LA BELLE IRON WORKS 
The chief plant of the LaBelle Iron Works is located 
at Steubenville, Ohio, with others in the Pittsburgh vicin- 
ity and elsewhere. This corporation represents a capital 
investment of $20,000,000, divided equally between com- 
mon and preferred stock. It controls, through subsidiaries, 
‘ts own iron ore supply, and largely its coal supply. It 
has also a by-product plant at which coke is manufactured. 
LaBelle products are varied, and among them may be 
enumerated pig iron, slabs, billets, sheet bars, universal 
plates, sheared plates, grooved plates, skelp, merchant 
pipe, line pipe, casing, tubing, black sheets, galvanized 
sheets, formed roofing and cut nails. The Company was 
originally established in 1852 and was incorporated under 
the laws of West Virginia in December, 1875. 
LOCKHART IRON & STEEL COMPANY 
The Lockhart Iron & Steel Company was incorporated 
in Pennsylvania on March 18, 1890, and is capitalized at 
$1,000,000, and has about 1,000 employees. Its plant is 
at McKees Rocks, and it manufactures high-grade iron, 
principally by the old-fashioned puddling process, together 
with a special quality of steel bars. 
MESTA MACHINE COMPANY 
The works of the Mesta Machine Company are at 
West Homestead, on the Monongahela River, about six 
miles from Pittsburgh. The plant covers more than 
“wenty acres, all of which are occupied by buildings, yards 
and equipments. The Company employs about 3,000 
workmen, most of whom are skilled mechanics. All 
machinery is built within the plant from the raw materials, 
and the only limit as to size and weight of machinery built 
is that which the railroads can handle. Steel and iron 
castings weighing over 100 tons have been made in the 
foundries and finished in the machine shops. The Mesta 
Machine Company builds a more complete line of heavy 
machinery for iron and steel works than any other company 
in the United States. This line consists of gas and steam