Plants covering approximately four acres are now
operated at Pittsburgh and New Kensington, where the
nationally known and advertised Dutch Boy White Lead
and Oxides are produced. The Company has a capacity for
producing annually 7000 tons Dutch Boy White Lead, 10,000
tons of Oxides (Litharge and Red Lead), 2000 tons of Lead
Pipe, 1500 tons of Sheet Lead, and 2000 tons of solders and
babbitts, practically all of which is marketed in Pennsyl-
vania, west of the Susquehanna River, Eastern Ohio and
small northern portions of the States of Mayland and West
Virginia; all being distributed through the Pittsburgh office.
Pursuant to the thought of guaranteeing the absolute
purity of the products, only virgin metals are purchased to
go into the manufacture of same; the bulk of the pig lead
used coming from the west out of the mines of the National
Lead Company, of whom this company is a subsidiary.
With regard to the matter of health and welfare of the
employees, it is considered of vital importance to the com-
pany. Therefore a physician makes weekly examinations
and a welfare room is maintained, each employee beiug re-
quired to use the facilities for bathing regularly. A res-
taurant is also provided where the employees are encouraged
to dine; lunches being furnished at cost of food only.
The officers are: W. N. Taylor, president; W. H. Taylor,
vice president; H. J. Irvin, treasurer, and J. W. Schlotter-
beck, secretary. The foregoing are directors, together with
E. J. Cornish and Norris B. Gregg, of New York. and Ed-
ward F. Beale. of Philadelphia.
OIL WELL SUPPLY COMPANY
In 1862, just three years after the Drake well was drilled.
John Eaton, a native of New York State, came into Penn-
sylvania, to look into the prospects of the oil trade. His
inspection inspired him with a bright vision of the future.
Believing that “Seneca oil” meant much more to humanity
than its curative properties, which was what it had been
used for when collected laboriously from the surface of Oil
Creek, he decided that here was opportunity—to supply
drillers with better tools and to make oil field supplies readily
available.
