Fixed Retail Prices on Standard Goods and Their Effect (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... f.o.b. Pittsburgh, for 14 x 20 100-lb. Cokes, terms 30 (lays, less 2 per cent, off for cash in 10 days, on which price a rebate of 5c. a box is allowed for carloads and larger lots. Railroad Spikes.--The demand is more active than ever before in the history of the trade, the leading Spike makers having their product sold up for the next four or five months. The S. Severance Company has started its new works at Glassport, Pa., and is in position to make reasonably prompt deliveries. We quote Railroad Spikes at $2.30 to $2.40 for indefinite delivery, and it is said that as high as $2.50 per 100 lb. has been paid for Spikes for prompt shipment. Merchant Steel.--Specifications on contracts continue to come forward very freely, and a fair amount of new business is being placed. On certain kinds of material the mills are from two to three months behind on deliveries. Prices on Shafting are being held more firmly now than for a long time. We quote: Planished or Smooth Finished Tire Steel. 1.70c.: Tron Finish, up to IV2 x % in., 1.65c., and Iron Finish. 1% x V. in. and larger, 1.50c., base, Pittsburgh, and Channels for solid rubber tire are quoted as fol lows: %, % and 1 in., 2c., and 1%-in. and larger, 1.90c.; Toe Calk Steel, 2c. to 2.05c.; Railway Spring Steel, 1.75c. to 1.80c.; Cutter Shoes, 2.20c. to 2.25c.; Flat Sleigh Shoe, 1.50c. to 1.55c.; Crucible Tool Steel, 0c. to 8c. for ordinary grades and 12c and upward for special grades. We quote Cold Rolled Shafting at 50 per cent, discount in carloads and 45 per cent, in less than carloads, delivered in base territory. Spelter.--The tone of the market is firmer, and the demand is better than for some time. We quote prime grades of Western Spelter at 5.90c., St. Louis, or 6.02Vic., Pittsburgh. Merchant Pipe.--New ...