The story of Pittsburgh: Cement and concrete

Cement and concrete (Vol. 1, nr. 8)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623277

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-239793

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Title:: Cement and concrete

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 8

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1921

Scope:: [ca. 18] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Cement is used but not Consumed

Collection:: Economics Books

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

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