Congressional Edition Volume 5569 (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. 1909 Excerpt: ...so that by no indirection could the advantage of the low price for the foreigner be diverted to some industry in the United States. A good illustration of this sort of quotation is the one made by a letter the Illinois Steel Company sent to a railroad in Mexico in 1904, and here published for the first time: Office Of Sales Department Illinois Steel Company, "The Rookery," Chicago, III., March 17, 1904. Dear Sir: Replying to your favor of the 5th instant, and referring to subsequent correspondence in relation to 1,000 to 1,500 tons of American Society 65 or 70 pound rails and accessories, we are pleased to submit the following prices: First-quality rails per gross ton.. $34.70 Second-quality rails do--33. 70 Angle bars per 100 pounds.. 1. 50 Bolts with square nuts do 2. 55 Bolts with hex. nuts do 2. 70 Spikes do.... 1.90 all f. o. b. cars Laredo, Tex. These prices contemplate furnishing either 30 or 33 inch length with 10 per cent of shorts and 5 per cent of seconds, and we would rebate the price of first-quality rails to $20.75 per gross ton and of the second-quality rails to $25.75 per gross ton delivered as above, upon receipt of evidence that the material has been shipped into Mexico. We could arrange for shipment about September 1, as per your message of the 5th instant. Trusting you may be able to favor us with your order, we remain, Yours, truly, Georoe Baker, General Manager of Sales. Mr. C. Jackson, President Ferro-Carril de Tamaulipas, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The same Mexican railroad also asked for prices, at the same time, from one of the largest steel companies outside of the trust, and received in reply the following letter, naming very nearly the same prices and the same rebate on proof of exportation, a coincidence not without signif...