Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1908 — Steel Exports Increase. [ARTICLE]

Steel Exports Increase.

Reports from New York and other eastern seaboard ports indicate November shipments of steel products of 76,199 tons, bring an increase of nearly 55 per cent over the previous month's record, and rhe heaviest shipments for any similar period during ihe last two years. The leading cargoes of rails went to the far East. as did the shipments of nails and pipe, while South A merit a was the largest purchaser of wire.