Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1902 — BIG HARVESTER TRUST. [ARTICLE]

BIG HARVESTER TRUST.

Company Incorporated, with Capital of *120,000,000. A harvester trust has been formed by the incorporation at Trenton, N. J., of the International Harvester Company with a capital stock of $120,000,000. The company, according to the charter, is to manufacture harvesting machines, harvesters, binders, reapers, mowers, rakes, shredders and ull kinds' of agricultural machinery, tools und implements. The new company, according to the best information obtainable, is to consolidate some of the large agricultural machine works of the country, chief among which arc those of the McCormicks of Chicago. The Milwaukee Harvester Company of Milwaukee, Win., has been sold to tlie Eastern syndicate for $5,000,000. According to a census bulletin on collars nnd cuffs, $10,21(5,817 is invested in this industry nnd fifty-four out of the fifty-seven munnfuctorics are in the State of New York. About 17,000 persons are employed. Considerable Huxiety is felt in diplomatic circles in Constantinople over the increasing unrest in Macedonia nnd Albania, ns a result of renewed activity of the revolutionary committee*.