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Last year its net sales were close to $290,000,000, its net earnings near $38,600,000. The year's surplus was $13,485,947; the total surplus on Dec. 31 was $85,848,171.
Equipment orders now average more than $1,000,000 daily, amounted to $165,405,720 last half year. Heretofore the company's part-year reports have been only on the unfilled orders, as the $78,972,062 unfilled at the end of June this year ($66,468,992 the same date last year). But this fall, Oct. 25, the company will begin to make regular quarterly reports of earnings to the stockholders.