., Republic Steel Corp., Cor­ rigan, McKinney Steel Co. (now a est to the trade in western Massa­ Plate Co., is president of Arcy Corp. chusetts will exhibit. A number of prominent architects, part of Republic), McKinney Steel designers, etc., are identified with it, Holding Co., Cleveland-Cliffs Iron one being Bernard McGarry, a well- Co., Cliffs Corp., Otis Steel Co. known practicing architect in both and Wheeling Steel Corp. Reconstruct Lake Freighter Cleveland and New York. Following the filing of the suit, Oglebay, Norton & Co., Cleveland, At present, Arcy Corp., in the several of the alleged interlocking through its shipping subsidiary, the Tuscar Metals and other operating directors resigned, and the govern­ Columbia Transportation Co., is re­ divisions, is conducting mill tests, ment feels that whatever condition it constructing its steamer G. G. Post loading tests, etc., on a num ber of objected to has been adjusted. into a self-loader and self-unloader for different types of steel construction. At the same time the interlocking use in the scrap and pig iron trade One type of steel housing design, directorate suit was filed, the depart­ on the Great Lakes. The steamer has the patent rights for which have ment of justice attempted to block a capacity of 5800 tons and will be been purchased, is that of Prof. Wal­ the merger of the Republic Steel opearted by W. E. Richey, president, ter H. Stulen, of Carnegie Institute Corp. and the Corrigan, McKinney Lake Ports Shipping Co., 310 South of Technology, whose design was de­ Steel Co., and lost this action. Michigan avenue, Chicago.

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February 17, 1936 /TEEL 17 Financial Profits of Consumers of Iron and Steel Are Increasing All Figures Are Profits Except W here Asterisk Denotes a Loss ROFITS in 19 35 of important 193S 1934 metalworking interests, including leading consumers of iron and steel Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, 111 $5,949,307 $3,651,190 P Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., Detroit 1,242,772 326,392 and some suppliers, were more than Page Hcrshey Tubes Ltd., Welland, Ont 642,331 620,018 double those of 1934, on the average. General Steel Wares Ltd., Toronto, Ont 177,939 158,316 Forty-seven companies, including American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co., New York ...... 1,699,400 1,169,341 22 listed in the accompanying table Williamsport Wire Rope Co., Williamsport, Pa 317,425 300,933 and 25 previously reported, show an Monarch Machine Tool Co., Sidney, 0 90,317 24,159 Veeder-Root, Inc., Hartford, Conn...... 499,552 278,318 aggregate net profit of $58,925,398 Continental Can Co., New York ...... 11,223,578 10,707,122 for 1935, against $26,827,981 for the New Jersey Zinc Co., New York ...... 4,666,000 3,788,380 identical companies in 1934. Chapman Valve Mfg. Co., Indian Orchard, Mass 112,965 100,716 In the table at the bottom of this Acklin Stamping Co., Toledo, 0 ...... 34,232 ...... page are comparisons of leading Chicago Railway Equipment Co., Chicago 9,011 61,290 Union Twist Drill Co., Athol, Mass...... 329,104 161,973 steelmaking interests which have re­ Arthur G. McKee & Co., Cleveland ...... 129,652 *86,931 ported thus far for the fourth quar­ Shepard-Niles Crane & Hoist Corp., Montour Falls, N. Y.. . 36,676 *83,416 ter and all 1935. Square D Co., D e tro it...... 726,484 428,769 Motor Wheel Corp., Lansing, Mich...... 1,087,979 409,673 SPLITS SHARES 25 FOR 1 City Auto Stamping Co., Toledo, 0 ...... 476,138 66,892 Houdaille-Hershey Corp ...... 2,456,196 931,401 Cleveland Hobbing Machine Co., Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Co., Minneapolis. . . . 170,678 *2,172,999 Cleveland, has increased its capital Blaw-Knox Co., Blawnox, Pa ...... 550,000 35,505 stock from 4000 no-par shares to 100,000 shares of $4 par, and has Total, above 22 companies...... $32,627,736 $20,877,042 Grand total 47 companies, including 25 previously declared a dividend of 20 cents on reported $58,925,398 $26,827,891 the new shares, payable April 1 to record of March 16. would sell for at forced sale, was $12,- land, semiannual of $1 on Class A MCKEESPORT NET RISES 000,000. stock and quarterly of 30 cents on McKeesport Tin Plate Co., McKees­ Judge Symes has ordered Febru­ Class B, both Feb. 29 to record of port, Pa., earned $2,135,097, or $7.11 ary interest on Colorado’s $4,500,- Feb. 15. per share in 1935, against $1,859,- 000 5 per cent bonds paid Feb. 1. Union Twist Drill Co., Athol, 339, or $6.19 a share in 1934. Mass., 25 cents, March 31 to record DIVIDENDS DECLARED: of March 20. VALUE COLORADO FUEL & IRON Harbison-Walker Refractories Co., Vanadium-Alloys Steel Co., La- An economic value of $33,526,152 has Pittsburgh, extra of 12%-cents tiobe, Pa., 50 cents, March 2 to rec­ been placed upon the Colorado Fuel & on the common, plus regular 25 ord of F'eb. 20. Iron Co., Denver and Pueblo, Colo., by cents, March 2 to record of Feb. 14. Black & Decker Mfg. Co., Balti­ Herbert Sands, consulting engineer, Also regular quarterly preferred of more, $7 on its preferred, eliminating Denver, at the direction of Federal $1.50, April 20 to record April 6. all arrearage, and 50 cents on the Judge Symes. The company’s balance Timken Roller Bearing Co., Can­ common, March 31 to record of sheet Dec. 31, 1935, listed the book ton, O., extra of 25 cents and regular March 16. value at $38,463,058. A third valuation of 50 cents, March 5 to record of Motor Wheel Corp., Lansing, known as sales value, based on the Feb. 18. Mich., 20 cents, March 10 to record appraisers’ idea what the properties Brown Fence & W ire Co., Cleve­ of Feb. 20.

Financial Timetable for Blast Furnace, Steel Mill and Rolling Mill Interests

All Figures Are Profit Except W here Asterisk Denotes A Deficit

F o u rth T h ird F o u rth In g o t Q u arter Q u arter Q u arter Y ear Y ear C ap acity 1935 1935 1934 1935 1934 Gross Tons U nited S tates Steel C orp...... $5,326,417 $1,305,205* $10,234,413* $1,084,917 $21,667,780* 27,341,900 Bethlehem Steel Corp, 2,396,026 701,616 411,099 4,291,253 550,571 8.980.000 Republic Steel Corp ...... 1,191,439 507,731 1,226,271* 4,455,734(a) 3,459,428 6.129.000 Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.. 1,493,734 574,799 920,152* 1,597,521 2,578,785* 3.120.000 National Steel Corp ...... 2,522,693 2,287,763 1,467,825 11,136,451 6,050,722 2.232.000 Inland Steel Co...... 2,749,309f 1,810,203 550,073 9,417,818$ 3,729,889 2,000,000 C olorado Fuel & Iro n C o...... 166,272 10,234 437,164* m e 504 241,540* 888,000 Crucible Steel Co. of America. . . 1,268,"176 75,157 875.000 Sharon Steel Hoop Co...... 1,050,000 10,667* 450.000 Gulf States Steel Co...... 119,350 58,443 44,468* 141,269 58,039* 400,550 Wickwire Spencer Steel Co...... 107,123 4,655 118,940* 53,146* 426,799* 150.000 Acme Steel Co...... 438,155 384,479 168,431 1,757,972 1,035,963 Scullin Steel Co...... 48,378* 304,926* Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Co ’ 28,207* 21,603 85,096* 24,682* Apollo Steel Co...... 134,875 79,344* Interlake Iron Corp...... 200,666 259,493* ' 48’503* 470,000* 683,764* 1,215.000(b) E. & G. Brooke Iron Co...... 37,747 132.000(b) (a) Includes Corrigan-McKinney after Sept. 25. (b) Iron capacity, t Includes fourth quarter profits of Joseph T. Ryerson & Son Inc. tlncludes fourth quarter profits of Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, but does not include profits for the first nine months of 1935 amount­ ing to $691,692.

18 / TEEL February 17, 1936 WlNDOWJ HINGTON

WASHINGTON last week, but this is not being taken work. The steel industry should be HETHER or not the United seriously. Of course, taxation pre­ especially interested in this in view States Supreme Court shall sents its own peculiar problem, es­ of the recommendations made for ad­ W be plowed under is being pecially in an election year. Mem­ ditional shipways, modernization of very actively discussed by members bers of both houses of congress, and machine tools, and the like. of both chambers of congress. Prob­ more especially the lower house, Right in this connection it may be ably when the TVA decision comes where all members come up for re- recalled that less than a year ago a down, and if it knocks out the pet election in November, are groaning committee of navy experts, including "Yardstick” project, the hue and cry over the possibilities of either new some outside machinery representa­ for the court’s goat will be even forms of taxes or of rate increases. tives, made a survey of all of the louder than it has been up to now. Lending activities of the govern­ navy yards as to their equipment. A large assortment of bills and ment are being carefully gone into While nothing has ever been made resolutions is pending before com­ by the President. In his first of­ public as the result of that survey, mittees of both houses, proposing ficial move recently he cancelled un­ it is known that the committee re­ amendments to the constitution cur­ expended authorizations totalling ported to the secretary of the navy tailing in one way or another the more than a billion dollars. How­ that machine tools and similar equip­ powers of the highest court of the ever, there was a great deal of ment in all of the navy yards are land. baloney about all of this. hopelessly out of date and that it Most of these amendments would The stories that went out to the would cost a good many millions of take from the court the power to country rather indicated that this dollars to replace the outmoded ma­ pass on the constitutionality of laws was money which the President had chinery properly. enacted by congress. There is a saved. That is not the case. The It -was understood that the secre­ feeling in many quarters that plac­ money had been authorized but there tary of the navy would try to get ing such restraints on the court has really been no idea of spending some PWA or WPA money for this would not only destroy it but would it at all. However, some Washington replacement, but if it was ever asked also wreck the constitution itself. observers think that they see in this for Mr. Ickes never allocated any of move that the pump priming policy his money for this purpose. Action Is Remote of the adm inistration is coming to an There are probably just enough end. These savings in this particu­ GOVERNMENT IN ARMAMENT members of both houses of congress lar case were only in bookkeeping. BUSINESS COST $47,000,000 who feel the same way to prevent In connection with the surveys anything of the kind really being en­ EXTENDING NEUTRALITY ACT which have been made, the interstate acted. But even after congress did The senate foreign affairs com­ commerce commission experts put get through with such legislation, it mittee has reported out a simple res­ into the record figures showing that would still be up to the states to olution -which would continue the the plant costs to the government of ratify any such change. present neutrality law until May 1, reproducing the facilities for the Aside from the court the spotlight 1937, with a few amendments. One manufacture of machine guns and is being held in Washington by the of these would ban loans to bel­ small arms, taking the Colt Patent increasing uneasiness of the admin­ ligerents. Prediction of this action Fire Arms Mfg. Co. plant as typical, istration over the fiscal outlook. To was made in this column last -week. would be some $8,800,000 less de­ this end the President is having con­ In fact, there have been so many preciation of $5,600,000. tinuous conferences with government people pulling so many ways on Cap­ The same experts suggested ex­ officials and unofficial advisers. itol Hill in connection with a penditures of $2,365,000 for addi­ The revenue question is the one neutrality law that the leaders of tional government ship ways; re­ which probably will hold congress both houses think that they had pairs to existing ways, $995,000; ad­ here longer than it hopes. There better go easy until they see just ditional facilities exclusive of ways, was talk at the capitol last week what all of this is about. $8,744,000; modernization of ma­ among some of the leaders again Experts of the interstate com­ chine tools, $5,000,000; and other ad­ mentioning May 1 as a probable date merce commission have appeared be­ ditions to navy yards $6,000,000. for adjournement, but this depends fore the Nye munitions investigating The total would be just under $24,- largely on the tax situation and how committee, recommending that the 0 0 0 ,0 0 0 . it is finally solved. navy create its own facilities for C. H. Spencer chief valuation en­ Further inflation talk developed doing all of its own construction gineer of the ICC, who appeared be­

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 19 fore the Nye committee in connection some of them have been in the field. voluntary labor code signed by mem­ with this matter, also testified that This field work was not completed by bers of the New York chapter. the machine tools in the navy yards the end of last week but it will be of the country “are far from up to soon. No indication was obtainable at HEAR MESTA CHARGE date.” He emphasized the im­ the commission what—if anything— THIS W EEK portance of this and pointed out that has been learned. Mesta Machine Co., W est Home­ expenditures for machine tools would stead, Pa., has been charged with BERRY COUNCIL NEEDS OXYGEN be necessary soon in any case. coercion in violation of the Wagner In connection with government Committees of the Berry industrial labor law in a filing by Clinton S. ownership of the armament industry, progress council met here for two Golden, regional director for the na­ it was set forth that the govern­ days last week to formulate reports tional labor relations board at Pitts­ ment would have to lay out some to be made to the council, which is burgh. The company is accused of $47,000,000 before it could begin the expected to meet here sometime next firing F. L. Taylor, a roll turner, be­ manufacture of armaments, but that week. Some of the committee, it is cause of his activity in the United after it had that there is, a prospec­ stated, did not complete their work Roll Turner’s Association of Amer­ tive saving of more than $1,000,000 and may have another meeting be­ ica and refusing to deal with that on one heavy cruiser alone. fore the council gets into action. union exclusively in collective bar­ It is probably in connection with There is a lot of backstair talk to gaining. Hearing of the Mesta case this report that the Nye committee the effect that when the council will be held Feb. 17 in the Federal a short time ago interrogated steel meets next week it may suggest that building at Pittsburgh. representatives on their cost of pro­ it be made a permanent body. MACWHYTE PAYS BONUS EQUAL duction and depreciation costs. There are others, however, who are TO COMMON DIVIDEND There is a story going around also expressing the opinion that when the that one of the supplemental reasons reports have been filed or made to The Macwhyte Co., Kenosha, Wis., for calling representatives of the Beth­ somebody or other— the President or manufacturing wire rope and cable, lehem, Midvale and Carnegie-Illinois congress or anyone who will receive aircraft fittings, etc., on Feb. 1 paid companies was to get into the record them— the body will dissolve. Unless its employes, numbering about 250, the statement of J. Carson Adkerson, some action is taken in the mean­ a bonus practically equal to the divi­ representing the domestic manganese time, the council must cease to func­ dend paid to common stockholders producers. The latter has been try­ tion as of April 1 because the per­ in 1935. This is the first time since ing to get before some congressional sonnel goes off the NRA payroll for 1929 that anything has been paid committee for months to repeat his good at that time, under the law. on the common stock, according to oft-told tale. TALK MORE TAXES ON STEEL H. E. Sawyer, treasurer, and the In the final analysis, Mr. Adkerson company is sharing its earnings with made two recommendations to the Running around in circles, trying its workers. The minimum bonus was committee (1) Accumulation of a to find some way to pay new process­ $5 and the maximum several hun­ stock pile of domestic manganese ore ing taxes, it is reported that the sug­ dred dollars, depending on length of in such amount and of such grade as gestion has been made that producers service and wages received last year. may be required by the war depart­ of steel products, automobile manu­ ment and (2) a tariff on metallic facturers, and other producers be POSTPONE WHEELING HEARING made to bear the brunt of the taxes. manganese contained in imported Hearing before the national labor This is based on the theory that ores and alloys sufficient to properly relations board to determine the when the farmer gets any money he equalize costs of production at home necessity of an election at Wheeling immediately turns it over to some­ and abroad and to insure domestic Steel Corp., Portsmouth, O., for one for something he buys. No one producers fair competition in the choosing bargaining representatives takes this seriously, but such talk is domestic market. has been postponed indefinitely. It being heard in the corridors of con­ is believed that the postponement FTC G-MEN ON TRAIL OF gress these days. “COLLUSIVE” STEEL BIDDING was prompted by the desire of both REFUSE SALARY INCREASES parties to determine the outcome of Judge Ewin Davis, former chairman a similar case scheduled for March of the federal trade commission and Just to keep the record straight, it 9 at Portsmouth, O. now “just a member”, stated last week should be recorded here that John L. A similar case involving Jones & that the investigation the commission Lewis, president of the United Mine Laughlin Steel Corp. has now been is making into the alleged collusive Workers, and his officers have re­ set for hearing at Pittsburgh, bidding of several steel companies on fused the salary increases recently March 2. federal projects is “coming along nice­ voted them at the mine workers con­ ly.” vention in Washington. Mr. Lewis FINDS NRA WAGES SUSTAINED It will be recalled that the commis­ was to be raised from $12,000 to sion began this investigation some $25,000 a year and several officers Analysis by the National In­ weeks ago at the request of the Presi­ from $9000 to $18,000. dustrial Conference board, New dent, who sent memoranda to the com­ York, of payroll records of 2000 mission furnished him by Secretary manufacturing plants in 25 indus­ Ickes, who had been baiting the steel tries employing over 1,000,000 industry for some weeks before he fi­ Labor workers shows that hourly earnings nally conceived the idea of the trade in employment last October were commission investigation. N VIEW of severe weather above those of April, the last month The collusive bidding was supposed which has handicapped scrap opera­ of NRA, and that the work week to have taken place in connection with Itions in New York for several weeks, was less than two hours longer. bids at the Triboro bridge in New all scrap iron yards are permitted LABOR’S PAY ENVELOPE FATTER York, and on federal projects at Miami, to operate on Saturdays, beginning Fla., and Morehead City, N. C. Feb. 15, for a temporary period. This Average weekly earnings in 25 The best information available at the decision was made at a meeting of typical manufacturing industries commission last week was that it is the administrative committee of the were $23.46 in Decemoer, against hoped that the commission may be voluntary labor code of the New $23.31 in November, according to the able to make a report to the President York chapter of the Institute of National Industrial Conference by the middle of February', but this is Scrap Iron and Steel. Scrap yards board, New York. In December, em­ based largely on hope. Several men in New York have been closed on ployment rose 0.9 per cent, and pay­ were put on this as a special job, and Saturday since last June, under the rolls 1.6 per cent.

20 STEEL February 17, 1936 19 34, when shipments totaled 985,- Production Steelmaking Operations 337 tons. TEELMAKING continued its up­ ward trend last week, rising 1 % Percentage of Open-Hearth Ingot Ca­ pacity Engaged in Leading Districts Spoints to a peak of 54% per cent for Urg es M in imum the year to date. This compares fav­ W eek Sam e ended w eek orably with a rate' of 53 and 43 per F eb. 15 C hange 1935 1934 cent respectively in the correspond­ P itts b u rg h .... 40 N one 39 26 ing weeks of 1935 and 1934. Youngs­ C hicago ...... 59% + 1% 63 38 W a g e as Currency town, Chicago, eastern Pennsylvania, Eastern Pa. 37 + % 31 27% Cleveland, Wheeling, Buffalo, and De­ Youngstown... 62 + 1 60 45 UNIVERSAL, permanent mini­ W h eelin g 84 + 3 S7 69 mum wage, with a new kind of troit were among those districts to C leveland 66% 1- 5 77 79 show a slight lift in their operating B uffalo ...... 34 a- 2 45 42% Acurrency, were advocated as one schedules, while the remaining dis­ Birmingham... 63 None 55% 52 means of preventing depressions by New England S3 N one 63 82 A. J. Patch, chief engineer, Barlow tricts held unchanged. Further de­ D e t r o it...... 94 + 6 100 79 J. & Seelig Mfg. Co., Ripon, Wis., and tails follow: C in cin n ati .... 80 N one 1 t Youngstown—Advanced 1 point American Iron Machine Co., Algon­ last week to 62 per cent, due to A v e rag e...... 54% + 1% 53 43 quin, 111., in a recent address to the slightly increased schedules of the Men’s club of Ripon. local mills of Carnegie-Illinois Steel “Prosperity does not depend upon Corp., and the adding of an open the distribution or redistribution of hearth at Farrell, Pa., to the active per cent, with a drop to 75 per cent wealth, but upon the distribution of list. Fifty-two out of 83 units are scheduled for this week. income,” he said. melting. Birmingham— Held at 63 per cent "If the purchasing power of the Chicago— Rose 1% points to 59% last week. Fourteen open hearths are farmer can be restored the re-em­ per cent, the best rate in two months. active, and two or three others are in ployment of the unemployed and Several mills continue practically at shape for resumption on short notice. general business prosperity will be capacity and anticipate steady sched­ the natural result, but this condi­ Buffalo— Increased to 34 per cent ules for at least 30 days. Blast fur­ tion cannot be made permanent un­ last week, a gain of 2 points, fol­ nace operations are unchanged, 19 of less a uniform wage scale can be 41 stacks continuing active. lowing the lighting of an additional open hearth by Republic Steel Corp. maintained, and this is Impossible Pittsburgh— Steady at 40 per cent Thirteen open hearths are now in so long as the income of our farmer last week, the leading interest con­ group is subject to the law of sup­ production, and further gains are ex­ tributing largely to the support of pected toward the end of the quarter. ply and demand.” this figure with a 38-40 per cent rate, Cleveland— Up 5 points to 66% Instead of such schemes as con­ whereas the leading independent de­ trol of farm production, however, ho clined slightly to 45 per cent. per cent last week. Republic Steel Corp. is operating 11 of its 14 open suggested another system: Twenty-seven steelworks blast fur­ hearths. Otis Steel Co. continues Would Facilitate Planning naces of 60 continue in blast. Car­ with four. National Tube Co. has negie-Illinois has 11 of 32 on; Na­ shut down one, making its total 11 tional Tube, 2 of 4 at McKeesport, “If wages are determined in ad­ out of 12 units active. Pa.; American Steel & Wire, 1 of 2 vance, cost can be determined in ad­ at Donora, Pa.; Jones & Laughlin, Cincinnati— Steady at 80 per cent, vance, and cost will determine the 7 of 11; Pittsburgh Steel and Pitts­ with 19 of 24 open hearths in op­ exchange value. Without this know­ burgh Crucible Steel, each 1 of 2; eration. No change is expected this ledge no one can plan the production and Bethlehem, 4 of 7 at Johnstown, week, although mill backlogs show of anything; with.it the farmer can Pa. Jones & Laughlin has swung shrinkage. do his own planning. Therefore, the only sensible thing to do is to estab­ over from ferromanganese to basic CORPORATION SHIPMENTS RISE iron in one of its Aliquippa stacks lish a uniform minimum wage for after a brief run on the former. Shipments of finished steel by the all industries, thereby eliminating United States Steel Corp. in January Wheeling—-Up 3 points to 84 per the influence of supply and demand cent last week, recording a fourth were 721,414 tons, a gain of 59,899 from our price structure and substi­ consecutive weekly gain. Thirty-one tons over the 661,515 tons shipped tuting cost as a basis for all values.” out of 37 open-hearth furnaces were in December. In January, 1935, ship­ He would make the minimum operating among four district plants. ments were 534,055 tons. The Janu­ wage as permanent a value as the ary figure is the largest since June, Detroit—Up 6 points to 94 per pound, gallon, inch or any other cent, as 16 out of 17 open-hearth standard, and take it "out of poli­ furnaces in the two local mills were tics.” on, as against 15 of 17 two weeks “By far the best and simplest way ago. U. S. STEEL CORP. SIIIPMENTS to do this would be to issue a new Central eastern seaboard — Up (Inter-company shipments not included) kind of currency payable in a speci­ slightly to 37 per cent, but so far (T ons) fied num ber of hours of unskilled this year has not succeeded in break­ 1936 1935 1934 1933 labor or its equivalent, and exchange ing through this level. There ap­ Jan. 721,414 534,055 331,777 285,138 it for the present currency on the F e b ...... 583,137 385,500 275,929 pears little doubt, however, but what M arch ...... G08.056 588.209 250,793 basis of the established wage rate, this will be accomplished before the A pril ...... 591,728 643,009 335,321 and retire our present currency. close of this quarter, and very likely M ay ...... 598,915 745,063 455,302 “If, for instance, we should first within the next fortnight. The trade J u n e ...... 57S.108 985,337 603,937 establish a universal minimum wage J u ly ...... 547,794 369,938 701,322 generally anticipates an improvement A u g ...... 624,497 37S.023 668,155 of 50 cents per hour we could then in steel demand once the weather S e p t...... 614,933 370.306 575,161 exchange for one of present dollars conditions moderate, which have not O ct...... 686,741 343,962 572,897 a piece of currency payable in two only curbed demand, but have re­ N ov...... 681.820 366,119 430,358 D e c ...... 661,515 418,630 600,639 hours of labor. We would merely tarded shipments on such tonnage as Yearly adj. 19,907 44,283 substitute a labor dollar for a gold is under order, due to handling diffi­ dollar and we would have a cur­ T o tal 7,371,299 5,905,966 5,805,235 culties at the producing plants. rency which could not be inflated or New England—Unchanged at 83 manipulated.”

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 21, DETROIT phone does not ring all day and ing down more than 50 feet on the AST week Doris Duke, the when it does, some buyer wants only foundations for the four new giant world’s richest girl, took a a small fill-in lot for next-to-im- “turret-top” presses to be put in at Lspecial plane from New York to possible shipment. So, the balancing Grand Rapids, which almost ap­ Detroit for the sole purpose of or­ and filling goes on. proaches Ford’s record at Rouge. dering on the spot a custom-built The Grand Rapids division already Preparations Aplenty $15,000 automobile. It was to have has witnessed ground-breaking, and bumpers “in natural gold color” and But as for dies, new machine tools within a few weeks Jones & Laugh- a lot of other embellishments. and the one thousand and one prep­ lin begins shipping against its order W hile this was going on, Mr. arations and plans behind scenes for 4250 tons of structurals and John Public, to the aggregate of on new 1937 models, there is plenty 2000 tons of reinforcing steel for the several million, was sitting at home, of news. Detroit’s die shops seem to building. An attractive crane order more than likely shivering, reading be licking their chops over what is for big electrics is pending for this of Miss Duke’s purchase in the coming out about March 1. new General Motors division. newspapers and coming to the ulti­ Last week Auburn broke the ice Pontiac, too, is quietly gathering mate comment that, “I think I'll by giving two Detroit diemakers up the loose ends on the 1937 pro­ wait until spring before I turn in some initial 1937 business. It was gram, and the same goes for Olds. the old hack.” mostly small. Buick has placed While the Chevrolet program is the So where millions, in terms of dol­ fender dies for its 19 37 car with a most ambitious, no one can accuse lars, had no fear to tread, millions Toledo shop, and is taking the de­ the General Motors treasury, or high in terms of individuals had. The sign of its new hood off the boards command, of stinting on prepara­ answer: Automobile production still for forthcoming inquiry. tions for the future. is on the toboggan. The new Buick hood, motivated On the other hand, out at Ford It is pretty hard for Detroit to to get away from a similarity to Olds, there has been a directly opposite take this sort of a doldrums. Febru­ Pontiac, and even Chevrolet, seems policy— especially as it concerns ma­ ary here has always meant more to be a chief departure. Piecemeal, chine tools— and this item is, after than Valentine’s day or Washington’s other Buick work is coming up. all, a major one in new car prepara­ birthday. In every former year Janu­ Fisher Body’s big program, out­ tion. ary has been the get-ready month on distancing the field, is extremely As is well known by now, the ma­ new models, February the first taste promising, and the procedure will be chine tool people put their prices up, of blood in rising assemblies. to fill up its own shops first, fol­ effective Feb. 15, though they still lowed by a division among outside have a heavy volume of orders to Waiting for a Break suppliers. Detroit understands that fill— orders taken at old prices. This year the difficulty is that the Chevrolet’s program will follow General Motors failed to balk at brisk November and December as­ Fisher’s immediately. the increase and is going right ahead sembly rates were soon forgotten. Speaking of Chevrolet, the talk is with the changes it has for Flint, W hat is now happening was to be th at “ the purse-strings are off” for Saginaw, Lansing, Pontiac, and the expected— and the weather has made probably the biggest retooling and various Detroit divisions. it worse—but Detroit was hoping die expenditure at Flint in several Ford Stops Purchases that the rising tide of recovery would years. Chevrolet has had inquiries close the gap. out recently on individual parts for But Ford machine tool buying has But another 30 to 45 days cer­ its completely-changed 19 37 motor been shut off 100 per cent. This, of tainly has a break for the better in (still a six and not to be an eight), course, applies to standard items, store. Consequently, a few of the and the other Flint divisions indi­ such as screw machines, millers, harbingers are cropping to the sur­ cate a bill for purchases is in the etc., and does not involve special- face. Several parts’ companies are making that will run into many mil­ purpose machinery where prices are putting on a shade better activity lions. open to individual dickering and against late March deliveries. A big Fisher’s new Grand Rapids plant there are published no list prices. die program is ready to break in is a bonanza to the various forms At any rate, Ford purchasing about two weeks. But steel in volume of automotive equipment builders. officials decided they would take for automobile assembly work, up to While it is true that a lot of this this occasion of a price increase to last week, had not budged from the machinery was bought for Grand do some research and study. An ex­ outward calm that seems to have Rapids as long ago as the last week tensive tabulation of all makers’ settled over the town. of October, there still is much to be prices on standard machine tools is Some steel sellers say their tele­ contracted. Incidentally, they are go­ being compiled, both as before and

22 /TEEL February 17, 1936 after the markup last Saturday, for ness of making both a straight six ting the body to fit snugly to the what purpose is anyone’s guess. and a twin-six. component dials, etc., of the dash. Ford, of course, has progressed on Incidentally, there have been more Very often all the time saving was 1937 changes; no car manufacturer delays at Packard on the plans that lost, and then some. has not at this writing. And there’s were hot a few months ago to aug­ At Chrysler there is an apparently something brewing at the Rouge on ment the 120 line with a convertible, well-founded report that the man­ the steel top and other model inno­ a town sedan, and three other agement has thought twice since vations. But, for the time being, the models. Several details have been General Motors came out with the purse strings have been pulled held up indefinitely. While there is Grand Rapids expansion of a die tight. no reason to believe these new 120 and small stamping shop. Chrysler Personnel at the steel purchasing models have been definitely discard­ seems to be looking about enviously division at Ford, last week working ed, they are not a nearby announce­ for such a similar expansion. up a sheet and strip buy of moderate ment. While it is true that Chrysler size, has been pretty badly crippled. might be able to pick up a division Flirt with New Frame A month ago Ernest Snyder died, from a concern like Hupp, there is a Claude Nellis is in Florida indefi­ Packard has been working on the policy at Chrysler Corp. to enlarge nitely with a heart ailment and idea of making the instrument the Marysville, Mich., division. This Charles Carroll was ill last week. board of its cheaper cars an integral plant, where the Chrysler appren­ A. E. Conn, who formerly bought part of the frame itself. This plan, tices are trained, is being groomed forgings, has been switched over to usually used in making racing cars, for a spare parts’ division, and there steel buying at Rouge. was tried once by Ford on passen­ has been some transporting of High­ But to return to retooling. Another ger cars about three years ago. land Park machinery there. program that keeps leaking out de­ What it does is give a faster as­ Then too, Chrysler has a big die spite the secrecy officials seem de­ sembly speed, for the body can be and stamping shop at the Dodge di­ termined on maintaining, is Pack­ dropped directly onto the chassis but vision that might be enlarged on to ard’s. Today at Packard it is truly where Ford ran into trouble in 1932 make die and stamping work for all an impossibility to get into the plant, with the scheme was in always get- other Chrysler divisions inclusively, that has been going to outside whereas formerly parts suppliers, shops. etc., had free run in development de­ partments. Chrysler might think the problem over twice, though, because there New Model Out by Summer Automobile Production have been times when Dodge’s die shop has bid competitively on What made the curtain ring down Passenger Cars and Trucks—U. S. Only Chrysler and DeSoto work and lost tight was Packard’s recent decision By Department of Commerce the business to outside suppliers. to make the small six. The m anage­ 1933 1934 1935 ment for a long time had dallied with Jan 128,825 155,665 292,785 Dodge Engineers Rushed five different plans, and finally got Feb 105,447 230,256 335,667 Right now Dodge's engineering di­ around to the go-ahead on the small Mar 115,272 338,434 429,793 vision veritably is working night six, that presumably will be dropped Apr 176,432 352,975 477,691 and day. Though Dodge engineers beneath the price of the 120. May ...... 214,411 330,455 364,662 are burning midnight oil, projected Die work, to a large extent, and J u n e 249,727 306,477 361,248 J u l y 229,357 264,933 336,985 plans are still on the boards. No bet­ machine tools, to a minor extent, Aug 232,855 234,811 239,994 ter indication that they have not have now been placed for the forth­ Sept 191,800 170,007 89,804 been taken off yet is that the Dodge coming Packard, but it will be sum­ Oct...... 134,683 131,991 275,024 die shop is employing only 50 to 60 mer at the earliest before the new Nov 60,683 83,482 398,039 men, against a full-time capacity of model is out. Contrast this with Dec 80,565 153,624 407,804 700. And at that, the present force original thought last September to is like many assembly lines, on part Year ...... 1,920,057 2,753,111 4,009,496 have the new car on the streets in time. April. Estimated by Cram’s Reports Chrysler Corp. has its 1937 The six motor has been tested on changes lined up, of course, but is Packard’s proving grounds for at Week ended: Feb. 1 ...... 85,790 lagging behind General Motors divi­ least the last six months but, as pre­ sion by comparison in putting them Feb. 8 ...... 69,876 viously related, a six won’t exactly into effect. Feb. 15 ...... 75,170 be an innovation, for Packard a One effect of Electric Auto-Lite number of years ago was in the busi­ (Please tarn to Page 87)

February 17, 1936 / TEEL 23 the employ of the Muncie Foundry & Machine Co., Muncie, Ind., as chief inspector. A year later he became Alen ofi Dnduâttu connected with the General Motors Truck Co., Pontiac, Mich., as buyer, and in 1927 was made engineer of ILLIAM LARIMER JONES merce, and president of the Pitts­ the American Car & Foundry Co., De­ JR. and Milton C. Angloch burgh Coal exchange. troit. From 1928 to 1932 he was W have been appointed vice Other vice presidents of Jones & employed as foundry engineer with presidents of the Jones & Laughlin Laughlin are W. C. Moreland, B. F. W hitehead & Kales Co., Rivei Steel Corp., Pittsburgh. Jones III, W. J. Creighton, F. E. Rouge, Mich., and in the latter year Mr. Jones has been a director and Fieger and W. B. Todd. was made general manager of the a member of the executive commit­ Ecorse Foundry Co., Ecorse, Mich. ♦ ♦ ♦ tee for a num ber of years. Mr. ♦ ♦ ♦ Angloch has also been elected a di­ F. K. Taylor, vice president in rector and a member of the execu­ charge of industrial sales, Taylor In ­ J. E. Middleton, of Philadelphia, tive committee, and at the same time strum ent Cos., Rochester, N. Y., is was appointed secretary of the Na­ appointed to fill many of the subsid- on a several weeks’ visit to the south­ tional Association of Used Machinery west and Pacific coast offices. Mr. Taylor expects to be back in Roches­ ter by March 1.

♦ ♦ ♦ II. Seymour Walcott, formerly vice president and sales manager of the Harter Corp., New York, has been appointed New York manager of the All-Steel-Equip Co., Aurora, 111., with headquarters at 56 West Twenty-second street. ♦ ♦ ♦ R. G. McElwee, who recently be­ came connected with the Vanadium Corp. of America, with headquarters in the Book building, Detroit, will specialize on consulting work on the use of alloys manufactured by the Vanadium corporation in gray iron and malleable iron foundry work. He also will be engaged in the correlat­ ing of research work to practical ap­ plications. Mr. McElwee was born in W il­ Wllliam Larimer Jones liamsport, Pa., and in 1915 entered Milton C. Angloch

iary executive vacancies created by and Equipment Dealers, Pittsburgh, the recent death of A. B. Shepherd, at the annual meeting of the asso­ including the presidencies of the In­ ciation held in the William Penn ho­ terstate Iron Co., Interstate Steam­ tel, Pittsburgh. Other officers and ship Co., and Jones & Laughlin Ore directors were re-elected, including Co. He retains the presidency of the Marion D. Galbreath as president, Vesta and Shannopin Coal Cos. and Samuel A. Dewitt as vice president, the Blair Limestone Co., which posi­ and C. L. McDonald as treasurer. tions he has held since 1927. Amendments were adopted pro­ Mr. Jones was graduated from viding for individual instead of group Princeton university in 1915 and membership, and the changing of the started working in the company’s time of the annual meeting to Sep­ plant at Aliquippa, Pa. During the tember, 1936, and yearly thereafter. war, he enlisted and served in the United States navy on transport duty ♦ ♦ ♦ between the United States and Eu­ At the annual dinner of the Amer­ rope. He is a director of the First ican Institute of Mining and Met­ National Bank of Pittsburgh. allurgical Engineers, New York, Mr. Angloch began his career with Feb. 20, presentation of awards Jones & Laughlin Ltd. in 1900 as a to four mining and metallur­ clerk at the South Side works. He gical engineers for distinguished was appointed purchasing agent in contributions to the technical and 1907, and has successively been as­ economic advancement of the min­ sistant to the vice president and gen­ eral industries will be made. Those eral manager, vice president and di­ IiCster C. Klein receiving honors are: rector of the Vesta and Shannopin Who has been appointed assistant to Clinton Crane, president, St. companies and later president of the president. United States Steel Joseph Lead Co., New York, who will these subsidiaries, as well as of the Corp., New York, succeeding John be presented with the William Law­ Blair company. He is a director of Hughes, who retired Feb. 1 under the Corporation pension plan, as reported rence Saunders gold medal; C. C. the Pittsburgh chamber of com- in Steel for Feb. 10 Henning, assistant general metallur­

24 /TEEL February 17, 19 31 gist, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., structural steel department of the Pittsburgh, who will receive the Rob­ Pacific Car & Foundry Co., Seattle. ert W. Hunt award for 1936; Fran­ A graduate of the University of cis Hearne Crockard, metallurgist Washington, he formerly was with for Republic Steel Corp. at Thomas, the Anaconda Copper Co., and the Ala., recipient of the J. E. Johnson Star Iron & Steel Works, Tacoma, Jr. award; and Prof. Robert Peele, Wash. For the past nine years he a member of the Institute since 1883, has been in the structural steel de­ -and professor emeritus of mining in partment of Wallace Bridge & Struc­ the school of mines at Columbia uni­ tural Steel Co., Seattle. versity, who will be made an honor­ ary member. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ L. D. Holland, formerly sales man­ ager of the western division of E. F. Lloyd Jones, vice president of Con­ Houghton & Co., m anufacturer of tinental Roll & Steel Foundry Co., oils and leathers, Philadelphia, has East Chicago, Ind., who has been been made manager of research de­ in ill health for the past few months, velopment, with headquarters in the has resigned. He will remain with general offices, Philadelphia. the Continental company in a con­ A. A. Miller, formerly head of the sulting engineering capacity. Mr. Cincinnati office, has been promoted Jones was formerly with United En­ to the position of western sales man­ gineering & Foundry Co., and before ager, with headquarters in San Fran­ going with the Continental company, cisco. he was connected with E. W. Bliss Co., Salem, O. Kenneth S. Valentine ♦ ♦ ♦ E. Q. Parker, head of the purchas­ ♦ ♦ ♦ books and articles on mechanical ing departm ent of Yuba Mfg. Co., Kenneth S. Valentine has been ap­ San Francisco, and C. M. Romano- pointed district manager in New problems of the process industries. He was graduated from Columbia witz, sales manager of the same com­ York for the Patterson Foundry & pany, are in New York on a business university in 1916, and is a mem­ Machine Co., E ast Liverpool, O. trip, bringing a large contract to ber of the American Institute of Prior to becoming associated with the East Coast. Due to the creation Chemical Engineers. the Patterson company, Mr. Valen­ of a great demand for the gold Mr. Valentine will have charge of tine was sales manager of the Turbo dredging and other equipment made sales in metropolitan New York and Mixer Corp., New York, for eight by the Yuba concern, caused by the in New England, and will, in addi­ years, and previous to that was chem­ higher Value of gold, the Yuba com­ tion, act in an advisory capacity on ical engineer of the Heller & Merz pany has enjoyed a large business mixing problems in general. Co., now Calco Chemical Corp., New­ over the past two years. ark, N. J., and works manager of ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ the Southern Dyestuffs Co., now Paul M. Jacobson has been ap­ Col. Merrill G. Baker has been re­ Monsanto Chemical Co., Nitro, W. pointed engineer in charge of the Va. appointed executive vice president of Mr. Valentine is well-known in the the Steel Founders’ Society of Amer­ chemical and process industries, and ica, New York, and R. L. Collier has is co-author of the section, "Mixing been re-elected secretary-treasurer. of Material” in “Chemical Engineer­ The following directors were ing Handbook,” as well as various elected: Lee C. Wilson, Reading steel

Iioy H. Nodercr Who has been made manager of the metallurgical department. Lorain di­ vision. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., Johnstown, Pa., as announced in S t e e l fo r Ja n . 27. H e joined L o rain Steel Co., Johnstown, as chief chemist in 1910, and in 1926 was promoted to S. S. Marshall metallurgist. He is a member of the H. D. Stark Named assistant general manager of American Society for Testing Ma­ Appointed general superintendent of the Pittsburgh works of the Jones & terials, American Welding society. the Pittsburgh works of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., as announced in American Society for Metals and Laughlin Steel Corp., as noted in Steel S t e e l for Feb. 10 American Foundrymen’s association for Feb. 10

