Industrial base was centered on steel and heavy industry. The main customers were three American Steel & Wire operations. Other customers included:

• American Steel & Wire By-Product Coke Plant

• Aluminum Castings Company (later Alcoa)

• Cleveland Railway Company (street railway)

• Great Lakes Towing

• Valley Mould & Iron

• Cleveland Co-Operative Stove Company

• S. F. K. Steel Barrel Company

• Fishel and Marks Company - Iron, Steel and Scrap Metals

• Cleveland Wire Spring Company

• Gray Lumber Company

• Harvard Lumber Company

• Brooks Oil Company

• Euclid Builders Supply Company

• Marcelline Feed and Coal Company

• Lowrey Coal Company

• W. H. Snell Coal Company