GROWTH IN SHIPMENTS OF UNIVERSAL
CEMENT

Shipments of Universal cement have grown from a
few thousand sacks in 1900 to over 45,000,000 sacks
n 1920.

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6412 000 Sacks

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26,716,000 Sacks

32.708 000 Sacks

45,600,000 Sacks

UNIVERSAL CEMENT IS UNIVERSALLY USED

Universal cement has been used extensively in many of
:he country’s largest construction projects. In Pittsburgh,
for example, a few of many include the Oliver Building,
Kaufmann’s Store, Kaufmann & Baer Store, Rosenbaum
Store, Jenkins Arcade, William Penn Hotel, Union Arcade,
ouildings of Carnegie Institute of Technology, and such
ngineering works as the new Point Bridge, the Atherton
Avenue Bridge and the Larimer Avenue Bridge, which is
»ne of the world’s longest concrete arches.
Students of the industrial and transportation situation
n the Pittsburgh District know how indispensable the
local rivers are to the city, and how important it is that
they be kept in such shape as to be navigable practically
all year. The Universal Portland Cement Co. has furnished
in the past 10 years about four million sacks of cement for
the construction of dams in the Allegheny, Monongahela
and Ohio Rivers. Universal cement was used in the con-