February 17, 1936 / TEEL casting division, Reading, Pratt & Pneum atic Machine Co., Pittsburgh. in 1919, was made assistant super­ Cady Co., Reading, Pa.; George H. Arthur J. Tuscany was renamed ex­ intendent of open hearth No. 3 in Chisholm, Atlas Steel Casting Co., ecutive secretary. 1925, and in 1928 was named assist­ Buffalo; Frank M. Robbins, Ross- Attendance at the meeting was ant superintendent of the Carrie fur­ Meehan Foundries, Chattanooga, highly satisfactory. A feature of the naces. He is a graduate of Worcester Tenn.; D. C. Bakewell, Duquesne program was the discussion of the Polytechnic institute, and a member steel foundry division, Continental plans for the coming exhibition of of the Eastern States Blast Furnace Roll & Steel Foundry Co., Pitts­ foundry equipment and supplies at and Coke Oven association. burgh; A. H. Anthony, Massillon Detroit. Steel Castings Co., Massillon, O.; ♦ ♦ ♦ F. A. Lorenz Jr., American Steel R. J. Schuler, manager of sales, Foundries, Chicago; Paul H. Leus- LaSalle Steel Co., Chicago, is con­ T P le d : sler, Omaha Steel Works, Omaha, fined to the Cottage Grove hospital, Nebr., and J. P. Arnoldy, Warman Detroit, where he recently under­ onald w. lloyd, strip mill Steel Casting Co., Huntington Park, went an operation. engineer in the Cleveland dis­ Calif. ♦ ♦ ♦ trict for Carnegie-Illinois Steel ♦ ♦ ♦ D Willis L. King, director of Jones Corp. in Cleveland, Feb. 7. Mr. Louis J. Desparois has been ap­ & Laughlin Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, Lloyd began his acreer in Cleveland pointed district sales manager at St. and widely known throughout the as assistant chief engineer for the steel industry through his long W illiam Tod Machine Co., 36 years identification with the company, ago. In 1921 he became special engi­ celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday. neer for the Trumbull Steel Co. in Feb. 14. charge of strip mill work, and two 4 4 4 years later became engineer for the Joseph G. Schaefer, formerly su­ Carnegie Steel Co. in Cleveland. Until perintendent of the Chicago district recently, Mr. Lloyd had been engaged v'orlts of the Wyekoff Drawn Steel in doing specialized work for the new Co., has been appointed m anager of 43-inch strip mill now erected at Mc­ the Ambridge, Pa., division, succeed­ Donald, O., by Carnegie-Illinols. ing the late John M. Adams. He ♦ 4 4 will, however, retain managership of Clive Beldon Vincent, 72, chairman the Chicago division. of the board, Torrington Co., Torring- 4 ♦ ♦ ton, Conn., in that city Feb. 4. 4 4 4 Edwin T. Warren, assistant super­ Herman G. Kiefer, 47, metallur­ intendent of the Carrie furnaces in gist for the Timken Detroit Axle Co., the Pittsburgh district for Carnegie- Detroit, and at the time of his death Illinois Steel Corp., has been ap­ president of the Goodenow Incinera­ pointed superintendent of blast fur­ tor Co., Detroit, a t Detroit recently. naces at the Edgar Thomson works, 4 4 4 Braddock, Pa. He succeeds F. H. N. Oscar W. Mueller, 73, former presi­ Gerwig, now on leave of absence. dent of the Mueller Machine Tool Co., Mr. W arren began his business Cincinnati, in Cincinnati, Feb. 5. He career with the Baltimore warehouse had been engaged in the manufac­ of Carnegie Steel Co. in 1915, and a ture of machine tools for 47 years, Louis J. Desparois few months later was transferred to retiring recently. the Homestead steelworks engineer­ 4 4 4 ing department. After service over­ George B. Hetherington, 65, traf­ Louis for Pickands, Mather & Co.. seas during the World war, Mr. War­ fic manager of the A. O. Smith Corp., Cleveland, seller of pig iron and ren ¡returned to the metallurgical Milwaukee, in Milwaukee, Feb. 7. coke, with headquarters at 1255 department of the Homestead works He joined the Smith organization in Telephone building. For the past March, 1923, having previously been two years, he had been identified connected with the Sante Fe and with Hickman-Williams & Co. at St. Rock Island railroads and the Louis. Previously, for eight years, Armour Grain Co. He served in the he had been associated with the St. food administration at Baltimore dur­ Louis Coke & Gas Co. Mr. Desparois ing the World war. gained considerable practical experi­ 4 4 4 ence in foundries through 12 years’ H arry B. Parker, 65, president and connection with the American general manager, Albion Malleable Radiator Co., during which time he Iron Co., Albion, Mich., Feb. 10. Mr. was superintendent of various Parker went to Albion from Chicago foundries of this company. in 1889 when his stepfather, W. S. ♦ ♦ ♦ Kessler, founded the iron company. He was made vice president of the R. S. Hammond, vice president, organization in 1892, assistant gen­ Whiting Corp., Harvey, 111., was eral manager in 1899, and general elected president of the Foundry manager in 1910. He became presi­ Equipment Manufacturers’ associa­ dent in 1933 upon the death of Mr. tion at a meeting held in Cleveland, Kessler. Feb. 8. B. C. Trueblood, Arcade Mfg. 4 4 4 Co., Freeport, 111., was named vice James W. McClure, 47, assistant president. to the auditor of Carnegie-Illinols The following were elected direct­ Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, at Beaver, ors for a 3-year term: E. O. Beards­ Pa., Feb. 6. He had been with the ley, Beardsley & Piper Co., Chicago; former Carnegie Steel Co. since 1907 R. W. Hisey, Osborn Mfg. Co., Cleve­ in various capacities, was special en­ land; and T. Kaveny Jr., Herman Edwin T. W arren gineer in the Pittsburgh office in

26 / TEEL February 17, 1936 1932, and in the same year, chief of the cost department, holding that position until December, 1935, when 3 5 ,0 0 0 , 0 0 0 Tons, 1 9 3 6 Ore ho became assistant auditor. ♦ ♦ ♦ W alter Hay, 60, vice president of the Union Chain & Mfg. Co., San­ Estimate; Deals in Vessels dusky, O., in Sandusky, Peb. 8. ♦ ♦ ♦ J. W. Emery, 86, president and RELIMINARY estimates of Lake pig iron manufactured, as an average. secretary, Channon Emery Stove Co., Superior iron ore shipments this As demand for pig iron increased, Quincy, 111., Feb. 6. He founded the Pseason center on 35,000,000 tons, so did the proportionate use of ore. company 55 years ago. about 25 per cent more than in 1935 High scrap prices are expected to be ♦ ♦ ♦ and largest since 1930, when 4 7,- a contributing factor in raising ore Walter F. Mandel, secretary-treas- 000,000 tons were shipped. shipments this year. urer, Kensington Steel Co., Chicago, Stocks at lower lake ports and Final figures on Lake Superior in that city, recently. Mr. Mandel furnaces have been reduced to normal shipments in 1935, as compiled by had been associated with the Ken­ proportions. In January consumption the Lake Superior iron ore associa­ sington company 12 years. amounted to 2,933,000 tons, 5 per tion, Cleveland, show a total of 28,- ♦ ♦ ♦ cent less than in December. Avail­ 503,501 tons, compared with 22,063,- able stocks Feb. 1 were 28,408,000 824 tons in 1934. William C. Hill, 62, founder of Hill tons, 3,600,000 tons less than on Feb. The 1935 total includes 114,692 Automotive Service Inc., and Hill 1 last year. tons shipped all-rail. This all-rail Piston Co., in Jackson, Mich., Feb. Consumption this month probably movement contrasts with 60,444 tons 10. He was a former president of will fall below that of January; both in 1934. The sharp increase was due the Automobile Engine Builders As­ March and April are expected to mainly to the relighting of the Zenith sociation of America. show fairly good gains. As the iron furnace at Duluth late in the year. ♦ ♦ ♦ ore men see it, approximately 8,500,- The Oliver Iron Mining Co., United Charles J. H. LaGanke, 66, found­ 000 tons of ore will have been con­ States Steel Corp. subsidiary, shipped er of the LaGanke & Sons Stamping sumed by May 1, leaving a stock 10,372,143 tons in 1935, or 36.3 per Co., Cleveland, in Cleveland, Feb. 8. balance of 19,908,000 tons. On May cent of the total, whereas in 1934 its Before retirement three years ago, 1 last year the stocks amounted to proportion was 4 0 per cent. Mr. LaGanke had been engaged in 24,816,000 tons. The Blueberry mine, formerly the the stamping industry 43 years. Ford Motor Co.’s model iron ore Depends on Iron, Steel Demand ♦ ♦ ♦ property on the Marquette range, now George W. Peffer, 59, an official of This situation, with prospects for operated under a new management the McDonald, O., plant of the Car- increased iron and steel production, increased its shipments to 353,719 negie-Illinois Steel Corp., in Youngs­ is considered one of the best indi­ tons, from 253,267. town, O., Feb. 9. Born in Pittsburgh cators of a substantial rise in the Shipments of beneficiated iron ore and graduated from Penn State col­ ore movement. totaled 10,140,782 tons, 32 per cent, lege, he went to Youngstown in 1909 No important change is anticipated about the same proportion as for from Ducjuesne, Pa., to supervise the this season in the ratio of ore con­ several years. In this were included construction of the Republic Steel sumption to pig iron production, and 5,011,605 tons of concentrates, while open-hearth plant. He later joined as the quality of the lake ore has the remaining tonnage was merely the Sharon Steel Hoop Co., and was been standardized to within fraction­ crushed or screened. superintendent of that firm for sev­ al limits, ore shipments are likely to eral years. increase in almost the same propor­ Looking for Vessels ♦ ♦ ♦ tion as pig iron production. An indication of increased activity Jam es Close, 60, iron pipe m anu­ Last year pig iron output was 31.7 in iron ore is the purchase by the facturer, in Tucson, Ariz., recently. per cent over 1934, while ore ship­ M. A. H anna Co., Cleveland, which Born in Waterbury, Conn., he be­ ments were 29 per cent above 1934. hauls ore for the National Steel gan his business career there with To say, then, that the iron ore ship­ Corp., of the bulk freighter W orrell the firm of Holmes, Booth & Hay­ pers expect a gain of 25 per cent Clarkson from the Kinsman Transil den, makers of iron pipe. He moved this year in their tonnage is equiva­ Co., Cleveland. The Clarkson is a to Newark, N. J., in 1897, and found­ lent to indicating what they antici­ 600-foot, 12,000-ton boat. The Inland Steel Co. and the In­ ed and became first president of the pate the year will bring forth in pig ternational H arvester Co., operating New Jersey Tube Co. Por the past iron output. To a considerable extent the Wisconsin Steel Works, both of ten years Mr. Close had been asso­ their estimate is based on conferences Chicago, have been inspecting some ciated with the Pipe & Tube Bend­ with their associated iron and steel ing Co. of America, Newark, N. ,T. freighters with a view to enlarging companies and others to whom they their fleets. ♦ ♦ ♦ supply ore. There is the possibility that Inland Joseph J. Petch, 39, stainless steel Despite the larger use of scrap may order a large freighter for 1937 expert in the midwestern section for in 1935, more iron ore was used for delivery, which would be the first Allegheny Steel Co., Brackenridge, the pig iron produced than in any since 1929. There is no shortage of Pa., in Chicago, Feb. 8. Mr. Petch, year since 1930. The ratio was 1.717 carrying capacity, but much of it is long associated with the stainless tons of lake ore to one ton of pig in small vessels, which are not eco­ steel industry, for eight years before iron made with lake ore. The ratio nomical to operate. joining the Allegheny company was was 1.726 in 1930; 1.766 in 1929, The American fleet of Great Lakes located at Massillon, O., with the and 1.8 in 1923, highest on record. bulk cargo carriers comprises 324 United Alloys Steel Co., now a part To keep down their costs in 1932, vessels, but the maximum number in of Republic Steel Corp. He xvent to when demand and prices were low, commission last year was 186. This Chicago 12 years ago. During the pig iron manufacturers used all the was 57.4 per cent of the number, but war Mr. Petch left Ohio State uni­ flue dust and yard stocks they could represented 62 per cent of carrying versity to serve as a naval ensign collect. Only 1.414 tons of ore was capacity. in foreign waters. used in that year for each ton of The fleet could haul 80,000,000

February 17, 1936 / TEEL 27 Ions of ore in a season, vessel men the pre-depression period normal an­ terests have more than enough; say, but the railroads are not nual shipments were considered 55,- others apparently do not have suf­ equipped to handle that amount, even 000,000 to 60,000,000 tons. Mine ficient, and with shipments again on if blast furnaces wanted it. When capacity as well as vessel capacity the upgrade this is leading to read­ shipments soared to 65,000,000 tons was developed to this point, and even justments. in 1929 some delay was encountered beyond. The doubt which assails the indus­ due to the lack of railroad dock The assumption, however, that be­ try as to w hether ore shipments will facilities. cause the number of vessels has out­ return to their former “normal” for This is not viewed as a problem, run demand there is no need among many years has led some of the because shippers do not envision such individual companies for more boats smaller independent vessel interests a tonnage again for many years. In is incorrect. Some iron and steel in­ to consider their position.

Lake Superior Iron Ore Shipments in 1935 and 1934

Mesabi 1^ange

1935 1934 1935 1934 1935 1934 1935 1934 Adams-Spruce Harold ...... 42,998 7,171 M alta ...... 30,442 39,727 S n y d er ...... 130,333 G roup ...... 1,719,511 1.326,272 H a rris o n ...... 23,159 106,857 M a r g a r e t ...... 161,405 South Uno A gnew ...... 98,151 30,646 H a rtle y - M inorca ...... 61,640 39.91S G. N ...... 6,22S 22,741 A lbany ...... 252,5SS Burt...... 2,107,643 2,000,942 M orris ...... 180,237 171,273 S o u th U no Alexandria .. 446,255 209,802 H aw k in s .... . 203,272 114,716 M orrison ...... 725,763 575,861 N. P ...... 18,010 35,312 B iw abik ...... 472,892 327,330 Hill Annex....1,720,962 496,SOI Mesabi Chief 837,402 779,441 S tev en so n .... 1SS,S22 71,373 B ruce ...... 169,406 104,409 H oadley ...... 54,346 23,991 M innew as .... 555,693 S u sq u e ­ Bruce Annex 23,661 H ull R u s t ... . 213,790 175,151 Missabe Ml... 448, S00 h a n n a ...... 403,369 302,491 B u rt-I’ool- J u lia ...... 13,644 Mississippi U nion ...... 110,52S B ay ...... 307,209 215,938 K in n e y ...... 241,243 145,206 No. 2 ...... 73,275 4S.07S Utica Exten­ C anisteo ...... 605,095 430,142 L an g d o n .... . 230,412 72,802 North Har­ sion ...... 28,271 Commodore .. 66,021 56.68S I.a R u e ...... 23S.068 110,490 rison ...... 46,195 61,511 W a c o o ta h .... 259,721 75,956 D ale ...... 72,100 46,148 Deonidas .... . 820,019 2S5.006 Patrick-Ann 135,57S 220,310 W ebb ...... 288,381 165,572 D anube ...... 194 L incoln ...... 105.112 60.92S Q uinn ...... 24.6S9 W h eelin g .... 138,224 74,204 D rew ...... 103,531 Mace No. 2.... 106,359 St. Paul ...... 263,375 181,621 Y ork ...... 68,333 75.9S5 Dunwoodv .. 22,615 551,522 Magnetic Con- Sargent ...... 130,720 125,684 G enoa- c e n tra te s .. 11,143 4,652 S c ra n to n ...... 242,151 282,416 T otal ...... IS,877,537 14,650,099 S p a rta ...... 65,522 Mahoning .... 778,560 S57.570 Sellers ...... 2,309,152 1,170,416 G odfrey ...... 438,674 351,112 M ah o n in g S h en an g o .... 190,324 358,789 H alobe ...... 403,151 173,018 R u s t ...... 51,280 75,920 Sheriden ...... 1,756 Menominee Range

1935 1934 1935 1934 1935 1934 1935 1934 B a lk an - Davidson Homer ...... 13.63S Tobin ...... SO,297 12,903 Ju d so n ...... 63.6S2 19,177 G rou ii ...... 96,336 50.58S Ja m e s ...... 175,014 42,061 V irg il ...... 64,792 B a tes ...... 193,351 148,07S F o g a rtv ...... 25.232 7,874 L o re tto ...... 40.S93 50,087 W a rn e r ...... 115,154 B engal ...... 16,923 7,668 F o rb e s ...... 122,884 19,796 Monongahela 71.SS5 West Chapin 29,183 17,243 B ristol ...... 162,591 G enesee ...... 27.2S6 114,485 O dgers ...... 65,332 52.2S5 Zimmerman 52,073 6,245 B uck ...... 21,538 10,629 H ia w a th a P e n n M ines 125.538 59,280 C aspian ...... 20,695 23,404 No. 1 ...... 284,22S 152,59S Q uinnesec .... 7,179 T o tal ...... 1,634,022 1,335,027 C hapin ...... 190,993 H ia w a th a R iv erto n ...... 60,113 C ornell ...... 20,616 No. 2 421 R o g ers ...... 20,775 Marquette Range

1935 1934 1935 1934 1935 1934 1935 1931 A rch ib ald .... 26,828 3,750 G a rd n er- Lloyd ...... 1S0.20S 99,023 Rolling Mill.. 25,338 A th en s ...... 261.810 139,021 M ackinaw 144,467 110,264 M aas ...... 333,99S 331,413 Stephenson .. 14,458 B lu eb erry .... 353,719 253,267 G reenw ood .. 68,308 52.394 M orris ...... 275,786 24S.824 T ilden ...... 190,511 167,688 C am bria ...... 147,117 205,301 Isab ella ...... 112,254 N eg au n ee .... 362.525 149,801 V o lu n tee r .... 121,498 172,884 Cliffs Shaft.... 398,502 237.439 Lake Superi- P rin c eto n .... 101 134 F ra n c is ...... 44.917 13.S83 or-H olm es 193,490 112,254 R ich m o n d .... 121,926 86,067 T o tal 3,265,537 2,473,S47 Gogebic Range

1935 1934 1935 1931 1935 1931 1935 1934 A n v il...... 8,081 18,487 Keweenaw .. 82,874 5,270 P a lm s ...... 14,477 33,660 W akefield .... 231,933 204,129 C ary ...... 55,860 14,094 M o n treal ...... 672.9S0 582,140 P u rita n ...... 204,341 281,973 Eureka-Ast- N e w p o r t...... 519,160 1S5.775 Sunday Lake 120,176 140,12S T otal ...... 3,070,825 2,287,131 eroid ...... 323,291 234,945 N o rrie- T ilden ...... 79,562 46,941 Iro n to n ...... 314,577 312,710 A u ro ra ...... 357,817 155,255 T o w n site ...... 55,696 71,624 Cuyuna Range Vermillion Range

1935 1934 1935 1934 1935 1931 1935 1934 Alstead- Hill- Mahnomen .. 151,286 Wearne Pit.. 4,086 P io n eer ...... 465,731 430,116 crest Grp... 77,931 59,793 Maroco Stock­ Wearne Stock­ Sibley ...... 109,054 140,393 C r o f t ...... S5.640 pile ...... 18,455 pile ...... 79,958 70,581 Soudan ...... 108,319 113,685 E v erg re e n .... 129,220 92,332 P o rtsm o u th 71.005 SI,244 Z en ith ...... 173,995 100,955 L ouise ...... 55,655 17,760 S ag am o re .... 229,340 106,766 Total ...... 798,4SI 532,571 T otal ...... 857.099 785,149 GRAND TOTAL .... ,.2S,503,501 22,063,824

28 STEEL February 17, 1936 S lditotiaL

000 for trucks, $59,000,000 for service stations, W hat Petroleum Means to $80,000,000 for containers and packaging, and $125,000,000 for miscellaneous. Obviously the metal industries receive a big slice of the ex­ Metalworking Industries penditures for each of these items. Actual dimensions of this slice are shown by a breakdown of the annual purchases of the oil O N E of our worthy contemporaries in the industry. A total of $25,000,000 is spent for business paper field, National Petroleum tin cans. Railroad tank cars and parts cost $5,- N e w s , has just issued a 516-page special 480,000 annually. The bill for return bends is number in which its editors have done a rem ark­ $1,070,000. Oil well casing costs $6,580,000 per ably good job of explaining what Am erica’s oil year, oil well tubing $2,045,100 and still tubes industry means to the public, to governm ent and $4,256,400. The industry spends $55,300,000 a to all industry. Inasmuch as so many readers year for drums for oil and grease. It buys about o f S t e e l enjoy vendor or customer relationships $2,993,200 worth of plates. Pipe, other than with oil companies, we believe a brief sum m ary mentioned previously, costs $3,812,800. Pails of the facts presented by National Petroleum for grease account for an annual outlay of $2,- N e w s w ill be instructive and enlightening. 760,000. The surprising sum of $1,613,000 is The oil industry has properties in every state, spent for grease guns. Pipe fittings account for representing a total investm ent of $13,276,000,- $2,352,300 and $4,128,900 goes for valves and 000. Included in these properties are 333,070 valve parts. Engines and parts cost $2,275,500. producing wells, 115,000 miles of petroleum Compressors represent an annual bill of $3,- pipe lines, 638 refineries, 766 natural gasoline 000,000. Motor trucks and truck parts account plants, 170,400 gasoline filling stations, 26,200 for the considerable outlay of $30,528,800 year­ bulk stations, 750 tankers, 144,000 railroad tank ly . cars, 5000 m iles of gasoline pipe lines and 150,- 000 motor truck and trailers. The 999,800 em­ Metalworking Industries in Dual Relationship ployes who man these properties are paid $1,- Of Vendor and Customer with Oil Industry 217,000,000 in wages annually. The industry’s bill for supplies for operations, maintenance Tanks cost $4,062,300. Steel castings are and expansion amounts to $876,000,000 per bought at the rate of $1,338,100 per year. y e a r . Pumps, representing an outstanding requisite of the oil industry, cost $16,400,900 annually. In Half of Oil Industry’s Annual Supply addition to these items there are steel sheets, structural shapes, sucker rods, rivets, bolts, Bill Goes for W ell-Drilling Equipment boilers, blowers, jacks, etc. which account for Of this last-named figure, $440,000,000, or an expenditure of many m illions of dollars. more than 50 per cent, goes for drilling equip­ These items add up to the credit side of the ment. This expenditure is im portant to the iron, metalworking industries’ ledger. There is a steel and metalworking industries— more im­ substantial offset in the large amount which portant today than at any time in the develop­ these industries pay to the petroleum interests ment of the oil industry. Those whose memories for fuel oil, gasoline, gas and other products. go back to the boom period of the Pennsylvania This reciprocal relationship suggests that oil, on fields know that the drilling equipment of Der­ one hand, and steel and its affiliated metal­ rick City, Custer City, Reno, Oil City, Titusville, working interests on the other, should be sym ­ etc. involved more wood than steel. Derricks, pathetic to each other’s major problems. The bullwheels, w alking beams and even the sm aller latter group is concerned with the petroleum tanks were of wood. Today the drilling equip­ industry’s acute tax problem, with its task of ment of the Oklahom a City, East Texas, Kettle- promoting conservation, and with the vexing in­ man Hills and other more recently developed tricacies of its distribution problem. The bet­ fields embraces steel alm ost to the exclusion of ter the oil com panies can com bat these obstacles, wood. Therefore, a large portion of the anual the greater w ill be the opportunity for the steel expenditure of $440,000,000 for drilling equip­ and metalworking concerns to serve their im­ ment goes to metalworking companies. portant customer more effectively. Conversely, The remainder of oil’s annual bill of $87 6,- the better the petroleum industry understands 000,000 includes $72,000,000 for production the major problems of steel and its allied in­ equipment, $30,000,000 for the upkeep of refin­ dustries, the more advantageous w ill be the dual eries, $40,000,000 for new refineries, $30,000,- relationship of vendor and purchaser.

February 17, 1936 STEEL 29 h e Business Trend

MARCHl APRIL MAY I JUNE I JULY I AUG. I SEPT. ? '| ■! ,| i'l'ff M M I I ill f I i l'f r ’ STEEL’S INDEX OF ACTIVITY — ------IN IRON, STEEL A N D METALW ORKING INDUSTRIES------S t e e l ' s index of activity ------AVERAGE 1926=100 ------in the iron, steel and metal­ working industries declined 2.6 points to 8 3.9 in the week ending Feb. 8 : Weekending 1935 1934 1933 1932 Dec. 21 ...... 91.9 64.4 58.0 46.9 Dec. 28 ...... 77.3 60.8 63.7 42.9 1936 1935 1934 1933 Ja n . 4 ...... 78.2 65.4 53.6 45.3 Ja n . 11 ...... 90.2 73.8 58.1 48.6 Ja n . 18 ...... 89.3 78.1 60.9 49.8 J a n . 25 ...... 86.0 79.5 62.3 50.S Feb. 1 ...... 86.5 t 81.8 66.9 49.9 F eb. S ...... 83.9* 82.7 70.7 48.7 fR ev ised •Preliminary.

The index charted above is based upon freight car loadings, electric power output, automobile assemblies (estim ated bp Cram's Reports') and the steelworks operating rate (estimated bp Stbki.). Average for 1926 equals 100, weighted as folioics: Steel rate 40, and car loadings, power output and auto assemblies each 20.

electric power output, revenue freight car load­ Is Industry Beginning To ings and numerous other barometers all are show ing a tendency to follow the norm al pattern. Against this trend we find that automobile pro­ duction, due to the man-made attempt to shift Find Its Stride for 1936? the seasons, is sw inging steadily downward. The low point m ay be reached late this month, or it N OW that the trend line for business in 1936 may be pushed over into March. has been traced through a period of six However, there are signs that strong sup­ weeks, it is apparent that abnormal factors are port is coming from the heavy goods industries affecting it appreciably. The most important and from other sources, which is offsetting to disturbing influence is the shifting of the auto­ some extent the temporary weakness of the au­ mobile season. That factor alone has played tomobile situation. Again, the present pro­ havoc with the fam iliar first-quarter trend that longed spell of severe weather has affected ac­ lias run true to form in recent years. tivity appreciably, thus introducing a short-term This is shown clearly by S t e e l ’s index of in­ variable which is difficult to appraise. dustrial activity. The index has been bobbing It is possible that under the cover of these up and down uncertainly, whereas the custom ary abnormal influences, industry is settling down pattern calls for a steady rise during the early to a measured stride of about 8 5 o n S t e e l ’s part of the first quarter. Steelworks operations, in d e x .

JAN. FEB. MAR. APR. MAYJUN. JUL. I AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC. 36 36 I I I I ! I I I I I 1 1 1 I I I I I I I I l I I I I I I 1 1 1 11 u 1 1 1 1 1 1 IR O N A ND STEEL PR IC E It4DEX 35 35 c OMPOSITI MARKET OF 15 IRON AND STE EL PRODUCTS \ ___ COMPILED BY STEEL 's 1936 1933 1934 1936 34 1930 F eb. S ...... $33.44 $32.56 $31.30 z 1934 S. o Feb. 1 ...... 33.40 32.56 31.21 o 33 r - X. . _ — 33 O J a n . 25 ...... 33.38 32.60 31.20 1935 r J a n . IS ...... 33.34 32.62 31.17 > Ja n . 11 ...... 33.33 32.57 a. 32 ——-X.C 31.13 -x_ » _ , > ------32 5 Ja n . 4 ...... 33.31 32.51 31.10 i/i “ s — ■U C£ 1931 m 1933 1934 1933 --- 5 31 " - — X — 31 ^ D ec. 28 ...... $33.31 $32.46 $31.07 _1 -X— * — X -- H Dec. 21 ...... 33.31 32.46 31.07 0 0 Dec. 14 ...... 33.32 32.44 31.01 o 30 ...... * 30 Z Dec. 7 ...... 33.30 32.25 30.96 "\ ^c»._ 1932 o---c ---- 0^ ---- 29 ° r c----- 29 0 'w C - — c —‘ 1933 r v 28 28 /TEEL 27 I I I 1111 1 1 1 I I I I I I I I I I I I I II 1 1 ! 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 111 27

30 /TEEL February 17, 1936 Electric Power Production Registers Slight Drop

Millions Kw.-Hrs. 1936 1935 1934 1933 F eb. 8 ...... 1952 1763 1652 1482 Feb. 1 ...... 1962 1762 1636 1454 Jan . 25 ...... 1955 1781 1611 1469 Ja n . IX ...... 1949 1778 1625 1484 Ja n . 11 ...... 1970 1772 1646 1495 Jan . 4 ...... 1854 1668 1564 1461 1935 1931 1933 1932 Dec. 28 ...... 1847 1650 1539 1415 Dec. 21 ...... 2002 1788 1657 1554 Dec. 14 ...... 1983 1767 1644 1563 Dec. 7 ...... 1970 1743 1619 1519 Nov. 30 ...... 1877 1684 1554 1510 Nov. 23 ...... 1953 1705 1608 1475

January Ingot Production Shows Moderate Decline

------G ross T o n s------1936 1935 1934 J a n ...... 112,942 106,353 73,968 F e b ...... 115,740 92,164 M arch ...... 110,313 103,646 A pril ...... 101,558 117,443 M ay ...... 97,624 125,907 J u n e ...... S9.236 117,672 Ju ly ...... 87,316 59,578 A ug...... 108,123 51,161 S ep t...... 113,193 50.759 O ct...... 116,545 54,885 N ov...... 121,279 61,947 D ec...... 123,272 7S.570

1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1500 I i I I I I I I |l I I I I I I I I I I I 1 ■ ' ! i 1 ' ¡ ' I I IM | I I | IT I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I ‘ i I I I 1400 Finished. Steel Shipm ents MONTI-ILY FINISHED STEEL SHIP •AENTS 1300 Pp Sharply in January BY U.S.STEEL CORP. 1200 ------G ro ss T o n s------1100 1936 1935 1934 J a n ...... 721,414 534,055 331,777 1000 F eb ...... 583,137 385,500 Z 900 M arch ...... 668,056 588,209 O I- 800 A pril ...... 591,728 643,009 u. M ay ...... 598,915 745,063 O700 Ju n e ...... 578,108 9S5.337 in / J u l y ...... 547,794 369,93S “ 600 /A v s / A ug...... 624,497 378,023 < 5 0 0 S ep t...... 614,933 370,306 i1 O ct...... 686.711 343,962 g 400 K/ N ov...... 681,820 366,119 Í 300 D ec...... 661,515 41S.630 Copyrltht ¡9)6 200 f TEEL 100 11 ! 1 1111 ! 11 ! 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ! I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 11111111111 ! I I I I I I I I U

Freight Car Buying Declines S h a r p l y i n J a n u a r y

1936 1935 1931 1933 J a n ...... 2,050 24 152 3 F e b ...... S06 19,725 0 M arch ...... 0 30 5 A pril ...... 350 SOO 50 M ay ...... 9 717 8 Ju n e ...... 5,151 1,835 500 Ju ly ...... 500 19 306 A ug...... 200 105 202 S ep t...... 875 7 23 O ct...... 1,250 75 514 N ov...... 100 254 533 D ec...... 10,050 110 316

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 31 /p EX ERA L dew in ihe transmission gear department at Buic\, showing an­ nealing furnace at left, and cyanide hardening equipment m the bac\ground

URING th e past decade notable progrès» has been made in the D field of metallurgy, this being Metallurgical Aspects especially, true with respect to steel. Demands of the motor car manufac­ turer for better quality hare been met by the steel industry with grat­ peratures. Better design of molds tion. Better forging and heat treat­ ifying results. The car builder, in and hot tops has contributed much ing equipment, together with better turn, has been ever on the alert to to the improvement of ingot struc­ practice, insures higher and more devise and apply improved methods ture and soundness. The effects of uniform physical properties in the of fabrication. Metallurgical re­ occluded gases are being investigated finished product. search is now recognized as a neces­ more thoroughly. In order to give satisfactory serv­ sity rather than a luxury and has Steels with closer control of ice to the customer, a transmission made possible better control of those chemistry, grain size, normality, must fulfill certain definite mechan­ properties which have such a vital soundness, cleanliness and macro- ical requirements. It must be silent bearing on the quality of the structure are thus available to meet in operation, shift smoothly and finished product. These improve­ the more exacting demands of the easily, stay in gear and stand up for ments in raw materials and their customer. Moreover, the progressive the life of the car. In addition, it processing have contributed much to steelmaker now realizes more fully must conform to certain restrictions the mechanical excellence of the the value of service to the customer, as to size and weight. It should be modern passenger car, and probably and is prepared to furnish expert designed and built, not for average nowhere is this more evident than in advice, if desired, relative to the service, but for the most severe the transmission. processing of the material in the cus­ service it will encounter in the hands While certain desirable modifica­ tomer’s plant. of the public. tions in the chemical composition of In adequately meeting these re­ Research Aids Customers gear steels have come into the quirements, the main considerations picture, recent progress has been due The automobile manufacturer has. are design, materials and manufac­ mainly to Improvements in the steels likewise, profited greatly from metal­ turing. The three are so closely re­ already available through advanced lurgical research. A better under­ lated and each one is so dependent technique in their manufacture and standing of the properties of steel upon the other two, that only by the processing. has enabled the metallurgist to closest co-operation between en­ The steel manufacturer has ben­ specify more intelligently the most gineering and metallurgical depart­ efited much through research. Both suitable material and heat treatment ments and the shop, can satisfac­ individual and co-operative research to meet the requirements of a given tory results be obtained. have resulted in a better understand­ design. Incoming shipments are The engineer must design the job ing of the physical chemistry of steel- checked more thoroughly and ef­ with full knowledge of the limita­ making. An enormous amount of fectively by the laboratory to de­ tions of materials and shop practice. work has been done on slags, the termine their conformity to specifica- The metallurgist must choose a mate­ composition of which has so im­ rial and heat treatment best suited portant a bearing on the final deox­ to that particular design and method idation of the steel. The various de­ • of manufacture. He also must main­ oxidizers have come in for their tain the proper standard of quality share of study; also the use of through enforcement of rigid speci­ aluminum for grain size control. fications and by accurate control of More attention is paid to melting, BY R. B. SCHENCK metallurgical processing in the plant. pouring, rolling and finishing tem­ Chief Metallurgist/ Buick Motor The shop must manufacture to the peratures, and better means are required standards of accuracy and available for controlling these tem­ Co./ Flint/ Mich. finish and make the necessary com-

32 /TEEL February 17, 1936 ^LOSEUP of con­ trolled atmosphere hardening furnace and draw furnace (in fore­ ground) at the Buicl( plant, for the continu­ ous hardening of trans­ mission gears

variety and is caused by fatigue of of Transmission Gears the tooth face due to compressive stress. Small particles of the surface actually lift out, leaving numerous cavities. This produces roughness, pensations for errors introduced by are subject, namely, wear and break­ resulting in higher unit pressures distortion in hardening. age. with a cumulative effect in develop­ Gear noise usually is the most dif­ Wear occurs in several different ing further pitting. Another form ficult problem to solve in the produc­ forms. Pitting is the most common of wear is known as scoring, in which tion of passenger car transmissions. Its primary cause is improper tooth contact. This may result from faulty design, inaccurate machining, or dis­ tortion in hardening. With a design that is fundamentally correct from a purely mechanical standpoint, the ecent developments in the field of metallurgy have con­ engineer still can be of much help in the control of distortion. Often R tributed much to the mechanical excellence of the mod­ such factors as thin sections, abrupt ern passenger car. This is especially true with respect to the changes of section and other shapes transmission where high-grade alloy steels are so essential. which tend to distort badly can, with a little thought, be modified so as to Research by both the steelmaker and the car builder has lessen distortion troubles greatly. been largely responsible for the progress that has been made. Distortion and Xoise It is only by the proper co-ordination of design, material Machining and hardening, provid­ and manufacturing that the high standards of quality re­ ing the engineer has done his part, quired today can be maintained. This is emphasized in the must assume the responsibility for accompanying discussion by Mr. Schenck who has been chief gear noise. While a minimum de­ gree of distortion is desirable, it is metallurgist at Buick for 15 years, prior to which he was not essential, since suitable compen­ associated with the Duquesne works of Carnegie Steel Co. sation can readily be made in the This article, which will appear in two installments, comprises machine shop for dimensional changes providing they are suffi­ a paper presented by Mr. Schenck before a production session ciently uniform; it is variable dis­ at the annual meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers tortion which causes so much in Detroit, January 13-17. trouble. Distortion troubles may not be directly due to improper harden­ The first installment reviews current metallurgical prac­ ing- Although occurring in the tice employed throughout the industry and covers the various hardening operation, variable dimen­ gear steels in use, together with their forging, annealing, hard­ sional changes are often the result of nonuniformities in the steel which ening, drawing and physical properties. The second section, may be traced to previous processing to appear in an early issue of STEEL, is devoted to Buick and even back to the melting opera­ practice, with a detailed discussion of the material and its tion itself. processing, and a brief description of an improved method There are two general types of failure to which transmission gears of hardening now in a state of development.

