Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1909 — Dupont Powder Plant Is Coming to Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Dupont Powder Plant Is Coming to Indiana.

The Dupont Powder company proposes to make Hartford City its western headquarters. Representatives of the company have taken option on 640 acres and bargained for the crops on the farms including the tract. The proposed plant will include its present factory recently constructed at a cost of SIOO,OOO and be one of the largest manufactures of high explosives in the middle west. It will employ between 800 and 1,000 men.