T. J. Hyman, Chicago; General Sales Manager, Blaine S. 
Smith, Chicago; Eastern Sales Manager, W. S. Wing, 
Pittsburgh. Offices are maintained at Chicago, Pitts- 
burgh, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Duluth, New York. 
ALPHA PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY 
The Alpha Portland Cement Company was organized 
on the Sth day of April, 1895. A Charter was granted 
by the State of New Jersey on the 10th day of the same 
month and year and the first meeting of the Board of 
Jirectors was duly held on the 18th day of April, 1895. 
The total amount of Capital Stock was then $500,000.00 
divided into 5,000 shares of a par value of $100.00 per share 
with 100 shares outstanding. From this small beginning 
the Company gradually increased in size and importance. 
About the middle of 1895, the property of the Whitaker 
Cement Company was acquired. In the period beginning 
from December 1st, 1895, to November 30th, 1896, the 
frst full year in which actual records of the production of 
cement by the company were kept, there was manufactured 
834,176 sacks of Alpha. From that period on the com- 
pany has enjoyed a steady growth, both in number of 
plants operated and in capital involved. 
Not content with the additions made to the original 
units, the company purchased in 1902, the Martins Creek 
Portland Cement Company at Martins Creek, Pa., which 
had established a mill on the upper Delaware some seven 
miles above Easton. A second large plant was purchased 
in 1905, from the National Portland Cement Company, 
also located at Martins Creek. Reconstructing and im- 
proving both of these plants, the Alpha Company soon 
found itself among leaders in the industry. 
Following the policy of not building new plants, but 
always buying and reconstructing old ones which had 
proved their merits and worth, the company acquired in 
the early part of 1909, the Buckhorn Portland Cement 
Company located near Manheim, W. Va. In the latter