February 17, 1936 / TEEL o9 9o size, special requirements covering ^ 1600 other characteristics affecting qual­ ^ /4 0 0 ity, such as normality, banding, inclu­ £ 1200 sions, macrostructure, and harden- ability, frequently are added. Carbon ^ /OOO ranges are usually limited to five aoo - points and other chemical restric­ tions are sometimes found desirable. Transmission gears are forged either in an upsetter or under a hammer. Small gears, such as the reverse idler, are sometimes ma­ T/me^ in . hours * s chined from bar stock. There is I

1 | 1 l M some difference of opinion regarding this practice although it has been u. employed successfully for a number of years. I“““ —" A bA r ; ...... "...... i Die design is of the utm ost im­ portance, especially with reference to producing a smooth flow of metal F ig■ i —Sketch oj continuous annealing furnace, with time-temperature curves and a symmetrical arrangement of above the flow lines about the axis of the gear. It is also essential that the dies be kept in good condition. the surface metal appears to be lowing S.A.E. steels in use for Increased die life at the expense of flowed and torn, producing a rough­ transmission gears: quality in the forging is often an ened condition. It is believed that expensive economy. Proper metal welding of minute areas from the 2515 3145 4615 5135 flow must be maintained uniformly heat of friction is responsible for 4620 5140 for maximum physical properties and scoring. Both pitting and scoring 4640 5145 minimum distortion in hardening. 5150 produce gear noise and may be Fortunately, we have a useful tool caused by improper design, poor These steels consist of two dis­ in the macroetch, which furnishes an contact, low surface hardness, or ex­ tinct groups with respect to carbon excellent picture of how the metal cessive overloading. content, heat treatment, and physical behaves in the die. properties. For convenience we will Tooth breakage is of two distinct Improved Furnaces Needed types— one due to brittleness or low- refer to them as “low carbon” and impact value and the other to fatigue. “high carbon,” the former compris­ Forging temperature is another They can be readily distinguished by ing 2515, 4615 and 4620, and the important factor in producing good the appearance of the fracture. latter including the balance of the gears. For each steel there is a cer­ The best safeguard against brittle­ steels in the list. The high-carbon tain temperature range which gives ness is to make frequent checks of steels represent about 9 0 per cent of the best results. The old style impact value and be sure that all the total production. manually operated forge furnace, in gears are drawn properly. Fatigue A further grouping with respect to which the control of time and tem­ failure may be caused by incorrect melting process classifies the three perature depends entirely upon the design, poor contact, low tooth 4 600 steels, with several minor ex­ skill of the heater, is still in general strength, excessive overloading, or ceptions, as electric and all the other use. It is to be hoped that recent notch effects due to undercuts, steels as open hearth. The relative developments in continuous heat roughness or scratches at the base merits of the two processes are a treating furnaces with automatic of the tooth. matter of some disagreement at the temperature regulation and con­ present time; preferences seem, in trolled atmosphere soon will be suc­ Sources of Failures most cases, to be based more on cessfully applied to forging. The factors enumerated in the theoretical considerations than on Much depends upon the operation preceding paragraphs which tend to actual data from comparative tests. of annealing, the purpose of which cause gear failure, either increase Grain size is now an important is to develop the most suitable struc­ stress or lower the ability of the part of all specifications for gear tures for machining and hardening. material to withstand stress. Pitting steels. The low-carbon steels, with Fortunately, the best structure for and fatigue breakage are true fatigue few exceptions, are ordered to a machining is usually the best for failures. They are progressive and range of 6-8 on the A. S. T. M. hardening. are due to the effect of repeated chart. Practice varies with the high- Annealing temperatures and time stress. Failure may result from carbon steels, ranges of 4-6, 5-7, cycles vary with the different steels, either a few- cycles of high stress or and 6-8 being in general use. depending upon their individual many cycles of a lower stress. If the In addition to chemistry and grain characteristics and variations in stress is below- a certain critical value for a given material and treat­ ment, an infinite number of cycles can be applied without failure. This critical value of stress corresponds * < H I « f to the fatigue limit. Failures due to V brittleness are not progressive and 500\ 1325 1500 /500 /3 2 5 ' may result from a single application I .V-. Oil of stress above the elastic limit, lar \_j\j Quench Wash Rinse which could readily be absorbed by Pre a tough material without appreciable h ea t 'ot/urnace' damage. A recent survey of the industry F ig■ 2—Diagrammatic representation of continuous cyanide hardening equip­ covering 20 companies manufactur­ ment, in which the charge is carried through preheat, four cyanide pots, quench­ ing passenger cars, shows the fol­ ing, washing and rinsing

34 /TEEL February 17, 1936 plant practice. The double treat­ tities of liigh-carbon steel gears were ment, consisting of a normalize and hardened from lead pots and at­ an anneal in two separate operations, mospheric furnaces, but recent de­ extensively used at one time, is now mands for a more wear-resisting sur­ practically obsolete, and has been face have made these older methods replaced by the single high tempera­ obsolete. ture treatment. The usual practice with low-car­ Continuous annealing furnaces bon gears is to harden directly from with automatic temperature regula­ the carburizing box. With the fine tion, as shown diagramatically in grained steels now available, this Fig. 1, are now in general use and treatment develops high physical permit much better control of the properties and greatly simplifies the annealing cycle than was possible hardening procedure. The carburiz­ with the old style batch furnace. ing temperature is usually 1700 de­ The low-carbon steels are either grees Fahr. The gears are quenched furnace cooled or air cooled through from this temperature or the box the lower critical point from temper­ may be allowed to cool 100 degrees atures in the neighborhood of 1750 or more before quenching. In cases degrees Fahr. or higher. S.A.E. where distortion requires closer 2515 steel, with its high alloy con­ control and maximum core prop­ tent, has a tendency to air harden erties are not essential, the gears are and requires slow cooling. Prac­ cooled in the carburizing box and re­ tice varies with S.A.E. 4615 and heated in cyanide to 1400-1500 de­ 4G20, some plants using an air cool grees Fahr. for hardening. and others a slow cool. In air cool­ ing, the gears should be spread out Practice in Carburizing so as to obtain as nearly uniform a The carburizing furnaces are cooling rate as possible. Sometimes usually of the continuous type with the charge is allowed to drop 1U0 automatic temperature control and degrees or more in the furnace be­ may be either fuel-fired or electric. fore discharging for air cooling. Boxes generally are made of heat- resisting alloy and are either cast, Cooling High-Carbon Steels or fabricated from rolled steel by The high-carbon steels all require welding. Both cast and rolled steel slow cooling through the lower often are used in the same box. An critical. Annealing temperatures arrangement sometimes used to in­ vary, but usually range from 1550 sure uniform quenching conditions to 1750 degrees Fahr. These steels consists of a frame in the quenching are extremely sensitive to the rate tinuous draw furnace tank, similar to the partitions in an of cooling through the Ar, tempera­ egg crate, which provides a separate ture and the greatest possible uni­ compartment for each gear. formity is necessary in order to using either a high or a compara­ Two different methods are used in maintain a desired structure. They tively low temperature for annealing. the cyanide hardening of high-carbon are also sensitive to variations in A sufficiently high temperature tends gears. The one consists of a com­ annealing temperature, an increase to produce a uniformly coarse grain, plete heating cycle in cyanide, and in temperature requiring a slower while a temperature below the coars­ the other, a cycle which starts in an rate of cooling. ening point of all the grains will de­ atmospheric furnace and finishes in A cooling rate which produces velop a uniformly fine grain. Since cyanide. The first method is the one lamellar pearlite or its equivalent coarse grained steel generally ma­ in most general use. seems to give the best all around chines more freely, the high temper­ In the first method, the gears are results. The S.A.E. 4600 steels do ature anneal should be preferable. usually preheated to a low tempera­ not readily form lamellar pearlite, High temperatures are also more ef­ ture before they are placed in the but develop a corresponding op­ fective in correcting banded struc­ cyanide bath. This removes moisture timum structure of their own which tures which sometimes occur in an and prevents explosions which might is peculiar to steels containing aggravated form, and tend to cause otherwise occur. The preheat also molybdenum. Structures containing poor machining and excessive dis­ lessens the time required to reach more than small amounts of either tortion in hardening. However, full temperature in the cyanide. The sorbite or spheroidal cementite are temperatures in excess of 1750 de­ preheat furnace may be inde­ liable to cause trouble in machining. grees Fahr., which is probably below pendently fired or it may be heated Exxcessive spheroidization in the the minimum for uniform coarsening, by the products of combustion from high-carbon steels may cause serious produce excessive scaling and high the cyanide pot. difficulties in hardening where short maintenance cost of equipment and In the second method, the stock time cycles are employed. are not used extensively. is brought to temperature in an Differences in grain size have an In modern practice, all transmis­ electric or fuel-fired atmospheric fur­ effect on pearlite formation and tend sion gears are case hardened. Low- nace and transferred to the cyanide to produce irregularities in struc­ carbon gears are pack carburized and bath. Before placing in the cyanide, ture. A fine grain must be cooled high-carbon gears are hardened from the gears usually are given a rapid through the Ar! point more rapidly cyanide or some similarly activated wrire-brushing to remove the scale than a coarse grain to develop the bath. To the best of the writer’s which forms in the first furnace. same amount of pearlite. The so- knowledge, the only exception to this The time in the cyanide varies from called duplex or mixed structures practice for high-carbon gears is a a few seconds, sometimes called a are, for this reason, more difficult to new development in controlled at­ “dip,” to an exposure of several anneal properly than either a uni­ mosphere hardening which will be minutes. The temperature of the formly coarse or fine grain. described later in this article. While cyanide may be the same as that of Since, in duplexed steel, the cyanide hardening of gears has been the atmospheric furnace or it may various sized grains start raiiid employed for many years, it is only be lower. It is generally believed growth at different temperatures, the recently that it has come into such that a drop in temperature to just best results should be obtained by general use. Formerly, large quan­ above the upper critical point before

February 17, 1936 STEEL quenching tends to reduce distor­ previously described. A suggested determine depth of case. As a result tion. rule for case depth of high carbon of these complications, it is necessary The correct time-temperature cycle gears, where more than a slight skin to use high factors of safety in de­ for hardening can best be determined is desired, specifies 0.001-inch of signing transmission gears and some by experiment. Not only the com­ cyanide case for each point of core simple rule for case depth based on position of the steel but the grain hardness below C-55. Thus, a core experience as suggested in preceding size, the annealed structure, the size hardness of C-48 would require a paragraphs. and shape of the gears, and the case depth of 0.007-inch. The tensile strength of the core of equipment available, all have a bear­ The physical properties essential low-carbon gears varies from about ing on the time-temperature com­ to durability in service are those 125,000 to 175,000 pounds per bination required to produce the best which provide adequate resistance to square inch, while that of high-car­ results. surface wear, fatigue breakage and bon gears covers a range of approx­ Equipment for cyanide hardening impact breakage. imately 200,000 to 325,000 pounds comprises a multitude of different Wear resistance is primarily a per square inch. Fatigue strength is designs and arrangements. The matter of surface hardness together seriously affected by residual stress simplest form consists of a manually with sufficient depth of case to pre­ from the quenching operation and operated single pot furnace with the vent crushing. has a much lower value than when gears placed on the brickwork around There is a rela­ higher drawing temperatures are the flange of the pot for preheating. tion between used. A draw of 750 degrees Fahr. A more advanced design is shown in depth of case and has been known to improve fatigue the drawing, Fig. 2, where the stock the resistance of resistance greatly, but the lower is carried automatically through the case and core hardness produced serious wear preheat, the four cyanide pots, the t o compressive problems. Since actual values of quench, the wash and the rinse. stress. This rela­ fatigue limit for case and core are Procedure for Drawing Gears tion, however, is much in doubt at the present time, such that the case depth required to the safest plan is for the engineer Transmission gears usually are prevent fatigue breakage is always to base his calculations upon max­ drawn at temperatures ranging from adequate to prevent crushing. imum values for permissible stress 300 to 500 degrees Fahr. Although which have been proved adequate by Fatigue breakage is caused by drawing at these low temperatures is experience. usually considered a comparatively bending stresses which exceed the (To l)c Concluded) simple operation, the importance of fatigue limit of the material. A gear accurate heating cycles cannot be tooth may be regarded as an inter­ disregarded. Continuous salt baths mittently loaded cantilever beam in are being successfully employed in which the bending stress varies from Handbook on W orm G ear one of the larger transmission plants. a maximum at the surface to zero at Electric furnaces with forced draft the center. Since the bending stress Speed Reducers Issu ed decreases from the surface inward, for circulation of the atmosphere A convenient pocket-size Handbook have overcome many of the dif­ the outer portions of the core are stressed to a degree dependent upon on Worm Gearing and Hygrade Worm ficulties previously encountered and Gear Speed Reducers has been is- are now in general use. Gas-fired the depth of case. A relation, there­ sud by the Foote Bros. Gear & Ma­ continuous furnaces with automatic fore, exists between depth of case chine Co., 5301 South Western av­ temperature control also have gone and the resistance of case and core enue, Chicago. The 86-page booklet through a period of development and to fatigue. In high-carbon gears contains engineering data on the se­ are giving satisfactory results. Fig. with a core hardness of C-50 or lection of worm gear reducers of 3 is a diagram of a vertical furnace more, this relation is usually ignored, proper capacity, input horsepower of this type. but in low-carbon gears with large ratios and ratings on the company’s Low-carbon gears are character­ differences in hardness between case products, tables on the ratios and ized by a heavy case and a soft core, and core, case depth becomes a and high-carbon gears by a light factor of major importance. Fatigue torque of double reduction speed re­ case and a hard core. may start in either case or core, de­ ducers, specifications and dimensions The case and core characteristics pending upon which is overstressed. of Hygrade reducers, information on of low-carbon gears usually fall proper lubrication, and weight and Effect on Impact Properties within the following ranges: Case price lists. The first 19 pages cover depth, 0.0 3 to 0.05-inch; case hard­ Impact failures are caused by the evolution of worm gearing and ness, Rockwell C-55 to 62; core brittleness, or perhaps more ac­ problems of efficiency, selection, and hardness, C-30 to 40. A rule for curately, by low resistance to im­ the helix angle faced by users of re­ depth of case, which has been found pact. While resistance to impact is ducers. satisfactory for low-carbon gears in primarily dependent upon material a number of instances, specifies and heat treatment, it is also “twice as much core as case.” Cor­ seriously affected by depth of case. Alloy Steel Press Bed rectly interpreted, this means a case The cores of low-carbon gears usually depth equal to 1/6 the thickness of provide sufficient toughness to pre­ Provides Durability the tooth at its base. Thus, a tooth vent impact failure regardless of any 0.24-inch thick at the base would depth of case likely to be used. Full steel bed motion has been require a case of 0.04-inch. High-carbon gears, however, are incorporated in all models of Sim­ With high-carbon gears, the case much more susceptible to this effect plex automatic flat bed cylinder and core characteristics usually and should not be cased too deeply presses, manufactured by the Miller range as follows: Case depth, 0.001 if adequate toughness is to be Printing Machinery Co., Pittsburgh. to 0.010-inch; case hardness, C-48 maintained. The forged alloy steels used in the to 58; core hardness, C-45 to 55. Unfortunately, exact stress analysis new beds provide durability and As core hardness increases, less case of gear teeth is impossible due to long life. is required until a point is reached certain factors, such as variations in Installation of an automatic oil­ where the slightly higher hardness tooth contact, surface roughness and ing system for all main and high of the case over that of the core is other defects which cause concen­ speed bearings, and the addition of insufficient to justify more than a tration of stress. Moreover, these a tachometer and a totalizer are re­ slight depth, such as that obtained same irregularities tend to destroy cent improvements in the Miller with the “dip” method of hardening the theoretical relations which should presses.

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Wickwire Spencer manufactures High and Low Carbon Wires— in various tempers, grades and finishes— for your specific purpose. Hard-Drawn, soft or annealed Basic or Bessemer Wires— Hard-Drawn annealed, or oil-tempered Spring Wire, Chrome Vanadium Spring Wire — Valve Spring — Music — Clip — Pin — Hairpin— Hook and Eye— Broom— Stapling— Bookbinding— Machinery Spring W ire— Reed Wire — Clock— Pinion — Needle- Bar— Screw Stock— Armature Binding— Brush— Card— Florist —-Mattress-— Shaped — Rope— Welding. Flat Wire and Strip Steel, High or Low Carbon— Hard, annealed or tempered— Clock Spring Steel— Corrosion and Heat Resisting Wires. Consult the Wissco technical man on your wire problems, however large or small. February 17, 1936 /TEEL enced this problem, therefore, p r e c a u ­ tionary devices incorporating springs Press Accidents Are Reduced and other ideas have been developed. The practice of the Murray Corp. of America is to attach strips of old V\ - inch belting to the top halves of the By Safety in Die Design dies immediately in front of the guide pins, as shown in Fig. 1. These strips are fastened to the dies by ma­ BY R. A. SHAW chine screws and all dies are drilled and tapped for this purpose before Department of Safety, Murray Corp. of America, Detroit leaving the die room. These strips are 100 per cent effective. I N THE manufacture and fabrica­ die became loosened from its tem­ Medium sized dies can be equipped tion of iron and steel, improved porary U-clamps and dropped down. with drilled lugs for bolting the dies safety measures are effective in Fenders are difficult articles to re­ to thé top and bottom beds of reducing accidents. In spite of the move from their dies unless the work­ presses. This type of construction is general progress, however, safety in man reaches one hand between the shown in Fig. 2. Its advantage is die design and construction has been dies. Why wasn’t this die bolted that it eliminates the present method neglected in many pressed metal properly? The answer is because the of using unsafe-built-up clamps and plants, principally because rush na­ holes in the die had not been drilled saves much time. ture of the work does not allow suf­ to correspond with the holes drilled A method now used for fastening ficient time for designing and build­ in the top bed of the press. small dies to press beds is that shown ing the dies. Certain accidents oc­ in Fig. 3. Slots or inlets are milled Correct Design Described curring in the press room are trace­ in the die edges to receive special able directly to the lack of safety pro­ The accompanying illustrations clamps. In the past, when small dies visions in dies. show several improvements which the were used on long stroke presses the Why isn’t this important item con­ Murray Corp. of America, Detroit, fillers and built-up clamping created sidered and practiced? It is because has recently incorporated in die de­ more hazards than the dies them­ the estimator of dies does not. allow sign and construction to promote selves. It will be noted from Fig. 3 sufficient time for the designer to safety in its press departments. Fig. that the special clamps will remain in develop safety features. Further­ 1 shows how large dies should be place; they cannot move back and more, comparisons of estimated jobs drilled and tapped to match the holes allow the top of the die to drop, or always are a criterion. All depart­ provided on the press. The illustra­ become loose to cause die wear and ments like to estimate low; and the tion shows also the correct manner of subsequent breakage. designer or die department never has incorporating chain slots in dies. The Murray Corp. of America is been charged with die accidents. Most companies adopted this feature firmly convinced that press accidents It might be well to consider a few in recent years, especially in the cases can be reduced through proper de­ simple safety features which will ma­ where the dies must be carried over sign of dies; accident records are terially reduce potential hazards presses to storage balconies. It is proof of this. Accidents have been when incorporated in the design of obvious that if one chain should much fewer since die design and con­ dies, for some of the most recent break, the other chain will hold the struction have incorporated safety serious accidents in press rooms of load because of the slot arrangement. features. For example, the record our most modern plants have been Because of the variety of dies used for the last half of 1935 showed an caused by the lack of these features. in certain presses, it is prevailing improvement of 65 per cent over the As an example, a workman lost four practice to equip the dies with open first half of the year. The company fingers in an automobile fender press guide pins and the temptation for administers its own safety insurance fully equipped with safety features workmen to lay hands on these pins is and its accident experience in Jan­ — all because the top half of the large great. All press rooms have experi­ uary this year was an all-time low.

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put speed of 1000 revolutions per minute for operation "I” has been Multi-Speed Drive Offers Wide maintained in connection with differ­ ent input torque ratios, of from “4:1“ to “10:1.” The belt drives Variations Without Gear Changes could as easily be designed for other top speeds, but the graph would be too intricate to be followed readily, S OMETHING new in power drives power with 1000 revolutions per thus it is here kept to simple values. is embodied in a 200-horsepower minute at output or fan drive shaft. Other Settings Possible multi-speed fan drive developed II. 50-horsepower motor held at recently for the Laclede Gas & Elec­ stationary while 150-horsepower mo­ The graph shows that four speeds tric Co., St. Louis. This drive is re­ tor pulls the load, providing the of irregular variation could be ob­ quired by the public utility company same output torque at an output tained as readily as the ones selected to operate the forced draft fans when speed of 750 revolutions per minute. for the Laclede installation. For peak electric loads are demanded; at III. 50-horsepower motor running Instance, at the "4:1” point (left- the low point in current demand, it in opposite direction from 150- hand column) speeds of 125, 440, is desirable to operate the fans at horsepower motor, providing the 570 and 1000 revolutions per minute much slower speeds. As a matter of same output torque at 500 revolu­ are derived. At the “10:1” horizon­ fact, four fan speeds are desirable to tions per minute. tal, speeds of 175, 635, 825 and 1000 provide for all conditions, with a IY. 150-horsepower motor sta­ revolutions per minute are obtained. power demand varying from 50 to tionary, with 5 0-horsepower motor It is of interest, also, to note that 200 horsepower. running in same direction as output operating condition "III” becomes This drive was developed by the providing the same output torque at the slowest output speed at “4:1” Universal Gear Corp., Indianapolis, 25 0 revolutions per minute. while operating condition “IV” be­ and four of the units, such as the In the accompanying graph, Fig. comes the slowest speed at most one shown in Fig. 1 set up for fac­ 2, the four operations just described points in the graph. tory test, are installed in the St. are represented by the horizontal at This drive does not have to be Louis power plant. Each drive con­ the line “7:1” in the column desig­ shut down for operation changeover, sists of one 150-horsepower motor nated “Ratio of Input Torque.” This it is pointed out, but can be switched equipped with a backstop, one 50- graph indicates the interesting out­ from one operating speed to any horsepower reversible m otor put speed possibilities of a drive of other without stoppage of the output equipped with magnetic brake, mul­ this character. By changing the V- drive. While the change is practic­ tiple Y-belt and line drives through belt pulley ratios, the maximum out­ ally instantaneous on the operator’s a double-quill shaft to a specially- designed speed reducer.

Entirely New Application So far as is known, the operating characteristics of this drive set-up have not previously been applied to any drive installations in industry. W ith two constant-speed 17">f>-i>.*vo- lution-per-minute mrioro of different power, one of the motors reversible, four speeds are attained with a con­ stant torque at the output shaft. In­ cidentally, 1750 revolution per min­ ute motors cost much less than slow­ er speed motors or multiple-speed motors and this was a factor of con­ siderable importance in an installa­ tion involving so much power. Speci­ fically, approximately 12,000 inch- pounds torque and constant speed from each unit for fan drive speeds of 250, 500, 750 and 1000 revolution per minute, are available. Four operating conditions are pro­ Fig. 1— This 200-horsepoioer power drive provides four speeds with a constant torque at the output shaft. It consists of a 150-horsepower motor equipped with vided with this set up: a backstop, a 50-horsepower reversible motor equipped with magnetic brake, I. Both motors running in the multiple V-belt and line drives through a double-quill shaft to a specially-de­ some direction provide 200 liorse- signed speed reducer

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accuracy if a few simple precautions are observed. Control of Electroplating Procedure When the gold plated parts are Part IV small, the most suitable procedure is to place the entire part in a suitable acid and dissolve all the base metal. T HIS is the fourth and concluding base metal with distilled water ami The gold will remain unattacked and installment of a series on factors add the washings to the silver solu­ is washed, dried and weighed. The involved in the control of electro­ tion. If the solution contains an weight of the gold in milligrams di­ plating. Previous subdivisions of the amount of silver in excess of about vided by the area of the sample in subject covered relationships between 15 milligrams, an aliquot part con­ square inches gives the weight of coat­ weights of coatings and their thick­ taining about 15 milligrams may be ing in m.s.i. ness; a test for porosity; and deter­ taken for the analysis. When the base metal is brass, use mination of nickel, composite -nickel Dilute the solution to not more than nitric acid of a fairly high concentra­ and copper, copper, chromium, com­ 30-40 cubic centimeters, w ith distilled tion for dissolving. When the gold posite chromium and nickel, zinc and water, add 0.5 cubic centimeter of the coating is applied over nickel plated tin coatings on ferrous and nonfer- ferric indicator and titrate with N/40 brass, a slight modification is neces­ rous metals. The following discus­ potassium thiocyanate to a permanent sary. Use nitric acid to dissolve all sion outlines tests for determination reddish brown end-point. A 10-cubic the brass. After the brass is com­ of precious metal coatings, and a centimeter burette should be used for pletely dissolved, the residue should second and more flexible porosity the titration and the temperature of be washed to remove all traces of test. the silver solution should not be more nitric acid and then covered with hy­

D etermination o f S il v e r than 30 degrees Cent, during the titra­ drochloric acid (sp. gr. 1.06) and tion. heated gently on a hot plate until all Solutions the nickel is dissolved. Wash, dry and The acid stripping solution consists Calculations weigh the gold residue as before. of 19 parts of concentrated sulphuric The weight of silver per unit area If the base metal is steel, dissolve acid (sp. gr. 1.84) and 1 part of con­ may be calculated from the amount of with hydrochloric acid (sp. gr. 1.06). centrated nitric acid (sp. gr. 1.41- N/40 potassium thiocyanate used in When the gold coating is on parts 1.42). the titration by using the following which are too large to be dissolved con­ Potassium thiocyanate solution form ula: veniently in this manner, the gold can should be N/40 and should be stand­ be removed mechanically with a ardized against a standard silver ni­ cc. of N/40 ICCNS x factor x 2.697 reamer or a file. Extreme care must trate solution, prepared from pure be exercised that none of the gold is silver or chemically pure silver nitrate, area of sam ple in sq. in. lost and all the filings or scrapings using the same procedure as described m.s.i. of silver where the factor == 1 should be treated by one of the above below for the analysis. if the potassium thiocyanate is ex­ methods to remove the base metal The ferric indicator used is a satu­ actly N/40. which has been scraped off with the rated solution of ferric ammonium gold. This method lias been found satis­ sulphate, made acid with nitric acid. In some cases where small parts factory for determining the weight are to be treated it may be necessary of silver over brass and other copper Procedure to scratch the gold coating to allow alloys. It is doubtful whether this Place the silver-coated sample in as the acid to get at the base metal. Care method would be satisfactory for de­ small a porcelain evaporating dish as should be exercised in such cases that termining plated silver on ferrous will hold it conveniently and add no gold is lost during the scratching metals. enough of the cool acid stripping solu­ process. tion just to cover the sample. When Determ ination of Gor.n the silver is completely dissolved from I N GENERAL, when using the above the base metal, decant the solution T HE determination of gold is a com­ methods of test, it is not satisfac­ into a 150-cubie centimeter white por­ paratively simple matter and can tory to use the “loss in weight strip­ celain evaporating dish. Wash tlm be performed with a high degree ot' ping methods” for articles which

44 STEEL February 17, 1936 qualities, as well as the continuity of the coating. This test is so simple to perform that it should be of interest to all users of electroplated products. —T h e Exo—

Improved Metal Cleaning Compounds Announced

A new emulsifying agent known as Magnus NX has been developed by the a n d TlnilhinG M agnus Chemical Co., Garwood, N. J. When added to any metal cleaning solution, in the ratio of approximately Vi -ounce per gallon, it stimulates the action of the solution. The company also has put out a now line of metal cleaners for cleaning alu­ minum, steel and brass. These are said to have superior wetting, emulsi­ fying and rinsing qualities. The com­ pany has improved its Supersil line weigh over 100 grams. Heavy articles The rate of air flow shall average of cleaners for low cost work where should be stripped completely, with­ 90 bubbles per outlet per minute and the requirements are not difficult, par­ out weighing the sample, and the solu­ should not be less than 75 or more ticularly where the economy factor is tion analyzed as described for com­ than 105 bubbles per minute. important because of heavy drag-out or posite coatings. Another method of one-time use of the solution. checking the weight of coating is to Clean Free of Grease The company’s Tripoli solvent also place small, weighed plates in the Parts to be tested should be cleaned has been improved in its effectiveness plating bath along with the largo free from grease by washing in suit­ in removing buffing compound and articles and determine the weight of able solvents, and then rinsed in al­ also in its non-staining properties. coating applied by the gain in weight cohol and dried. The parts then should Other new products of the company of the plate. When this is done it are a jeweler’s soap for cleaning fine be suspended in the test vessel by a must be remembered that the plate brass, nickel, gold, rhodium and other clean thread and should be submerged cannot be acid dipped between the metals without risk of staining or loss completely in the water which should weighing and placing in the plating of color, a new bright burnishing com­ be maintained at a temperature of bath. The plate must be thoroughly pound for brass and nickel and Mag- 60-90 degrees Fahr. The parts should cleaned before weighing and handled nusol, a “precleaning” treatment for be so arranged as to prevent contact with tweezers until it is placed in the the removal of black smut, polishing with each other, with the walls of the tanlc. Where none of these things can abrasive, etc, from steel without scrub­ vessel or with the bubbles of air issu­ be done, it will be necessary to cut bing. ing from the air jets. sections from the large sample and subject them to loss in weight strip­ The maximum surface under test ping methods. shall not exceed 30 square inches per Emulsi fied Asphalt Paint GOO cubic centimeters of water. The Aerated Water Continuity Test water in the testing vessel should be Has Improved Properties changed after each test. Before closing this discussion there This test is most suitable for zinc An improved emulsified asphalt remains one more test to be covered. and cadmium coatings. When test­ coating material is announced by This test is designed to determine the ing a sherardized coating it must be the Flintkote Co., 50 West Fiftieth porosity of metal coatings over ferrous remembered that it contains some street, New York. In addition to metals and is much more flexible than iron and when it is subjected to the having all of the usual desirable the porosity test described earlier in action of the aerated water test some properties of emulsified asphalt, the this article. of this iron oxidizes and together with new product exerts an alkaline reac­ the zinc forms a slimy coating, at first tion and is not susceptible to re- Apparatus ranging in color from white to red­ emunification. The new product is 1. Hard glass vessel for holding dish yellow and gradually turning intended for waterproofing and water. darker. At the same time small spots dampproofing and for general pro­ of a reddish brown color appear, pre­ tective purposes. 2. Series of air jets for aerating sumably marking points where the water. iron in the coating is undergoing more Procedure or less rapid oxidation. These do not Clear Finishing Lacquer necessarily indicate failure, however, The test for continuity of coating since it seems that actual base metal For Chromium Plate should be carried out by immersion rust does not always develop at these in aerated distilled water under the points. The formation of base metal Development of a clear finishing following conditions. The vessel in rust is accompanied by, and can be lacquer which adheres tenaciously to which the test is made should be made distinguished by, a wart-like growth chromium surfaces is announced by of hard glass and should be filled to of iron rust of a deep brown color. Breinig Bros. Inc., Hoboken, N. J. It a depth of at least 5 inches. To in­ This forms rapidly once the coating is said to impart a high luster to the sure uniform aeration, air outlets of is broken down. chromium finish and without destroy­ %-inch inside diameter, one for each By noting the time necessary for ing any of the color of the chromium. GOO cubic centimeters of water, should the various coatings to break down Thorough tests indicate, the company be distributed as evenly as possible in this test, the user will have a basis states, that it lends longer life to over the bottom of the testing vessel. for comparing their corrosion-resisting chromium plated surfaces.

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 45 SATURDAY EVENING POST FEBRUARY 8 NATION’S BUSINESS FEBRUARY BUSINESS WEEK FEBRUARY 8 ^YE, GRANDMA, and don’t you worry77

ilintnia lined " o l worry. A modern train is safe—saferJ than • . 0!£,„ luiine.Inline. NNot ot one single passenger was killed in a train 'f/e iit ina tli'sthis countcountry during the year 1935. What a tribute to A merican railroading,!

JTsLmerican railroads are heading toward a great future. And in this future United States Steel, world’s largest maker of steel, is proud that it will play a part. Steel built the railroads. Now it is helping to

make them even more efficient— with equipment that is stronger, lighter, more resistant to corrosion.

¿ME »»CAN 0 V*P»'N * M l " T U

AMERICAN SHEET AND TIN PLATE COMPANY, Pittsburgh • AMERICAN STEEL & W IRE COMPANY, Chicago • CARNEGIE-ILLINOIS STEEL CORPORATION, Pittsburgh and Chicago ■ NATIONAL TUBE COMPANY, Pittsburgh ■ TENNESSEE COAL, IRON & RAILROAD COMPANY, Birmingham. Pacific Coast Distributors—COLUMBIA STEEL COMPANY, San Francisco, Calif. United States Steel Corporation Subsidiaries Aiethodô and

rect studies of stress, the results can be photographed to make permanent Many Applications Foreseen for Newly records. The test is sufficiently sensitive to show the strain pro­ duced in a celluloid rod by the pres­ Developed Light-Polarizing Glass sure of one finger. Transparent products, such as bottles and glassware, can be viewed I NVENTION of a light-polarizing shown by transparent doubly-re­ directly, through the strain tester, glass, which promises innumer­ fracting- materials when viewed thus strains left in them in manu­ able scientific and industrial ap­ under polarized light.” According facturing processes can be detected. plications, has been announced by to the inventor, the new strain tester In principle, Polaroid depends for the Land-Wheelwright Laboratories simply extends the usefulness of the its polarizing effectiveness upon a Inc., 168 Dartmouth street, Boston. principle and makes it suitable for property of certain crystals known as Known as Polaroid, the new glass large scale work. dichroism. Practically all natural was only recently demonstrated In the demonstration, a model of crystals form two plane polarized publicly. Manufacturing facilities the framework of a building, made beams moving at different speeds. have been arranged in anticipation of transparent balcelite, was placed Dichroic crystals absorb one of these of heavy demand for commercial use. full length in the strain tester. When two beams internally more strongly Demonstrated by the inventor. the framework was twisted, the than the other. The new glass Edwin H. Land, Boston scientist, the points of strain in the framework makes use of a synthetic organic new glass polarizes light by simple immediately appeared in brilliant crystal of this type which absorbs transmission. As shown in the ac­ colors. Other structures, for ex­ practically all of the visible light in companying illustration, resembles ample, as gears, machine parts, and one of its plan polarized components the material clear, colorless glass. bridges, can be made in model size and transmits a large proportion of Light that has passed through it ap­ from transparent material such as the other component. pears as ordinary light; the light celluloid or transparent bakelite and The glass itself is a suspension of rays, however, are polarized so that tested similarly. In addition to dl- these minute artificial crystals in a all vibrations of the rays occur in cellulosic matrix. This matrix forms one plane. The glass is said to be a flexible film which is only a few inexpensive and is available at thousandths inch thick. However, present in disks approximately 2, 4 each square inch of the film contains and 10 inches in diameter and in in the neighborhood of one thousand sheets in unlimited sizes. billion of the small crystals. Scientific Researches Aided In the process of manufacture, all of these billions of crystals are uni­ The new development is expected formly oriented, lying side by side to result in advances in the practical in the matrix. For this reason, says perfection of television, in pho­ the inventor, the film is optically tometry, in ophthalmology, in polar­ equivalent to a large single crystal. izing microscopes, experiments in The crystalline structure is so minute the psychology of vision, gloss meters that it remains invisible under micro­ in color matching and a number of scopic examination at a magnification other scientific fields, in some of of 1100. which important areas have been unexplored because of the incon­ s $ $ venience and high cost of previous sources of polarized light. High-Tensile Alloy Steel Known applications for the glass Include removal of glare from auto­ Withstands Loading Test mobile headlights; commercial pro­ Single sheets of the new light-polariz­ Strength and load carrying ability jection of life-like, three-dimensional ing glass are clear and colorless. Two movies; strain testing of engineering of the new nickel-copper, high-tensile sheets, one over the other, may be clear alloy steel, Yoloy, developed in 1935 structures; theatrical color illumina­ or blac\, depending upon how they are tion; one-way vision window glass; by the Youngstown Sheet & Tube colorless sun glasses; and improved turned in relation to each other. In the Co., Youngstown, O., was demon­ illumination for oil paintings. In the illustration, the sheets are being strated recently by the Coburn Trol­ One of the uses for the new glass held with their polarizing axes at right ley Track Co., Holyoke, Mass. is in a strain tester, a device which angles, blocking out all the light. The A 3-foot section of regular NoTl operates on the well-known principle light can be varied by simply turning track formed from 16-gage hot rolled —-“the interference color phenomena one of the sheets open-hearth steel stood up under load

48 /TEEL February 17, 1936 RESISTING STEEL ( . I m a k e m ,o n

k H ’ replacement. JgG ii

W ELL! That’s one way to look at it . . . but the fellow who must constantly be paying out perfectly good money for equipment replacements soon grows a bit exasperated. He knows that hi-manganese steels have been available, but the costs have always seemed en­ tirely too high ... and so he has suffered abrasion-resisting steel. It has estab­ in silence and gone on paying for re­ lished some outstanding records, in fact placements of plain carbon steel. one customer found that it stood up However, Carnegie- better than 11/14% manganese steel, ,,B Illinois Steel Corpo- white cast iron, rubber and other high ll ration developed AR cost materials that had been tried. Steel ... to meet the We suggest you send for our new demand fora low-price bulletin on AR abrasion-resisting steel.

CARNEGIE-ILLINOIS STEEL CORPORATION - Pittsburgh - Chicago Pacific Coast Representatives COLUMBIA STEEL COMPANY, San Francisco Export Representatives: UNITED STATES STEEL PRODUCTS CO., New York

February 17, 1936 / TEEL 49 of over five times its rated capacity appeared In the Oct. 2 8 issue of The committee keeps a record of — 300 pounds on a 3-foot span— S t e e p , page 22. locations where signs are left, and and failed finally with a load of 1670 In one instance, a tool bit is still checks them off as d ep artm en t pounds. A Yoloy section, made in the In service after being used in cham­ heads turn in the signs after clean­ sam e gage, w as loaded to 3320 pounds fering the ends of 75,000 screw m a­ up jobs are completed. The results without appreciable failure and as chine parts. In another, a bit is said are said to be a rapid cleaning of de­ the supporting members failed at to be making %-inch cuts at a speed partments that needed it, and great­ this point, further work was discon­ of 150 feet per minute, turning high ly increased employe interest in good tinued. The nickel-copper track carbon spindles, and showing excep­ plant housekeeping. showed a permanent deflection of ap­ tionally favorable results. $ S $ proximately 14 -inch in a 3-foot $ $ $ length, as compared with complete W atch Cases of Stainless failure of the regular track. Clean-Up Signs Encourage Steel in Unusual Position Trolley track of the type manufac­ Good Plant Housekeeping tured by the Coburn company is Utility of stainless steel in many overhead track used for monorail In the interest of good housekeep­ industrial usages is unsurpassed; systems, sliding doors, and the like. ing, a southern plant places the re­ often the only deterrent to its adop­ The test indicated the extent to sponsibility of inspection in the tion is the high cost of the material. which high-tensile steel can carry hands of the employes themselves. Recently experiments were conducted heavier loads without increasing the The manager appoints a plant inspec­ with the manufacture of watch cases weight of construction. Permissible tion group of three; the personnel of of this steel. In this instance, the re­ unit stress is increased without this group is changed each month verse of the above appears to be change in design. and is drawn from employes in all true— the material is actually too in­ departments. expensive to be popular. $ $ $ This committee is supplied with In this connection, a leading watch Tools of New Molybdenum signs 7 x 22 inches on which are manufacturer states: “There is no painted in large red letters "Clean­ question but what stainless steel Steel Give Good Service ing Up Needed Here—Inspection cases will outwear any chromium Committee." When the committee plate or some of the cheaper gold- Broaches and reamers made of the comes upon a condition requiring at­ filled cases. Its durability is without new molybdenum high speed steel tention, it leaves a sign. The sign question, but its acceptance in the produced by the Jessop Steel Co., stands out so prominently that jewelry trade has been rather slow Washington, Pa., under the trade­ everyone in the department, and due to the fact it is not a precious name Mogul, are reported to be mak­ other departments as well, can see metal. Our reason for using it is to ing a number of interesting service it. Department heads are told they permit us to get into a price range records. The company’s announce­ have 24 hours in which to have the that is not possible by using filled ment of this new molybdenum steel sign removed by cleaning up. cases.”

Hard Faced Teeth Resist Wear

j - J ARD facing has greatly facilitated one of the most im­ their way through earth and stone an approximate distance portant developments in recent years in the sinking of 70 feet to bed roc\. The teeth are cut with an oxy- of caissons. Vertical steel cylinders, up to 8 feet in diam­ acetylene torch after which they are hard faced with Hay- eter, with saw teeth cut in the lower end, rotate and cut stellite composite rod. Photo courtesy Hay ties Stellite Co.

50 /TEEL February 17, 1936 structures for certain definite appli­ cations. Harry Rayner, Dodge Bros., Properties of Superheated Cast Iron Detroit, expressed the opinion that if the carbon content could be held low, high-silicon iron would prove better for cylinder block castings. Discussed at Foundry Conference Armand Di Giulio, Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Mich., presented a paper on "Effects of Superheating Tempera­ FFECTS of superheating upon ture causes decrease in strength of E ture Alone on Gray Iron Mixtures.” physical properties of gray cast g ray iron. In introducing his discussion, Mr. Di iron were considered at the an­ 5— Heating to superheating tem­ Giulio questioned several phases of nual foundry short course held at peratures and holding the bath at the test procedure followed by Mr. East Lansing, Mich., Feb. 7, under these temperatures causes increase in Surls and Mr. Sefing, among them the auspices of Michigan State college, strength, loss of carbon and gain in use of the optical pyrometer in meas­ American Foundrymen’s association, silicon. Much of this increase in uring the temperature inside the elec­ and Detroit chapter of the A.F.A. strength can be attributed to changes tric furnace. Approximately 100 foundrymen at­ in analyses. The speaker then discussed certain tended. Y. A. Crosby, Climax Molybdenum parts of a paper, “Factors Affecting Practically all discussion revolved Co., Detroit, presented a paper on the Structure and Properties of Gray around a report, “Properties of Gray “Structures of Gray Iron and Their Cast Iron” presented at the Toronto Iron Castings as Affected by Super­ Effects on Physical Properties.” Mr. convention of the A.F.A., and repre­ heating Temperatures,” prepared by Crosby spoke on the various struc­ senting work carried on at the Uni­ M. F. Surls and F. G. Sefing, Michi­ tures found in cast iron. He dis­ versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, gan State college engineering experi­ cussed the strengthening effect of Mich., by Mr. Di Giulio and Prof. ment station. The paper, result of silicon and stated that the study is A. E. White. In that test, conducted two years research, contained the complicated by various factors in ad­ in an indirect arc type electric fur­ following conclusions: dition to time and temperature. He nace with metal charged consisting showed that it is difficult to predict 1— Superheating of gray cast iron of 90 per cent remelt and 10 per cent strength properties from a study of mixtures results in little or no in­ steel scrap, it was found that super­ microstructures. crease in strength of metal provided heating produced improvements of chemical analysis remains constant. Silicon Content Discussed about 8.5 per cent in physical prop­ 2— Gray irons heated to 2900 de­ erties of the iron. H. S. A ustin, Buick M otor Co., grees Fahr. or above show a definite Flint, Mich., asserted that it is dang­ A. H. Dierker, research engineer, dendritic formation when carbon con­ erous to go too high with the silicon Ohio State university, Columbus, O., tent is 3 per cent or below. in castings which have variations in stated work on superheating has been 3— Superheated irons show a den­ sections. In small castings, 2.65 to under way at that university but no dritic structure when poured into 2.70 per cent is likely to be danger­ results have been published because light sections and a normal structure ous when castings have irregular sec­ as yet it is impossible to arrive at a when poured into heavy sections. tions. Mr. Crosby was in favor of point where composition of the metal 4—Presence of a dendritic struc­ employing irons having particular (Please turn to Page 65)

Automatic Camshaft Tester

T N ACCURACIES arising in former snap-gage measure- ■* ment of camshafts in the Rouge plant of Ford Motor Co. have been overcome largely by this electrically operated, automatic tester designed by Ford engineers. If any of the 25 measurements made by the machine exceed the plus or minus tolerances of 0.00025-inch in some places and 0.0001- inch in others, the spot is marked and the shaft discharged through a chute separate from the accurate shafts. The machine, which inspects the entire Rouge output, also has made it possible to reduce rejections by revealing any slight inaccuracies resulting from grinding operations

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 51 " What a trail-blazer, Lad, this P A Airliner, the China Clipper. . . clipping 17V2 days off the Pacific hop . . . on regular schedule. . . the largest type that Martin or anyone else in the U. S. has built! Doesn’t this China Clipper give us a queue for progress?’’

“Righto, P op ... and here too ...A HOP THAT CLIPPED 25/ FROM EVERY WELDING $" • "They hopped off from the mire of obsolescence — "Their welding current doesn’t have the usual fire­ retired their old welding machines and cut the cost of cracker peaks; so it cuts down spatter, saves electrodes welding 25 per cent, with modern 'Shield-Arcs’ and kilowatt hours.

"These high-capacity 'Shield-Arc’ welders permit the "Fly your ship o f progress with 'Shield-Arc’ aboard and operator to set a faster pace — to get more bead-feet you’ll span many a sea of high costs!” T he LINCOLN per hour. Working at high-heat, he can use larger Electric Company, Dept. Y -210, Cleveland, O. sized electrodes — which cost less per pound.

