of tools and 25,000 tons of galvanized electrical construction
material. Its annual railroad traffic consists of 3,000
carloads, incoming and outgoing. The Company also
controls by stock ownership, the following concerns:
Russell Shovel Co., Aliquippa, Pa. with an output of
50,000 dozen shovels; Beall Brothers Co., Alton, Ill. with
an output of 80,000 dozen shovels and 3,000 tons railroad
track tools; Jackson Shovel & Tool Co., Montpelier, Ind.,
with an output of 50,000 dozen shovels; Hubbard Pressed
Steel Co., Niles, O. with an output of 3,000 tons of washers
and pressed steel specialties; Fulton Tool Works, Huntington,
West Va., with an output of 1,000 tons of mining tools.
Hubbard & Company has now under construction in
Chicago, Ill, a plant to cost $750,000, which will have a
capacity of 20,000 tons of Galvanized Electrical Construction
material, this extension of facilities having been found
necessary to handle the rapidly growing western and
southern business of this prosperous concern.
JONES & LAUGHLIN STEEL COMPANY
The Jones & Laughlin Steel Company was founded in
1853 and incorporated in 1902 under the laws of Pennsylvania.
The Company is capitalized at $30,000,000 and
has a bonded debt of $20,258,000. Its plants are located
in the City of Pittsburgh, and at Woodlawn, Pa. These
plants consist of coke ovens, blast furnaces, steel works,
rolling mills, plate mills, wire mills, tin plate mills, tube
mills, ete. The finished products of the Company include
blooms, slabs, billets, skelp, sheet bars, structural shapes,
plates, bars, fabricated structural steel, wire products, tin
plate, railroad spikes, cold finished steel and tubular products.
The Jones & Laughlin Steel Company owns,
through subsidiary concerns, coal, ore and limestone
properties, as well as railroads and steamships required
in the transportation of materials and finished products.
The Company’s pig iron capacity is 2,100,000 gross tons
per annum and its ingot capacity is 2,620,000 gross tons
annually, while its finished products capacity is 2,325,000
net tons per annum.
