Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1908 — STANDARD'S FOREIGN TRADE [ARTICLE]

STANDARD'S FOREIGN TRADE

Bulk of Refined Product Exported by the Company. New York, Dec. I.—The development of trade of the Standard Oil company tn foreign fields as a subject ot evidence in the government's suit to dissolve the oil combination, gave John D. Archbold, vice president of the company, an opportunity as a witness to spread upon the records some Interesting features of the Standard’s business. Of the total amount of illuminating dl refined by the Standard In 1906, Mr. Archbold stated that 63 per cent was sold abroad. Export figures of other years showed that the Standard exported the major part of its illuminating oil. This foreign business, Mr. Archbold went on to say, was secured in the face of the competition of four hundred foreign companies.