Largest Manufacturers of CUTS WELDING TIME 25% TO 50% Arc Welding Equipment in the World

CUTS ELECTRODE COSTS 15% TO 25% BLAZE YOUR WAY TO PROFITS CUTS POWER COSTS 10% TO 20% WITH "Shield-Arc” WELDING

52 /TEEL February 17, 1936 Historical Notes O n Diamonds in Industry U / c ld i. etc. • • When diamonds are mentioned, it is customary to think at once ot jewelry and precious stones. A sec­ ond important use of diamonds, dis­ covered shortly after the value of — *■ their decorative effect was realized, is in industrial processes, such as for drawing dies, grinding wheels and the like. by Robert Kink ead Since the first discovery of dia­ monds by the Hindus of India be­ tween 800 and GOO B. C. and the subsequent application of them in­ J N TH IS column, the author, well- dustrially, people in all continents \nown consulting engineer in weld­ have become aware of their commer­ Wisdom Born of Experience ing. is given wide latitude in present­ cial as well as decorative possibili­ ing his views. They do not necessarily ties. Diamonds were in industrial HE metallurgy and heat cycle of coincide with those of the editors of use in China in the third century, T welding operations would seem to S t e e l . they are mentioned commercially in bo the basis of all engineering in con­ the Arabian Nights and in the tale nection with welding. But there is of Sinbad the Sailor. something else. It is experience in The romantic story of the com­ making, rolling and forming metals. point should be self evident. The mercial applications of diamonds is Recently a fine old steelmaker told steel industry does not have to wait set forth in a 1600-word detailed us that all this recent development in account prepared by Sydney Hobart for someone to invent a new kind of welding had left him far behind and Ball, prominent mining engineer and a home to sell more steel. The mar­ that he knew nothing of welding. In ket is waiting for action which may member of the firm of Rogers, Mayor the course of a half-hour conversation, & Ball, New York, for Diamonds in be roughly described as lifting the it developed that he had welded many Industry, published by J. K. Smit & seat of the p an ts off the chair and of the alloy steels which are bother­ going out to sell steel. Son Inc., New York. Copies are avail­ ing the welding fraternity and that able upon request to this company. the work had been done 15 and 20 years ago. An unusual welding job on an alloy was in progress at the Build It or Buy It? time and, without an instant’s hesi­ Tu rning and Boring in tation, he specified the only method I NCREASED requirements for,welded by which it could be accomplished steel construction have brought, up Modern Machine Shops successfully. He actually knew more the question in many companies of about welding than most people who whether to do the work in the plant Turning and Boring Practice, by deal w ith it. or to buy it on the outside from those Fred H. Colvin and Frank A. Stanley; Scattered through the steel mills of who have the equipment and facilities. 453 pages, 6 x 9 inches; published by the country are these fine old master If the work is to be done outside, the McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York; sup­ craftsmen who have fought with, have purchaser should specify with reason­ plied by S t e e l , Cleveland, for $ 4 , plus 1 5 cents for postage; in Europe by Pen- been defeated by, and have conquered able precision the type and size of ton Publishing Co. Ltd., Caxton House, their fickle mistress, steel, all their the welds he wants. Failure to do Westminster, London. lives. The welding fraternity needs this makes it impossible to compare their council and wisdom born of ex­ prices. Machine shops have developed prac­ perience. While the vendor’s background of tices that use so many tools that it is experience in the particular work in­ impossible to discuss them all in one volved is important, that does not volume and the authors have special­ eliminate the necessity of common un­ ized in this volume, limiting them­ derstanding of what is to be furnished selves to those used in turning and Markets for M etal in the line of welding. boring operations. These include en­ gine and turret lathes in automatic and W ELD ING of steel fu rn itu re is Inspection should be used to estab­ semiautomatic types and three types the battleground of the weld­ lish the fact that the welds specified of boring machines used in modern ing processes. Resistance welding, are actually furnished. The vendor’s shops. arc, gas and atomic hydrogen proc­ honesty is not questioned in insisting esses are in continual competition to on inspection; the financ’al respon­ Elements of lathe work are given do the best job at the least cost. Steel sibility for safety of the job in llie first and then modern examples of tur­ producers who are impatient at the interest of the purchaser is at stake. ret lathe and screw machine work. delays in designing an acceptable Honesty of intent is the least factor This section is particularly complete as steel home would do well to make in the situation which requires in­ a guide to operation of automatic themselves acquainted with the work spection. screw machines and methods of tool­ the steel furniture industry is doing. Paying fancy prices for welded con­ ing for a variety of work. This industry is already equipped to struction may come about because the Boring operations include horizon­ manufacture in steel any metal as­ purchase price appeared low due to the tal and vertical machines and the new semblies which might ever be re­ fact that the supplier did not kn6\v single-point machines now used where quired in a home. what he was supposed to furnish. It great accuracy is required. The market for the products the is also a fact that many suppliers Particular attention is paid to the industry makes is far less than I will submit a price without reading new cutting alloys and new materials per cent saturated. If the reader is the specifications and do the work the shop man must know how to sitting in a wood chair at a wood without reference to them. That kind handle. desk in a room with wood trim, the of performance costs money.

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 53 initial installations have been made, the results have quickly demonstrat­ Automatic Combustion Control for ed the value of automatic control and additional installations have usually followed. Furnaces and Boilers Improved Fuel Saving Effected Nor are the advantages of the im­ BY E. W. WAGENSEIL proved types of control equipment by any means limited to metallurgi­ General Sales Manager, Hagan Corp., Pittsburgh cal furnaces. A few mills are now in­ stalling high pressure boilers and these, of course, will be completely IX years ago Corp., for instance, not only kept its S equipped with the modern combus­ when steel entire engineering staff busy on such tion control apparatus. A large per­ product ion, development work during the de­ centage of the older boiler plants, along with other pression years, but actually em­ however, are either operating under business, abrupt­ ployed additional expert designers the handicap of manual control or ly started down for this purpose. As a result, our au­ with inadequate or antiquated types hill, the applica­ tomatic combustion control equip­ of control which render high operat­ tion of automatic ment available today is far superior ing efficiencies impossible. Engi­ combustion con­ to that offered prior to the depres­ neers and operators of such plants trol to metal­ sion. usually are aware of the satisfac­ lurgical furnaces Improves Quality of Steel tory returns in the way of fuel sav­ w a s receiving ing, uniform maintenance of pres­ the active con­ This improvement in design is of sure and labor saving that could be sideration of engineers and opera­ vital interest and of real advantage secured with modern control equip­ to the steel industry. The ever in­ tors in a large number of steel ment, but are frequently unable to plants. Prior to that time, automatic creasing demands of steel purchasers interest the management in the for greater uniformity of steel qual­ control had been in general use in spending of the necessary funds. steel mill boiler plants, but compara­ ity and reduced tolerances have pre­ Those few plants which have real­ tively few installations had been sented new problems in the making ized the advantages to be gained and made on open-hearth furnaces, billet, of steel in open hearths and the have made such improvements are and slab-heating furnaces. The cur­ heating of ingots, billets and slabs, getting excellent returns on the tailment of expenditures for new which can be met successfully and money they have spent. As an ex­ equipment, which quickly followed economically only by the close con­ ample, during the past year, we in­ the general decline in business, put trol of furnace operation made pos­ stalled automatic combustion control an end temporarily to further in­ sible by accurate and reliable auto­ on six stoker-fired boilers in one of stallations; but engineers, encour­ matic control equipment. the boiler houses of a large steel Engineers and operators in the aged by favorable results obtained plant. The resultant saving in fuel on installations previously made, mills are fully aware of this situa­ has been approximately 5 per cent, tion and practically all new furnaces continued to lay plans for additional which will pay for the total cost of equipment when business again installed during the past two years installation in less than six months. or so have been equipped with mod­ picked up. As a result of this showing, this ern control apparatus. In many cases, plant has recently purchased control Concentrated on Developments however, mill managements have equipment for eight boilers in an­ failed to heed the pleas of their en­ Results obtained on some furnace other of its plants. installations had not been entirely gineers for funds to purchase con­ satisfactory due to lack of sensitivity trol equipment for existing furnaces, Those steel mills, particularly and reliability of some of the control thereby failing to attain the better where blast furnace gas, coke oven equipment available at that time. practice and reduction in costs that gas, or coke breeze are burned in Wise control manufacturers, when moderate expenditures would make boilers, in addition to coal, and which new business became scarce, direct­ possible. Where progressive manage­ are not now equipped with satisfac­ ed the activities of engineers and de­ ment has granted expenditures for torily functioning automatic combus­ signers toward the improvement of such equipment, the improvement in tion control should give careful con­ their apparatus and the development quality of product and the reduc­ sideration to the coal and labor sav­ of new equipment capable of con­ tion in costs per ton of steel pro­ ing which could be made by the-in­ trolling pressures and flows within duced has far more than offset the stallation of a modern control sys­ closer limits than had previously cost of the installation in a short tem. This system would utilize their been thought possible. The Hagan period of time. In those mills where (Please turn to Page 65)

54 /TEEL February 17, 1936 Prevent Intergranulär Corrosion

OF AUSTENITIC CHRÖMIUM-NICKEL STEEL with F

® Ferrocolumbium provides a corrosion. The valuable properiiesof simple and economical means of 18-8 stainless steel are not impaired. adding columbium io chromium- Columbium-bearing 18-8 stainless nickel sieels. Columbium inhibits steel can be used after welding iniergranular deterioration of the with columbium-bearing welding austenitic chromium-nickel steels rod without subsequent annealing. when exposed concurrently to high Columbium is retained in the weld temperatures and chemical corro­ metal and adjacent areas to such sion. It makes possible the use of an extent that susceptibility to in­ 18-8 stainless steel at temperatures iergranular corrosion is eliminated. betw een 1000 deg. F. an d 1500 deg. F. There is no increased susceptibil­ without developing iniergranular ity io iniergranular attack along the weld seam. Electromei can supply you with Ferrocolumbium and assist you in its advantageous use. The booklet

BNI0N CARBIDE AND "Effects of Columbium in Chromium- CARBON CORPORATION Nickel Sieels" will be sent you on

CHROMIUM COLUMBIUM request. Write for your copy today. High-Carbon Ferrochrome (maxi­ XT mum 6% carbon) TUNGSTEN Low-Carbon Ferrochrome (in ELECTRO METALLURGICAL COMPANY grados, maximum 0.06% to maximum 2.00% carbon) MANGANESE Unit of Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation Chromium Metal Standard Ferromanganese Chromium-Copper 78 to 8 2 % H i H M iscellaneous Chromium Alloys Low-Carbon Ferromanganese CARBIDE and CARBON BUILDING Medium-Carbon Ferromanganese 30 EAST 42nd STREET • NEW YORK, N. Y. SILICON Spiegeleisen M anganese Metal Ferrosilicon 15% Ferrosilicon 50% M anganese-Copper Ferrosilicon 75% M iscellaneous M anganese Alloys Ferrosilicon 80 to 90% ■w Ferrosilicon 90 to 95% Refined Silicon SILICO-MANGANESE (minimum 97% Silicon) All grades including Silico-Spiegel Calcium Silicon Electromet Calcium-Aluminum-Silicon Calcium-M anganese-Silicon VANADIUM Ferro-Alloys S’Metals M iscellaneous Silicon Alloys A ll G r a d e s •V BRIQUETS ZIRCONIUM (Patented) 35 lo 40% Zirconium . Chrome Briquets Silicon Briquets 12 to 15% Zirconium M anganèse Briquets Al'uminum-Zirconium

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 55 Truck Powers Welding Generator

D O W E R for field arc welding generators now can be supplied by the motor of the trucf hauling the equipment through the application of a power tafe-ofj either directly to the drive or to the side. Made of chromc-nic\el steel, power take­ off in the above unit weighs 100 pounds installed. Antifriction ball and roller bearings are used. The unit will transmit 120 brafe horsepower at 2800 revolutions per minute on a 110-pound torque. Either a 200- or 300-ampere welding gen­ erator can be operated by a I /-to n truc\ motor. The unit, manufactured by the Hercules Steel Products Co., Galion, 0 ., in conjunction with the Lincoln Electric Co., Cleveland, is adaptable to all maizes and models of trucks

Parade of Progress in Pictures

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No Skidding Here

JLTEAVIER sections of rolled steel than were formerly used are fabricated in the illustrated network of small mesh for industrial plant floor armoring. It pro­ vides a long-wearing, nonsfid floor surface at a low annual maintenance cost. The mesh can be used on both old and new floors and over concrete, brief, wood and other types of surfaces. It is laid flush with the finished floor line and filled with concrete or asphalt, giving a smooth and even surface. Installation is quicf and easy because these large sections simply are rolled out life rugs and joined to­ gether with steel pins inserted three to the lineal foot. The photograph shows a section of mesh, made by Acme Steel Co., Chicago, being installed

56 /TEEL February 17, 1936- “ Dairy Bar“ Finished in Porcelain Enamel

E A U TY and uniqueness are combined in this porcelain enameled, frameless steel "Dairy Bar” erected recently in Cincinnati by Cincinnati Mfg. Co. This building, 38 feet long and 24 feet wide, is utilized as a lunch room and confec­ tionery. The chassis is entirely of frameless steel, the side walls and flat roof being made from steel sheets. The materials were prefabricated by Insulated Steel Construction Co., Middletown, 0 ., in co-operation with American Rolling Mill Co. Exterior and interior walls are covered with black and white porcelain enameled panels applied with frameless steel clip-strip. Made of stainless steel, this clip- strip provides two continuous tension points which hold the enameled sheets in place; at the same time it flashes the joint and leaves a bead of stainless steel covering the joint. Metallic and porcelain enameled effects are carried out in interior fixtures and decorations

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Bearing Plate Hand Finished

^ R O U N D and hand lapped within 0.0005-inch, this runner plate for a Kingsbury thrust bearing for one of the Norris dam generators was made in the East Pittsburgh, Pa., works of the Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. It is 75 inches in diameter and 4/2 inches thick■ A "dead-smooth” finish free from scratches is required to prevent wear of the bearing materials, therefore, it was necessary to hand finish the plate with special oil stones

February 17, 1936 / TEEL 57 ^ n n o u n c i n j . . .

THE ACQUISITION OF THE WOOSTER, OHIO PLANT

OF THE MACKINTOSH-HEMPHILL COMPANY

BY United Engineering and Foundry Company

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U n i t e d Engineering and Foundry Company is pleased to announce they have acquired by outright purchase, February 5 th, {1} the manufacturing plant at Wooster, Ohio of Mackintosh-Hemphill Company, and {2} all drawings and p a ttern s of that company used in the manufacture of rolling mill equipment. Replacement parts, both rough and machined castings, and complete mills and machines which the Mackintosh-Hemphill Company designed and built are now offered by UNITED; such equipment includes:

Universal Mills 3-High Balanced Sheet M ills designed for application of automatic tables and continuous furnaces Cut M ill Pinions Hot Strip M ills for modified tonnages Precision Thrust Bearings for rod and merchant bar mills, And other rolling mill equipment

The Wooster, Ohio plant will be an ac- The plant, one hundred and fifty miles tive production unit of UNITED. It covers northwest of Pittsburgh, is well situated to eleven acres with machine shop, forge shop, serve the steel districts of Chicago, Detroit, and fitting and erecting floor. The heavy Ohio and Pittsburgh. machinery section is entirely modernized. A direct company telephone connects Single pieces up to about 300,000 pounds UNITED’S plants at Wooster, Youngstown, may be handled and the largest rolling mill Canton, Vandergrift, Pittsburgh and the machinery may be assembled. general offices at Pittsburgh.

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of a series of parallel bars on which Hot Rolled Sheet Packs Are Delivered ball bearing wheels are mounted. The pack striking the bumper plate engages an electric limit switch which starts the motor operating a To Shears by System of Conveyers mechanism to lift the five parallel bars so as to discharge the packs by gravity from this point to the squar­ Conveying hot rolled sheets from finishing pass and is received by the ing shears. This is shown in the ac­ the finishing stand to the squaring automatic catcher table and wheel companying illustration. A feature shear with the added feature of per­ conveyer, it is conveyed up a slight of the use of parallel bars on the mitting sheet packs to be removed incline by a drag chain conveyer and wheel conveyers in this case is to af­ and returned for a reheat and addi­ delivered to a right angle automat­ ford quick cooling of the sheets so tional rolling is accomplished at a ically operated transfer. This is built that they may be handled conven- sheet mill in the Pittsburgh district by a novel conveyer system. The combination system of hot rolling is employed, each stand of rolls being equipped with a feeder and catcher table furnished by the Wean Engi­ neering Co. Inc., Warren, O. Diverted Through Doubler As the roughed down sheets come from the mill and are received by the catcher table they continue straight ahead on a wheel conveyer. When near the end of this conveyer, a workman with a pair of tongs pulls the sheet onto another wheel con­ veyer placed at right angles which /T’/a n V/c^y- discharges it onto the floor near the 7 mechanical doubler. After the sheets are matched they automatically are Plan view of conveyer system which serves a doubled and then returned to the sheet mill of the combination type and min­ charging end of the sheet furnace by imizes manual handling of sheets from the a chain conveyer for reheating. mill to the squaring shears -f/7<î0riS ~ When the pack has received its

System of conveyers for transferring sheets from the hot mill to the shears. When the parallel bars (indicated by arrows') are elevated, the sheets are discharged by gravity to the transfer bed

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 59 iently at the shears. This is depicted a high-speed recording galvanometer. for crane bridge track wheels from by the illustrations. A dot made on the chart shows the 18 to 30 inches in diameter and A series of ball transfers on vert­ temperature of each piece of steel. wheel loads from 15,000 to 130,000 ical standards are located in front pounds. A second table lists toler­ of the shears, spaced far enough ances and fits for cones and cups in apart so that the operators can work Develops Special O ils for housings and on shafts from 1 to 8 in and around about the shears inches diameter, while a third table while manipulating the hot pack, Roll Neck Bearings lists crane hook bearing recommen­ placing it in position for shearing dations for loads ranging from 2000 to size. An important development in bear­ to 400,000 pounds. ing design for rolling mills is the The conveyer system was built by This crane supplement, 8V2 x 11 the Mathews Conveyer Co., Ell wood recent introduction of sleeve-type inches, punched to fit a standard 3- City, Fa. hearings on roll necks, such as the ring binder, will serve a useful pur­ Morgoil bearing manufactured by pose in making up preliminary draw­ ♦ ♦ ♦ Morgan Construction Co., Worcester, ings and tentative bearing selections. Curtails Radiation Losses Mass., and the Iverson bearing sup­ Copies may be obtained by addressing plied by Mesta Machine Co., Pitts­ the company. Stripping large ingots one at a burgh. time and immediately charging them These bearings are lubricated with into the soaking pits has been adopt­ a high viscosity oil in a circulating Mechanical Properties of ed as standard, practice by a steel­ system under pressure. The oil must maker in the Great Lakes district. possess high demulsibility in order to Tin-Base Alloys Studied separate out any water which may The ingot mold train is shunted into A paper on the mechanical prop­ find its way into the oiling system. the soaking pit building over a track erties of tin-base alloys and two on Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, New which parallels the ingot chariot the electrodeposition of bronze have York, and Penóla Inc., are supplying track. Spanning the soaking pit de­ been issued by the International Tin a line of oils for this service, known partment are three cranes— two for Research and Development council, as Teresso 100, 120 and 140. The serving the pits and one for stripping. 149 Broadway, New York. Publica­ numerical designations refer to their As soon as an ingot is stripped of its tion No. 26 of series A is a report approximate viscosities at 210 de­ mold one of the pit cranes charges on researches into the possibility of grees Fahr. it into the furnace. The other pit obtaining tin-base alloys, as bearing crane is used for transferring heated metal, solders and pewter, with ingots from the pits to the chariot greater strength than is now pos­ which delivers them to the approach Symposium on Silicosis sible. D. J. M acnauglitan, director of table serving the blooming mill. By the council, and B. P. Haigh are au­ this arrangement of quick charging a Published in Booklet thors of the paper. large portion of the original heat of An alkaline stannate-cuprocyanide the ingot is conserved and a better Steel Founders’ Society of America, type bath, which has given promise surface on the finished steel is ob­ 1732 G raybar building, New York, has of suitability for industrial use in published in a 36-page booklet excerpts tained. the electrodeposition of bronze, was from a symposium on “Silicosis and ♦ ♦ ♦ used by Mr. Macnauglitan and S. Occupational Disease Legislation” con­ Baier in researches described in ducted in Cleveland, Nov. 15. The publication No. 27. Bronze deposits Container is Unbreakable booklet contains the introductory re­ up to 1/32-inch or more in thick­ marks of F. A. Lorenz Jr., president ness were produced. Oiler bottles of a cellulose acetate of the society, who presided at the M. C. Bechard is the author of plastic and with a high degree of symposium, three papers, and the dis­ publication No. 28, which deals with transparency are replacing glass oiler cussion of these papers. experiments with bimetallic anodes of containers because of the tendency of The three papers were presented by glass to crack and shatter when sub­ O. E. Mount, secretary, American Steel tin and copper. jected to shock and vibration. The de­ Foundries, Chicago; E. O. Jones, con­ sign of the plastic bottle and stem, sultant, industrial relations bureau, which is attached to a hinged metal National Founders association; and Directory of Iron and fitting though which oil is fed to the Donald Cummings, field director, Sara­ housing of the bearing, permits ready nac Laboratories, Saranac Lake, N. Y. Steel^Plants Is Revised inversion of the container for filling. Even though a careless oiler should al­ D irectory o/ Iron and Steel Plants, 1936; fabrilcoid, 449 pages, 5 x 7% low the bottle to strike against the ma­ Prepares Supplement on inches; published by Steel Publica­ chine the toughness of the plastic pre­ tions Inc., Pittsburgh; supplied by vents breakage. The bottle is molded Crane Roller Bearings S t e e l , Cleveland, for ? 1 0 , postpaid; in in two pieces and cemented together. Europe by Penton Publishing Co. Ltd., ♦ ♦ ♦ A 20-page crane section, constitut­ Caxton House, Westminster, London. ing a supplement to the Timken En­ In the form and style of previous Provides Graphic Record gineering Journal, has just been is­ editions this handy volume presents a sued by the Timken Roller Bearing list of companies and officials operat­ Temperature of steel being rolled Co., Canton, O. In this section are ing blast furnaces, steel plants, roll­ is recorded graphically and auto­ illustrated typical layouts for the ap­ ing mills, by-product coking plants, matically on a chart moved accord­ plication of the company’s tapered structural steel plants and boiler and ing to time by a newly devised in­ roller bearings to all types of crane tank shops in the United States and strument, thus providing the superin­ m achinery. Canada. tendent of the mill with a production Applications to cross travel, hoist, In addition to the alphabetical ar­ and temperature record of each piece line and drum shafts, together with rangement by company names a geo­ of steel rolled. The measuring ele­ drive mountings, wheel mountings graphical index is provided for each ment, mounted near the mill, is a for tapered tread track wheels, as division, under state and city names. small thermocouple which receives well as flat or radius treads, sheaves, The listings also give equipment, through a lense the heat radiated blocks and hooks, are shown as products, capacity, capital and railroad from the steel. Current generated equipped with Timken bearings. A facilities, as well as branch offices and by the thermocouple is measured by table gives bearing recommendations subsidiaries.

60 / TEEL February 17, 1936 Men are no longer handicapped and greater economy have been by material in the practical inter­ sought and attained. Timken tech­ pretation of their dreams and ideals. nicians are constantly striving to Timken Alloy Steels and Alloy Stee discern and anticipate future needs. Seamless Tubes have made impor­ We invite discussion of your manu­ tant contributions to many recent de facturing problems and service re­ velopments in industry and transporta quirements in the modernization of exist­ tion where higher speeds, increased safety ing products and the creation of new ones.

THE TIMKEN STEEL 6- TUBE COMPANY, CANTON, OHIO

Copyright I93Ô by The Tim hen Steel 6** Tube Com pany

TIMKENELECTRIC FURNACE AND OPEN ALLOY HEARTH «ALL STANDARD STEELS AND 5PECIAL AN ALYSE5

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 61 À/eu/ £

General Utility Welder— passes through the machine. Out-of- roundness of the wire, due to wear Harnischfeger Corp., Milwaukee, of the drawing die, is corrected by recently introduced a new arc welder the roll pressure, plus the action of of 150-ampere capacity and powered the revolving of the roll. The higher by a small air-cooled gasoline engine. the roll pressure, the more pro­ Designated model W-150, this new nounced is the correcting action. unit uses bare or coated electrodes from 3/3 2 to 3/16-inch for welding ♦ ♦ ♦ materials of varying thicknesses. Welding is simplified through single Industrial Lighting Unit— current control accomplished by shift­ Electric heat gun developed by General Electric Vapor Lamp Co., ing brush holders for current setting Hoboken, N. J., recently introduced over the entire welding range. For Independent Pneumatic Tool a self-contained industrial lighting field service, the standard unit can Co. unit with color characteristics said be mounted on a two-wheel highway to approach actual daylight more trailer as shown herewith. It also is heads, spark plugs and ignition sys­ closely than any commercial light available on a small four-wheel indus­ tems, touching up paint jobs, etc. It source heretofore available. Known trial truck or for factory use, with is equipped with 850W heat unit and four attachments, long and short goose neck, wide nozzle and flexible hose which permit operation in in­ accessible places.

♦ ♦ ♦ Automatic Straightening and Polishing Machine — Medart Co., 3600 DeKalb street, St. Louis, is announcing a new No. 00 continuous automatic straightening and polishing machine for wire, bars and tubular products, from % to % inch diameter. The unit, shown herewith, is of the roll type— one Harnischfeger general utility welder concave and one straight-face roll. mounted on trailer unit The wire (or bars) is rotated as it advances between these two revolving Mercury-vapor tube and incandes­ rolls. Straightening is accomplished cent lamp are combined in Gen­ skid mounting. Electric motor by the roll pressure which causes a eral Electric Vapor Lamp Co. in­ equipped models, either stationary or flexing of the wire as it passes be­ dustrial lighting unit portable, are driven through a V-belt, tween the rolls. The action of the while the gasoline motor equipped concave roll polishes the wire as it units are driven direct-connected at as the circular mercury-incandescent, 2200 revolutions per minute. the light, shown herewith, consists of a unit in which a circular mercury- ♦ ♦ ♦ vapor tube and an incandescent lamp are combined beneath one reflector Electric Heat Gun— to provide the desired spectral bal­ ance. The new light is particularly Independent Pneumatic Tool Co.. recommended for industrial lighting 600 West Jackson boulevard, Chi­ applications involving accurate color- cago, recently brought out an elec­ differentiation, critical inspection or tric heat gun, shown herewith. manufacturing operations which in­ Instantaneous heat is generated to a volve difficult visual problems. maximum temperature of 400 de­ grees. Air forced through nozzle at ♦ ♦ ♦ a high velocity makes this heat gun suitable for thawing out frozen Air Conditioning Units— differentials and transmissions, radia­ tors, water pumps, spring shackles, Medart continuous automatic wire York Ice Machinery Corp., York, hose connections, warming up stiff and bar straightening and polish­ Pa., is bringing out a line of indus­ crankcase oil, drying distributor ing machine trial air conditioning units to irneet a.

62 /TEEL February 17, 1936- Tubing, in most cases, is the strongest structural shape for the weight involved. Electrunite Tubing is unsur­ passed for fine surface and accuracy to size and gauge. It possesses great strength. Inside and outside surfaces are smooth and free from defects. These features make Electrunite the best tubing available for boiler and pres­ sure work as well as mechanical and structural appli­ cations. • When you want to save weight—when you design or re-design for increased sales appeal—when tubular mechanical parts must be absolutely accurate— when you buy or re-tube a boiler or condenser—then it’s time to consider seriously the many advantages of this and Tub es I n better tubing made by electric WORLD'S LARGEST PRODUCER OF ELECTRICALLY WELDED TUBING resistance welding of cold- REPUBLIC LEVELAND ... OHIO formed, flat-rolled steel. When writing Steel and Tubes Inc., for further information, please address Department ST. February 17, 1936 /T E E L 63 piping between stages to keep tight fixtures incorporate all the advan­ and a simple lubrication system. tages of the larger full circular Having only two bearings and one models. They accommodate six users flexible coupling, alignment is easily at one time and may be had with maintained. The air delivery is free either hand or foot control of water from pulsations and operation flow. smooth, quiet and vibrationless. Bowls are solid one-piece press­ ings, finished in acid-resisting vitre­ ♦ ♦ ♦ ous enamel and may be had with Small Lathe Grinder— either roll rim or deep apron. Pedes­ Dumore Co., Racine, Wis., is intro­ tals consist of pressed iron base mem­ ducing its No. 4 4 “Toolmaker,” a bers with electrically welded cylindri­ small lathe grinder, shown herewith. cal superstructures finished in acid- Spindle speeds from 7000 to 44,000 resisting high-bake synthetic enamel. revolutions per minute adapt it for They are fabricated from high a wide range of work. Each unit quality deep drawing annealed stock, No. 10 gage for the semi-circular units, No. 11 gage for the 36-inch circular, and are reinforced with special annular and semi-annular disks.

♦ ♦ ♦ Continuous Blueprinter— Yor/^ industrial air conditioning unit is sturdy and compact C. F. Pease Co., 813 Franklin street, Chicago, is announcing a model 7 printer developed to provide wide range of requirements. The new continuous printing. The new unit, models, one of which is shown here­ shown herewith, will reproduce trac- with, can be installed in any indus­ trial plant, with or without distri­ buting ducts. Furnished in either Dumore "Toolmal{er" lathe grinder high or low pressure type, a float control permits accurate and auto­ matic control of the’ refrigerant, comes in a compact steel carrying whether ammonia, circulating brine case, with equipment including three or cold water is employed. The en­ mounted wheels with %-inch shank, tire unit is enclosed in a heavy steel one mounted wheel with %-inch shank, casing, fully braced, which provides a 2-inch vitrified wheel, a 3-inch a strong rigid frame for supporting vitrified wheel, two high speed fabric the fan assembly and cooling surface, belts, and three assorted wrenches. and maintains all moving parts in The universal motor develops Vi alignment. Fans are the multi-blade horsepower and is mounted pivotally, double inlet type, providing low out­ with a simple belt adjustment. The let velocities. All coils are of %-inch unit can be used for internal or ex­ pipe, bent from single lengths and ternal grinding. fabricated into all-welded units. ♦ ♦ ♦

♦ ♦ ♦ Enameled Iron Washfoimtains Bradley Washfountain Co., 22 03 Two-Stage Air Compressors— Michigan street Milwaukee, an­ nounces extension of its line of enam- Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co., Milwau­ kee, announces a new line of two- stage sliding vane rotary air com­ Pcase mercury vapor tube printer pressors for pressures up to 100 pounds G. The design is unique in that both stages as well as the inter­ ings, charts, diagrams, bulletins, etc. cooler are contained in a single cas­ in a variety of forms including blue­ ing. Known as the "Ro-Twin,” the prints, brown-prints or direct process unit, shown herewith, offers the ad­ prints in any dimensions up to 42 vantages of reduced length and floor inches in width. Uniform illumina­ space, less weight, only one stuffing tion in the printer is provided by an box and one coupling, no external air arrangement of 3% -ampere fifty-inch mercury vapor tubes. Each tube is mounted independently and is con­ nected to an auxiliary starting ap­ paratus and reactance unit mounted within the machine underneath the Hand-controlled semi-circular enameled feed table. When the machine is iron Bradley washjountain equipped with three tubes, sufficient illumination is produced to provide a printing speed of two linear feet eled pressed iron washfountains to per minute, and when equipped with include 36-inch diameter circular and four tubes, of two and one-half linear 54-inch diameter semi-circular units. feet per minute using good tracings Allis-Chalmers two-stage sliding Subject to the limitations of their and a fast blueprint paper or direct vane rotary air compressor smaller size and capacity the new process paper.

64 /TEEL February 17, 1936 profitably give favorable considera­ tion to the recommendations of their Properties of Superheated Cast Iron engineers and operating officials covering the advantages to be ob­ (Concluded from Page 51) tained by the installation of auto­ matic combustion control on their at superheating temperatures could that rate of feeding of certain cast­ furnaces and boilers and thus ob­ be held constant. ings has much to do with final prop­ tain the improvement in operation Considerable discussion was cen­ erties obtained from superheated and reduction in costs which the in­ tered on the time for adding ferro- iron. stallation of modern control equip­ silicon. Mr. Di Giulio pointed out Mr. Rayner reported his company ment insures. that in his tests, the addition was now is using baled sheet metal in the made 10 minutes before the furnace charge. While some doubt was ex­ was tapped. He also stated that the perienced when this material first was tests were carried on with a furnace proposed, its use has been found New Trade rather tightly sealed when operated. highly satisfactory and the foundry R. H. Bancroft, Perfect Circle Co., now tries to use as much as possible Newcastle, Ind., stated he has en­ in the charge. A higher coke bed is Publications countered a silicon pick-up when used in melting this material. superheating iron. Prof Seftng point­ B etters—-American Rolling M ill Co., Suggests Further Tests ed out that no carbon drop was ex­ M iddletown, O. The sixth edition of perienced in the heats which were R. G. McElwee, Vanadium Corp. "M aking Letters Talk Business.” Re­ brought to the superheating tempera­ of America, Detroit, presented a dis­ vealing in illustrated form the tech­ ture and tapped immediately; how­ cussion on “The Influence of High nique of w riting effective, interesting ever, carbon drop was experienced Furnace Temperatures on the Chem­ letters, it also lists a group of now defunct words. when the metal was held at that heat ical Analysis and the Effect of Small for a predetermined time. Changes in Chemical Analysis on the Precision Lathe— South Bend Lathe W orks, 74 9 East Madison avenue, In a paper, “Effect of Time at Physical Properties of Gray Cast South Bend, Ind. Bulletin No. 7-B al­ Superheating Temperatures on Gray Iron.” He pointed out that while con­ ludes to the 1936 model South Bond Iron Mixtures,’’ by H. S. Austin de­ siderable discussion centered around 9-inch “W orkshop” precision lathe, scribed work which he has done on holding the metal at superheated including principal units, features, at­ superheating and the effect of prop­ temperatures, he doubted if from the tachm ents, and applications. erties on holding time. His tests practical point of view anyone would M achines— N iagara M achine & Tool showed holding gray iron at 2900 hold the heat. In the foundry, it has W orks, G37 Northland avenue, Buf­ degrees Ealir. invariably produced an been the policy to heat the iron to falo. Bulletin No. 70-C covers the com plete line of N iagara m achines for inferior metal, the condition of the the desired point and then get it into the mold as soon as possible. cutting circles and rings and for slit­ metal depending upon the length of ting and flanging, adding data on their time of holding. In duplexing, where The speaker discussed certain irons economy and adaptability. the metal is melted in the cupola and presented in the report of Mr. Suris Abrasion Resisting Steel— Carnegie- refined in the electric furnace, this and Mr. Sefmg which seemed to him Illinois Steel Corp., Pittsburgh. does not apply. to be abnormal to the remaining G12S49 VM 1235 is pertinent to the Mr. Austin discussed the use of irons in the group, or to irons norm­ uses, physical characteristics, chem ­ test bars and stated that in his opin­ ally used in foundry practice. He ical analysis, shearing. punching, flame cutting, welding, forming, cor­ ion it is advisable to use a size of stated that with irons containing a rosion, and size of this product. bar test suited to show the true qual­ low amount of carbon, it has been the ities of the particular type of iron policy to add silicon just before tap­ Gaskets and Assemblies— Steel Im ­ under test. It is not good practice, ping to obtain the best possible phys­ provem ent & Forge Co., 9 60 Addison road, Cleveland. Two bulletins: One he said, to hold any iron for any pe­ ical properties. He said that this is shows distinguishing features of dia­ riod of time at high temperatures. common practice, not only with the electric furnace, but with the air mond drop forged steel handhole as­ semblies for boilers and tanks, and Casting Defects Eliminated furnace. the other applies to gruv-seal drop Harry Rayner presented a paper, Mr. McElwee also suggested that forged iron ring gaskets. “Relation Between Superheating, further tests be undertaken to see what effect the dendritic structure G ear Finishing— M ichigan Tool Co., Size of Section and Structure,” in 7171 East M cNichols road, Detroit. A may have on subsequent heat treat­ which he concluded that size of sec­ bulletin showing this com pany's fin­ tion of superheated iron is not as ment. He urged greater use of the ishing process for lowering of gear great a factor in determining struc­ Mauer diagram in studying the rela­ production cost, and increasing ac­ ture of castings as composition of the tion of carbon and silicon within a curacy in heat treatm ent. A listing metal, degree of superheat, pouring certain range. of the various advantages and char­ acteristics of this process is included. temperature, length of time metal held above critical superheating tem­ M icroscope Illum inators— Bausch ,

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 65 supplied by the Lincoln Electric Co., Mr. Keener will adjust and settle Activities of Steel Cleveland, and complete metalwork­ all unfinished transactions. ing equipment including oxyograph, ♦ ♦ ♦ sandblast and metal spray facilities. Ferro Enamel Corp., Cleveland, Users and Makers C. C. Peck, president of Contract has booked an order from the Glen- Welders Inc. since its founding, will wood Range Co., Taunton, Mass., for head the consolidation, and Everett S TEEL PRODUCTS ENGINEERING a large electrically-heated continuous CO., Springfield, 0., lias merged Benedict, formerly manager of In­ porcelain enameling furnace. dustrial Welding & Cutting Co., will with Combustioneer Inc., Chicago. Au­ ♦ ♦ ♦ tomatic furnace stokers formerly made serve as vice president in charge of Reed Iron &Steel Co., Warren, by Combustioneer will be manufac­ sales. O., manufacturer of steel building tured in the Steel Products company ♦ ♦ ♦ supplies and specialties, has moved plant, which recently doubled its Penn Steel Castings Co., Chester, to the newly-modernized building capacity. The new company operates Pa., has opened a branch office at formerly occupied by the Superior 30 Vesey street. New York, with R. under the name of Steel Products Bronze & Aluminum Co. at Griswold Engineering Co. John E. McAdams Royal Roane, consulting engineer, and Paige avenues. Warren. is president. acting as its representative. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Albert J. Saute has acquired the Keystone Steel & Wire Co., Peoria, D enm an & Davis, iron and steel Randolph Iron Foundry, Pleasant 111., has been elected to membership jobbers, 9 30 Thirty-eighth streeL, street, Randolph, Mass., and is oper­ in the Association of National Adver­ North Bergen, N. J., opened their ating a jobbing shop for light and tisers Inc., New York. 0. A. Brock new steel warehouse Dec. 28 to the medium castings. Yale D. Sawtelle, will represent the company in the Inspection of more than 100 guests, formerly foreman, General Electric A. N. A. with the occasion featured by a veni­ Co., Lynn, Mass., and General Alloy ♦ ♦ ♦ son dinner and reception. Foundry, Boston, is shop superinten­ Hedstrom-Danforth Stoker Corp., ♦ ♦ ♦ dent. Buffalo, has been incorporated to Newman Bros. Inc., Cincinnati, ♦ ♦ ♦ serve as exclusive western New York successor to the Newman Mfg. Co., Detroit Rex Products Co., Detroit, distributor for the Fairbanks-Morse has moved into a new large plant at manufacturer of Detrex solvent de­ stokers and automatic burners. N. 6 6G-670 West Fourth street. The greasers, and a complete line of Loring Danforth is president. company has a well-lighted, modern Triad alkali cleaning compounds and ♦ ♦ ♦ factory building in which has been enamel strippers, has moved the Albra Castings Corp., Huntington, installed new foundry equipment, offices of its eastern sales region to Ind., recently organized, has an with five new crucible furnaces for 630 Bush Terminal Sales building. especially equipped modern foundry nonferrous metals. The firm special­ New York, under the supervision of for the production of aluminum, izes in architectural metal work, in­ D. E. Williard, eastern sales man­ brass, bronze, monel, and other non- cluding doors, store fronts, lighting ager. ferrous castings. Herman Voges Jr. fixtures, elevator doors, hardware, ♦ ♦ ♦ is president. grilles, etc. Other types of castings Briggs Mfg. Co., Detroit, has ap­ ♦ ♦ ♦ also are made. pointed Noland Co. Inc., Newport ♦ ♦ ♦ Assets of Vulcan Wheels Inc., News, Va., as wholesale distributor of Whitehead Metal Products Co. of Newark, N. J-, have been purchased the complete line of Briggs formed New York Inc., New York, has leased by the American Brake Shoe & metal plumbing ware, known as Brig- Foundry Co., Newark, N. J., and the 5000 additional square feet of space steel beauty ware, on the Atlantic sea­ Vulcan Wheels division has been or­ in a building at 304-314 Hudson board. This company operates branch street, as part of an expansion pro­ plants in other cities, ranging from ganized to carry on the business con­ gram. This will be used for office Washington to Macon, Ga., and in­ ducted by the former. The same staff cludes Maryland, Virginia, West Vir­ will be maintained. space, and follows within a few months the addition of similar space ginia, North and South Carolina, Ten­ ♦ ♦ ♦ for warehouse purposes. nessee and portions of Alabama. Kasle Steel Corp., Detroit, has The company some months ago Briggs has also appointed W. A. opened a new warehouse. The com­ took over the manufacture and dis­ Case & Son Mfg. Co., Buffalo, to dis­ pany is engaged in a general ware­ tribution of monel metal sinks and tribute Briggsteel beautyware in cities house business in sheets and hot and other household equipment for the as far south as Nashville, Tenn., in­ cold-rolled bars. Abe Kasle, presi­ International Nickel Co. Inc., New cluding Brooklyn, Syracuse, Niagara dent, A. K asle Co., D etroit, also is York. It also does a general supply Falls, and Jamestown N. Y. president of the Kasle Steel Corp. business in monel metal, nickel and ♦ ♦ ♦ Harold Trunskyis vice president. other metals in a variety of com­ Timken Roller Bearing Co., Can­ ♦ ♦ ♦ mercial forms. ton, O., will supply bearings on the Two well-known Cleveland weld­ ♦ ♦ ♦ backup and work roll necks of five ing firms were merged as of Jan. 1, The partnership heretofore exist­ of the seven stands of the 100-inch when Contract Welders Inc. ac­ ing between Sam Keener and M. H. semicontinuous sheared plate mill quired Industrial Welding & C utting Mawhinney, under the firm name of being built for the Homestead works Co. The two plants will be operated Salem E ng in eerin g Co., Salem , -O., of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. .by as divisions of Contract Welders and known in Canada as Salem En­ the United Engineering & Foundry Inc. until April 1, when equipment gineering Co. of Canada, Welland, Co., Pittsburgh. Two of the rough­ and organization will be consolidated Ont., has been dissolved by mutual ing stands are mounted on plain as Contract Welders Inc. in large consent, and Mr. Mawhinney has re­ bearings. quarters at 2545 East Seventy-ninth tired as a partner of the firm. He The backup roll neck bearings rep­ street, Cleveland. will, however, continue to be asso­ resent a-new size, 31 x 48 x 33 inch, Combined facilities will provide ciated with the company as consult­ each weighing 8167 pounds. Work customers with complete fabricating ing engineer, supervising all of the roll neck bearings will also be four service from raw materials to fin­ engineering and development activi­ row Timken units 24 x 14% inch, ished products or structures. Equip­ ties of the company. The business weighing 1030 pounds, and those on ment will include arc welding gen­ will be continued by Mr. Keener un­ the finishing end being 18 x 23i/£ erators, electrodes and accessories der the same corporate name, and x 11 inch, weighing 445 pounds.

66 /TEEL February 17, 1936 Heavy Railroad Buying Again Lifts Steel Rate Structurals, Automotive MARKET IN TABLOID

DEMAND . . . Railroad, Cramped by Weather; farm implement, miscellaneous, , strong.

PRICES . . . Sheets, sir ip, Action on Prices Near bars easier.

