was furnished by this Company for practically all of the 
Allied governments. During the war the entire output 
of the Forge Department was devoted to the manufacture 
of 75 m/m recuperator forgings. This is a very intricate 
forging of special analysis, and the company received many 
very favorable comments on its excellent quality and high 
production obtained. In plate production the principal 
item is special treatment and nickel steel plates for battle- 
ships, made of special alloy steels and capable of with- 
standing certain prescribed ballistic tests. Other items 
in the line of plates are special acid firebox steel, for prac- 
tically all of the large railroad systems; five-ply plates for 
bank vaults and safes, and for jail purposes. This steel 
is a combination of layers of soft and hard steel, so con- 
structed that it is soft enough to stand without breaking, 
severe shocks, such as sledge-hammer blows, and at the 
same time hard enough so that it cannot be burned by 
acetylene torches, nor sawed. During the war the pro- 
duction of the Carbon Steel Company’s plate mill was 
devoted almost exclusively to the rolling of light armor or 
bullet-proof plates, such as were used in armoring the 
“tanks”, so successfully used by the Allied governments. 
Rifle ranges were installed to conduct the tests on these 
plates, on the roofs of the mill buildings. About twenty- 
five marksmen were employed and about a million rounds 
of ammunition were required to conduct these tests, 
which were continued without interruption, by shifts of 
marksmen, from dawn until dark. Other important pro- 
ductions of the Company consist of high carbon steel sheets 
for agricultural implements, automobile parts and parts of 
electrical machinery, bars for automobile parts, such as 
gears, crank shafts, axle shafts, etc.; tool steel for a variety 
of purposes; billets for oil well tools, railroad forgings and 
for various kinds of hammer and drop forgings; forgings 
for railroad axles, crank pins, piston rods, driving rods, ete. 
The Company has established a reputation for Cunning- 
ham process forgings, extensively used by the most im- 
portant railroads. This Company was incorporated in 
West Virginia on October 12, 1894, and has an authorized 
and outstanding capital stock of $5,000,000.