The company furnishes all the leading water works, rail- roads and industrial plants with its automatic valves be- cause they are indispensable for efficient and economic operation and for preventing loss of life and property in case of accidents. The valves are furnished in bronze, cast iron and cast steel, according to the service requirements and con- ditions. Prominence was given to the correct mechanical design of these valves by tests made by the Steel Corporation, who wanted only the best for life and property protection, and the Golden-Anderson valves proved their merit and du- rability over all competitive makes of similar valves which were included in that test. The company only builds automatic control valves, and most prominent among its designs are automatic valves for boilers to protect life and property in case of boiler or steam line explosions; for steam engines to prevent fly-wheel ex- plosions; altitude valves to maintain a constant water level in tanks, standpipes and reservoirs without the use of floats or complicated fixtures; and regulating pressure valves for reducing a higher pressure to a lower fixed pressure. The officers of the company are C. E. Golden, president; E. V. Anderson, vice president; D. B. Golden, treasurer, and J. A. Voland, secretary. Representatives of the com- pany are established in all the principal cities of the United States. THE HEPPENSTALL FORGE & KNIFE CO. Back in 1889, in a little building about twenty-five by fifty feet, the Samuel Trethewey & Co., Ltd., was organized for the manufacture of shears and rolling mill machinery. Samuel Trethewey, the founder of this company, held some patents on certain parts of steam hammers and shears. The next year, 1890, the name of the firm was changed to the Trethewey Manufacturing Co. and the plant was moved to a plot of ground fifty by one hundred thirty-five feet, at 47th and Hatfield Streets, about the middle of the present location of the Heppenstall Forge and Knife Co. At this same time, the company also began the manufacture of shear knives.