The Federal Reporter with Key-Number Annotations, Volume 188: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Courts of Appeals and Circuit and District Courts of the United States, August-October, 1911. Page: 147
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UNITED STATES V. E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO. 147
conditions created by the existence from July 1; 1896 of the trade
association formed under the agreement of that date. Before 1902
the plan was to destroy competition and obtain a monopoly by the
enforcement of drastic provisions in trade agreements, and from 1902
to 1907 it was to achieve the same ends by substituting corporate forms
and powers for trade agreements. The success of-the plan is evident.
Pierre S. du Pont, in his testimony given October 21, 1909, said that
the du Pont Company of 1903 had then paid dividends amounting
to $11,000,000 and had a surplus in its treasury of $12,000,000 or
$13,000,000. It is true that many of the corporations brought into
the combination were not large. A considerable number of them,
possibly, did little, if any, interstate trade. It is not denied, however,
that many of them carried on an extensive commerce among the states.
Indeed, it conclusively appears that it is a common practice for manu-.
facturers of explosives to ship their products, dangerous and expensive
as the business is, from state to state, and for a manufacturer in one
part of the country to ship his products to, and sell them in, other
parts in competition with manufacturers there. Shipments by the
Hazard Powder Company from Connecticut to Georgia and Alabama
to compete there with the Chattanooga and other powder companies
are examples of interstate trade disclosed by the evidence.
Pennsylvania Torpedo Co........................Dissolved April 30, 1905.
A. S. Speece Powder Mfg. Go ................... " " "
Giant Mfg. Co................................. " June 30, "
Standard Exp. Co., Limited ...................... " " " "
Metropolitan Powder Co.......................... " Sept. 21, "
Climax Powder Mfg. Co.. .......................... " 22, '
Explosives Supply Co............................ " " " "
American Stor. & Deliv. Co....................... " " " "
Atlantic Mfg. Co. ................................ " "
Hudson River Wood Pulp Mfg. Co................ " " " "
National Torpedo Co.............................. " "
Producers Powder Co............................. " " " "
Chattanooga Powder Co.......................... " " " "
Lake Superior Powder Co........................ " " i
Ohio Powder Co............................... " " "
American Forcite Powder Mfg. Co.................. . " 30,
Hecla Powder Co................................. " " " "
Anthracite Powder Co........................... " " " "
Globe Powder Co........................ ........ " " "
Marcellus Powder Co.............................
H. Julius Smith Elec. Fuse Co ................... " Dec. 81, "
James Macbeth & Co ........................... " "
Phoenix Powder Mfg. Co......................... " "
Conemaugh Powder Co.. .......................... " April 30, 1906.
Enterprise High Explosive Co .................... " July 1, "
Schaghticoke Powder Co ........................ " Nov. 1, "
California Vig. Powder Co........................ " " 28, "
California Powder Works......................... " Jan. 1, 1907.
Western Torpedo Co..............................
Oliver Powder Co ................................. " March 25, "
Thompson Torpedo Co ............................ April 27, "
E. I. du Pont Co................................. July 1, "
King Mercantile Co. ............................ " " I
Mahoning Powder Co ............................ Sept. 22, "
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