PRODUCTION . . . Ingots R ESISTING adverse weather conditions which up lyi points to per cent. slowed shipments, suspended outdoor con­ 54%' struction, and hampered automobile sales, steelworks operations last week again advanced, SHIPMENTS . . . Rising. 1 % points to 54% per cent. The influence of railroad purchasing still is dominant. Additional orders for freight cars and rails, a steady demand from the farm equip­ While structural shape aAvards last week ment industry, and broadening manufacturing dropped to 9350 tons, the total so far this year requirements are effectually bridging the gap in is 150,240 tons, compared with 98,129 tons in the automotive and structural activity. like period in 1935, Avhile reinforcing bar awards Still larger tonnages are accumulating, and a m o u n t to 67,564 tons, against 29,521 t o n s l a s t an appreciable improvement in specifications year. Great Lakes Steel Corp. is taking bids soon, combined with advancing production costs, o n 16,000 tons of shapes for a plant extension may serve to stabilize prices. If the steel in­ at Detroit. For Chicago’s outer drive, bids Avill dustry follows its recent custom it will announce be opened March 3 o n 21,000 tons of shapes and prices Feb. 20 and open books March 1 fo r s e c ­ bars. Additional pipe line projects are ma­ ond quarter. turing. Standard Oil of Indiana is expected Despite efforts to strengthen the m arket at De­ shortly to aAvard 8000 tons for a 75-mile connec­ troit, the $3 a ton concession on sheets and strip, tion. Lever Bros, placed 3300 tons of plates for heretofore limited to automobile tonnage, has tank construction at Hammond, Ind. become general, and in some instances there has Automobile production rebounded 5300 u n i t s been a further reduction of $2 a ton. Also, to 75, 000, Chrysler increasing more than Ford carbon steel bars in the Detroit area have been and General Motors retrenched. Large retool­ c u t $2 a ton, and cold-finished steel prices are ing and die programs for 1937 models are ex­ being shaded. In other districts, a $1 a t o n pected out in March. quantity extra on carbon bars has been waived. Notwithstanding slackened automotive found­ Temporarily, at least, scrap as a price indi­ ry operations, pig iron consumption has in­ cator has lost some of its significance, due to creased. Carnegi.e-Illinois Steel Corp. has broad­ difficulties in collections and shipments. S teel’s ened its merchant iron sales to include eastern scrap composite has advanced 29 cents to $ 13.71, states, as Avell as Pittsburgh and Ohio districts, but it is generally believed that scrap prices have and is offering 4 0-pound “piglets”, for easy reached a peak, and with open weather some ad­ melting. Lake iron ore shipments for 1936 a r e justm ents are looked for. estim ated to rise 25 per cent to 35, 000,000 t o n s . Rail orders in the week included 38,000 t o n s , S te e l’s London correspondent cables steel pro­ Avith 3500 tons of fastenings, for New York Cen­ duction in Britain in January, 912,500 t o n s , w a s t r a l, a n d 10,000 tons for Denver & Rio Grande the second highest on record, exceeded only by Western. Rock Island is preparing to close on 949,600 tons in March, 1927. 38,000 tons. Kansas City, Oklahoma & Gulf was Chicago steelAvorks operations last Aveek ad­ authorized to buy 5700 t o n s . v a n c e d 1 % points to 59% per cent; W heeling Santa Fe has awarded 550 freight cars, and 3 to 84; Cleveland 5 to 66%; Buffalo 2 to 34; W estern Pacific 100 ballast cars. Chicago, Mil- D e t r o i t 6 to 94; eastern Pennsylvania % -point to Avaukee, St. Paul & Pacific has decided to build 37; YoungstOAvn 1 to 62. Others were un­ 1500 freight cars and 37 coaches in its shops. c h a n g e d . Great Northern is in the market for 500 ir o n S teel’s iron and steel price composite is up 1 ore cars; Northern Pacific for 500 gondola and c e n t to $ 33.45. The finished steel index con­ 250 flat cars. tinues at $ 53.70.

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 67 —The Market Week-

COMPOSITE MARKET AVERAGES One T hree One Five M onth Ago Months Ago Y ear Ago Y ears Ago Feb. 15 Feb. 8 Feb. 1 Jan., 1936 Nov., 1935 Feb., 1935 Feb., 1931 Iron and Steel ...... $33.45 $33.44 $33.40 $33.34 $33.15 $32.54 $31.64 Finished Steel ...... 53.70 53.70 53.70 53.70 53.70 54.00 49.42 Steelworks Scrap.... 13.71 13.42 13.29 13.15 12.92 1 1 . 6 6 10.39 Iron and Steel Composite:—Pig iron, scrap, billets, sheet bars, wire rods, tin plate, wire, sheets, plates, shapes, bars, black pipe, rails, alloy 6teel, hot strip, and cast iron pipe at representative centers. Finished Steel Composite:—Plates, shapes, bars, hot strip, nails, tin plate, pipe. Steel­ works Scrap Composite:—Heavy melting steel and compressed sheets.

A C O M P A R IS O N OF PRICES Representative Market Figures for Current Week; Average for Last Month, Three Months and One Year Ago

’e b . 1 5 , J a n . , N o v ., F e b . . F e b . 1 5 , J a n . , N o v ., F e b ., 1 9 3 6 1 9 3 6 1 9 3 5 1 9 3 5 1 9 3 6 193 6 1 9 3 5 1 9 3 5 Finished Material 3ig Iron Bessemer, del. Pittsburgh ...... ,.$20.S132 20.8132 2 0 .8 1 3 2 1 9 .7 6 . 1.85c 1.85 1 .85 1 .8 0 Steel bars, P ittsburgh ...... Basic. Valley ...... 1 9 .0 0 1 9 .0 0 1 9 .0 0 1S .0 0 . 1.90 1.90 1.90 1.S5 Steel bars, C hicago ...... Basic, eastern, del. eastern Pa. 20.8132 2 0 .8 1 3 2 20.8132 19.76 . 2.16 2.16 2.16 2 .09 Steel bars, Philadelphia ...... No. 2 fdry., del. Pittsburgh ...... 2 0 .3 1 3 2 2 0 .3 1 3 2 20.3132 19.26 . 1 .75 1 .7 5 1 .75 1 .7 5 Iron bars, Terre H aute, Ind.. No. 2 fdry., Chicago ...... 1 9 .5 0 1 9 .5 0 1 9 .5 0 1 8 .5 0 Shapes, Pittsburgh ...... 1 .80 1.80 1.S 0 1 .8 0 Southern No. 2, Birm ingham ., ... 1 5 .5 0 1 5 .5 0 14 .7 5 1 4 .5 0 .2 .0 1 % 2.01% 2.01% 2.00% Southern No. 2, del. Cincinnati 20.2007 2 0 .2 0 0 7 20.2007 19.13 . 1 .8 5 1.85 1.85 1 .85 Shapes, Chicago ...... No. 2X eastern, del. Phila...... 21.6SS2 21.68S2 21.6882 2 0 .6 3 . 1 .8 0 1 .80 1.80 1 .80 Tank plates, Pittsburgh .. M a l l e a b l e , V a l l e y ...... 1 9 .5 0 1 9 .5 0 1 9 .5 0 I S .5 0 Tank plates, Philadelphia . 2 .00 1 .99 1 .9 9 1 .9 8 % M alleable, C hicago ...... 1 9 .5 0 1 9 .5 0 1 9 .5 0 1 8 .5 0 . 1 .85 1 .85 1 .85 1 .85 Tank plates, Chicago ...... Lake Sup. charcoal, del. Chi.. .. 2 5 .2 5 2 8 25.2528 25.2528 24 .0 4 . 1 .85 1 .8 5 1 .8 5 1 .85 Ferrom anganese, del. Pitts ...... SO.13 9 0 .1 3 9 0 .1 3 S 9 .7 9 Sheets, No. 24, hot ann., Pitts... . 2.40 2 .4 0 2 .40 2 .40 Grav forge, del. Pittsburgh , 1 9 .6 7 4 1 1 9 .6 7 1 9 .6 7 1 8 .6 3 Sheets, No. 24, galv., P itts ...... 3 .10 3 .1 0 3 .1 0 3 .10 . 1 .95 1 .9 5 1 .95 1 .9 5 2 .50 2 .5 0 2 .50 2 .50 Scrap Sheets, No. 24. galvan., Gary... . 3 .2 0 3.20 3 .2 0 3 .20 Heavy m elting steel, Pittsburgh.. $ 1 5 .0 0 14.50 13.65- 1 3 .2 5 Plain wire. Pittsburgh ...... 2 .30 2.30 2 .30 2 .30 H eavy melt, steel, No. 2, east Pa. 1 1 .7 5 11.37% 11.00 10 .1 5 Tin plate, per base box Pitts.. . 5 .2 5 5.25 5 .25 5 .2 5 Heavy m elting steel, Chicago ...... 1 4 .0 0 1 3 .4 0 1 3 .2 0 1 1 .6 5 W ire nails Pitts ...... 2 .40 2.40 2 .40 2.60 Rails for rolling, Chicago ...... 1 5 .2 5 1 4 .2 5 1 4 .3 0 12 .5 5 R ailroad steel specialties, Chicago 1 5 .2 5 1 4 .4 0 1 3 .7 5 1 2 ,5 0 Semifinished Material Coke Sheet bars, open-hearth. Young; . $ 3 0 .0 0 3 0 .0 0 2 9 .5 0 2S.OO Sheet bars, open-hearth, Pitts.. . 3 0 .0 0 3 0 .0 0 2 9 .5 0 2S.0O $ 3 .5 0 3 .5 0 3.55 3 .60 Billets, open-hearth, Pittsburgh.. . 29.00 29.00 2 8 .5 0 2 7 .0 0 4 .2 5 4 .0 0 4 .3 5 4 .6 0 ro rn/lo Pittohnrcrli . 40.00 29.00 3 8 .0 0 3 8 .0 0 Chicago, by-product foundry, del. 9.75 9.75 9.75 9 .25 Steel, Iron, Raw Material, Fuel and Metals Prices

Except when otherwise designated, prices are b o s # , f.o.h. c c rs « Asterisk denotes price change this week Sheet Steel Tin Mill Black N*. 2» Corrosion and Heat- Structural Shapes Pittsburgh ...... 2 .7 5 c Pittsburgh ...... l.S O c Hot Rolled No. 10, 24-48 in. G a r y ...... 2 .8 5 c Resistant Alloys Philadelphia, del ...... 2 .0 1 % c St. Louis, delivered 3 .0 8 c New York, del ...... 2 .0 6 % Pittsburgh ...... 1 .8 5 a Pittsburgh base, cents per lb. Boston, delivered.... 2 .2 0 % c G a r y ...... 1 .9 5 * Cold Rolled No. 1# Chromc-Nickel B e t h l e h e m ...... 1 .9 0 c Chicago, delivered.. 1 .9 8 c Pittsburgh ...... 2 .5 0 c No. 302 No. 304 C h i c a g o ...... 1 .8 5 c Detroit, del ...... 1 .9 0 c G a r y ...... 2 .6 0 c B a r s ...... 23.00 24.00 Cleveland, del ...... 2 .0 0 c N e w Y o r k , d e l ...... 2 .2 0 c ♦Detroit, delivered.. 2.55c 1 .9 0 c Philadelphia, del ...... 2 .1 6 c P l a t e s ...... 2 6 .0 0 2 8 .0 0 B u f f a l o ...... Philadelphia, del 2.81c 2 .2 0 c Birmingham ...... 2 .0 0 c S h e e t s ...... 33.00 35.00 Gulf Ports ...... New York, del 2.85c H o t s t r i p ...... 20.75 22.75 Birm ingham ...... 1 .9 5 c St. Louis, del ...... 2 .1 8 c Pacific ports, f.o.b. Pacific ports, f.o.b. Pacific ports, f.o.b. Cold strip ...... 27.00 29.00 cars, dock ...... 3 .1 0 c cars, dock ...... 2 .3 5 c cars, dock ...... 2.40c Straight Chromes Cold Rolled No. 20 No. No. No. No. Bars No. 24 Hot Rolled Annealed Pittsburgh, ...... 2 .9 5 c 410 430 442 446 Soft Steel Pittsburgh ...... 2.40c G a r y ...... 3 .0 5 c B a r s ...... 17.00 18.50 21.00 26.00 (Base, 5 to 25 tons) G a r y ...... 2 .5 0 c ♦Detroit, delivered.. 3.00c Plates ....20.00 21.50 24.00 29.00 Pittsburgh ...... 1 .8 5 c Chicago, delivered.... 2 .5 3 c Philadelphia, del 3-26c Sheets ....25.00 28.00 31.00 35.00 Chicago or Gary.... 1 .9 0 c ♦Detroit, delivered.. 2 .4 5 c New York, del 3.30c H ot strip 15.75 16.75 21.75 26.75 D u l u t h ...... 2 .0 0 c 2 .0 0 c New York, del ...... 2 .7 ÍC Enameling Sheets Cold stp 20.50 22.00 27.00 35.00 B i r m i n g h a m ...... Philadelphia, del ...... 2 .7 1 c C l e v e l a n d ...... 1 .9 0 c Pittsburgh, No. 10.. 2.50c Birmingham ...... B u f f a l o ...... 1 .9 5 c 2 .5 5 c Pittsburgh. No. 20.. 3.10c ♦Detroit, delivered.. 1 .9 0 c St. Louis, del ...... 2 .7 2 c Gary, No. 10 ...... 2 .6 0 c Steel Plates Pacific ports, f.o.b. Pacific ports, f.o.b. G a r y , N o . 20 ...... 3 .2 0 c c a r s , d o c k ...... 3 .0 5 c Pittsburgh ...... l.S O c c a r s , d o c k ...... 2 .4 0 e New York, del 2.09c Philadelphia, del 2 .1 6 c Philadelphia, del. .... 1.99c Galvanized No. 24 Tin and Terne Plate Boston, delivered.... 2 .2 7 c Boston, delivered 2.22c New York, del ...... 2 .2 0 c Pittsburgh ...... 3 .1 0 c Buffalo, delivered.... 2.05c Pitts-, forg. qual 2 .1 0 c G a r y ...... 3 .2 0 c G ary base, 10 cents higher. Chicago or Gary .... 1.85c Chicago, delivered.. 3-23C Tin plate, coke base Cleveland, del 1.99%c R ail Steel Philadelphia, del ...... 3 .4 1 c (box) Pittsburgh $5.25 Birmingham ...... 1 .9 5 c To M anufacturing T r a d e New York, del ...... 3 .4 5 c Do., waste-waste.. 2.75c Coatesville. base .... 1.90c Pittsburgh ...... 1 .7 0 c Birmingham ...... 3 .2 5 c Do., strips ...... 2 -5 0 c Sparrows Pt., base 1.90c Chicago or G arv ...... 1 7 5 e St. Louis, del ...... 3 .4 3 c Long ternes. No. 24 Pacific ports, f.o.b. M o lin e , 111...... 1 .7 5 c Pacific ports, f.o.b. unassorted, Pitts. S.40c c a r s , d o c k ...... 2 .3 5 c C l e v e l a n d ...... 1 .7 5 c cars, dock ...... 3 .7 0 c D o ., G a r y ...... 3 .5 0 c St. Louis, delivered.. 2.08c B u f f a l o ...... 1 .8 0 c

68 /TEEL February 17, 19:56 —The Market Week—

Iron Strip and Hoops Do., under 5 kegs; no and per pound. Less-carloads T r o y , N . Y ...... 1 .7 0 c disc, on size extras $3.20 revised as of July 1, 1935, card. H ot strip to 23|S-in. Terre Haute, Ind.... 1.75c H ot-finished carbon steel boil­ P i t t s b u r g h ...... 1 .8 5 c C h i c a g o ...... l.S O c er tube prices also under date Chicago or Gary.. 1.95c Philadelphia 2.06c Pipe and Tubing of M ay 15 range from l through Birmingham base 2.00c Pittsburgh, refined.. 2.75-7.50c 7 inches outside diam eter, in­ ♦Detroit, del 1.90c Base $200 net ton, except on Reinforcing clusive, and embrace 47 size Philadelphia, del.. 2.16c standard commercial seamless classifications in 22 d e c i m a l New billet, straight lengths, New York, del.... 2.20c boiler tubes under 2 inches and wall thicknesses ranging from quoted by distributors. C o o p e r a g e hoop, cold drawn seamless tubing. 0.109 to 1.000, prices also being Pittsburgh ...... 2 .0 5 c P i t t s b u r g h ...... 1 .9 5 c on a lb. and 100 ft. basis. Chicago, Gary, Buffalo, C h i c a g o ...... 2 .0 5 c Welded Iron, Steel Pipe Cleve., Birm ., Young. .. 2.10c Cold-strip, Pitts. G ulf ports ...... 2 .4 5 c C l e v e ...... 2 .6 0 c Base discounts on steel pipe, Seamless Tubing Pacific coast ports f.o.b. Detroit, del 2.65c Pitts., Lorain, O., to consum ers Cold drawn; f.o.b. mill disc. c a r d o c k s ...... 2 .4 5 c Worcester, Mass.. 2.80c in carloads. G ary, Ind., 2 p o i n t s 100 ft. or 150 lbs ...... 3 2 % Philadelphia, del 2.11c-2.16c less. Chicago, del. 2% points 15,000 ft. or 22,500 lbs 70% Rail steel, straight lengths, Rails, Track Material less. W rought pipe, Pittsburgh. quoted by distributors B u tt W eld Cast Iron W ater Pipe Pittsburgh ...... 1 .9 0 c (Gross Tons) S t e e l Class B Pipe—Per A c t T on Chicago, Buffalo, Cleve­ Standard rails, mill $36.37% I n . B lk . G a l v . 6 - i n . & over, Birm ..$39.00-40.00 land, Birm., Young 1.95c Relay rails, Pitts. Vi a n d % 53 % 35 4-in., Birm ingham .. 42.00-43.00 Gulf ports ...... 2 .3 0 c 2 0 - 4 5 l b s ...... $ 2 8 .0 0 % ...... 5 8 % 47 4-ill., Chicago 50.40-51.40 4 5 - 5 0 l b s ...... $ 2 5 .0 0 % ...... 62 52 6 to 24-in. Chicago.. 47.40-48.40 5 0 - 6 0 l b s ...... $ 2 6 .0 0 1— 3 64 55 6-in. & over, east. fdy. 43.00 Wire Products 7 0 -7 5 l b s ...... $ 2 4 .5 0 I r o n D o ., 4 i n ...... 4 6 .0 0 8 0 - 9 0 l b s ...... $ 2 6 .0 0 (Prices apply to straight or %...... 3 1 % 15 Class A pipe $3 over Class B 1 0 0 l b s ...... $ 2 7 .0 0 mixed carloads; less carloads % ...... 3 6 % 2 0 % Stnd. fltgs., Birm . base..$100.00 $4 higher; less carloads fenc­ Light rails, billet 1— 1 % ..... 3 9 % 2 5 % ing $5 over base column.) qual. Pitts., Chi.... $35.00 4 1 % 26 Semifinished Steel Do., reroll, qual.... 34.00 Base Pitts.-Cleve. 100 lb. keg. Lap W eld Billets and Blooms Angle bars, billet, Standard wire nails ...... $ 2 .4 0 S t e e l Gary, Ind., So. Chi. 2.55c 1 x 4 -inch base; gross ton Cement coated nails 2.40 9 60 51 Do., axle steel 2.10c Pitts., Chi., Cleve., Galvanized nails, 15 gage 2 % — 3 ..... 63 54 Spikes, R. R. base 2.60c and Youngstown.. $29.00 and coarser ...... 4 .4 0 3 %— 6 ..... 65 56 Track bolts, base.... 3.60c Philadelphia ...... 3 4 .6 7 do. finer than 15 gage.. 4.90 7 a n d S . 64 54 Tie plates, base 1.90c D u l u t h ...... 3 1 .0 0 (Per pound) 9 a n d 10 6 3 % 5 3 % Forging Billets Polished staples ...... 3 .1 0 c Base, light rails 25 to 40 lbs.; I r o n 6 x 6 to 9 x *3-in., base 50 to 60 lbs. inclusive up $2; 16 Galvanized fence staples 3.35c 2 ...... 37 2 2 % Pitts., Chi., Buff 35.00 a n d 20 lbs., up $ 1 ; 12 l b s . u p B a r b e d w i r e , g a l v ...... 2 .8 0 c 2 % — 3 % . 38 25 Forging, Duluth .... 37.00 Annealed fence wire ...... 2 .4 5 c $ 2 ; 8 and 10 lbs., up $5. Base 4 — 8 4 0 2 8 % Sheet Bars railroad spikes k e g s o r Galvanized fence wire 2.80c 200 Line P ipe Pitts., Cleve., Y oung., more; base tie plates t o n s . W oven wire fencing 20 S t e e l Chi., Buff., Can­ (base column, c.l.) ...... $ 6 1 .0 0 %. butt weld ...... 5 7 % ton, Sparrows Pt. 30.00 To Manufacturing Trade Bolts and Nuts % -inch butt weld ... 5 0 % Slabs Plain wire, 6-9 gage 2.30c Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Bir­ Vi— %, butt weld ...... 5 2 % Pitts., Chi., Cleve., Anderson, Ind. (merchant mingham, Chicago. Discounts %, butt weld ...... 61 Y o u n g ...... 2 9 .0 0 products only) and Chicago up to legitim ate trade for all case 1—3, butt w eld ...... 63 W ire Rods $1; Duluth up $2; Birm ingham lots, Dec. 1, 1932, lists, 10% 2-inch, lap weld ...... 59 (Common; combination up $ 2 ) u p $3. extra for less full containers. 2 %— 3, lap weld ...... 62 Pitts., Cleveland 40.00 Spring, wire, Pittsburgh Carriage and Machine 3 % — 6, l a p w e l d ...... 64 C h i c a g o ...... 4 1 .0 0 or Cleveland ...... 2 .9 0 c 7— 8 , l a p w e l d ...... 63 Worcester, Mass 42.00 % x 6 and sm aller....70-10-5 off Do., Chicago up $1, W orces­ Iron Skelp t e r , $ 2. D o . l a r g e r ...... 7 0 -1 0 o ff Pitts., Chi.. Young., Tire bolts 55 off %— 1 % inch, black and galv. Plow Bolts take 4 pts. over; 2 %— 6 i n c h Buff., Coatesville, Sparrows Point.... 1.80c Cold-Finished Carbon Bars A ll s i z e s ...... 7 0 -1 0 o ff 2 pts. over discounts for sam e sizes, standard pipe lists, 8— 12 - and Shafting Stove Bolts Coke In packages with nuts at­ inch, no extra. Price Per Net Ton Base, Pitts., one size, shape, tached 72%-10 off; in pack­ Boiler Tubes grade, shipm ent at one time ages with nuts separate C . L. Discounts, f.o.b. Pitts. Beehive Ovens to one destination 72%-10-5 off; in bulk S2% Lap Weld Charcoal Connellsville, fur.... $3.50- 3.65 S te e l Connellsville, fdry... 4.25 10.000 to 19,999 lbs ...... 2 .1 0 c off on 15,000 of 3-inch and Iro n 33 Connel., prem . fdry. 5.50- 5.75 20.000 to 59,999 lbs ...... 2 .0 5 c shorter, or 5000 over 3-inch. Vi...... 1 % ...... Step bolts ...... 6 5 -5 o ff - 2 % ...... „4 0 New River fdry 6.00 60.000 to 99,999 lbs ...... 2 .0 0 c 2 2 Vi...... 13 47 W ise county fdry.... 4.45- 5.00 100.000 lbs. and over 1.97%c Elevator bolts ...... 6 5 -5 o ff 2 %— 2 % ...... „ 1 6 N uts - 3 1 !■...... 3. .. 17 Wise county fur 4.00- 4.50 G ary, Ind., Cleve., Chi., up 5c S. A. E. semifinished hex.; 3 y ...... 31/, Buffalo, up 10c; Detroit, up By-Product Foundry % to A-inch 60-20-15 off - 5 ...... „4 2 4 ...... 20 20c; eastern M ichigan, up 25c Newark, N. .1., del. 9.70-10.15 Do., % to 1-inch 60-20-15 off 4 % ...... Chi., ov., outside del. 9.00 Do., over 1-inch 60-20-15 oif Chicago, del ...... In lots of a carload or more, 9.75 A llo y Steel Bars (H o t) Hexagon Cap Screws New England, del.... 11.50 above discounts subject to M ill e d ...... 80-10-10 off ♦St. Louis, del 10.00-10.50 Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Chi­ preferential of two 5% and one Upset. 1-in., smaller 85 oif cago, Massilon, Can- 7%% discount on steel and Birmingham, ovens 6.50 Square Head Set Screws Indianapolis, del 9.40 t o n , B e t h l e h e m ...... 2 .4 5 c 1 0 % on charcoal iron. U pset, l-in„ sm aller....75-10 off Cincinnati, del 9.50 A l l o y A l l o y Headless set screws 75 off Lapwelded steel: 200 to 9999 Cleveland, del 9,75 S.A.E. Diff. S.A.E. D iff. pounds, ten points under base, Buffalo, ovens 7,50- 8.00 2000...... 0 .2 5 3 1 0 0 ...... one 5% and one 7%%. Under Detroit, ov.. out. del 9.00 2100...... 0 .5 5 3 2 0 0 ...... 1 .35 Rivets, Wrought Washers 2000 pounds 15 points under Philadelphia, del 9.3s 2300...... 1 .5 0 3 3 0 0 3 8 0 base, one 5% and one 7%%. 2 5 0 0 ...... 2 .25 3 4 0 0 ...... 3 .2 0 Struc., c. 1., Pitts­ Charcoal iron: 10,000 pounds to Coke By-Products 4100 0.15 to 0.25 M o ...... 0 .5 0 burgh, Cleveland 2.90c carloads, base less 5%; under 4600 0.20 to 0.30 M o. 1.25- S t r u c . , c . 1., C h i c a g o 3 .0 0 c 10,000 lb s .. 2 points under base. Per gallon, producers’ plants. A-in. and smaller, 1.75 N i ...... 1 .0 5 Seamless Boiler Tubes Tank lots Spot 5 1 0 0 0 .8 0 -1 .1 0 C r ...... 0 .4 5 Pitts., Chi., Cleve. 70 and 5 off Pure and 90% benzol 18.00c Under date of May 15 in lots 5100 Cr. sp rin g ...... W rought washers, T o l u o l ...... 3 0 .0 0 c Pitts., Chi., Phila. of 40,000 pounds or more for 61 0 0 b a r s ...... 1.20 Solvent naphtha ...... 3 0 .0 0 c to jobbers & large cold-drawn boiler tubes and in 6100 spring ...... 0 .7 0 Commercial xylol ...... 3 0 .0 0 c lots of 40,000 pounds or feet or Cr., Ni.. V an ...... 1 .5 0 nut, bolt mfrs.... $6.25 off Per lb. f.o.b. New York. more for hot-finished boiler C a r b o n V a n ...... 0 .9 5 Phenol (200 lb. drum s).. 16.30c 9250 carbon base plus extras Cut Nails tubes, revised prices are quoted Do. (100 lbs.) ...... 1 7 .3 0 c for 55 cold-drawn boiler tube Eastern Plants, per lb. Cut nails, Pitts.; (10% sizes ranging from % to 6- i n c h N aphthalene flakes and Piling discount on size extras) $2.75 outside diameter in 30 wall balls, in bbls., to jobbers 6.75c Do. less carloads, 5 kegs thicknesses, decim al equivalent Per 100 lb. A tlantic seaboard Pittsburgh ...... 2 .1 5 c or more, no discount from 0.035 to 1.000, on a dollars Sulphate of ammonia.... $1.20 ...... 2 .2 5 c Chicago, Buffalo on size extras ...... $ 3 .0 5 and cents basis per 100 f e e t fW estern prices, % -cent up.

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 69 -The Market Week- No. 2 .Malle- Besse- Pig Iron Delivcred from Rasing Points: Fdry able Basic mer St. Louis, northern ...... 20.00 20.00 19.50 . Delivered prices include switching- charges only as noted. St. Louis from Birm ingham ...... !1 9 .6 2 ...... 1 9 ,5 0 No. 2 foundry is 1.75-2.25 sil.; 25c diff. for each 0.25 sil. above St. Paul from D uluth ...... 21.9-1 2 1 .9 4 ...... 2 2 .4 4 2.25; 50c diff. for each 0.25 below 1.75. Gross tons. fO ver 0.70 phos. L o w P l i o s . N o . 2 Malle­ Besse­ Basing Points: Birdsboro and Steelton, Pa., and Standish, Basing Points: F d r y a b l e B a s i c m e r N. Y., $24.00, Phiia. base, standard and copper bearing, $25.12. Bethlehem, Pa ...... $ 2 0 .5 0 $ 2 1 .0 0 $20.00 $21.50 Gray Forge Charcoal Birdsboro, Pa ...... 2 0 .5 0 21.00 20.00 21.50 Valley furnace ...... 19.00 Lake Superior fur ...... $ 2 2 .0 0 Birmingham, Ala., southern del. 15.50 15.50 14.50 2 1 ,0 0 Pitts, dist. fur ...... 19.00 Do., del. C hicago ...... 2 5 .2 5 B u f f a l o ...... 19.50 20.00 IS.50 20.50 Lylees, Tenn ...... 2 2 .5 0 C h i c a g o ...... 19.50 19.50 1 9 .0 0 2 0 .0 0 Silveryf C l e v e l a n d ...... 19.50 19.50 19.00 2 0 .0 0 Jackson county, O., base; 6-6.50 per cent $22.75; 6.51-7— $23.25; D e t r o i t ...... 1 9 .5 0 19.50 19.00 20.00 7-7.50— $23.75; 7.51-8— $24.25; 8-8.50— $24.75; 8.51-9— $25.25; D u l u t h ...... 2 0 .0 0 2 0 .0 0 2 0 .5 0 9-9.50— $25.75. Buffalo $1.25 higher. E r i e , P a ...... 1 9 .5 0 2 0 .0 0 1 9 .0 0 2 0 .5 0 Bessem er Ferrosillconf Everett, M ass ...... 20.50 21.00 2 0 .0 0 2 1 .5 0 Jackson county, O., base: Prices are the sam e as for silveries, . 1 9 .5 0 1 9 .5 0 1 9 .0 0 plus $1 a ton. J a c k s o n , O ...... 20.25 20.25 1 9 .7 5 tThe lower all-rail delivered price from Jackson, O., or B uf­ Neville Island, Pa ...... 19.50 19.50 19.00 20.00 falo is quoted w ith freight allowed. P r o v o , U t a h ...... 1 7 .5 0 1 7 .0 0 M anganese differentials in silvery iron and ferrosilicon. 2 to Sharpsville, Pa ...... 1 9 .5 0 1 9 .5 0 1 9 .0 0 2 0 .0 0 3%, $1 per ton add. Each unit over 3%, add $1 per ton. 2 0 .5 0 2 0 .0 0 Swedeland, Pa ...... 2 0 .5 0 2 1 .0 0 2 0 .0 0 2 1 .5 0 T o l e d o , O ...... 1 9 .5 0 1 9 .5 0 1 9 .0 0 2 0 .0 0 Refractories tim ore bases (bags).... 40.00 Youngstown, O ...... 19.50 19.50 19.00 20.08 Domestic dead-burned P e r 1 0 0 0 f.o .l>. W o r k s gr. net ton f.o.b. Che- Fire Clay Brick welah, W ash. (bulk).. 22.00 Super Quality Basic Brick delivered from Basing Points: Pa., Mo., K y ...... $ 5 5 .0 0 Net ton, f.o.b. Baltimore, Ply­ Akron, O., from Cleveland ...... 20.76 20.76 26.26 2 1 .2 6 First Quality mouth Meeting, Chester, Fa. Baltimore from Birm ingham ...... 2 1 .OS 1 9 .9 6 P a . , 111., M d ., M o ., K y . $ 4 5 .0 0 Chrome brick ...... $ 4 5 .0 0 Boston from Birmingham ...... 2 0 .6 2 2 0 .5 0 Alabama, Ga ...... $38.00-45.00 Chemically bonded Boston from Everett, M ass ...... 2 1 .0 0 2 1 .5 0 2 0 .5 0 2 2 .0 0 Second Quality chrom e brick ...... 415.00 Boston from Buffalo ...... 21.00 21.50 20.50 2 2 .0 0 P a . , 111., K y ., M d ., M o . 4 0 .0 0 M agnesite brick ...... 6 5 .0 0 Brooklyn, N. Y., from Bethlehem 2 2 .9 3 2 3 .4 3 G a ., A l a ...... 3 5 .0 0 Chemically bonded m ag­ Brooklyn, N. Y., from Bmghrn. 2 2 .5 0 O hio nesite brick ...... ss.oo- Canton, O., from Cleveland ...... 2 0 .7 6 20.76 20.26 21.26 F irst quality ...... $ 4 0 .0 0 Chicago from Birm ingham ...... -fl9.72 19.60 Intermediary...... 3 7 .0 0 Fluorspar, 85-5 Cincinnati from H am ilton, O ...... 2 0 .5 8 2 0 .5 8 2 0 .OS Second quality ...... 2 8 .0 0 Cincinnati from Birm ingham ...... 2 0 .2 0 1 9 .2 0 Malleable Bung Brick W a s h e d g r a v e l , Cleveland from Birm ingham ...... 1 9 .6 2 1 9 .1 2 A ll b a s e s ...... 5 0 .0 0 duty paid, tide, Indianapolis from Ham ilton, O... 2 1 .9 3 2 1 .9 3 2 1 .4 3 2 2 .4 3 Silica Brick n e t t o n ...... $20.00- M ansfield, O., from Toledo, O ...... 2 1 .2 6 21.26 20.76 21.76 Pennsylvania ...... $ 4 5 .0 0 W a s h e d g r a v e l , M ilwaukee from Chicago ...... 2 0 .5 7 2 0 .5 7 2 0 .0 7 2 1 .0 7 Joliet, E. Chicago..., 5 4 .0 0 f.o.b. III., K y., net M uskegon, Mich., from Chicago Birm ingham , Ala ...... 4 5 .0 0 ton, carloads, all­ Majrncsite Toledo or D etroit ...... 2 2 .6 0 2 2 .6 0 2 2 .1 0 2 3 .1 0 r a i l ...... $17.50- Newark, N. J., from Birm ingham 21.61 Imported dead-burned Do., for barge ...... $ 1 7 .5 0 Newark. N. J., from Bethlehem. . 2 1 .9 9 2 2 .4 9 grains, net ton f.o.b. Philadelphia from Birm ingham .. 2 0 .9 3 2 0 .S I Chester, Pa., and Bal­ Philadelphia from Swedeland, Pa. 21 .3 1 21.8 1 20 .8 1 tim ore bases (bags).. $15.00 Ferroalloys Pittsburgh district from Ne- I Neville base plus 67c, Sic and Domestic dead-bumed Dollars, except Ferrochrome ville Island ...... j $1.21 sw itching charges grains, net ton f.o.b. Saginaw, Mich., from D etroit ...... 2 1 .7 5 21.7 5 21 .2 5 2 1 .2 5 Chester, Pa., and Bal- Ferrom anganese, 7S-S2% tidew ater, d u t y p a i d ...... 7 5 .0 0 Do., Balti., base.... 75.00 Do., del. Pittsb’gh SO.13 N o n ferrous Spiegeleisen, 19- 20% dom. Palm er- METAL PRICES OF THE W EEK ton, Pa., spot! 26.00 Spot unless othcrieise specified. Cents per pound Do.. New Orleans 26.00 Ferrosilicon. 50% ------C o p p e r - freight all., cl 77.50- Straits Tin L e a d A l u m i ­ Antim ony Nickel Electro, Lake, Do., less carload.. 85.00 C a s t i n g , N e w Y o r k L e a d E a s t Z i n c n u m - Chinese Cath- d e l . d e l . Do., 75 per cent.. 126-130.00- Spot Futures S t . L . S t . L . 9 9 % Spot, N. Y. odes Conn. Midwest r e f i n e r y N . Y . Spot, $5 a ton higher. Feb. 8 9.25 9.37% S .85 47.62% 45.55 4.50 4 .3 5 4 .8 5 ♦19.00 12.87% 3 5 .0 0 Silicoman., 2% carb. S5.00 Feb 10 9.25 9.37% 8 .8 5 48.00 46.10 4.50 4 .3 5 4 .8 5 19.00 12.87% 3 5 .0 0 2% carbon, 90.00; 1%, 100.00- Feb! 11 9.25 9.37% 8.S 5 48.12% 46.25 4 .5 0 4 .3 5 4 .8 5 ♦19.00 12.87% 3 5 .0 0 Ferrochrom e, 66-70 F e b . 12 — H o l i d a y chrom ium , 4-6 car­ Feb 13 9.25 9.37% 8 .85 47.87% 46.25 4 .5 0 4 .3 5 4 .8 5 ♦ 1 9 .0 0 1 2 .8 7 % 3 5 .0 0 bon, cts. lb. del.... 10-.00 Feb. 14 9.25 9.37% 8.S5 47.S7% 46.00 4.50 4 .3 5 4.S 5 ♦19.00 12.87% 3 5 .0 0 Ferrotungsten, stand., lb. con. del. 1.35- 1.45 ♦Nominal range 19.00 to 21.00c. Ferrovanadium. 35 MILL PRODUCTS O L D M E T A L S Light Brass to 40% lb., cont.... 2.70- 2.90 Deal, buying prices, cents lb. C h i c a g o ...... 3.50- 3.75 F e r r o t i t a n i u m , c . 1., F.o.b. mill base, cents per lb. C l e v e l a n d ...... 3.25- 3.50 prod, plant, frt. except as specified. Copper No. 1 Composition Red Brass S t . L o u i s ...... 3.50- 3.75 allow., net ton .... 137.50 brass products based on 9 .0 0 c N e w Y o r k ...... 5.75- 6.00 Lead Spot, 1 ton, frt. Conn. copper. Cleveland ...... 6.50- 6.75 N e w Y o r k ...... 3.50- 3.75 a l l o w ., l b ...... 7.00 Sheets C h i c a g o ...... 6 .0 0 - 6 .25 C l e v e l a n d ...... 3 .5 0 - 3 .75 Do., under 1 ton. .. 7.50 C h i c a g o ...... 3.37%-3.62% Yellow brass (high) 1 4 .6 2 % ♦St. Louis ...... 5 .7 5 - 6 .0 0 Ferrophosphorus, S t . L o u i s ...... 3.25- 3.75 p e r t o n , c . 1., 1 7 - Copper hot rolled.... 1 6 .5 0 Heavy Copper and Wire 8 .25 Z in c 1 9 % R o c k d a l e , Lead cut te jobbers ♦New York, No. 1.... 7.25- 7 .5 0 9 .5 0 N e w Y o r k ...... 2.00- 2.25 Tenn., basis, 18%, TZinc, 160-lb. base.... Chicago, No. 1 ...... 7 .0 0 - 7 .5 0 Tubes C l e v e l a n d ...... 2.50- 2.75 $3 unitage ...... 5S .5 0 C l e v e l a n d ...... 6 .7 5 - 7 .0 0 ♦ S t. L o u i s ...... 2 .5 0 - 3 .00 Ferrophosphorus, H igh yellow brass.. 1 6 .8 7 % S t, Louis, No. 1 ...... 7.00- 7.37% A lu m in u m electrolytic. per ¡Seamless copper...... 1 7 .0 0 t o n c . 1., 2 3 -2 6 % Rods Composition Brass Borings Borings, Cleveland.. 9.00- 9.50 M ixed, cast, Cleve... 13.00-13.25 f.o.b. Anniston, H igh yellow brass.... 1 3 .1 2 % ♦ N e w Y o r k ...... 5.25- 5.50 M ixed, cast, St. L... 12.50-12.75 Ala., 24% $3 Copper, hot rolled.... 1 3 .5 0 Light Copper Clips, soft, Cleve.... 15.00-15.25 u n i t a g e ...... 7 5 .0 0 A n o d es ♦ N e w Y o r k ...... 6.00- 6.25 Ferromolvbdenum, SECONDARY METALS Copper untrim m ed.. 1 4 .0 0 C h i c a g o ...... 5.50- 6.00 stand. 55-65%, lb. 0.95 W ire C l e v e l a n d ...... 6 .0 0 - 6 .25 Brass ingot, 85-5-5-5 9.50 Molybdate, lb. cont. 0.SO Yellow brass (high) 1 -5.12% S t . L o u i s ...... 5.75- 6.00 ♦Stand. No. 12 alum . 16.75-17.25 fCarloads, Quan. diff. apply-

70 S TEEL Fehriiarv 17. Ï936 —The Market Week— Iron and Steel Scrap Prices Corrected to Friday night. Gross tons delivered to consumers, except where otherwise stated

