Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-17
POWDER MAKERS AGREEMENT
PLEDGE OF EUROPEAN AND
AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.
Each Party Promises Not to Invade
Territory Of the Other and
to Keep Up Prices.

| An agreement between the powder
| trust and European manufacturers OF
explosives has been brought to light,
according to the Department of Justice,
which issued statement yesterday on
the subject. The Department of Justice
claims that the agreement is shown by
| the evidence taken in the case against
the trust, and gives the following list
of American and foreign powder and
dynamite concerns as parties to the agree
ment:
Messrs f. l. dupont de Nemours &
Co. of Wilmington Del; Latin & Rand
Powder Company of New York city; East
ern Dynamite Company of Wilmington.
| Del: the Miami Powder Company of
Xenia. Ohio; the American Powder Mills
| of Boston, Mass; the Aetna Powder Com
pany of Chicago, H.: the Austin Powder
| Company of Cleveland, Ohio: the Califor-
| mia powder works of San Francisco,
Cal; the Giant Powder Company. Con-
soldated, of San Francisco. Cal; the
Judson Dynamite and Powder Company
of San Francisco, Cal; the NereiniGte
Koln- Rott weller Pulverfabriken of Co
| logne; the Nobel Dynamite and Powder
Trust Company. Ltd. of London.
| According to the terms of the agree
ment the world is divided into Ameri-
can, European and syndicated territory.
| Inc last Is uee1ltu bci
| ritory; the other two are reserved to
| the American and European factories. re-
| spectively. Neither party is to invade
| the others territory. >
| This agreement was to be in effect for
! a period of ten years. and is believed
to have been substantially continued I'M
| til the present time. The parties to the
| agreement being the chief manufacture
| ers of explosives and controlling numer-
Gus subsidiary concerns. agreed to file
| wit, aach nj har n n
trolled by the combination entering into
the agreement. and the specific state
ments of the things undertaken are con-
tanned in paragraphs ) to 5, inclusive,
of the agreement, which is as follows
Regarding Decorators.
Regarding detonators it is agreed that
the European factories shall abstain from
erecting detonator works i'm the United
States of North America The works
which are building at Jamesburg, n. j.,
are not ito be completed and the whole
scheme as worked out by Mr.. Muller Is
to be abandoned. In consideration Of this
scheme being abandoned and the erection
of the works being stopped, the American
i factories undertake to bear all expenses
hitherto incurred in connection there
with, and they will. moreover. discharge
the obligations which Mr.. Muller has un-
| dertaken in connection with the above
mentioned scheme. with regard To which
obligations a special subsidiary agreement
is to be made. And it is moreover agreed
that the American factories shall order
and take from the European factories
j. e.. from the T. Rhenish Westphalian
| Sprengstoff A G.-every year 5,0OO,GOC
detonators at the following prices viz: NJ
II for No. s. NJ II for No. 3 rim. NJ Il
for No. i. NJ $3.50 for No. j, NJ 1870 for
No. ) rim. NJ 20 for No. g. and M 81 for
No. 6 rim. all these prices to be under
stood per 1000 ship New York without
| duty.
Manufacture of Powder,
LAS regards black powder the American
factories bind themselves not to erect fac.
tories in Europe. and the European fac
tories bind themselves not to erect fac
tories in the United States of America
Both parties, however. are to be
free to import into the other party's ter
ritory
LAS regards smokeless sporting powder
the American factories undertake not to
erect factories in Europe. and the
European factories undertake not to erect
factories in the United States of Ameri-
ca: both parties. however are to be
free to import into the other party's ter
ritory
powder it is hereby agreed that the
European factories undertake not to erect
any factory in the United States of Amer