Metal Fabrication Costs. As a good rule of thumb the cost of metal fabrication is about three times the cost of the steel itself. One ton of steel costs about $400. To have this fabricated and one coat of primer applied it would cost approximately $1,200-$1,500 per ton of structural steel.
Ashford, who along with wife Valerie Simpson wrote some of Motownâs biggest hits, died in a New York City hospital, said Liz Rosenberg, who also was Ashfordâs longtime friend. He had been suffering from throat cancer and had undergone radiation treatment, she said.
Weakness of old age is given as the cause of death by camp physician Dr. Siegfried Schwela, who himself later died of typhus. Chaim Richter, a Jewish salesman, was 81 years old when he died in Auschwitz on March 1, 1942, of weakness of old age.