HEAVY MELTING STEEL COUPLERS, SPRINGS B u f f a l o ...... 7.75- 8.25 Chicago, iron ...... 13.50- 1 4 .0 0 Birm ingham ...... ‘J.5 0 - 1 0 .5 0 B u f f a l o ...... 14.50-15.00 Cincinnati, dealers.. 6.00- 6.50 Chicago, rolled steel 1 4 .5 0 - 1 5 .0 0 Boston, dock, expt. 1 0 .5 0 Chicago, springs .... 15.00-15.50 C l e v e l a n d ...... 8 .7 5 - 9 .0 0 Cincinnati, iron ...... 1 1 .5 0 - 1 2 .0 0 Boston, dom estic .... 9 .0 0 E a s t e r n P a ...... 16.00-16.50 D e t r o i t ...... 6.00- 6.50 Eastern Pa., iron.... 14.50- 1 5 .0 0 Buffalo, No. 1 ...... 1 2 .5 0 - 1 3 .0 0 Pittsburgh ...... 17.00-17.50 E a s t e r n P a ...... 6 .5 0 E astern Pa., steel.... 16.00- 1 6 .5 0 1 1 .7 5 Buffalo, No. 2 ...... 1 1 .2 5 - S t . L o u i s ...... 12.00-12.50 New York, dealers.. 3.25- 3.75 Pittsburgh, iron ...... 1 4.75- 1 5 .2 5 Chicago, No. 1 ...... 1 4 .0 0 - 14.2 5 Pittsburgh ...... 8.50- 9.50 Pittsburgh, steel .... ANGLE BARS—STEEL 17.00- 1 7 .5 0 Cleveland, No. 1 ...... 1 3 .5 0 - 1 4 .0 0 Toronto, dealers .... 4.00 St. Louis, iron ...... 1 1 .0 0 - 1 1 .5 0 Cleveland, No. 2 ...... 1 2.50- 1 3 .0 0 C h i c a g o ...... 14.50-15.00 St. Louis, steel ...... 1 2 .2 5 - 1 2 .7 5 D e t r o i t , N o . 1 ...... 1 1 .0 0 -■11.50 S t . L o u i s ...... 13.00-13.50 CAST IRON BORINGS Toronto, net ...... S .50 Detroit, No. 2 ...... 1 0 .0 0 -■10.50 B u f f a l o ...... 14.50-15.00 Birm ingham , plain. 5 .0 0 - 6 .0 0 E astern Pa., No. 1.. 12.50- 1 3 .0 0 Boston, chem ical ... 5.50- 6 .50 NO. I CAST SCRAP RAILROAD SPECIALTIES E astern Pa., No. 2.. 11.50-■12.00 Boston, dealers ...... 3 .5 0 - 4 .0 0 Birm ingham ...... 11.00- -1 2 .0 0 C h i c a g o ...... 15.00-15.50 Federal, 111...... 1 1 .0 0 -■11.50 B u f f a l o ...... 8 .2 5 - 8 .75 Boston, No. 1 maeh. 9.00- - 9 .2 5 G ranite City, R. R... 12.00- 1 2 .5 0 C h i c a g o ...... LOW PHOSPHORUS 6.50- 7 .0 0 Boston, No. 2 ...... S.75- ■ 9 .0 0 G ranite City, No. 2.. 10.25- 1 0 .7 5 Cincinnati, dealers. 6 .0 0 - 6.50 Boston, tcx. con ...... Buffalo, billet and 8 .50- • 9 .0 0 N. Y„ deal. No. 2.... 8.00- 8 .5 0 C l e v e l a n d ...... 8 .7 5 - 9 .0 0 Buffalo, cupola ...... 1 2.25- • 12 .7 5 bloom crops ...... 14.75-15.25 N. Y„ deal, barge D e t r o i t ...... 6.00- 6 .50 Buffalo, m ach ...... Cleveland, billet, 13.25- 1 3 .7 5 (No. 1 for export) 9.00- 9 .5 0 E. Pa., chemical 10.00- 1 2 .0 0 Chicago, agri. net.... 1 0 .5 0 - ■11.00 bloom crops ...... 16.50-17.00 Pitts., No. 1 (R.R.) 15.25 -1 5 .7 5 New York, dealers.. 3.50 4 .0 0 Chicago, auto ...... 1 1 .5 0 - Eastern Pa., crops.. 16.50 ■12.00 Pitts., No. 1 (dir.).. 14.75 -1 5 .2 5 S t . L o u i s ...... 4 .5 0 - 5 .0 0 Chicago, mach. net 1 2 .5 0 - ■13.00 Pittsburgh, billet, Pittsburgh, No. 2.... 13.75 -1 4 .2 5 Toronto, dealers .... 5 .0 0 Chicago, railr’d net.. 1 1 .2 5 - •11.75 bloom crops ...... 17.25-17.75 S t . L o u i s ...... 1 0 .2 5 •10 .7 5 Cinci., m ach. cup.... 1 1 .0 0 - 1 1 .5 0 Pittsburgh, s h e e t PIPE AND FLUES Toronto, dealers ...... 7 .5 0 Cleveland, m ach ...... 1 4 .5 0 - 1 5 .0 0 b a r c r o p s ...... 16.75-17.25 Valleys, No. 1 ...... 1 5 .0 0 •15 .5 0 Cincinnati, dealers.. 8 .0 0 - 8 .5 0 D etroit, auto, net.... 1 2 .0 0 - 1 2 .5 0 COMPRESSED SHEETS FROGS, SWITCHES Eastern Pa., cupola 1 3 .5 0 - 14 .0 0 RAILROAD GRATE BARS E. Pa., mixed yard.. Buffalo, dealers ...... 11.25- ■11.75 C h i c a g o ...... 13.75-14.25 1 1 .5 0 - 1 2 .0 0 Pittsburgh, cupola.. Chicago, factory 12.50- 1 3 .0 0 St. Louis, cut ...... 12.00-12.50 B u f f a l o ...... 10.25-10.75 1 3 .5 0 - 1-1.00 San Francisco, del.. 1 3 .5 0 - Chicago, dealer 12.00- 1 2 .5 0 Chicago, net ...... 7.75- 8.25 1 4 .0 0 SHOVELING STEEL S e a t t l e ...... 7 .5 0 - C l e v e l a n d ...... 1 3 .2 5 - 1 3 .7 5 Cincinnati ...... 1.00- 7 .5 0 9 .0 0 C h i c a g o ...... 14.00-14.25 St. Louis, No. 1 ...... 1 1 .2 5 - 1 1 .7 5 D e t r o i t ...... 11.25- ■11.75 E a s t e r n P a ...... 9 .5 0 -1 0 .0 0 F e d e r a l , 111 ...... 1 1 .0 0 -1 1 .5 0 St. L.. No. 1 mach. 1 2 .5 0 - 1 3 .0 0 E. Pa., new m at 12.25- 1 2 .5 0 New York, dealers.. 6 .5 0 - 7 .0 0 G ranite City, 111...... 10.25-10.50 Toronto, No. 1, Pittsburgli ...... 1 5 .0 0 - 1 5 .5 0 S t . L o u i s ...... 7 .5 0 - 8 .0 0 Toronto, dealers c.50 mach.. net ...... 9 .0 0 S t . L o u i s ...... 9 .0 0 - 9 .50 FORGE FLASHINGS V a l l e y s ...... 1 4 .5 0 - 1 5 .0 0 RAILROAD WROUGHT H E A V Y C A S T Boston, dealers ..... 6.75- 7.00 BUNDLED SHEETS Birm ingham ...... 7 .5 0 - S.OO Boston, del ...... 7.75- 8.00 Boston, dealers ...... 6.00- 6.50 B u f f a l o ...... 11.25-11.75 B u f f a l o ...... 10.25-10.75 Buffalo, break ...... 10.75-11.25 Buffalo, No. 1 ...... 11.25-11.75 C l e v e l a n d ...... 11.50-12.00 Cincinnati, del 8.50- 9.00 Cleveland, break ...... 11.50-12.00 Buffalo, No. 2 ...... 12.50-13.00 D e t r o i t ...... 10.50-11.00 C l e v e l a n d ...... 10.00-10.50 D etroit, No. 1 m ach. Chicago, No. 1, net.. 12.50-13.00 Pittsburgh ...... 13.75-14.25 Pittsburgh ...... 13.25-13.75 n e t ...... 12.00-12.50 Chicago, No. 2 ...... 14.00-14.25 S t . L o u i s ...... 6.50- 7.00 FORGE SCRAP Detroit, break ...... 10.00-10.50 Cincinnati, No. 2.... 11.50-12.00 D etroit, auto net.... 12.00-12.50 Toronto, dealers 4.50 Boston, dealers 4 .5 0 - 5 .00 E a s t e r n P a ...... 1 3 .0 0 E a s t e r n P a ...... 13.00-13.50 Chicago, heavy 15.00-15.50 SHEET CLIPPINGS, LOOSE St. Louis, No. 1 ...... 10.50-11.00 N. Y., break, deal.... 8 .7 5 - 9 .2 5 E a s t e r n P a ...... 12.00-12.50 C h i c a g o ...... 10.00-10.50 St. Louis, No. 2 ...... 11.75-12.25 Pittsburgh ...... 12.50-13.00 Cincinnati ...... 8.50- 9.00 Toronto, No. 1. dir. 7.00 ARCH BARS, TRANSOMS MALLEABLE D e t r o i t ...... 8.50- 9.00 SPECIFICATION PIPE S t . L o u i s ...... 6.00- 6.50 S t . L o u i s ...... 12.50-13.00 Birm ingham , R. R... 11.50-12.50 E a s t e r n P a ...... 1 1 ,5 0 Boston, consum 13.50-14.50 STEEL RAILS, SHORT New York, dealers.. 6.75- 7.25 AXLE TURNINGS B u f f a l o ...... 15.75-16.25 Birm ingham ...... 12.50-13.00 Chicago, R. R 16.50-17.00 BUSHELING B u f f a l o ...... 15.25-15.75 Boston, dealers ...... 3.75- 4.25 C incinnati, agri. del. 13.00-13.50 Buffalo, No. 1 ...... 11.25-11.75 Chicago (3 ft.) 15.00-15.50 B u f f a l o ...... 10.50-11.00 Cleveland, rail ...... 16.50-17.00 Chicago, No...... 12.00-12.50 Chicago, elec. fur 13.25-13.75 Chicago (2 ft.) 16.00-16.50 1 D etroit, auto, net.... 14.50-15.00 Cinci., No. 1, deal.... 8.50- 9.00 E a s t e r n P a ...... 1 1 .5 0 Cincinnati, del 14.50-15.00 Eastern Pa., R.R... 16.50-17.00 Cincinnati, No. 2.... 5.50- 6.00 S t . L o u i s ...... 9.00- 9.50 D e t r o i t ...... 13.50-14.00 Pittsburgh, rail 17.25-17.75 Pitts., open-hearth, Cleveland. No. 2 ...... S.75- 9.00 T o r o n t o ...... 4 .5 0 St. Louis, R. R 14.25-14,75 3 f t . a n d l e s s ...... 16.50-17.00 D etroit, No. 1, new.. 10.50-11.00 T o r o n t o , n e t ...... 7 .0 0 V alleys, new . No. 1.. 14.50-15.00 STEEL CAR AXLES St. Louts, 2 ft. & less 14.00-14.50 RAILS FOR ROLLING Toronto, dealers c.00 Birmingham ...... 12.00-12.50 STEEL RAILS, SCRAP Boston, ship, point.. 11.00-11.25 5 feet and over MACHINE TURNINGS B o s t o n ...... 9 .00 B u f f a l o ...... 15.00-15.50 Birm ingham ...... 11.50-12.00 C h i c a g o ...... 14.00-14.50 Birm ingham ...... 6.00- 7.00 Chicago, n e t ...... 15.00-15.50 Boston, dealers 9.00 Pittsburgh ...... 15.50-16.00 Boston, dealers ...... 3 .7 5 -3 .9 0 E a s t e r n P a ...... 1 7 .0 0 B u f f a l o ...... 12.50-13.00 S t . L o u i s ...... 12.50-13.00 B u f f a l o ...... 6.00- 6.50 S t . L o u i s ...... 13.50-14.00 C h i c a g o ...... 15.00-15.50 B u f f a l o ...... 12.50-13.00 C h i c a g o ...... 6 .5 0 - 7.00 T o r o n t o ...... 8 .50 E a s t e r n P a ...... 13.00-14.00 Toronto, dealers 8.50 Cincinnati, dealers.. 6.50- 7.00 New York, dealer.... 9.75-10.25 C l e v e l a n d ...... s . 2 5 - S.50 STOVE PLATE SHAFTING S t . L o u i s ...... 13.50-14.00 D e t r o i t ...... 6.00- 6.50 Boston, ship, point.. 13.25-13.50 Birm ingham ...... 7.00- 7.50 E a s t e r n P a ...... S.OO- S.50 LOCOMOTIVE TIRES E a s t e r n P a ...... 1 8 .5 0 Boston, dealers 5.75- 6.00 Chicago (cut) ...... 15.50-16.00 New York, dealers.. 4.00- 4.50 New York, dealers.. 13.50-14.00 B u f f a l o ...... 10.50-11.00 Pittsburgh ...... 10.25-10.75 St.. Louis, No. 1 ...... 12.00-12.50 S t . L o u i s ...... 13.00-13.50 C h i c a g o ...... 7.50- 8.00 S t . L o u i s ...... 4.50- 5.00 Cincinnati, dealers.. 8.00- 8.50 LOW PHOS. PUNCHINGS Toronto, dealers .... 4.00 C A R W H E E L S Detroit, net ...... 8.50- 9.00 B u f f a l o ...... 14.75-15.25 V a l l e y s ...... 10.50-11.00 E a s t e r n P a ...... 10.50-11.00 Birmingham ...... 10.00-11.00 C h i c a g o ...... 15.50-16.00 N. Y., deal, fdry 6.50- 7.00 BORINGS AND TURNINGS Boston, iron deal. 7 .7 5 - 8 .0 0 E a s t e r n P a ...... 16.00-16.50 S t . L o u i s ...... 7.50- 8.00 For Blast Furnace Use Buffalo, iron ...... 12.25-12.75 Pittsburgh (heavy) 16.75-17.25 Toronto, dealers, net 5.50 Boston, dealers 3.00- 3.25 Buffalo, steel ...... 15.25-15.75 Pittsburgh (light).. 16.00-16.50

Eastern Local Ore iron, 6-10% man. 10.50 Manganese Ore Iron O re Cents, unit, del. E. Pa. No. Afr. low phos. 10.50 Lake Superior Ore Foundry and basic Swedish basic, 65% 9-50 (Nominal) 56-63% con. (nom .) 8.00- 9.00 Swedish low phos.. 10.50 G ro ss to n , 5 1 % % Cop.-free low phos. Spanish No. Africa Prices not including duty, Bower Lake Ports 58-60% (nom.).... 10.00-10.50 basic, 50 to 60% 10.50 cents per unit cargo lots Old range bessemer $4.SO Foreign Ore Tungsten, spot sh. Caucasian, 52-55% 26.00 Mesabi nonbess ...... 4 .5 0 Cents per unit, f.a.s. Atlantic ton unit, dutv pd..$15.85-16.00 So. African, 52%.... 26.50 High phosphorus ...... 4 .4 0 ports (nominal) N. F., fdy., 55% ...... 7 .0 0 So. Afr., 49-51%.... 25.50 Mesabi bessem er ...... 4 .6 5 Foreign manganif- Chrome ore. 48% Indian, 58-60% ...... n o m i n a l Old range nonbess ...... 4 .6 5 erous ore, 45.55% gross ton, c.i.f 19.25 Indian, 48-50% ...... n o m i n a l

February 17, 1930 /TEEL 71 —The Market Week— Wa rehouse Iron an d St eel Prices Cents -per pound for delivery within metropolitan districts of cities specified

S T E E L B A R S Cincinnati .... 3 .2 5 c B u f f a l o ...... 3 .3 7 c Pittsburgh(h) 2.95c S e a t t l e ... 5 .6 0 c 3 .5 6 c San Fracisco 3.35c St. Louis , 3 .5 5 c Baltimore* 3.00c H o u s t o n ...... 3.25c Chattanooga.. Los Ang., cl.. 2 .4 5 c C h i c a g o ...... 3 .2 0 c S e a t t l e ...... 3 .7 0 c S t . P a u l ... 3 .5 5 c B o s t o n t t ...... 3 .1 0 c New Orleans 3.50c Cincinnati .... 3 .4 2 c St. Louis 3.45c B u f f a l o ...... 3 .0 0 c COLD FIN. STEEL Chattanooga.. 3.36c Pitts., plain (h) 3 .0 5 c C l e v e l a n d . S t . P a u l ...... 3 .3 0 c 3 .3 1 c T u l s a ...... 3 .7 0 c Baltimore (c) 3.73c Chicago (j).... 3.00c Pitts., tw isted in. and over 3 .1 7 5 c 3 .4 2 c B o s t o n ...... 3 .9 0 c Cincinnati .... 3.22c squares (h) D e t r o i t ...... 3 .6 5 c NO. 24 BLACK Buffalo (h).... 3.55c C l e v e l a n d ...... 3 .0 0 c San Francisco 2 .4 5 c D e t r o i t , l’ff-in . 3 .0 0 c Chattanooga* 4.13c D e t r o i t ...... 3 .0 9 c S e a t t l e ...... 2.45c Houston ...... Baltim ore**.... 3 .6 0 c S t . L o u i s ...... 3 .2 5 c Los Angeles.. 3 .6 0 c Chicago (h).. 3.50c H o u s t o n ...... 3 .0 0 c Boston (g) .... 3 .9 5 c Cincinnati .... 3.72c T u l s a ...... 3.25c Milwaukee .... 3 .3 1 c Los Angeles.. 3.60c B u f f a l o ...... 3 .2 5 c Cleveland (h) 3.50c M ilwaukee ..3.llc-3.26c Y o u n g ...... 2 .3 0 c -2.60c New Orleans 3 .5 5 c Chattanooga.. 4 .1 6 c New York*(d) 3.40c D e t r o i t ...... 3 .7 9 c New Orleans.. 3-35c C h i c a g o ...... 3 .8 5 c SHAPES Philadelphia* 2.98C Los Ang. (f) (d) 5.85c New York* (d) 3.31c Cincinnati .... 4.02C M ilwaukee .... 3.61c Baltim ore*.... 3 .0 0 c Phila. floor.... 4 .9 5 c P i t t s , ( h ) ...... 2.95c-3.10c C l e v e l a n d ...... 3 .9 1 c New Orleans 4.30c B o s t o n * * ...... 3 .1 9 c Pittsburgh (h) 3 .1 5 c Philadelphia* 3.03c D e t r o i t ...... 3 .9 4 c New York* (d) 3.81c B u f f a l o ...... 3 .2 5 c P o r t l a n d ...... 3 .3 5 c P o r t l a n d ...... 3 .5 0 c Los Angeles.. 4 .3 5 c Philadelphia.. 3.76c Chattanooga.. 3 .5 6 c San Francisco 3 .2 5 c San Francisco 3.25c M ilw aukee .... 3 .9 6 c Pittsburgh .... 3.50c C h i c a g o ...... 3 .2 0 c S e a t t l e ...... 3 .5 5 c S e a t t l e ...... 3 .7 0 c New Orleans 4 .5 0 c Portland (f) (d) 6.15c Cincinnati .... 3 .4 2 c S t . L o u i s ...... 3 .4 5 c S t . L o u i s ...... 3 .2 5 c New York*(d) 3 .8 9 c San Fran.(f) (d) 5.95c C l e v e l a n d ...... 3.31C S t . P a u l ...... 3 .4 5 c S t . P a u l ...... 3.25c-3.40c Philadelphia** 3 .6 0 c Seattle (f) (d) 6.15c D e t r o i t ...... 3 .4 2 c T u l s a ...... 3 .5 0 c T u l s a ...... 3 .2 5 c Pitts.** (h).... 3 .5 5 c St. Louis 3.75c H o u s t o n ...... 3 .0 0 c P o r t l a n d ...... 4 .4 0 c S t . P a u l ...... 4 .0 2 c IR O N B A R S Los Angeles.. 3 .6 0 c N O . 10 B L U E San Francisco 4 .0 0 c T u l s a ...... 4 .6 5 c P o r t l a n d ...... 3 .4 0 c M ilwaukee .... 3 .3 1 c B a l t i m o r e * ...... 3 .1 0 c S e a t t l e ...... 4 .4 0 c Chattanooga.. 3.36c New Orleans 3.55c B o s t o n * * ...... 3 .3 0 c S t . L o u i s ...... 4 .1 0 c COLD ROLLED STRIP Baltimore*.... 3.05c New York*(d) 3 .3 7 c B u f f a l o ...... 3 .6 2 c S t . P a u l ...... 3 .9 0 c Boston, 0.100- C h i c a g o ...... 2 .7 5 c Philadelphia* 2 .9 8 c Chattanooga.. 3.36c T u l s a ...... 4 .7 5 c in., 500 lb. Cincinnati .... 3.22c Pittsburgh (h) 3 .1 5 c C h i c a g o ...... 3 .0 5 c l o t s ...... 3 .2 4 5 c New Yorkt(d) 3.36c Portland (1).. 3 .5 0 c Cincinnati .... 3 .2 2 c NO. 24 GALV. SHEETS B u f f a l o ...... 3 -3 9 c Philadelphia* 2.93c San Francisco 3 .2 5 c Cleveland 3.11c C h i c a g o ...... 3 .2 7 c Baltimore**.... 4.30c St. Louis 3.25c Seattle (i) ...... 3 .7 0 c Det., 8-10 ga. 3 .1 4 c Cincinnati (b) 3.22c B u f f a l o ...... 4 .0 0 c T u l s a ...... 3 .2 5 c St. Louis ., . 3 .4 5 c H o u s t o n ...... 3 .3 5 c Cleveland (b) 3.20c Boston (g).... 4.65c S t . P a u l 3 .4 5 c I,os Angeles.. 3 .7 5 c D e t r o i t ...... 3 .3 3 c Chattanooga.. 4.86c REINFORCING BARS T u l s a ...... 3 .5 0 c M ilw aukee .... 3 .1 6 c New York* (d) 3.36c Chicago (h).. 4.55c B u f f a l o ...... 2 .6 0 c New Orleans 3 .5 5 c S t . L o u i s ...... 3 .4 5 c Cincinnati .... 4.72c Chattanooga.. 3.36c PLATES New York*(d) 3 .3 1 c C l e v e l a n d ...... 4 .6 1 c TOOL STEELS C h i c a g o ...... 2.10c-2.60c Baltimore* 3.00c Portland ...... 3 .7 5 c D e t r o i t ...... 4 .7 2 c (A pplying on or east of Cleveland (c) 2.10c B o s t o n * * ...... 3 .2 1 c Philadelphia* 3.08c H o u s t o n ...... 4 .4 0 c M ississippi river; west Los Angeles.. 4.95c of M ississippi lc up) Milwaukee .... 4.66c B a s e Current Iron and Steel Prices of Europe New Orleans 4.95c High speed ...... 5 7 c New York* (d) 4.30c High carbon, high Dollars at Rates of Exchange, Feb. 13 Philadelphia** 4.40c c h r o m e ...... 3 7 c Pitts.** (h) ..4.15-4.45c Oil hardening ...... 2 2 c (By Cable or Radio) Export Prices f. o. b. Ship at Port of Dispatch— P o r t l a n d ...... 5 .0 0 c Special tool ...... 2 0 c Continental San Francisco 4.50c E x t r a t o o l ...... 1 7 c British Channel or North Sea ports, metric tons S e a t t l e ...... 5 .0 0 c Regular tool ...... 1 4 c gross tons ♦♦Quoted in gold St. Louis 4.65c Uniform extras apply. U. K. ports Quoted in dollars pounds sterling St. Paul 4.50c BOLTS AND NUTS P IG IR O N at current value £ s A T u l s a ...... 5 .1 0 c Foundry, 2.50-3.00 Silicon $15.54 32 6 $13.66 1 13 0 (100 pounds or over) Basic bessemcr...... 15.54 3 2 6* 12.13 1 10 0 BANDS D i s c o u n t Hematite, Phos. .03-.05.. 16.19 3 5 0 Chicago (a) ...... 70 Baltimore* 3.20c C l e v e l a n d ...... 70 SEMIFINISHED B o s t o n t t ...... 3 .3 0 c D e t r o i t ...... 7 0 -1 0 STEEL B u f f a l o ...... 3 .4 2 c M i l w a u k e e ...... 70 10 0 $18.99 2 7 0 Billets...... $27.39 5 Chattanooga.. 3.61c Pittsburgh ...... 70 Wire rods, No. 5 gage------42.33 S10 0 36.39 4 10 0 C h i c a g o ...... 3 .3 0 c FINISHED STEEL Cincinnati .... 3.47c (a) U nder 100 pounds, C l e v e l a n d ...... 3 .3 6 c Standard rails...... $41.09 S 5 0 $44.47 5 10 Ü 65 o ff. Merchant bars...... 1.66c 7 10 0 1.13c to 1.18c 3 2 6 to 3 5 0 Detroit, A-in. (b) Plus straighten­ Structural shapes ...... 1.66c 7 10 0 1.12c 3 1 6 and lighter 3.39c ing, cutting and quan­ Plates, t l/ i in. or 5 m m .. . l.SOc 8 1 3 1.55c 4 5 0 H o u s t o n ...... 3 .2 5 c tity differentials; (c) Sheets, black, 24 gage or Los Angeles.. 4.10c Plus mill, size and 0.5 m m ...... 2.16c 915 0 1.94c 5 6 0*+ Milwaukee .... 3.41c Sheets, gal., 24 gage, corr. 2.61c 11 15 0 2.29c 6 5 0 quantity extras; (d) Bands and strips...... 1.88c 8 10 0 1.42c 4 0 0 New Orleans 3.95c Quantity base; (e) Plain wire, base...... 2.05c 9 5 0 1.92c 5 5 0 ' NewYorkJ(d) 3.56c New mill classif. (f) Galvanized wire, base.... 2.39c 10 15 0 2.15c 5 17 6 Philadelphia.. 3.1Sc Rounds only; (g) 50 Wire nails, base...... 2.66c 12 0 0 1.74c 4 15 0 Pittsburgh (h) 3.20c Tin plate, box 108 lbs------$ 4.67 0 18 9 bundles or over; (h) P o r t l a n d ...... 4 .2 5 c Outside delivery, 10c British ferromanganese JS75 delivered Atlantic seaboard, duty-paid. German ferromanganese San Francisco 4.10c £9 0s Od 3(43.74) f.o.b. less; (1) Under 3 In.; S e a t t l e ...... 4 .2 5 c (j) shapes other than Domestic Prices at Works or Furnace— Last Reported St. Louis 3.55c rounds, flats, fillet an­ S t . P a u l ...... 3 .5 5 c gles, 3.15c. T u l s a ...... 3 .4 5 c French Belgian Reich ID om estic steel; ‘Plus £ s d Francs Francs Marks quan. extras; “ Under HOOPS Fdy. pig iron. Si.2.5 ...... $17.43 3 10 0(a) $17.29 260 $12.86 385 $25.58 63 25 bundles;**50 or more Basic bessemcr pigiron . . . 17.43 3 10 0(a) 12.64 190 11.69 350 28.22(b) 69.50 Baltimore 2.30c bundles; * New extras Furnace coke...... 4.86 0 19 6 6.32 95 4.16 122 7.71 19 B o s t o n * * ...... 4 .3 0 c apply; t+Base 40,000 Billets...... 27.39 5 10 0 28.60 430 18.35 540 39.18 96.50 B u f f a l o ...... 3 .4 2 c lbs., extras on less. Standard rails...... 1.83c 8 5 0 2.02c 671 1.69c 1,100 2.43c 132 Merchant bars...... 1.86c 8 12 0 1.68c 560 ,92c 600 2.02c 110 C h i c a g o ...... 3 .3 0 c Prices on heavier lines Structural shapes...... 1.95c 8 15 0 1.65c 550 ,92c 600 1.97c 107 Cincinnati .... 3.47c are subject to new Plates, tK “‘n- or 5 mm.. . 2.01c 9 1 3 2.11c 700 1.07c 700 2.33c 127 Det., No. 14 quantity differentials; Sheets, black ...... 2.45c 11 10.01 l.SOc 600Î 1.27c 825* 2.65c 144* and lighter 3.39c 399 lbs. and less, up 50 Sheets, galv., corr., 24 ga. Los Angeles.. 5.85c cts.; 400 to 9999 lbs., or 0.5 m m ...... 2.95c 13 10 0 2.S6c 950 2.31c 1,500 6.80c 370 Plain wire...... 2.05c 9 50 2.71c 900 1.77c 1.150 3.1Sc 173 Milwaukee .... 3.41c base; 10.000 to 19.999 Bands and strips...... 2.07c 9 7 0 1.96c 650 1.23c 800 2.33c 127 NewYorkt(d) 3.56c lbs., 15 cts. under; 20,- ♦Basic. *British ship-plates. _ Continental, bridge plates. §24 ga. *1 to 3 mm. basic price. Philadelphia.. 3.43c 0 0 0 t o 3 9 .9 9 9 lb s ., 2S British quotations are for basic open-hearth steel. Continent usually for basic-bessemer steel, Pittsburgh (h) 3.70c cts. under; 40,000 lbs. a del Middlesbrough, b hematite, ttClose annealed. P o r t l a n d ...... 5 .6 0 c and over, 35 cts. under *•*0618 pqund sterling carries a prem ium of 66.00 ner cent over paper sterling. San Francisco 6.15c b a s e .

72 /TEEL February 17, 1936 —The Market Week— Bars B ar Prices, P age 08 Cleveland— Prices for second quar­ ter probably will be announced this week, following the former code custom of quoting ten days before the month prior to the new quarter. Bars are expected to be reaffirmed at 1.90c, base, Cleveland. While there has been no deviation from the base, warehouse interests claim that bar sellers in some instances have waved the $1 a ton extra for lots under 5 tons to 3 tons. A considerable por­ tion of mill business recently has been small miscellaneous orders. Au­ Bearing, gear, bearing, gear—roll along another year. tomobile forge shops give indication of slightly improved activity. Ma­ While you’re rolling merrily, watch your rolling warily— chinery, road building and agricul­ Friction gets you bit by bit, rolling up big deficit! tural equipment manufacturers are buying regularly. Apparently the "wheels” of your machinery may be rolling along Pittsburgh— Specifications for bars from the bolt, nut and rivet trade, smoothly—or at least all right, but "all right” often turns out to and manufacturers of numerous be very expensive in the long roll! miscellaneous automotive parts have gained and indicate the needs of bolt, Lubrication has a lot to do with it. It may be over-lubrication, nut and rivet makers and automobile or the wrong grade of oil, or wrong methods o f application, or manufacturers. The carbon steel bar other things that shoot up costs through repairs and idle machine market, holding at 1.85c, Pittsburgh, time—and yet the correction of any of these can be very simple! In is fairly firm, with the exception of Detroit-delivered prices where con­ most plants lubrication costs can be substantially reduced by the cessions have been granted in some Standard Oil engineer. cases. Cliicago— Steel bar business con­ tinues in good volume despite the There’s the case, for instance, in which $12,000 reduced rate of automotive demand. per year was saved on petroleum solvents for Farm implement manufacturers con­ tinue busy, with operations of some one plant. "That’d pay my salary!” winked the plants equal to those of 1929. Mis­ plant superintendent. cellaneous bar consumers are taking shipments in steady volume. New York— Buying of steel bars A metal-working plant was reaming a tapered hole in heat-treated alloy is steady at the moderate rate of the steel of unusual hardness. Grinding burned drills was a daily routine. past few weeks, at firm prices. Scat­ A Standard Oil engineer made tests and recommended a cutting oil tering orders are being booked from that not only increased the life of the drills by a wide margin but also railroads and shipyards. resulted in a much smoother finish o f the work. Philadelphia — Commercial steel bar prices are firm and there has been no suggestion of the alleged Then, there were the five public school buildings weakness discussed in trade circles with regard to certain other products. using a cylinder oil which was getting back into Specifications so far this month have the boilers. It was evident to the Standard Oil been at a slightly better rate than in engineer that the oil was too heavy for the sep­ Jan u ary . arator to handle. Capitol Cylinder Oil did the trick! Cold Finished Copr. 1936, Standard Oil Co. Cold Finished Prices, 1 ’age 09 r Write for the booklets below which interest you or for any other information desired regarding petroleum products. Address Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), Pittsburgh— Recent Detroit-deliv­ 910 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111. ^,9) ered buying has uncovered certain I | "Lubrication in Honing I I "Lubrication in Grinding price concessions from 2.20c, deliv­ — & Lapping Operations” Operations” ered, Detroit, or 2.25c, eastern Mich­ □ "The Lubrication Engineer- \ i "Lubrication in Gear igan, both based on 2.10c, Pittsburgh, His Value to You” L 1 Cutting Operations” base, for one size, shape, grade and shipment at one time to one destina­ tion on 10,000 to 19,999-pound lots of cold-drawn bars. Weakness in this STANDARD OIL COMPANY market is isolated and not compar­ (Indiana) able with the unsteadiness in fiat- rolled finished steel. Entry of the Electric Autolite Co., Toledo, into the CORRECT LURRICATION

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 73 —The Market Week- manufacture of spark plugs sometime erally are reasonably optimistic over While weakness has been reported in in March will account for a sizeable prospects for the remainder of this some quarters, an appreciable im­ new buyer in hexagon and other cold- quarter. Good ship tonnage is still provement in specifications, combined drawn bar sizes. pending and some attractive railroad with advancing production costs, tonnage is in sight. While the price might result in actual advance in situation is being closely watched, prices for next quarter, in the opin­ 1.90c, Coatesville, Pa., continues rep­ ion of some leading trade interests. resentative of the general market. Chicago— Sheet business is fairly Plate» Birmingham, Ala. -—- Better de­ heavy, notwithstanding continued mand for steel plates is noted here. quietness in automotive consumption. Plate Prices, Page 08 Chicago Bridge & Iron Works has Occasional gains in releases from mo­ Pittsburgh — A large part of the booked several contracts recently tor car interests are noted, though steel required to build 3000 hopper for tanks, including about 7000 tons no sustained pickup is anticipated for and gondola cars for the Bessemer for the Pan-American Refining Corp.. 30 days. Active call from manu­ and Union railroads will be in plates. Texas City, Tex., a small tank for facturers of farm implements, domes­ Including wheel and axle require­ the Tennessee valley authority, and tic equipment and miscellaneous ments, the Pittsburgh district will a number of smaller tanks for vari­ products, to a large degree, is off­ roll 4 6,854 tons and the Chicago dis­ ous waterworks systems in the setting the curtailment in automotive trict, 7818 tons. A Mahoning valley South. consumption since December. plate mill is supplying plain mate­ Seattle— While no large tonnages Pittsburgh-—Buyers with sheet rial requirements of Treadwell Con­ are pending, dealers report a good specifications of carload sizes still struction Co., Midland, Pa., to build volume of buying in both heavy and are frequently in the market, but 10 coal barges for Pittsburgh Coal light gages, most for tank construc­ larger tonnage accounts are continu­ Co.; about 1400 tons of plates will tion and replacements. Barde Steel ing to cut down on specifications, be fabricated. A leading Pittsburgh Co., Seattle, is furnishing 150 tons with the result that sheet mill oper­ mill received orders last week for for a fuel tank at Hoquiam, Wash., ations are tending about 5 points low­ 3200 tons of plates for miscellaneous for Grays H arb o r Pulp & P ap e r Co. er for the second consecutive week, barge repair work. Treadwell Con­ and now average 50 per cent. Com­ mon black operations are at 65 per struction Co., Midland, Pa., is low at Contracts Placed $22,900 for a steel derrick boat for cent, full finished 55 per cent, gal­ vanized 50 per cent, and jobbing the Vicksburg, Miss., engineers. Steel 3300 tons, tanks. Lever Bros, plant addi­ plates remain based on 1.80c, Pitts­ tion, Ham m ond, Ind., to H am ler Boiler mills at 40 per cent. Pittsburgh burgh. <£ T ank Co., Chicago. base prices are unchanged. 150 tons, fuel tank for Grays H arbor Philadelphia— Sheet specifications ■Cleveland — Plates continue least Pulp & Paper Co., Hoquiam , W ash., are being sustained, with indications active of heavy finished products, to Barde Steel Co., Seattle. of substantial improvement as the while the price is steady at 1.99 %c, spring season approaches. Prices delivered, Cleveland. Several hun­ Contracts Pending generally are unchanged, although dred tons were purchased recently Unstated tonnage, one, two, three or weakness is noted in galvanized for Great Lakes vessel repairs, and four 175 or 25-foot steel barges for sheets and hot strip sheets. more of this work is expected short­ use on the rivers in the Pittsburgh Buffalo— Production at the Seneca ly. There is the possibility of one district, for Standard Oil Co. of New works of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. boat being built this year for a Chi­ Jersey, New York. continues at 75 per cent. Sheet de­ cago steel company, the first new mand is expected to tax capacity of construction since 1929. Material mills here in the late winter and for freight car repairs is purchased early spring months. frequently, but tonnage is relatively Sheets Cincinnati—-Rolling schedules are light. unchanged at about 80 per cent. De­ Sheet Prices, Page GS Chicago— Railroad buying contin­ mand is diversified, and steady im­ ues a fairly strong support to plate Cleveland— An effort will be made provement is shown in tonnage for demand and with additional orders by sheet producers to strengthen refrigerators and stoves. in sight for new freight cars and re­ the market when prices are an­ St. Louis— Cold weather continues pair work, railroad plate consump­ nounced this week for second quar­ to have a depressing effect on sheet tion is expected to increase further. ter, books to be opened March 1. demand, but producers and distribu­ Tank orders are featured by 3300 Sheetmakers have refused to book tors report a fair volume of new tens for the new plant of Lever tonnage for automobile and parts orders and specifications. Bros, at Hammond, Ind. Additional manufacturers for that period at $3 Birmingham, Ala.— All sheet mills pipe line orders are in prospect and a ton under the official price, the in the South still are active, with a will serve to bolster plate buying concession at which a considerable fairly good market. Early spring further. proportion of the first quarter ton­ promises increased demand. New York— Plate tonnage is con­ nage was taken. Some interests have fined to relatively small orders includ­ favored a general advance, applic­ ing boilers for the New York Edison able to automotive as well as other Tin Plate Co. to be built by the Combustion En­ consumers. Only moderate improve­ gineering Co., New‘York. Miscellane­ ment is noted in demand for auto­ Tin P late Pi-ice.s, Page 68 ous repairs for the Texas Co. will re­ mobile material, while refrigerator Pittsburgh — Production of tin and miscellaneous manufacturing quire about 190 tons and a small ves­ plate producers last week averaged sel hull to be built at the Ira Bush­ interests are more active. 5 points higher to 65 per cent of ca­ ing yard in Brooklyn, N. Y., about New York— Leading sheet sell­ pacity, mainly because the leading in­ 150 tons. Ten steam locomotives for ers have noted improvement during terest scheduled its mills at 77 per the New York, New Haven & Hart­ the past week, some for the first time cent. Many canmakers are antici­ ford, which are now becoming active, this year. The trade anticipates a pating a heavy packers’ can require­ will require about 400 tons of plates. brisk market by this time next month, ment next quarter and apparently Philadelphia — While plate ton­ if weather moderates, as considerable are specifying against these needs. nage continues spotty, sellers gen­ tonnage is said to be accumulating. The Pittsburgh base quotation per

74 /TEEL February 17, 1936 —The Market Week— box on standard tin plate remains at brisk, pipe projects being held back United States Pipe & Foundry Co., $5.25 and on tin mill black, 2.75c, by continued bad weather. Tubing Burlington, N. J. Pittsburgh. demand is quiet. Prices are steady. New York— Tin plate specifications Steel Pipe Placed are more active, canners anticipating 17,000 tons, 100 miles of 20-inch elec­ their needs for the fishing pack. Cast Pipe Placed trically welded pipe from Stevens Amtorg Trading Corp., New York, county, Kansas, to a point 100 miles east, for the N atural Gas Co., to A. O. has placed several thousand tons of 1900 tons, 36 to 61-inch, for Queens, New York, to Alco Products Inc., New Smith Corp., Milwaukee; noted in tin plate for Russia with the Amer­ S t e b l f o r F e b . 1 0 for unidentified Y o r k . ican Sheet & Tin Plate Co., and the b u y e r . 406 tons, 6 and 12-inch, to W arren Bethlehem Steel Corp. Foundry & Pipe Corp., Phillipsburg, N. J., through procurem ent division, Steel Pipe Pending United States treasury department, 100 tons or more, 4 to S-inch standard N e w Y o r k . galvanized, for Port Orford, Oreg.; 190 tons, 4-inch, Public Service Corp. H auser Construction Co., Portland, Pipe of New Jersey, Newark, N. J., to Oreg., general contractor. I’ll»; Prices, P age 09

Pittsburgh — The long delayed Dana, Ind.-Detroit natural gas pipe line, under the sponsorship of Co­ lum bia Gas & Electric Co. and o th ­ ers, may reach the contract stage soon. The line will be of 22-inch welded pipe, approximately 2S5 miles in length, requiring 45,000 to 50.- 000 tons. Receivers of the Missouri- K ansas Pipe Line Co. have until Feb. 20 to accept or reject the plan pro­ posed by Columbia for the reorgani­ zation of Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co., a subsidiary. Under recent court order, the Columbia company may be free after Feb. 20 to con­ struct the line and finance changes in the Panhandle company regardless of the attitude of the Missouri Kan­ sas company. Chicago— A few orders are pend­ ing, though in the case of certain of these, including the Detroit link and the proposed line from Texas to the central west, early awards are not looked for. Standard Oil Co. of Indiana is expected to place about 75 miles of 12-inch pipe, around 8000 tons, for a connecting line. Cast pipe orders continue small individu­ ally. Delays in PWA and WPA proj­ ects largely account for the slowness W H A T ’S N E W in handlins? of releases. In Pittsburgh, Gary or small milltown— an increasingly New York—-Cast pipe in this dis­ important question. And rightly so. For every Steel Mill trict reflects a quiet market. The continued severe weather appears to Engineer and Production Executive is interested in cur­ be a factor in the present scarcity of rent developments in steel mill Conveyors— because of new projects. Prices are unchanged the intimate relationship between better handling meth­ and firm. ods and efficient plant operation. The nearest Logan Merchant pipe demand is fairly ac­ representative will be glad to discuss "W hat's New" in tive, with several large jobs pend­ Conveyors with you. Just write LOGAN C O., ing for utility and oil companies, in­ Incorporated, 535 Buchanan Street, Louisville, Kentucky. cluding over 1000 tons of pipe and tubing for Pan-American Refinery Co.’s equipment, which is being fab­ ricated by W. M. Kellogg Co., Jersey City, N. J. Approximately 1900 tons of 36 to 61-inch steel pipe for Queens, New York, will be fabricated by Alco Products Inc., New York. Humble Oil & Refining Co., Houston, Tex., will build a casinghead gasoline line from East Texas to Baytown, Tex., and install additional equip­ ment, at a cost of $3,500,000. Cleveland — The market is not.

