Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1920 — STEEL WIRE PRODUCTS DOWN [ARTICLE]

STEEL WIRE PRODUCTS DOWN

Pittsburgh Company Makes First Cut in Prices In Several Y.earn— Effective To^., Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 2.—The prices of steel wire products were cut here for the first time in several years, when the Pittsburgh Steel company announced a reduction ot . about 90 cents fi hundred pounds, making the new quotations on wire nails $3/75 a" keg, and on plain wire, $3.25 a hundred pounds, f. o. b. Pittsburgh. Barbed wire and fence staples were priced proportionately. Shipments of all unfilled orders beginning Thursday Bill be invoiced ■* the new quotations.