rods; bright nail and market wire, chain, rivet and bolt
wire; annealed wire and baling wire; galvanized wire;
bright wire nails, cement coated wire nails, galvanized
wire nails and blued wire nails; barbed wire in various
styles, both galvanized and painted; galvanized or polished
fence staples and galvanized poultry netting staples;
straightened and cut wire, and single loop bale ties; ‘“Pitts-
burgh Perfect” electrically welded wire fencing in a com-
plete line of designs and heights for all farm, ranch, poultry
and garden purposes, including ornamental and plain lawn
fencing, and “Columbia” hinge-joint fencing for all farm
purposes; farm, lawn and paddock gates, fence stretchers
and single wire stretchers, fence tools and wire splicers.
The capacity of the Pittsburgh Steel Company’s fence
factories is over three hundred miles of fencing daily, and
this product is not only used in enormous quantities in the
United States of America, but has for years been heavily
exported, with other products, and has achieved great
popularity in all quarters of the civilized world.
Other important products are hoop steel, band steel,
automobile and motorcycle rim stock, steel for cold rolling
and cotton ties. The products of the Pittsburgh Steel
Company, which are made of basic Open Hearth steel
exclusively, and are produced entirely in their own furnaces
and mills, from the ore to the finished material, are invari-
ably of the highest quality and workmanship, emblemized
in their trade name “Pittsburgh Perfect.”
The Company was incorporated under the laws of
Pennsylvania in July, 1901, and has a capital stock of
817.500.000.
PRESSED STEEL CAR COMPANY
The Pressed Steel Car Company has two large plants
in the Pittsburgh district, the larger one located at McKees
Rocks and the other on the North Side, Pittsburgh. The
Allegheny plant has a ground area of 26 acres, of which
13 acres are covered by buildings, and it has an annual
capacity of 18,000 freight cars. The ground area at
McKees Rocks is 159 acres, of which 44 acres are covered