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 75 —The Market Week—

Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., Pitts­ 500 gondolas and 250 flat cars and burgh, Inland Steel Co., Chicago and the Great Northern for 500 ore cars. Transportation Algoma Steel Corp., Sault Ste Marie, An inquiry from the Rock Island for Ont. The fastenings were divided 35,000 tons of rails is expected soon. Track Material Prices, Page 09 among a large number of suppliers. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy has Buying of steel by railroads, in Steel for the 3000 cars to be built awarded two 3000-horsepower and rails and material for new cars, is for the Bessemer & Lake Erie and two 1800-horsepower diesel-electric assuming greater importance than for the Union, subsidiaries of the United locomotives to Electro-Motive Corp., several years, tonnages currently States Steel Corp., will total 40,000 LaGrange, 111., subsidiary of General in process exceeding demands from tons for the car bodies and 14,672 Motors Corp. These are for four this source for several years. tons for wheels and axles. Of this streamlined trains recently let to New York Central has awarded total 46,854 will be rolled in the Edward G. Budd Mfg. Co., Philadel­ 38,000 tons of rails and 3500 tons of Pittsburgh district and 7818 in the phia. fastenings, the rails going to Bethle­ Chicago district. St. Louis Southwestern has been hem Steel Corp., Bethlehem, Pa., Northern Pacific is inquiring for authorized by federal court to spend $217,306 on equipment in 1936. This will include automobile loading de­ vices on 100 cars, 10 new automobile and box cars and other betterments. St. Louis Public Service Co., St. Louis, will buy 10 motor buses at iM EV.E^SLIP once and plans to acquire 72 more ROLLED STEEL FLOOR PLATE during the present year. Seattle plans to rebuild a mile of prevents slippage of foot or wheel municipal street railway track at cost of $53,000 and has awarded 75 tons of street car wheels to American Steel Foundries, Chicago. The Wabash will spend $476,694 for repairing 1310 freight cars and dismantling 394 cars and 16 loco­ motives. Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf has asked the interstate commerce com­ mission for authority to spend $285,- 000 on rails and fastenings. The Erie is seeking $2,191,000 from PWA for the purchase of 500 box cars and 300 automobile cars, of which 100 are to be equipped with patent loaders.

Rail Orders Placed

New York Central, 38,000 tons and 3500 tons of track accessories; rails di­ vided am ong Carnegie-lllinois Steel Corp., Bethlehem Steel Corp., Inland Steel Co.. and Algoma Steel Corp. Track fastenings allocated among' a number of suppliers. 3000 tons, for Brazilian governm ent, to United States Steel Products Co., New Y o r k .

Rail Orders Pending

Kansas, Oklahom a & Gulf railway, 5200 This widely used/ 35 year proven Floor Plate has the tons of 110-pound rails and 500 tons of 90-pound rails; interstate com merce exclusive sharp-edged, flat-topped perfect Diamond pro­ commission authorization to spend jections which assure safe footing in any direction, $285,000 for this purpose given. plus an even trucking surface. The arrangement of the Diam onds allows unobstructed drainage and Car Orders Placed easy cleaning; and due to a special process of manu­ Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. 500 box facture, Neverslip Plates will give longer service life. cars to Pullm an-Standard Car Mfg. Co., Chicago; fifty 70-ton hoppers to Write for sample of plate and literature. American Car & Foundry Co., New Y o r k . American Pressed Steel Co. Chicago. M ilwaukee, St. Paul & Pa­ cific, 1500 freight cars and 37 pas­ Commercial Trust Bldg. senger cars, to own shops in Mil­ Phila., Pa. w a u k e e . Panam a Canal commission, six bal­ last cars for Panam a railroad,, to H offner-Thraw l Car Co.. Chicago. W estern Pacific, 100 fifty-ton steel bal­ last cars, to Am erican Car & Found­ ry Co., New York.

/TEEL February 17, 1936 —The Market Week

Car Orders Pending dle West lately. Wire prices are charge of Charles W. Jack, assistant steady. to president. The company specializes N orthern Pacific, 500 gondolas and 250 Cleveland — Not much change is in industrial design, product develop­ f l a t c a r s . indicated in the market, although ment and sales presentation. Great Northern, 500 ore cars. a slight drop below normal in job­ A lum inum Co. ot Am erica, Pittsburgh, ber’s demand has been experienced 22 to 44 hopper cars of 70 tons ca­ pacity each, bids asked. due to slow railroad and automotive Ferroalloys W estern M aryland, 20 to 25 caboose pick-up. With the seasonal increase cars, bids asked. in the latter demand, a gain in de­ Ferroalloy Prices, Page 70 mand is anticipated. New York— Ferromanganese pro­ Locomotives Placed ducers have ample stocks and are Designers For Industry Inc., Ter­ able to make prompt shipments, vol­ Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, four minal building, Cleveland, has es­ diesel-electric locomotives for four ume keeping pace with steelworks new streamlined trains recently tablished a new branch office at operations. Spiegeleisen specifica­ placed with Edward G. Budd Mfg. 304 Wrigley building, Chicago, in tions are fair. Prices are steady. Co., Philadelphia, to Electro-M otive Corp., subsidiary of General M otors Corp., D etroit. Chicago, M ilwaukee, St. Paul & Pa­ cific, one steam stream lined locom o­ tive, to American Locomotive Co., N e w Y o r k . Lehigh & New England, special six- wheel switching locomotive, to Bald­ win Locomotive W orks, Eddystone, P a .

Locomotives Pending

New York, New Haven & H artford rail­ road, ten diesel switching engines to replace 15 obsolete light switching engines. Purchase approval given by federal court, Feb. 10. South African Railways & Harbors, Pretoria, South Africa, 50 locomo­ tives, bids asked by A. G. W atson, chief m echanical engineer.

Buses Booked

American Car & Motors Foundry Co., New York:Twelve city coaches for Columbus Railway, Power & Light Co., Columbus, O.; five city coaches for Boston Elevated Railway, Boston; ten city coaches for W orcester Street Railway, W orcester, Mass. Q U I E T Wire DEPENDABLE POWER

Wire Prices, Page C9 Farrel Heavy D uty Mill Drives are designed Pittsburgh-—The 2.30c, Pittsburgh T H E IL L U S T R A T IO N — II«« 11.P. by engineers with a thorough understanding of or Cleveland, base for bright wire Heavy Duty Rolling Mill Drive . . . the conditions imposed by the higher speeds and 2.90c, base on spring wire are Sykes continuous tooth herringbone and heavier loads encountered in m odem rolling gears . . . roller hearings . . . central remarkably firm under today’s mar­ mill operation. Inhricuting system . . . built-in sprays ket conditions. On the other hand, for the gear teeth . . . flood lubricated the nail market has been widely bearings. The drives are scientifically proportioned, erratic and has found prices such as with large factors of safety, and are built of the recent Branchville, Md., order for carefully selected materials, designed to pro­ 38,000 kegs, which went for 35 cents vide great strength and rigidity. The con­ a keg under the market, as carrying F A R It EL R O L L IN G M IL L E Q U IP ­ tinuous tooth herringbone gears are accurately M ENT also includes: Rolling Mills— delivery over the ensuing eight generated by the Sykes process and m ounted on months. Most jobbers and distribu­ Chilled Iron and Special Alloy Iron or Steel Rolls—Universal Mill Spindles— roller bearings. (Sleeve bearings optional). tors of nails appear to be getting an Rod Mill Tables and Manipulating Special attention is given to provide thorough extra 10 cents per keg over their Equipment—-Rod Coders— Lead Presses lubrication. usual 20-cent per keg allowance. for Pipe or Rorl—Roll Grinding Ma­ Buying in all wire products, both chines — Roll Calipers — Gears — Mill M echanical efficiency is high . . . vibration merchant and manufacturing grades, Pinions—Drives up to 1«,««« H.P. is absent . . . sm ooth, quiet, trouble-free opera­ is declining in aggregate. tion and long life are assured. Chicago— Wire demand is steady, though lighter than four to six weeks ago. A gain in rural buying of mer­ chant products is expected later this FARREL - BIRMINGHAM year, with the outlook for favorable Company, Inc. crops enhanced by heavy snows over a wide section of the Central and Mid­ 110 Main St., Ansonia, Conn.

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 77 —The Market Week—

bear little relation to the former con­ cellaneous users, but total business- ventional way of quoting with a base has moderated from the active rate- Strip Steel price plus freight. at the end of last year. Strip Prices, Page 69 Cleveland— Strip steel orders from New Yorlc— Recent improvement in automobile manufacturers have pick­ demand for cold-rolled strip con­ Pittsburgh— Further price pres­ ed up moderately. Producers be­ tinues. Automotive demand is light. sure ■ from important buyers in the lieve that improvements in weather Philadelphia-—Quotations on nar­ Detroit district, as of Feb. 1, on both conditions would lead immediately row strip appear to be holding, al­ hot and cold-rolled strip continues to to heavier commitments by the auto­ though with weakness in some de­ undermine the strip market, although mobile industry. Demand from mis­ scriptions of sheets reported, buyers 1.85c, base, Pittsburgh, on hot-rolled cellaneous sources is fair. are moving cautiously at the mo­ strip and 2.60, Pittsburgh or Cleve­ Chicago— Strip demand continues ment. Hot strip is generally quoted land, quotation on cold-rolled strip restricted by reduced consumption at at 1.85c, Pittsburgh, or 2.16c, Phila­ are nominally unchanged. Delivered automotive plants. This is partially delphia, and cold strip at 2.60c, or prices in the Detroit consuming area offset by heavier demand from mis­ 2.91c.

Bolts, Nuts, Rivets Bolt, Nut, Rivet Prices, Page 69 Pittsburgh bolt, nut and rivet mak­ ers are experiencing the heaviest in­ quiry in some months from railroad car building shops. Recent orders of the Bessemer & Lake Erie, Union ★ and Pennsylvania for some 13,000 freight, hopper and gondola cars has meant an imposing tonnage of bolts,, nuts and rivets. On the other hand, Consider ihese automotive and jobber demand is- still declining. The market gener­ ally is quoted 70-10-5 off for small .Advantages of carriage and machine bolts and 70-10 off on large sizes. L arg e rivets hold at 2.90c, Pittsburgh or Cleveland, H & S 3.00c, Chicago, and small rivets, 70-5 off, w ith w ro u g h t w ashers n am ed a t $6.25 off. W O RM S AND At Cleveland a decline of 2 0 per cent from January is seen in new business but orders on books are WORM GEARS keeping production up. Chicago sup­ pliers find buying slightly less than in1 January in spite of increased con­ sumption. Railroad buyers lead. 1. All ground thread worms have glass hard thread surfaces guaran­ At New York prices are generally steady but on one lot of 220,000 lag teeing long life and high efficiency. screws of various sizes for the City 2. The thread surfaces of the worms are ground all over on precision Island warehouse for the local pro­ grinders of our own design... assuring perfect thread contour and balance. curement division of the treasury de­ partment, Keystone Bolt & Nut Co., 3. Worms are ground to an unexcelled accuracy of less than .001 in. New York, quoted $1494, or about 15 on both indexing and lead. to 20 per cent under the going mar­ ket. 4. Worms made from a special case hardened steel are hardened to double the usual depth of case . . . guaranteeing uniform glass hardness on all surfaces. Semifinished 5. Worm Gear hobs are accurately ground in our own plant to exactly Semifinished Prices, Page G9 the contour of the worm ... assuring exceptional accuracy. Several large users of wire rods, 6 . Bronze for the worm gear is made to strict specifications from virgin finding a strong price situation with metals for highest efficiency and greatest length of life. $40 the market for common and $42, Pittsburgh or Cleveland, the base on 7. Every set of worms and gears is inspected on micrometer inspection fix­ combination rods, have been circu­ tures for tooth bearing and proper operation on specified center distances. lating inquiries outside of their usual sources of supply with the hope that Do you have our 4 4 8 page Gear Book? a lower market might be uncovered. Contrasted to sheet bars, rerolling billets and tube rounds where the $2 THE HORSBURGH & SCOTT CO„ a ton higher asking price has yet~lo be adequately tested, the wire rod GEARS AND SPEED REDUCERS market is firm. Continued heavy use of hot-rolled 5112 HAMILTON AVENUE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, U. S. A. breakdowns is evident in the specifi-

78 /TEEL February 17, 193 G —The Market Week—

«cations of several former buyers of Washington, through the George A. 500 tons. Tonnages pending assure sheet bars. This class of buyers is Fuller Co., Washington, is outstand­ important orders in the near future. ■obtaining breakdowns in coils and ing among structural contracts in the rolling out into sheets and strip, pre­ East. Shape prices are steady at ferring to work down this class of 1.90c, Bethlehem, Pa., but fabricated Shape Contracts Placed material rather than straight semi­ material prices remain unsettled. finished. 1200 tons. dock. W heeling & Lake St. Louis— Slackening in govern­ Erie railroad, Huron, O.; 1000 tons ment projects and failure of private to Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, and 200 tons to Jones building undertakings has caused & Laughlin Steel Corp., Pittsburgh. new orders to drop. Specifications, G50 tons, building at 137 East Thirty- Shapes however, are in fairly large volume eighth street, New York, to Norton and improvement in the situation is Steel Co.. New York. "Structural Shape Prices, Page 08 looked for early next month. 610 tons, bridge, St. Clair county, Missouri, to St. Louis Structural Pittsburgh— Viscose Co., Meadville, Seattle— Shapes are in good de­ Steel Co., East St. Louis, 111. Pa., will close bids Feb. 18 for a 2500- mand, the week’s awards aggregating GOG tons, building, Trico Products Co., 4.011 manufacturing plant at Mead­ ville, Pa., and another prominent in- ■quiry is in a 54 6-ton plate girder • overpass bridge in Delaware county for the state highway department, S PECIAL DEEP DRAWN March 6. Guibert Steel Co., Pitts­ burgh, has been awarded 400 tons for EAMLESS A TANKS, -a plant at South Charleston, W. Va. American Bridge Co. last week closed •on 360 tons for a state highway bridge in Highland Park, Mich., al­ HELLS N BOTTLES, though the largest contract of the week was in 2200 tons for navy de­ H A P E S 0 ET C . partment hangars at Pensacola, Fla., to Bethlehem Steel Corp., Bethlehem, IS OUR SPECIALTY Pa. Chicago— Chicago park district A Crosby Accomplishment takes bids March 3 on 15,000 tons of This Square Seamless Drawn Tank is •structurals for the outer drive link, including a single leaf bascule bridge, the south plaza and approach. The Randolph street connection will not be bid at that time. Awards continue light, but pending business is accum­ ulating and a large tonnage is in­ volved in public projects for which steel will be awarded soon. Opera­ tions of fabricators are fairly steady despite some decrease in backlogs recently, and increased operations are seen for later this quarter. Cleveland— The market is featured by 16,000 tons pending for an ex­ tension to Great Lakes Steel Corp. plant in Detroit. Plans are being made for the Great Lakes exposition buildings, Cleveland, which will take a fair tonnage. PWA projects are slow in being released. Philadelphia— Award of 3500 tons for the Federal Reserve building in

Shape Awards Compared Tons Stamping Specialists Since 1896 "Week ended Feb. 17 ...... 9,350 An Experience You Should Not Overlook AA'eek ended Feb. 10 ...... 17,093 'AVeek ended Feb. 3 ...... 20,510 Send Us Your Next Specification This week, 1935 ...... 12,535 AA'eekly average, 1935 ...... 17,081 A\reekly average, 1930 ...... 21,402 THE CROSBY COMPANY AVeckl y average, January .. 28,322 "Totat to date, 1935 ...... 98,129 BUFFALO, N. Y. Total to date, 1930 ...... 150,240 NEW YORK — CHICAGO — PHILADELPHIA — DETROIT — CLEVELAND

February Î7, 1936 /TEEL 79 — The Market Week

to Bethlehem Steel Corp., Bethle­ cinnati, to American Bridge Co., Co.. Providence, It. I., through h e m , P a . Pittsburgh. Carey Construction Co., Fall River, 510 tons. Eastern high school, Balti­ 400 tons, plant, South Charleston, W. M a s s . m ore, to A m erican Bridge Co., Pitts­ Va., for W estvaco Chlorine Products 200 tons, H ardesty state bridge, Spo­ b u r g h . Co., to Gutbert Steel Co., Pitts­ kane, to Steel Fabricators Inc., 500 tons, hangar, Philadelphia, for b u r g h . S e a t t l e . navy departm ent, to Belmont Iron 400 tons, arm ory buildings, O klahom a, 170 tons. Crown Cork & Seal Co. build­ W orks, Philadelphia. to Patterson Steel Co., Tulsa, Okla. ing, Baltimore, to Dietrich Bros., 500 tons, bridge, section, East St. 360 tons state highway bridge. H igh­ B a l t i m o r e . Louis, 111., to M idland Structural land Park, Mich., to American 155 tons, bridge in Pettis county, M is­ S t e e l C o ., C i c e r o , 111. Bridge Co., Pittsburgh. souri, to Kansas City Structural Steel Co., K ansas City, Mo. 4G0 tons, state highw ay bridge, Fran- 300 tons, plant extension, Hoover 155 tons, bottling house addition, Rox- cisville, Mo., to Stupp Bros. Bridge Vacuum Cleaner Co., to Canton bury, Mass., to New England Struc­ & Iron Co., St. Louis. Structural Steel Co., Canton, O. tural Co., Everett, Mass. ■140 t o n s , b u i l d i n g f o r J . C . P e n n e y 350 tons, state stationary bridge, Port­ 150 tons, almshouse, Lycoming Co. Inc., Denver, Colo., to E. Burlt- land, Mich., to American Bridge county, Pennsylvania, to Steel Fab­ hardt & Sons Steel & Iron W orks Co., Pittsburgh. ricating Co., M uskegon, Mich. Co.. Denver. 205 tons, W ard I building, Cranston, 150 tons, bridge. V ernon county, M is­ 440 tons, M cM illen street bridge, Cin­ R. I., to Providence Steel & Iron souri, to M issouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., Leavenworth, Kan. 135 tons, postoffice building, Reids- villo, N. C., to C arolina Steel & Iron Co., Greensboro. N. C. 110 tons, bus term inal extension, De­ troit to Taylor & Gaskin Co., De­ t r o i t . A Popular Business Memo: 100 tons, school, McDonald, Pa., to G uibert Steel Co., Pittsburgh. 100 tons, rebuilding Frem ont bridge. Seattle, to Pacific Car & Foundry Co., Seattle. 100 tons, sheet steel piling, w harf im ­ provement, Seattle, to Bethlehem Steel Corp., Seattle.

" M û „ Shape Contracts Pending

16,000 tons, plant extension, Great Lakes Steel Corp., D etroit; bids this w e e k . 1 5,000 tons, outer drive link, including single leaf bascule bridge, Chicago, bids to be received by Chicago park district board. M arch 3. 3200 tons, w arehouse on H udson street. M ake it a habit for complete com­ New Y ork: W ilton Construction Co.. New York, general contractor. fort and time-saving convenience. 2500 tons, m anufacturing building, M eadville, Pa., for Viscose Co.; bids F e b . I S . 1 275 tons, state bridges. Texas. 1200 tons, paper mill. H ouston, Tex. THE 1100 tons, power house, Eastman Corp.. Kingsport, Tcnn. 720 tons. M edary overhead. La Crosse county. W isconsin: W orden-Allen Co.. M ilwaukee, low. 675 tons. Rawson-Howell overhead. M ilwaukee-Racine counties. W is.: W orden-Allen Co., M ilwaukee, low. 550 tons, building for Hygrado Sylva- nia Corp., Salem. Mass. 546 tons, plate girder overpass bridge. “New York's Best Located Hotel" Ridley Park. D elaware county. Penn­ sylvania; bids to state highway de­ partm ent, H arrisburg, Pa., M arch 6. Fine Food— Efficient Service Included, 13 tons of plain steel bars. 400 tons, permanent bridge, 184th Large, Comfortable, Outside Rooms street. New York; Boudin Contract­ ing Co., Now York. low. —all with private bath 325 tons, state bridge. Kenosha. W is.: Bethlehem Steel Corp., Bethlehem , P a . , l o w . f r o m $3 250 tons. English Evangelical church. Brooklyn, N. Y.,; bids asked. 250 tons, school, Newburgh. N. Y.; W illiam L. Crow, New York, low. 150 tons, state dorm itory and dining hall, Farm ingdale, N. Y. 150 tons, high school. Ansonia, Conn. 100 tons or more, 4S3-foot overcross­ Just a Feiv Steps FRANK J. CROIIAN, ing. Bingham county. Idaho; D. J. Cavanaugh. Twin Falls, Idaho, gen­ from Trains P residen t eral contractor. 100 tons, school, W oodm ere. N. Y .; A. J. Perreta, Long Island City, N. Y ; general contractor. 100 tons, repairs. Grand avenue' bridge, Chicago; bids Feb. 19. 100 tons or more, 272-foot overhead span, RIGHT AT GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL—NEW YORK Power county. Idaho; bids Feb. 14. Tonnage unstated, w arehouse for John M ullins & Son, Jam aica, N. Y.

80 /TEEL February 17, 1936 — The Market Week—

of tonnage which should be released to Bethlehem Steel Corp., Seattle. when weather conditions become 100 tons, addition to normal school, Reinforcing more favorable. Incidentally, early Ellensburg, W ash., to Truscon Steel announcement of the award of 600 Co., Youngstown, O. Reinforcing Bar Prices, Page 09 100 tons, addition to Century brewery, tons for the federal reserve building Seattle, and miscellaneous, to N orth­ Chicago— Only a few awards of in Washington is expected. w est Steel Rolling Mills, Seattle. concrete bars are noted, but a pick­ 100 tons, factory building, Iron Fire­ up in releases is in early prospect. m an Co., W est 106th street, Cleve­ Reinforcing Steel Awards land, to Truscon Steel Co., Y oungs­ Shipments have been curtailed in t o w n . O . some instances by zero weather. Only 754 tons, procurem ent division, treas­ 100 tons, psychiatric building, Crans­ a few private jobs are up for bids, ury department, New York, to W. ton, R. I., to Truscon Steel Co., Ames & Co., Jersey City, N. J. most pending work being for bridges Youngstown, O., through Olaf Ahl- 525 tons, sewer. Oak Park, 111., to borg & Sons, Cranston. and sewers. About 6000 tons will be Joseph T. Ryerson & Son Inc., Chi­ 100 tons, state highway bridge. St. required for part of the outer drive c a g o . Jolinsbury, Vt.. to Truscon Steel Co., project. Wide variations continue in 100 tons, state bridges in Latah county, Youngstown, O., through Earl C. concrete bar prices. Idaho, and Pierce county, W ashington. Hayden. Barre, Vt. Pittsburgh — Bids on 70,250 pounds of plain steel bars for Tioga county, 25,481 pounds for Delaware county, 24,700 pounds for Delaware county, and 18,359 pounds for Sus­ quehanna county are asked by the state highway department, Harris- burgh, Pa., March 6. PWA will read- vertise for contracts to build run­ ways at the city-county airport, Pitts­ burgh, which is a p art of a 81,000,000 improvement program there. Previ­ ous bids were found to exceed esti­ mates. The market is nominally quoted unchanged at 2.05c, Pitts­ The American burgh. SAFETY CINDER NOTCH STOPPER New York— Some sellers are quot­ (Pa tcu ted)

ing higher prices on concrete rein­ INFORMATION RCQUIRCD A-Keif/i t el center line ot Bustte hpe eto-e toiler linefit Cmitr PcUh forcing bars and the market here is b • Centerline et Bustle Pipe to Face of Cooler showing a tendency to stiffen around 2.05c base Pittsburgh or 2.40c de­ livered here. Recently large lots have gone as low as 2.05c delivered. Some of the business booked during the past week has been at 2.30c de­ livered. Actual lettings of tonnages are small, but a good deal of work is pending and the outlook for con­ tinued buying is considered good. Cleveland— Fabricators look for increased demand toward the close of March. Municipal work is slow, but the aggregate of state tonnages is promising. Seattle— Sustained activity fea­ This stopper, designed to meet the unusual conditions found at the tures the market. While the week's blast furnace cinder notch will accommodate any notch, is heavily con­ awards were not outstanding, ton­ structed to withstand severe service, is easily and safely operated, and nages pending are of importance and it m aintains its alignm ent w ith the notch at all times. new projects are developing rapidly. The safe, simple, and positive operation of this unit has won the recom ­ Philadelphia— Tonnage is light but m endation of leading safety engineers and furnace operators. A glance at the following list of users should induce you to make full there is a substantial accumulation inquiry at once. W rite. USERS American Steel & Wire Co. (4) Ilu n n a F u rn a c e C o rp o ra tio n (2) Bethlehem Steel Company (6) Inland Steel Company (1) Carnepie-Illinoi» Steel Corp. (6) National Tube Company (1) Concrete Awards Compared Hamilton (’oke & Iron Co. (1) Wheeling Steel Corporation (2) Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. (6) Tons Week ended Feb. 17 ...... 1,979 Week ended Feb. 10 ...... 3 162 Week ended Feb. 3 ...... 24,196 WILLIAM M.BA1LEY COM PANY This week, 1935 ...... 2,165 Weekly average, 1935 ...... 6,862 Weekly average, 1936 ...... 9,652 & yL<]Ln-ee.*Lh- Weekly average, January .. 9,556 Total to date, 1935 ...... 29,521 MAGEE BLDG. PITTSBURGH,PA. Total to date, 1936 ...... 67,564 European Agents— Askmore, Benson, Pease & Co. Ltd., Stockton-on-Tees, England

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 81 —The Market Week—

100 tons, school, Rome, N. Y., to Con­ low on general contract. coal strike. Beehive coke, enjoying crete Steel Co., New York. 100 tons or more, state span, Clark both a good domestic and metallurg­ county, Idaho; M. J. K uney, Spokane, ical demand, is firm. Foundry coke general contractor. Reinforcing Steel Pending 100 tons, Curtis high school addition. is quoted $4.25 per ton, f.o.b. ovens, Staten Island, New York; general premium $5.50 to $5.75, and stand­ 600 tons, postofCice, Spokane; bids re contract to Psaty & Fuhrm an Inc., ard furnace coke, $3.50 to $3.65, jected, new tenders to be taken. N e w Y o r k . 375 tons, additions to statehouse, Olym­ Heavier foundry melt at Chicago pia, W ash.; Sheble Construction Co., has increased shipments of by-prod­ Seattle, general contractor. uct coke, February promising to ex­ 250 tons, Rayson-Howell overhead pass, Metallurgical Coke M ilwaukee-Racine counties, W iscon­ ceed January. In eastern Pennsyl­ sin; W orden-Alien Co., Milwaukee, Coke Prices, Page 09 vania deliveries are being delayed low on general contract. but actual consumption is increasing. 150 tons, Medary overhead pass, La Continued cold weather lias car­ Crosse county, W isconsin; W orden- ried the coke market to its peak for St. Louis cokemakers find the melt Alien Co., M ilwaukee, low on general at least three or four years, barring has declined somewhat because of c o n t r a c t . the brief flurry in 1935 when coke severe weather. Shipments of by­ 110 tons, infirm ary building, Cranston, product coke from the Birmingham, R. I.; E. Turgeon, Providence, R. I., users stocked in anticipation of a soft Ala., district are steady. Behind the Scenes wit /TEEL Pig Iron Pig Iron Prices, Page 70 The Caller Menace saying. “Goodbye, Grandma, and Don’t Cleveland — Foundries are having You Worry.” The idea is that Grand­ difficulty in operation due to freez­ ma is to become steel-conscious and A NEW YORK advertising man has ing weather and consequent slowing an unusual system for handling set her nerves at ease about little callers, one of our undercover men re­ Gwendolyn’s safety. Of course. Grand­ down of business, with coke ship­ ports. He will talk with anybody over ma herself doesn’t buy much steel from ments also hampered. Demand for the telephone in the morning, but will day to day, but if she insists on her not see them personally. He receives grand-daughter riding in a steel pull­ sanitation projects and farm imple­ visitors afternoons but will not take man, then the railroad people have to ment production shows sustained vol­ any incoming: calls during the latter get busy and make all their cars out of half of the day. (What if his wife steel, etc. Need we go on? ume. With a scarcity of good foundry called up to report their house afire? We’Jl be interested in seeing just scrap and an increase in prices some how much steel tonnage can be boosted Oh. boy !). foundries are using more pig iron We have a better system, we be­ by making the ultimate consumer lieve. We take telephone calls any steel-conscious; it’s an interesting and less scrap. Republic Steel Corp. trend which seems to have been ac­ time, but disguise our voice to sound blew in its fourth blast furnace and like Major Bowes, so everybody gives centuated lately in the mags. We have up in disgust. When anybody wants to an open mind on the subject and will Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. lighted let the facile pens of Batten, Barton. make a personal call, we slip into our stack B of its Central furnaces for filing cabinet and dress up like Trader Durstine & Osborn and the other Horn. Visitors just can’t seem to take agencies etch their message upon our merchant iron. th a t. impressionablo cerebellum. Probably it won’t be long before we Chicago— Foundry operations con­ dash down to the station and demand tinue to improve despite the lag in of the ticket salesman, “We want a Ultimate Consumers ticket to Chicago and be sure it’s in a demand for automotive castings. Yoloy pullman with a Man-Ten un­ Operations of motor car foundries are D OSE of the week is pinned with a d e rfram e .” flourish on the George J. Kirkgasser expected to increase shortly, though Co. for their Inland Steel advertise­ ment in last week’s issue, p. 10, head­ in some instances, fairly large inven­ ed : "Let her select your galvanized Still Reading tories have been accumulated. Farm sheets.” The “her” referred to was a implement manufacturers are increas­ handsome blondish person of the fe­ L. Van Ness, originator of a steel male gender, identified as Miss, or C ing schedules, now operating at a rate maybe Mrs., Ultimate Consumer. Skip­ house described in Steel for April 9, 1934, writes that he is still receiv­ ping the obvious opportunity for a which compares favorably with pre­ little double entendre play on the mat­ ing requests for additional information depression schedules. Shipments are ter of selecting sheets, we would like from a wide range of interested to get acquainted with this Ultimate parties. One in particular he mentions off moderately from the January rate. having received from Johannesburg. South Africa, dated Dec. 17 last. Chief St. Louis— Although foundry op­ interest in the house, Mr. Van Ness erations have been curtailed by cold Tw o Ton o r tells us, appears to be in “radiant heated and absorbtion cooled walls, to­ weather, schedules are fairly active, gether with light weight, fireproof, low and with present temporary handi­ cost, rapid assembly.” caps removed activities are expected If you are interested in manufac­ turing prefabricated steel houses, it to go forward at an accelerated pace, might pay you to investigate Mr. Van as the volume of actual and poten­ Ness’ designs. Address him at East Exchange and Annadale streets, Akron, tial business is large. A heavy reduc­ O. In the meantime follow S teel fo r tion in the melt has been occasioned all the latest developments in the steel house field. by continuance of the strike of enamel workers in the Belleville area. Consumer person, and would be very glad to let her select all our galvan­ F a rm implement and tractor inter­ ized sheets. In fact—well, let it go. Old F riend ests continue the most active group Maybe after we were introduced of consumers. preperly, and we had proceeded to fix D RAISE from Caesar is the expres- her with our gimlet eyes, she would * sion recently conveyed to the S teel Pittsburgh—A nonintegrated mill smile and say, “You may call me editorial department by a veteran con­ Ulty if you wish.” sulting entrineer in New York, in these in this district is preparing to extend words: “We find Steel very helpful. its contract with a nearby pig iron This matter of appealing to the ul­ It seems far better in every way than timate eonsumer in selling steel is when the writer first knew the paper supplier for its coming basic re­ further carried out in this week’s issue, or its predecessor (Iron Trade Review) quirements. These contracts are pp. 46. 47, on whieh U S Steel shows 20 years ago.” little Gwendolyn, age 8, waving from usually extended on the basis of 60,- the window of a steel pullman car and —S hrdlu 00 0-ton requirements. Prices are steady. Truck shipments are more prominent now that the rivers have

82 /TEEL February 17, 1936 —The Market Week— bc-en frozen over. A llegheny F o u n d ­ $16, delivered. Pennsylvania rail­ ry Co., Pittsburgh, has been awarded road disposed of its list of No. 1 steel contract for the coming year’s re­ Scrap at $15.50 to $15.75 for Pittsburgh quirements of the city of Pittsburgh shipment and its rails at $15.50 to for street and sewer castings. Scrap Prices, Page 71 $16, and prices on other rail ac­ New York—-Pig iron demand con­ cumulations were comparable when tinues light, with sellers declaring Pittsburgh— Heavy melting steel, sold recently. Sales at $15.50 to $16 they have seen little real improve­ No. 1, No. 2 and railroad grades, ad­ on No. 1 steel in the Mahoning Val­ ment so far this year. However, a vanced another 25 cents a ton last ley and a continuing high market in substantial improvement is expected week, making the third successive the east is virtually confining the by March. week that the price has increased. Pittsburgh district’s source of scrap Buil'alo— Shipments are improving One downriver mill last week bought supply to local yards. Jones & steadily and consumers appear to be light grades of ordinary heavy melt­ Laughlin Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, re­ making deep inroads into their fourth ing at $15 and other consumers cently sold some 20 odd Ohio river quarter purchases. Deliveries from bought railroad grades at close to coal barges for dismantling, which local stocks so far this year are about 10 per cent behind those of the like _period of 1935. Melt of iron in radia­ tor works is reported heavy. Seven blast furnaces are active, and one is banked. ^ A DEEP DRAWN Philadelphia— While specifications still lag, there is a greater frequency of small rush demands. Adverse weather has made deliveries difficult, SEAMLESS and consumers are being caught short in a number of instances. Consump­ tion is expanding and sellers look for SHAPE WITH improvement early in March. United States Steel Corp., through its agent, is actively soliciting merchant iron INTEGRAL business here for the first time in many years. HEAD ... Birmingham, Ala.— Abatement of the severe weather has brought about renewed activity at shops melting pig This tank is only one iron, and specifications for delivery from blast furnaces are more numer­ of many special shells, ous. Production remains steady, with shapes, bottles, etc., 12 blast furnaces in full operation. deep drawn by Hackney Cincinnati — Shipments continue upward, but have not surpassed No­ to meet the require­ vember levels. Foundry operations ments of various show gradual improvement. companies. Toronto, Ont. — Merchant sales It is constructed from seamless shell with integral head. continue steady, with weekly awards holding at better than 1000 tons. A Specially shaped bottom is welded in place. Bosses are few melters have covered for the cur­ welded to head. This tank is used in connection with a rent quarter, while others take sup­ small compressor unit. plies to carry them along for a few The Hackney deep-drawing method of manufacture pro­ weeks. Prices are firm. vides the advantages of uniform strength and smoothness of finish. Hackney offers more than 30 years’ experience to Coke By-Products assist users of special shapes in obtaining the most efficient construction for their needs. Coke By-Product Prices, Page 09 Send details of your requirements to Hackney for study New York— Despite let-downs in and possible suggestion of improved methods. certain lines, notably the automobile industry, demand for the principal coal tar products has not shown any PRESSED STEEL TANK COMPANY curtailment. Demands are varied 208 S. La Salle St. Bldg., Room 1211, Chicago 1387 Vanderbilt Concourse Bldg., New York and heavy. The scarcity of naphtha­ 6661 Greenfield Ave., Milwaukee, W is. 688 Roosevelt Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif. lene continues acute. The supply of toluol and xylol also is inadequate. Prices are firm.

MILW AUKEE 'V ^ Quicksilver

New York— Quicksilver prices are steady in a quiet market. Supplies DEEP DRAWN SHELLS a n d SH A P ES ! here continue limited.

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 83 — The Market Week-

will realize over 2000 tons of scrap. steel scrap is extremely strong, with Chicago— Scrap prices are strong a number of specific advances in cV^ASE HISTORIES and heavy melting steel is quoted 2 5 price. The main element of strength cents a ton higher on speculative is scarcity and efforts of dealers to in the buying. About 4 0,000 tons of scrap secure tonnages for contracts. An­ is understood to have been disposed other factor in higher prices has of in this district recently by the A. been active demand for a number of W LLMAN PLANT O. Smith Corp., Milwaukee. Rail­ grades from other markets. road offerings continue to bring sub­ Bii'ininghain, Ala. — While no stantial premiums over prices paid sales of more than ordinary tonnage by mills, though relatively little ton­ of scrap are noted, the market con­ nage has been coming to this dis­ tinues strong and quotations firm. T h e trict. Available stock is sufficient to meet Detroit— A tight market continued current requirements. last week as not only Detroit con­ Seattle — Exporting houses are SANFORD sumers but Youngstown and Pitts­ marking time, hoping that Japan will burgh mills are making heavy de­ resume buying soon. Higher freights mands. Since some yards have not C a s e and scarcity of ship space are addi­ operated in the last 20 to 30 days, tional handicaps to shipments to the this source of supply is temporarily Orient. Dealers are selling fairly I T was with a pattern prob­ cu t off. B uying last w eek forced large tonnages to domestic consumers lem that men from the heavy melting, hydraulic compressed but prices are not firm. and busheling 50 cents a ton higher. Sanford Company, New York, Toronto, Ont. — Trading in iron came into our office. “We’re New York— Further advances have and steel scrap shows some improve­ stumped,” said their spokes­ developed in iron and steel scrap. De­ ment wdth prices sustained and some man. mand continues brisk. Heavy break­ dealers quoting above list for desir­ “What is the trouble?” we able cast, grate bars and stove plate able lots. Shipments of steel scrap asked. have advanced 50 cents a ton. New to the Hamilton district have in­ compressed sheets are up 25 cents creased and local dealers report The answer to the question and No. 1 and 2 melting steels are good movement in heavy melting up 25 to 5 0 cents. was that the construction of steel, turnings and other lines. Of­ Philadelphia — Further advances ferings from rural districts continue core prints on the pattern was light but yard holdings are heavy. too small to support the core are noted in the eastern Pennsyl­ vania scrap market. Heavy break­ when it was placed in the able cast is now $13 to $13.50, deliv­ mould. This caused sagging, ered, consuming plant, and No. 1 cu­ which resulted in the walls of pola at $13.50 to $14. The market on the casting being uneven and heavy melting steel continues Warehouse the thickness of the metal being strong. Some brokers are now pay­ Warehouse I’rices, Page 72 contrary to the drawing. ing as high as $13, delivered, Coates- That was the problem put to ville, Pa. in covering on orders pre­ New York—Sales continue at a Wellman, but men in the viously taken at $12.50, delivered. reduced rate compared with last fall. foundry thought it over and Railroad malleable is extremely Severe weather is held responsible recommended increasing the scarce, with prices nominally higher for much of the present disposition to size of the core prints and at $16.50 to $17, delivered. slow up purchases. Prices are un­ putting a key on the prints so Buffalo — Dealers are picking up changed. that location would be exact. material in nearby points for ship­ Philadelphia— Business so far this ment to Pittsburgh and Valley con­ month is holding its own with the This suggestion solved the January rate, and according to one Sanford case. sumers. Specialties have sold at the highest prices in several years and or two large jobbers, is somewhat Wellman has solved pattern better. problems or many companies more tonnage is wanted by consum­ ers. There is still no buying of Chicago— Sales are holding around over a period of years, and a heavy melting steel and dealers con­ the level of a month ago. Truck call to Wellman before a pat­ tinue to assert consumers’ stocks will shipments to outlying sections have tern s made will save many a force large early purchases. been interfered with by snow and casting. If you have problems Cleveland— Scarcity of steel and ice. Business continues ahead of the you would ike to discuss, iron scrap, partly due to weather rate a year ago. write or call ENdicott 2240. interference with handling has Cleveland — A fair demand is an­ ticipated. Most sellers are ahead on • Castings • Plated Parts strengthened the market and higher prices have been made in some near­ orders and behind on shipments due • Machined • Plated Tubing by districts though not here. Dealers to the weather. Prices are steady. Parts are slovr to sell ahead in view of ex­ Detroit — Buying continues fair, pected price rises. although shipments are hampered by C incinnati— Iron and steel sera;.) the weather. Prices are steady. is quoted higher in this district, al­ Cincinnati— Sales so far this year though mills decline to buy further. exceed tonnage in the corresponding W ellm an bronze Advance in Valley prices so far has period last year. A better tone is failed to attract scrap from here. noted in industrial inquiries. Prices and ALUMINUM Co. Louisville & Nashville list of 6800 are firm. tons, one-half rails, reflects the new St. Louis -—■ Warehouses^ report 6017 SU P ER IO R AVENUE policy of avoiding scrap accumula­ business thus far in February slight­ tion while awaiting higher bids. ly ahead of the same period a year CLEVELAND, OHIO St. Louis— While buying continues ago, but less than during the first virtually at a standstill, iron and two weeks of January. The decrease

S4 /TEEL February 17, 1936 — The Market Week— is ascribed entirely to adverse the advance by the two sellers to market. New business was light but w eather. 9.50c, Connecticut. The outlook for prices were steady on the basis of Seattle— Volume is fairly good for the market is strong although a num­ 4.85c, East St. Louis, for prime west­ this season. Small tonnages are the ber of sellers apparently were free ern. rule, with sheets probably in best sellers at the current level over the Tin— Consumer buying of tin was demand. Oregon dealers reduced week-end. A fairly large tonnage is light but the undertone of the mar­ bars, plates and shapes $4 a ton, likely to continue available at 9.25c, ket was fairly steady. Price fluctua­ but this has not affected prices in Connecticut, until absorbed. tions in the market here reflected Seattle territory. Lead— Demand for lead declined short covering in London and last week but recovery in the buying changes in sterling exchange rates. rate is expected by the closing week Antimony — Moderate amount of of the month. The market tone was small-lot buying developed in the Steel in Europe strong with all sellers quoting 4.35c, antimony market but prices held un­ East St. Louis. changed at 12.87 V2c, New York, for Foreign Steel Prices, Page 72 Zinc— Continued active shipments American spot and 12.87 V2c, duty of zinc to consumers featured that paid New York, for Chinese spot. L ondon— (By Cable)— Production of steel ingots and castings in Great Britain in January, 912,500 gross tons, is the second highest for any month in history. It is exceeded only by March, 1927, when 949,600 tons N e w N ^ c a r a S l e e v e was made. The January tonnage represents a gain of 101,000 tons over the 811,500 tons produced in December. The daily rate in De­ I l u t c h cember was 33,812 tons, in January 36,500 tons. Pig iron production in Great Britain in January was 595,500 gross tons, the largest output since May, 1930, when 614,500 tons was pro­ duced. The January tonnage was 36,- 200 tons greater than the 559,300 tons made in December. The daily rate in December was 18,042 tons, in January 19,339 tons. In January 109 stacks were in blast, compared with 102 at the end of December. Pig iron demand in Great Britain exceeds the supply and several fur­ naces are out of the market, while additional furnaces are preparing to start. No pig iron is available for Just ONE of Many export. Prices of hematite have been IMPROVEMENTS increased. Most steelworks are op­ I n N I A G A R A erating at capacity and many are be­ hind in deliveries. The full Contin­ INCLINABLE PRESSES ental quota of semifinished steel is Safety, Instant Engagement, M axi­ being absorbed. mum Strokes per minute and Long Life are performance features of this The Continent reports conditions Splincd Clutch Sleeve patented Niagara 14-point engage­ more active, especially in semifin­ in constant engage­ m ent Sleeve Clutch. ment ivith Splincd ished steel and plates. Prices of ship Back Shaft Assembly Other im portant improvements of N i­ equipped icith Tim­ Shaft plates for export have been in­ ken Bearings agara Inclinable Presses include — creased 4 s. Fram es scientifically designed for strength and rigidity. Triple and double “V” gibs. Nonferrous Metals Rigid strong slides w ith Breech Block Die Clamps and equal support for dies Nonferrous Metal Prices, Page 70 from center to front and rear. Back gear up high and mounted on New York—-A sudden spurt in de­ Tim ken bearings. mand for copper following the an­ Sleeve Clutch Throic- Integral Back Gear Write for Bulletin 58-E illustrating latest out and Single Stroke Support and Com­ improvements on Niagara Inclinable nouncement that one mine producer iMechanism pensating Brake Presses. and one custom smelter would ad­ vance their prices 14-cent, effective NIAGARA MACHINE & TOOL WORKS Feb. 15, was the outstanding de­ General Offices & Works: 683-697 Northland Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. velopment in the nonferrous metal Branches: 50 Church St., New York; General Motors Bldg., Detroit markets last week. Statistical strength of most metals was sus­ tained as shipments continued to hold up well. Copper— A stronger foreign mar­ ket combined with the underlying statistical strength of the domestic market were contributing factors in

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materials, specialties and equipment 2 8 per cent. From the southeastern W h ere December Imports of abreast of construction activity and states, in which the Birmingham dis­ progress abroad, has been inaugu­ trict is the largest producing area, Iron, Steel Originated rated by the metals and minerals 3,256,000 tons was moved, an in­ crease of 38 per cent. Northeastern The following tabulation shows the division of the bureau of foreign and states, 1,352,000 tons, gained 49 per origin of various classes of steel and domestic commerce, Washington, of cent; and western states, 516,000 iron imports in December, by coun­ which R. L. Harding is chief. This tons, 7 3 per cent. tries, completing the record of for­ material is released in a publication Imports of iron ore reported for eign trade in these commodities given entitled Construction Abroad, for the first 11 months in 1935 amounted two weeks ago: the present mailed without charge. The publication is compiled by J. to 1,354,863 tons, valued at $3,138,- Joseph W. Palmer, of the minerals 442. Imports for the year 19 34 were ORIGIN OF DECEMBER IMPORTS and metals bureau. 1,427,521 tons, valued at $3,307,504. G ro ss T o n s Exports in the first 11 months of M an­ Ferro­ 1935 amounted to 678,034 tons, Pig ganese m an­ iron ore ganese valued at $1,911,577, compared with G erm an y ...... 1,450 exports for the entire year 19 34 of Netherlands...... 7,025 Iron Ore Output N o rw ay ...... 25 1,031 608,922 tons, valued at $2,243,066. United K in g d o m ... 675 13 113 C a n a d a ...... 694 2,709 Soviet Russia in 2 4 % E u ro p e...... 1,716 1,906 Up in 1935 Shops Pushing Stainless British India...... 4,704 524 Brazil...... 6,633 RON ore mined in the United C hile...... 56 I Sheet metal shops are rapidly be­ States in 1935, exclusive of that Gold C o a st...... 3,851 coming one of the most important F ra n ce ...... 202 which contained 5 per cent or more Ita ly ...... 33 outlets for stainless steels, D. C. manganese in the natural state, P o la n d ...... 78 O’Brien, of the development depart­ amounted to 30,484,000 gross tons, T o ta l...... 16,289 12,983 4,186 ment of the American Rolling Mill an increase of 24 per cent over 1934, Sheets, Struc- Hoops Co., Middletown, O., recently told a skelp and tural Steel and according to the bureau of mines, group of distributors at Kansas City, sawplate steel bars bands Washington. United Kingdom.. 4 6 29 49 Mo. Adaptability of stainless steel to B elgium ...... 874 3,502 1,724 1,561 Shipments totaled 333,308,000 many new uses and the constant G erm an y ...... 154 71 372 494 tous, valued at $82,864,000, a gain P o la n d ...... 3 ...... introduction of new products made of Sw eden...... 17 .... 177 3 of 2 9 per cent in quantity, and of France...... 835 186 33 it are responsible. C a n a d a ...... 48 .... 25 per cent in total value. The aver­ A u stria...... 18 .... age value at the mines in 1935 was Czechoslovakia...... 1 .... Spain...... 31 .... $2.49, compared with $2.58 in 1934. W ill Exhibit at Cleveland About 85 per cent of the ore came T o ta l...... 1,052 4,414 2,5S6 2,140 from the Lake Superior district. Important iron and steel producers Stocks of iron ore at all mines, main­ and manufacturers of heavy machin­ ly in Michigan and Minnesota, de­ ery will play an important role in creased 26 per cent from 10,340,690 the Great Lakes Exposition to be Report Foreign Construction tons in 1934 to 7,616,000 tons in held in Cleveland June 27 to Oct. 4. An information service designed 1935. Among underwriters of $10,000 or to keep construction firms and manu­ Shipments from the Lake Superior more are Republic Steel Corp., United facturers and exporters of building district totaled 27,923,000 tons, up States Steel Corp., Standard Tool Co., Cleveland Twist Drill Co., M. A. Hanna Co., Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., Cleve­ land Graphite Bronze Co., Pickands, M ather & Co., W. S. Tyler Co., Thompson Products Inc., Interlake TUBE M ILL Iron Corp., and Otis Elevator Co.

