| Show THESE days if you do not belong to a trust you are not fashionable almost every commercial commodity is now tont controlled rolled by a trust of some kind and manufacturers of every class are rapidly combining and about the only class left out in the cold is the farmer there is the smelter trust the flour trust the lead trust and the steel trust the formation of the latter la ater resulting in still another trust which will b be known in time as the trust of the manufacturers of structural steel and it is learned that ninety five per cent of structural steel companies are now ready to go into this trust whether the trust will be able to cheapen the cost of structural steel remains to be seen it is hoped that such will be the case still builders will have no say in the matter even should the cost be even greater with the manufacturers rs of mining machinery it is doubtful if trusts can be satisfactorily arranged as they are so diversified in the character of their product are so widely scattered and are so keenly affected by competition that it would be almost an impossibility to satisfy such a wide range of different interests by the mhd formation of trusts in fact such a trust seems impracticable and therefore improbable in consequence of which there is still hope for the mining industry and the users of mining machinery the prediction is made that the may day at eureka will begin the payment of dividends by november 15 |
