^Lot 218 Hercules Powder Company,

DE. 1946. Specimen. <than 100 shs. Common Stock. Olive green. Vignette of Hercules Holding Club. 1915 stock certificate design overprinted and reused in 1946. California Powder Works was situated on the San Lorenzo River two and a half miles north of the city of Santa Cruz. Three-fifths of all the dynamite consumed west of the Rocky Mountains was manufactured and sold by the California Powder Works under the name of HERCULES POWDER, besides an immense quantity exported to countries bordering on the Pacific Ocean between 1864 and 1914. In 1907, the Justice Department filed suit claiming that E. I. du Pont de Nemours was in violation of the Sherman Anitrust Act. This litigation was settled in 1912 when the company divested itself to its high explosives business and the Atlas and Hercules Powder Companies were set up as independent entities. RBNC. XF.