EQUIPMENT Sees Canadian Trade Pact OF MODERN Big A id to Tool Builders Increased business accruing to DESIGN American machine tool manufacturers by reason of the reciprocal trade treaty with Canada will remain largely hidden Let us know your problems and in our export totals when trade gains we will be glad to be of service of 1936 are reckoned, according to C. to you. S. Stilwell, vice president, Warner & Swasey Co., Cleveland. 40 years experience in “Although the duty on machinery building tube mills. made in the United States has been 6harply reduced, British machine tool manufacturers still retain a substan­ TAYLOR-WILSON MANUFACTURING CO. tial trade advantage, all things consid­ M A IN OFFICE and WORKS ered,” Mr. Stilwell said. "Now that the treaty is actually op­ 500 Thomson Ave. erative and we have had an opportun­ ity to consider its consequences, it is McKEES ROCKS, PA. apparent that the increases assured in Canadian purchases of American

86 /TEEL February 17, 1936 products will require additions to the tion at W hitehall club, New York. manufacturing capacity of plants C. C. Knerr, 11 Broadway, New M irrors of Motordom which are the major users of turret York, is secretary. April 10-17— American Institute of (Continued from Page 23) lathes and other metal-worliing equip­ M ining and M etallurgical Engineers. ment. M eeting of open-hearth committee at Toledo going into the spark plug "These plants excel in the produc­ in Detroit. L. F. Reinartz, works and speedometer business will be to tion of several important groups which manager. American Rolling Mill Co., M iddletown, O., is chairm an. please Chrysler. The Toledo con­ gain under the Canadian treaty. They cern has long been a Chrysler range from electric refrigerators, April 18— Spring M anufacturers asso­ ciation. Annual convention at Ho­ stronghold on ignition and other washing machines and radios to dy­ tel Commodore. New York. D. A. parts’ supply. But Chrysler has had namos, generators, motors and parts. W heeler, 4 School street, Bristol, to depend pretty much on A. C. Perhaps the most important of all are Conn., is secretary. Spark Plug, a General Motors sub­ the reductions of 50 per cent in the du­ April 20-21— Am erican Gear M anufac­ sidiary, for its plugs. ties on most classes of farm equipment, turers association. Tw entieth annual convention at Adelpliia hotel, Phila­ Ford’s big source on plugs is which in 1929-30 accounted for $14,- delphia. J. C. M cQuiston, Penn Lin­ Champion, also at Toledo, and of 000,000 in our exports. coln hotel, W ilkinsburg, Pa., is m an- course General Motors subsidiaries "Motor vehicles and parts, many of ager-secretary. draw almost entirely on their sister which are manufactured by Canadian April 20-23 — American Hardware company, A. C. Spark Plug. If subsidiaries under American supervi­ M anufacturers association. Conven • tion at Hotel Peabody, Memphis, Electric Auto-Lite goes into the busi­ sion, also gain under the treaty, and Tenn. Charles F. Rockwell, 342 ness in a big way, as it promises to -will undoubtedly be im ported in larger M adison avenue. New York, is sec­ do, it will place a third important num bers. r e t a r y . maker in the field, from which "In the light of these facts we will A pril 20-24— M idwest Pow er Engineer­ Chrysler certainly will draw, from have to give the Canadian trade treaty ing conference and M idwest Engi­ credit in part for increases in domestic neering and Power exposition. Con­ which Ford may come to buy, and ference at Palm er House, exposi­ which will obviously detract from m achine tool orders in 1936.” tion at International Am phitheatre, Chicago. G. E. Pfisterer, 308 W est General Motors' subsidiary. W ashington street, Chicago, is sec­ Electric Auto-Lite has been experi­ r e t a r y . menting with a porcelain baker and April 22-23— Association of Iron and will have more equipment for Convention Steel Electrical Engineers. Spring manufacturing both the plug and the engineering conference at Ohio ho­ tel, Youngstown, O., under auspices core in shortly. It is aiming at of com bustion engineering division. something like quantity production Calendar B rent W iley, 1010 Em pire building. by March. Pittsburgh, is m anaging director. When the motor car publicity de­ Feb. 17-21— American Institute of April 27-30— Chamber of Commerce partment suddenly decides not to is­ M ining and M etallurgical Engineers. of the United States. Annual m eet­ 145th annual m eeting at Engineer­ ing in W ashington. D. A. Skinner, sue the usual writeup on how pro­ ing Societies building, New York. 1615 H street, N. W .. is secretary. duction is going, you can ask for no A. B. Parsons, 29 W est Thirty-ninth street. New York, is executive sec­ r e t a r y . Feb. 25-27— Am erican Concrete insti­ tute. A nnual convention and exhibit at Palm er House, Chicago. Harvey W hipple, 642 New Center building, D etroit, is secretary. M arch 2-0 — American Society for Testing M aterials. Spring group meeting of committees at W illiam Penn hotel, Pittsburgh. C. L. W ar­ 5 0 % wick, 26 0 Broad street, Philadel­ 5 0 % phia, Is secretary. LESS LESS M arch 3-0— American Management association. Sixth packaging con­ COST WEIGHT ference and exposition at Hotel Pennsylvania, New York. Alvin E. Dodd, 20 Vesey street. New York, is executive vice president. M arch 4— Am erican Society for Test­ ing M aterials. Regional m eeting at W illiam Penn hotel, Pittsburgh. C. B. W arwick, 260 Broad street, Philadelphia, is secretary. M arch 10-18— N ational Association of "|"H IS is the striking result of com posite design as affected W aste M aterial D ealers Inc. Annual by Parish engineering service on a pressure fitting of convention at Hotel Astor, New York. Charles M. Haskins. 1109 cast steel that constantly failed under high pressures in Times building, New York, is sec­ s e r v ic e . r e t a r y . M arch 29-April 4— Am erican Ceramic Produced of a stamped-and-welded design, this fitting society. Annual convention and ex­ not only split the cost and weight of its former style but hibit at Columbus, O. Ross C. successfully tested at 100 lbs. air pressure . . . Similar Purdy, 2525 N orth H igh street, Co­ lum bus, O., Is secretary. savings and betterm ents are likewise possible on yo u r April 13-17— American Chemical So­ manufactured parts. Your blue-prints and specifications ciety. Semiannual convention in will perm it this study. Kansas City, Mo. Dr. Charles L. Parsons, 72S M ills building. W ash­ ington, is secretary. April 14-18— Oil B urner Institute Inc. PARISH PRESSED STEEL CO. Tw elfth national convention at Stat- ler hotel, and show- at Convention Specialists i n difficult stam ping design Hall, Detroit. G. H arvey Porter, 39 Rockefeller Plaza. New York, is Robeson & Weiser Sts. READING, PA. m anaging director. Pacific Coast Rsp.t F. Sornm P#t*r*on Co., 57 California St., San Framoiaoa, Calif. April 10— National Council of Am eri­ can Shipbuilders. Annual conven­

February 17, 1936 /TEEL 8T better sign that assemblies aren't 000, compared with 100,000 in Plymouth is down to 2 days weekly, so good. January, December and November. and oddly enough, will resume with The automobile industry has a The Chevrolet high command last a strange schedule when things start peculiar disposition of telling the October said: “We will make 100,- tc break. As soon as Plymouth can good news and not saying anything 000 cars a month indefinitely through get onto a five-day week again it w hen things slide off. T hat isn’t pre­ the balance of 1935 and into early will drop Monday, not Saturday. varication, but it’s fancy dispensing 1936.” but, like the rest, the cut Hudson last week was down to of fact. had to come and, generally speaking 3% days, but in attempting to give all hands some work kept two lines Last week Chevrolet, for one, for all motordom, it seems to be a running and turned forth on a chilly clamped down on voluminous re­ shave of 35 to 4 0 per cent from world some 2400 models. leases of previous date on produc­ Jan u ary . tion. Obviously, February produc­ For instance, Ford has stopped Packard has ambitiously set a tion is falling behind January. Parts- working on Fridays and shuts down production of 5000 models for makers say that a 40 per cent cut each Thursday night until Monday March. Chrysler and DeSoto, as well has been authorized, which makes morning of the last two weeks. Ford as Hupp, have been closed tight. Chevrolet assemblies this month 60,- will make 65,000 jobs in February. Pontiac has been in step with Chevrolet as far as proportionately cutting schedules goes. Bright spots are Olds and Buick, where buying from the “middle classes” seems to be weathering the storm. Last week Buick and Olds \ each made over 3000 cars, pretty good for the times. That’s as good as Plymouth made, and each was fully a fifth as good as Ford or Chevrolet, which is indeed some­ thing. Equipment Chicago— Prospects in most equip- ment markets continue favorable. A slight lull has developed in machine tool sales but inquiries continue ac­ tive and a pickup in buying is seen for the near future. Except for the Santa Fe which has about a dozen machine tools pending, railroads are buying equipment sparingly. In­ creased activity at repair shops, how­ ever, is seen as likely to result in better machinery demand later this year. Small tool sales are well main­ VALVES tained, pointing to sustained activity HANNIFIN at metalworking shops. Pittsburgh— Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. last week approved appropria­ tion for the construction of a new car dumper to replace the one at the Edgar Thomson steelworks, which has been in service for 30 years. The ex: new dumper will be located on a new site which will fit into the future developments at this plant and will take care of the large and new-type Outstanding 1936 achievements cars now being used. In addition to i of the Welding Industry—Flexible modern safety devices which will be kilowatt ampere pounds and a part of the car dumper, a new, up- : hours. to-date, interlocking signal system will be installed which will add to the safety of its operation and pro­ A>u-Metdik9 ¿tectwdes tection of employes from injury. Seattle— Small boat construction is for w elding all corrosion and heat resist- creating a good demand for diesel en­ ing products. Send for data book. gines and specialty plants have im­ portant contracts in hand. Other equipment used in marine property and for replacements is in good de­ mand. There is active inquiry for road building machinery while log­ M AU RATH ging equipment is showing improve­ ment. Puget Sound Navy yard will 73 00 UNION AVENUE*CLEVELAND receive bids Feb. 18 and 21 for a list of machine tools and other items.

S3 /TEEL February 17, 19 3 6- grinder with tractor hitch, complete w ith independent block type scarifier. Construction and Enterprise DAYTON, O. — Air corps, m ateriel division, W right field, asks bids Feb. 28 for light duty tractors; Feb. 27, for a pull type grader; and March 2, for Ohio edging, and slitting m achines, bar and tail wheel assemblies. scroll shear, rotary slitting and squar­ EAST CANTON, O. — Village, S. H. CANTON, O. — Offices of the Canton ing shear, and a nibbler. Browning mayor, and Roscoe Rice, First Foundry & Machine Co. have been DAYTON, O.— United States army, National Bank building, consulting en­ moved from the Dime Bank building air corps, materiel division, W right gineer, has completed plans and will here to the factory at 6400 Breakwater field, asks bids Feb. 24 for furnishing ask for bids about Feb. 20, for the con­ avenue, Cleveland, according to J. R. two m otor driven radial drill presses struction of a waterworks, to include Bucher, president. The company is now and one m otor driven drill press; Feb. a 100,000 - gallon elevated storage a division of the Hill Clutch Machine 27 for six bodies and equipm ent for tank, pumping equipment, and dis­ & Foundry Co., Cleveland. truck and field servicing; Feb. 25 for tribution system, including 3% miles two 2-speed hydraulic jacks, high lift CINCINNATI — Century Machine of m ains, etc. Project w ill cost $57,000. type; Feb. 28 for 15 light duty trac­ Co., 4434 M arburg avenue, is having tors, 25 tractor m owers, and five light plans m ade through Tielig & L e e , 3 4 4 ELYRIA, O. — A special committee duty tractors with rotary brush W est Sixth street, for a factory addi­ has been appointed by the city council scraper; and Feb. 27 for a pull type tion, to cost $37,000 w ith equipm ent. to investigate the advisability of in- CINCINNATI — City, Charles E. Lex purchasing agent, room 143, city hall, will ask bids Feb. 18, for furnishing valve and street castings to the depart­ m ent of public works and departm ent of w a t e r . WAYS WITH CLEVELAND— Feiclc Mfg. Co., a new corporation, w hich will specialize in sheet metal work for advertising display and cabinet work, has leased for five years about 10,000 square feet ™ A O t . M A R „ „ £<^ of manufacturing space at 10225 Meech avenue southeast, from the Anton Zverina Realty Co. The com­ pany, headed by H arry W . Feick, will go into full operation as soon as op­ FANS erating facilities are installed. CLEVELAND— Reliable Steel Plate MODERATE COST. Based on Co. has been incorporated by Em m an­ 1 ■ best materials, expert craftsman­ uel M argulis. M. H. M endelsohn, and ship plus a modest profit. Jack B. Dworlcen. 1323 Schofield building, correspondent. LOW DEPRECIATION. Because 2 ■ of rugged construction, long-lived CLEVELAND — Contract W elders m o t o r s . Inc., 4829 Lexington avenue northeast, LOW CURRENT COST. Because and Industrial W elding & Cutting Co.. SC O R ES of M IL L S 4400 Perkins avenue northeast, have 3 ■ they move more air than other merged and will be consolidated in R E C O M M EN D fans of equal size and power requirem ents. larger quarters at 2545 East Seventy- PROPELLAIRS ninth street, about April 1. C. C. Peck for Cooling Men, Cooling Refer your ventilating and exhausting problems will head the consolidation. Sheets, Exhausting from pick­ ling rooms, general ventilation. to Propellair’s engineers. Our long experience in steel mill problems is your assurance of skilled CLEVELAND— Tool Salvage & M f g . ALL PROPELLAIR RAT­ Co. has been incorporated for the INGS ARE CERTIFIED counsel. Write for 40-page PROPELLAIR m anufacture and repair of tools by RATINGS. CATALOG. No obligation. Thomas J. Coleman, William E. Burns, and George J. McMonagle. Frey, Burns & McM onagle, Engineers Whitt PROPELLAIR, INC. Springfield, Ohio building, is correspondent.

CLEVELAND — Republic Steel Corp., Republic building, has announced that work will begin at once on a $500,000 remodeling and enlarging project in the cold strip and tin plate departm ents of BROOKMIRE its plant at W arren, O. Program includes the addition of m ore cold rolling stands, annealing furnaces, leveling and cut off machinery, and rem odeling of exist­ FORECAST ing strip mills through the installation of new drives to speed up production. In the tin plate division of the plant, ad­ for 1 9 3 6 ditional annealing furnaces, tinning units, and transfer equipment will be added, and provision made for more The year 1936 is faced with confusing sorting space. economic and political developments. DAYTON, O.— Dayton Power & Light Co., F. M. Tait president, is The Brookmire 1936 Forecast discusses having plans prepared and will take bids about M arch 1 for construction the outlook for Business — Commodity of the M iller’s Ford pow er plant build­ ing, 100 x 104 feet. Equipm ent to be prices — Money — Bonds and Stocks. installed will include a 42.000-horse­ power turbo-generator. Estim ated cost of the project is $3,000,000 and Colum ­ Write for your complimentary copy bia Engineering Co., Cincinnati, is e n g i n e e r . DAYTON, O.— Air corps, m ateriel BROOKMIRE division, W right field, asks bids M arch Corporation 2 for a bench lathe; M arch 3 for buff­ Investment Counselors and ers, polishers, portable electric saws, Founded 1904 Administrative Economists and grinders; M arch 4 for counter­ bores testing m achine; and M arch 6 551 Fifth Avenue, New York, B. 57 for sheet m etal brakes, burring, turn­ ing, wiring, beading, crum ping, elbow

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stalling a diesel power plant, at an ap­ deal in sashes and screens, by Charles llolst Blow Pipe Co. has been incorpo­ proxim ate cost of $17,000. R. Em ery, 23533 M ichigan avenue. rated to deal in structural iron and angle iron work, by Frederick W altz, FOSTORIA, O. — Reopening of the DETROIT— Central Plating Co. has 1320 Front avenue northw est. Electric A uto-Lite Co. plant here before been incorporated to fabricate and spring w as forecast recently. deal in iron and steel, by Charles Erd- GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.— Ecken- m an, 16 99 A tkinson avenue. berg-Fcrrell Co., 412 Transportation IR@NTON, O. — J. Benson Davis has building, this city, has been incorpo­ purchased the Champion Bottling W orks DETROIT— Babcock Iron & Metal rated to deal in business m achines, by here, operated form erly by Joseph Selb, Co., 1550 Harper avenue, has been W illiam H. D urant, 10S LaGrave ave­ and will plan im provem ents to the plant. incorporated to do a general buying nue southeast. and selling of steel and iron, by Ben. LANCASTER, O. — City, W. E. Babcock, 516S Second boulevard. KALAMAZOO, MICH .— Wilson- Rowles service director, contemplates B rinker Co., 412 Pythian building, has advertising for bids for furnishing 10,000 DETROIT— V arkle Iron & M etal Co. been incorporated for the engineering feet of tubing for use in the. natural gas Inc., G5G5 M ack avenue, has been or­ of mechanical equipment, by R. W. departm ent, to cost $2000, and a swab­ ganized by M orris Varkle, 4045 Cort­ W i l s o n . bing or bailing machine to cost $1200. land avenue, to do a general scrap Ordinance has received authorization. iron business. LANSING, M ICH.— M ulti-Lead Tool & Engineering Co. has been incorpo­ LIM A, O.—Davidson Enam eling Prod­ DETROIT — Sewell Cushion W heel rated at S12 East Kalamazoo street, ucts Co. purchased the Lima Metal Co., 4091 B eaufait street, recently suf­ to deal in tools and dies, by Edward Products Inc. plant here recently, for fered $100,000 loss to one of its large E. Judge, 304 Riley street. the fabrication of m etals in preparation w arehouse buildings here. for enameling. LANSTNG. MICH. — State prison DETROIT— Phelps & Bcrnardi. 504 board is having w orking draw ings pre­ SANDUSKY, O.—E. E. Hartung, D etroit Savings Bank building, archi­ pared by Bowd & Munson, architect, city engineer, and R. L. M agee, district tect, is preparing prelim inary plans for the erection of a $100,000 storage No. S, W PA director, contem plates or­ for the union bus terminal to be and warehouse building here. dering bids to be taken for furnishing erected at W ashington boulevard and all cast iron pipe and fittings necessary Grand River avenue. PONTIAC, MICH. — L. J. Heenan. for W PA projects during 19 30. architect, is taking figures on three DETROIT — Alloy M etals W elding factory buildings to be erected on E ast Corp., has been incorporated to do a South boulevard, this city, for the M ichigan general welding business, by Andrew Baldwin Rubber Co. Irons, 1339 Trum bull avenue. BARODA, MICH. — Baroda Grey DETROIT — Graham W arehouses Iron Foundry has been incorporated N ew York Inc. has been organized to operate by directors K urt W eber, this city. w arehouses, by R. C. H icks, S505 W est Amalie W eber, Alex Kam ber, Enrich ALBTON. N. Y.— C. J. Gray is m ak­ W arren avenue. W eber, St. Joseph, M ich., and A ttorney ing plans for the purchase of a gaso­ Arthur E. Lackner, Benton Harbor, DETROIT— Paner-Davies Corp. has line power shovel, to cost approxi­ M i c h . been incorporated to do a general m ately $1000. stam ping, plating, and polishing busi­ BATTLE CREEK, MICH.— Duplex AS'I’ORTA. N. Y. — General M otors ness, by Elm er F. Paner, 3729 Crane M achinery Co., this city, has been in­ Corp.. D etroit, is starting w ork on the a v e n u e . corporated to m anufacture farm m a­ construction of a 50.000 square foot chinery. by Irving K. Stone, 10S South DETROIT— W ayne Screw Products supply depot, on the East river w ater­ M cCamly street. Co., Albert C. Germ er treasurer, an­ front here. Building will occupy the nounces that its new GO x 140-foot block bounded by Vernon boulevard, BATTLE CREEK. MICH.—Battle unit will be completed about M arch Creek Food Co. is having plans pre­ Thirtieth drive. Twelfth street, and 15. New equipment will be placed pared for the construction of a factory Thirty-first avenue. in this unit, which will double the addition. A. B. Chanel, this city, is ELMIRA. N. Y.— Delaware, Lacka­ present capacity of the plant. a r c h i t e c t . wanna. & W estern railroad, G. A. BRADLEY. MICH.— Bradley Eleva­ DETROIT— General Tool Bit Corp. Philips, Hoboken, N. J., engineer, is tor Co. has been incorporated in this has been organized for the m anufac­ m aking plans for the installation of an elevated steel tank, to cost $1000. city, by Leslie Enzian. ture of tools, by Robert E. W erner, 2545 Pennsylvania avenue. DEARBORN, MICH.— Utility M etal JAMESTOW N, N. Y.— Swanhall Oil Sash Corp. has been incorporated to GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. — W altz- Co., J. Swanson m anager, Buffalo and East Second streets, plans purchasing 500-gallon steel tanks, electric pum ps, etc., for installation at service stations in various localities in Chautauqua c o u n t y . NEW YORK— B. Dulchin Inc.. 154 AS YOU WANT IT Seventh avenue, distributor of hard­ ware, electrical, plum bing, and build­ ing m aintenance supplies, has leased from the Barmil Realty Co. Inc., a building at Twentieth street and Seventh avenue. Extensive alterations DRILL ROD have been started, and cost of mod­ ernization will be $10,000, according to Abraham Grossman, architect.

NEW YORK — Cauldwell-W ingate COLD DRAWN Co. has booked the general contract for construction of the ventilation For 37 years we have been drawing building of the midtown Hudson tun­ steel to our c u s to m e r s ’ specifica­ nel. The steel, 710 tons, has not been tions. We provide experience, ac­ p l a c e d . curacy, the best of finish and the heat treatment just right for the job, NEW YORK— Robert Gair Co. Inc.. SHAPES 155 East Forty-fourth street, m anu­ an "efficiency" product. facturer of folding boxes and shipping cases, has purchased the plant and A chart oj decimal equivalents will gladly be sent you upon request. business of the Peerless Paper Box Co., Berea road northw est, Cleveland, former plant of the W inton Motor Carriage Co. Operation is to be in­ creased to a considerable extent under KIDD DRAWN STEEL CO. the new ownership, especially in the long inactive setup box departm ent, where new equipm ent will be added. Aliquippa, Pa. Property and plant will be in the nam e of Gair-Cleveland Cartons Inc., and (Pittsburgh District) Phone: Aliquippa 196. Fred H ashagen will be vice president (Please turn to Page 92)

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(Continued from Page 90) senal, this city, will ask bids M arch 9 Indiana and resident m anager. E. Victor Don­ for an autom atic turret machine, under aldson is president. invoice No. 36-329. ANDERSON, IND. — Guide Lamp YOUNGSVILLE, PA. — Youngsville Corp. is planning a plant addition for NEW YORK — United States engi­ the manufacture of motor lamps, neer, first district, 39 W hitehall street, M illing Co. is in the m arket for trans­ mission, conveyor, and power plant cowls, fenders, and other parts for asks bids Feb. IS, invoice No. 1097-36- equipment and machinery for flour autom obiles. Cost will exceed $40,000 291. for cast steel propellers. and feed mill, including grinders, etc. and m aturity is indefinite. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.— Carbor­ undum Co.. m anufacturer of abrasive INDIANAPOLIS— Fairbanks, Morse products, is constructing an addition Illinois & Co., 900 South W abash avenue, Chi­ to its plant here. cago, is making plans for improve­ CHICAGO— Fibre Abrasive Corp., m ents to its plant hero, Twenty-first SYRACUSE, N. Y. — Syracuse uni­ 325 W est Ohio street, has been in­ and Northwestern avenue, to cost versity will purchase paper mill m a­ corporated to do a general paper busi­ $ 6 0 ,0 0 0 . chinery for complete paper plant in ness, by J. G. N. Bates, A. E. Holmes, INDIANAPOLIS — Chapman Price state forestry school, to exceed $50.- and Thomas M. Richmond. Corre­ Steel Co., Shelby street, plans the in­ 000. Bids are now being taken on m a­ spondent is Brown, Fox & Blumberg, stallation of heavy duty motors and terials for foundations and platform s 231 South La Salle street. controls, electric hoists, conveyors and on w hich m achinery will be erected. CHICAGO — Fisher Furnace Co., other equipment, in connection with SYRACUSE. N. Y.— Continental Can 1S22 North Lamon avenue, has been extensions and improvements at its Co. Inc., 100 E ast Forty-second street. incorporated to do a general furnace mill. Cost will be close to $500,000, New York, will enlarge its warehouse business, by W illiam Paul M artin Jr., and the com pany is affiliated w ith the facilities here by erecting a 2-story John L. Stroman, and John C. Trus- Continental Steel Corp., Kokom o, Ind. brick and steel warehouse approxi­ sell. Correspondent is Burry, John­ MUNCIE, IND. — Ball Bros. Glass m ately 100 x 230 feet, adjacent to the stone, Peters & Dixon, 105 South La Co. plans the construction of a brick company’s present building on Rail­ Salle street. road avenue. An additional floor will and steel warehouse on East Twelfth CHICAGO-—National Instrum ent & street and M acedonia avenue. Cost be added to another building at that Regulator Co., 1S10 South M ichigan will exceed $50,000. location. W ork will start shortly to avenue, has been incorporated to be completed by June 1. m anufacture and deal in m achinery of District of Columbia WESTFIELD, N. Y.—Ross Asso­ all kinds, by E. Spear, Em il T. John­ ciates, J. Hernandez, Halesite, N. Y., son, and Joel A. Anderson. WASHINGTON — Department of plans purchasing two or more miles CHICAGO—Steigerwaldt Cement Con­ agriculture, division of purchase, sales of 2-inch iron pipe, and 1S00 to 1900 struction Co., 5308 N orthw est Highway, and traffic, asks bids Feb. IS for spike feet of G to 6% -inch steel pipe, cost­ has been incorporated to do a general and spring tooth harrows, field tiller ing $5000. S. R. Ross, Box 62, Little cem ent construction business, by Henry or cultivator, rotary feed w ater pum p, Neck, N. Y., is engineer. Steigerwaldt, Elmer R. Weber, and trailer typo lime spreader, four wheel farm tractor, row crop farm tractor, Jacob Levy, 109 North Dearborn street, Pennsylvania correspondent. and rotary scrapers. LANCASTER, PA.— Lancaster Iron JOLIET, ILL.— American Cyanamid WASHINGTON— Navy department, W orks Inc. plans the installation of & Chemical Corp., 30 Rockefeller bureau of supplies and accounts, will electrical pow er equipm ent, in connec­ Plaza, New York, plans the installa­ ask bids Feb. 18. for the following: tion with the rebuilding of a portion tion of m otors and controls, conveyors, M iscellaneous pipe and tubing, sched­ of its steel plate and m achinery plant, electric hoists, and other equipm ent ule No. 7153, brass and copper, de­ recently damaged by fire, causing a in its new sulphuric acid plant near livery to M are Island, Calif.; one m etal cutting, m otor driven hack saw, sched­ loss of $80,000. here. Cost w ill be over $250,000. ule No. 7172, delivery to M are Island; PEORIA, ILL. — Hill-Kastien Auto­ OIL CITY, PA.— M ullins Mfg. Co., one m otor-driven fire engine, schedule motive Parts & M achine Co., 116 North Salem, O., has sold its boat building No. 7138, delivery to Puget Sound, W ashington street, has been incorpo­ division to a group of business m en in W a s h . this city. The division will be moved rated as a general machine shop, by here w here operations will start about Leland D. Hill, and W alter and Emil W ASHINGTON—Navy department, M arch 15, in the plant formerly oc­ P. Kastien, Hunter, Cavanaugh & Mc­ bureau of supplies and accounts, asks cupied by the K ram er W agon Co. Laughlin, 718 Commercial National bids Feb. 18, for the following: One Bank building, this city, is correspond­ m otor-driven cut off saw, schedule No. PHILADELPHIA — Frankford ar­ e n t . 7146, with delivery to Puget Sound, W ash.; one metal melting furnace, schedule No. 7150; one m otor-driven m illing machine, schedule No. 7151, delivery to Puget Sound; and one sen­ sitive drilling m achine, schedule No. 7152, floor pedestal type, m otor-driven, delivery to Puget Sound. W ASHINGTON — Departm ent of ag­ riculture, division of purchase, sales and WIRE traffic, asks bids Feb. 18 for barbed wire and staples, and automatic SHAPES tractor double disc harrow s. WASHINGTON — National Paint & Square . Keystone - Flat . Round V arnish Co. Inc. has leased a building WELDING at 3210 Grace street northwest, for the Half Round • Special m anufacture of paints. WIRE STOCK W isconsin Highest Quality High Carbon . Low Carbon . Alloy and Service MADISON, W IS.— L. A. Smith, su­ Guaranteed perintendent of w ater departm ent, will Tempered and Untempered be ready for bids about M arch 2 for furnishing superheaters, soot blowing units, suspended arches, and feed Also Screen Wire Cloth w ater regulators for two 500-horse­ power Sterling boilers. MAYVTLLE. W IS.— M ayvillc Die & T H E SENECA WIRE & Tool Co. has been incorporated to do a general machine shop business, by A. L. Dorst, A. A. M ayer, and Henry MFG. COMPANY T h a t c h e r . Established 1905 M ILW AUKEE— City, J. W. Nichol­ son purchasing agent, will ask bids FOSTORIA, OHIO Feb. 20 for 59 tons of special castings, 21 tons of offset pipes, two tons tap­ W ereheases arnd Representatives in practically all principal cities. ping sleeves, valve bores and parts, '■ . ■ =-■ ■ — (Please turn to Page 94)

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(Concluded from Page 92) facture a new type of diesel engine granted a 20-year franchise and will for industrial and m arine use, for the acquire additional equipm ent for the 290 three to 16-inch gate valves, 25 m anufacture of fuel injection system s s y s t e m . tapping valves, and one 20-inch and and accessories. M. J. M urphy is chief three 24-inch gate valves. engineer and general m anager of the W ashington M ILW AUKEE— Joseph M iotke Tool diesel concern. & Die Co., 107 E ast Pittsburgh avenue, HOQUIAM, WASH.— Grays Harbor WEST ALLIS, WIS. — Thomas has been incorporated as Joseph P u l p & Paper Co., W. S. Lucey m an­ Kattnig, Milwaukee, operating the Miotke Inc. Other incorporators, ager, plans constructing a breakdown Kattnig Machine & Supply Co. and other than Mr. Miotke, are M. L. and clipping plant. Davern, and B. W . Reynolds. Arkco Engineering Co.. has organized the Kempsmitli Machine Co. and SEATTLE — Ilorluck Brewing Co., WAUSAU, WIS. — Lake W ausau leased space in the Kempsmith m a­ 602 W estlake avenue north, announces G ranite Co. plans new processing and chine shops, this city, for the m anu­ plans for the construction of an ad­ finishing plant, 50 x 350 feet, to re­ facture of milling m achines built by ditional storage building, 55 x G5 feet. place a burned building. A. P. Kell the old Kempsmith Mfg. Co., now SEATTLE— Fire caused damage to is general m anager. liquidated. The principal lines will be the w arehouse of the Barde Steel Co., continued in production by the new W EST ALLIS, W IS.— M urphy Diesel 2709 U tah street, recently. Co. has leased the form er plant of the c o m p a n y . Standard Separator Co. in this city, SPOKANE— Corby Mining Co. has adjacent to M ilwaukee, and will m anu- M innesota been incorporated at CIS W est Gordon street, by E. C. Tousley and associates. MAHNOMEN. MINN. — Wilcox TACOMA. WASH.— Atlas Foundry Lum ber Co. plans the construction of Co. has been granted a perm it to con­ yards and storage facilities, estim ated struct a cranew ay trestle at 3012 South to cost $37,000 with equipment. The W ilkeson street. architect has not been appointed and "AT YOUR SERVICE” m aturity is indefinite. TACOMA, W ASH.— Nelson Boiler & Tank Co. has been formed by C. A. M OOREHEAD, MINN.— City, R. G. Nelson and associates. Address P. O. Price clerk, has voted to construct b o x 1 2 6 1 . power plant im provem ents, including a new boiler building, larger sm oke­ WALLA WALLA, WASH.— Eugene stacks, new boiler, and coal and ash Geary, Pacific coast superintendent of handling equipm ent, to cost $120,000. Libby, McNeill & Libby, announces NEW YORK. CITY A PW A project, R. D. Thomas, 1200 plans for doubling the capacity of its Second avenue south, M inneapolis, is vegetable cannery at a cost of $125,- consulting engineer. 000. Two new structures and new equipm ent are involved. ST. PAUL—Minnesota Mining & When you come to New York Mfg. Co. has purchased property here for production of a new rubber ce­ Canada ment, used to make automotive up­ for business or pleasure, pick the HAMILTON. ONT. — United Carr holstery adhesive. Fastener Co., H. S. Beddoe manager. New, 26 story Hotel Piccadilly W yom ing Gage avenue north, is m aking plans for a 1-story brick and steel addition to its plant. Program calls for addi­ . . . a select address in Times RELIANCE. WYO.— Union Pacific tional special equipm ent for m anufac­ Coal Co., E. M cAuliffe, Om aha. Nebr., turing patented fasteners. Square— just a stoned throw from president, is m aking plans for the con­ struction of a steel tipple, to cost PORT COLBORNE. ONT.—Port ” Radio City”, 69 theatres, 5th $ 2 3 2 ,0 0 0 . CollJornc Iron W orks is constructing an addition to its iron works plant in Avenue and railroad terminals. N evada t h i s c i t y . VIRGINIA CITY, NEV. — Castle Foreign Favored by steel executives from Peak Quicksilver Co. is planning im ­ provements to its mill and mining PORT MELBOURNE, AUSTRAl.tA coast-to-coast. property, to cost $37,000 w ith equip­ — Private interests have acquired a m e n t . 50-acre tract at Fishermen’s Bend near here, and will erect a large auto­ C alifornia mobile body m anufacturing and as­ Bright, quiet, richly furnished sembly plant composed of five build­ BAYWOOD PARK. CALIF. — An- ings. A housing plan for the workers rooms— with baths— deep, soft kertite Products Co., Mr. A nker presi­ to be employed will also be worked dent, is making plans for the con­ out. Ralph H. Hunt, Melbourne, is struction of a paint factory, to cost A m erican vice consul. ^sleepyhead” beds and all up- $ 5 0 ,0 0 0 . ARGENTINA, SOUTH AMERICA— to-the-m inute conveniences. LOS ANGELES— Federated Metals Plans are being made for a chain of Corp., 2425 H unter street, is planning grain elevators, as part of the control Daily rates begin as low as the construction of two factory build­ program for national trade in grain, ings, one SO x 140 feet and the other approval of the bill being anticipated SO x 240 feet, E ast Tw enty-sixth street M ay 1, providing for 50,000,000 pesos and Indiana avenue. Cost will exceed for the project. Program calls for the $37,500. Private plans. erection of 12 elevators, varying in M ARYSVILLE, CALIF.— City plans capacity from 10,000 to 205,000 tons. additional equipment and improve­ Specification plans have been approved m ents at m unicipal airport, including and are available at N ational Elevator the construction of a steel fram e and Comm ission, Caile 25 de M ayo, Buenos corrugated iron hangar, to cost $34,- Aires, Argentina. DuW ayne G. Clark 000. Plans are being made by Phil is assistant trade com m issioner. J. Divver, city engineer. PARANAGUA, BRAZIL— Ministry of Transportation, this port, state of Oregon Parana, has had an appropriation ap­ proved by the President am ounting to FREEW ATER. OREG.— Plans are 10.84S contos (one conto equals ap­ being prepared for the proposed $S0,- proxim ately $55) to be used for the 000 cannery for the U tah Cannery Co. construction of docks, w arehouses, and here, the city having agreed to drill com plem entary works here. new wells for the supply of water. GOTHENBURG. SWEDEN — SKF PORTLAND. OREG.— Voters have B allbearing Co.. this city, plans to ex­ approved a proposed $300,000 bond tend its plant facilities by the addition issue to construct an airport, for w hich of a building, to cost 1,000,000 kroners. W PA has granted $1,300,000. Axel Carlander is chairman. The PORTLAND. OREG:— At a special Am erican plant is SK F Industries Inc., election, Portland Traction Co. was H artford, Conn.

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