Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1897 — TRUSTS AND THEIR PROFITS. [ARTICLE]

TRUSTS AND THEIR PROFITS.

How Coal. Sugar, and Coffee Take Millions from the People. COAL. Tons. Total amount mined 53,750,000 Amount mined by the coal trust 43,000,000 Profit of trust every year (estimated at $1.55 a ton, the difference between' what the trust pays for It and the price at which it sells it, the only expense being the cost of transports tion) $71,650,000 SUGAR. Pounds. Total yearly output of refined sugar3,ooo,ooo,ooo Amount produced by the sugar tru5t2,400,000,000 Profit of trust every year (based on average of 1 cent a pound) $24,000,000 COFFEE. Pounds. Total output of coffee 050,000,000 Amount controlled by coffee trust (comprising the Arbuckle company of this city; the McLaughlin mills of Chicago, and the Woolsou Spice Company, before the latter company was '‘acquired" by the Havemeyers) 495,000,000 Profit of the trust every year, at Arbuckle's figures of 1 cent a pound. $4,950,000 Profit of the trust every year, at Havemeyer's figures of 3 cents a pound... $14,850,000 —New York Journal.. Miss Carrie Jewell, of recent years a belle in New York society, and the favorite niece of the late Frederick K. Taylor, of St. Louis, has foresworn his liberal bequest to her, abandoned society and become a nun in the Sacred Heart Order at St. Louis. The sale of the natural gas plant of Columbus, 0.. is oft, owing to disagreement.