of tools and 25,000 tons of galvanized electrical construc- tion 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, Hunting- ton, 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 Construc- tion 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 Pennsyl- vania. 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 pro- ducts. 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.