p. 9 | Manufacturers’ Trust for Canal Supplies

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 3, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 36.

Manufacturers’ Trust for Canal Supplies

In view of the fact that a great canal is soon to be built across the Isthmus which will require an enormous amount of manufactured material of numberless kinds, American manufacturers are already planning for such an understanding among themselves as will preclude competition in bidding for the furnishing of the supplies needed. By the time the government is ready for bids, there will be a virtual manufacturers’ trust prepared to do the bidding for the business without fear of competition.