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Show TRUST WILL BE DISSOLVED Dupont Powder Company Com-pany Terminates Ex -istence in California San Francisco. Ian 2 What is said to he the 1 1 rut step in the dissolution of the so-called powder trust v as taken ta-ken here todaj when the Duponi Powder Pow-der companj terminated its existence m California, and the Atlas and Hercules' Her-cules' companies over Its territory. The dissolution is in accordant e 9 II h a decision given In P;ne of PU2 by the United States district court sitting sit-ting in Wilmington, Del., the home of the R. I du Pont de Nemours company, and was effecteil here under un-der the supervision of the l'nlted states district attorney, John L. Mc-N'ah Mc-N'ah acting in conjunction with asents oi the federal department of justice The Hercules company opened Offices Of-fices here toda and the Atlas company com-pany in Tacoraa The former com-pan) com-pan) Is Incorporated for 113,000,000 which was paid in purchase of the shares of the undivided surplus in the treasury of the old company, h is understood that Its territory will he California, the south and the middle west. The Atlas company Ik Incorporated lor $T.uiiii. "no obtained by popular subscription sub-scription and its territory is under Stood to be the northwest and Canada. Can-ada. In beginning corporate existence today to-day the Hercules company takes over the old Du Pont plans at Hercules and Santa Cruz, Cal oo |