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JULY 2, 1920 METAL WORKER, PLUMBER AND STEAM FITTER 5
with his fellowmen that is equally invaluable to his
enjoyment of life.
At the beginning of this article is the statement
"Here are some of the things to do," and the question
"Will you start doing some of them?" It seems that
they will make as good a closing as they did an opening.
Here are sufficient specifications to start driving
the industry.
World's Need For Galvanized Sheets
An interesting feature of American steel export
trade since the war "has been the movement in galvanized
sheets. A constant expansion has been in
progress until for 1919 these exports exceeded the
1913 outgo by over 33 per cent or 101,600 gross
tons as against 71,200 tons. The 1919 r&te of 8500
tons per month is still being maintained. The heaviest
buyers are the South American countries, Canada,
Australia and Japan in the order mentioned.
Ill 1919 South America took about 17 per cent of
the total exports, Canada about the same and Japan
about 15.5 per cent.
British exports of galvanized sheets, only 736
tons per month in 1918, increased in 1919 to 15,500
tons per month and in the first quarter of this year
were 33,280 tons per month. Before the war Great
Britain was the largest exporter of sheets, the outgo
for 1913 having been 63,600 tons per month.
The world demand for galvanized sheets is very
heavy. In 1913 839,255 tons, or 70,000 tons per
month, represented the combined -British and American
exports. These same exports amounted to only
69,500 tons in 1918. Last year they were 287,700
tons or still about one-third of the pre-war exports.
When one considers the reduced operations of continental
Europe in the manufacture of sheets, the
facts spell unmistakably a world demand for American
and British galvanized sheets of large proportions
for some years to come and a certain activity
in the foreign American zinc trade as well.
Construction Started on Sheet Mill at
Indianapolis
Construction has started on the new four-mill sheet
plant which is being erected by the Chapman-Price
Steel Co. on a 50-acre site on the outskirts of Indianapolis,
with Pennsylvania railroad frontage. Equipment
contracts have been awarded. Work will be
pushed to completion and it is expected production
will commence late in the fall. The plant will have
galvanizing equipment and will include a fabricating
unit. It represents the initial sheet-producing
capacity in the Indianapolis territory and is being
fully financed by Indianapolis interests.
The output of the sheet mills will consist of black
and galvanized sheets, while the fabricating plant
will produce gutters, troughs, eve spouts and other
kindred sheet metal products. Whether any sheet
capacity will be available for the market will depend
upon demand for the fabricated production of the
company. The new plant will replace a works operaled
for many years by the old Chapman Steel Co.,
a fabricating interest which purchased its sheet requirements,
and whose property was destroyed by
(Ire in March. Following the fire, the company was
reorganized under the name of th_ Chapman-Price
Steel Co., with a capitalization of $1,500,000 divided
into $1,000,000 of common and $500,000 of preferred
All of the coninon lias been issued and about half
of the preferred, proceeds being used in part for
construction purposes.
Officers of the company are Niles Chapman, president
and treasurer; L. H. Price, vice-president and
sales manager; J. J. Beck, vice president in charge
of mills and the galvanizing department. Lief Lee,
consulting engineer of Younsstown, Ohio. 906 Wick
Building, is handling the engineering work for the
company. Mr. Beck is now superintendent of sheet
mills of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. at its East
Youngstown works. Edward S. Plott, turn foreman
for the Sheet & Tube company, will be superintendent
of mills of the Chapman-Price company.
The company will have an annual productive capacity
of 24,000 tons of sheet steel, and will employ 350
men. Work of building up on operating organization
is now going forward.
The plant will consist of four main buildings including
the principal structure to liouse the mills,
which will be 85 x 280 ft.; a building 85 x 280 ft.
for sheet bar storage and the furnaces; galvanizing
building 60 x 260 ft. and fabricating department in
a structure 80 x 260 ft. There will also be a main
office building 32 x 64 ft., two stories, of brick and
steel.
The contract for steel for the buildings and its
erection has been awarded the Blaw-Knox Co., Pittsburgh;
for cranes to the the Morgan Engineering
Co., Alliance, Ohio, and for mills shears and doublers
to the Birdboro Steel Foundry & Machine Co. of
Birdsboro, Pa.
Recipes from an Old Scrap Book
J.