160 REPORT ON COOPERATION IN AMERICAN EXPORT TRADE.
Companies absorbed:
George E. Tuckett &amp; Son Co. (Ltd.), capital, including bonds...
Tuckett Cigar Co. (Ltd.), capital, including bondS.—e—ececeeee
Tucketts (Ltd.), capital, including bonds. meee

$500, 000
- 500, 000
200, 000
eee 1,200, 000

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Union Natural Gas Co. of Canada (Litd.).
Common stock, $3,000,000; bonds, $1,000,000; total, $4,000,000. Issued: Common,
 $3,000,000; bonds, $1,000,000; total, $4,000,000,
Companies absorbed:
Voleanic Oil &amp; Gas Co. (Ltd.), capital, including bondS_————————. $650, 000
United Fuel Supply Co. (Ltd.), capital, including bonds... 950, 000
Ridgetown Fuel Supply Co. (Ltd.), capital, including bonds... 500, 000
ee 2.100, 000

Total _

Other amalgamations.—In addition to the foregoing list, compiled
chiefly from information appearing in the Monetary Times, there
may, perhaps, be mentioned a number of other amalgamations which
have received some notice in the press at various times as being in the
nature of trusts or monopolies.
The Canadian North Atlantic Westbound Freight Conference has
been said to constitute a combine. The Allan Line, Canadian Pacific
Atlantic steamers, Dominion Line, Donaldson Line, Manchester
Line, and Thompson Line are all said to issue freight rates under
heading of above conference, and all are supposed to abide rigidly by
the rates specified. Boards of trade in Toronto, Quebec, and Montreal
 complained some years ago to the Canadian Government that this
conference constituted a combination in restraint of trade. In this
connection it may be of interest to note that the Allan Line recently
was absorbed by the Canadian Pacific with the latter’s steamship
service, all the Canadian Pacific Co.’s steamship services being now
under “ The Canadian Pacific Ocean Services (Litd.),” with a capital
of $20,000,000.
The International Nickel Co., of the United States, which, with
the Mond Nickel Co. (an English concern), is said to control the
nickel supply of the world, has been the subject of considerable discussion
 and criticism by the press. It has been stated that this company
 controls the market by holding contracts for years ahead, and
that this company and the British company have an understanding
which practically makes the two one company, so far as the consumer
is concerned. The statement was made before a committee of the
House of Commons in February, 1910, that the Nickel Steel Co., of
Hamilton, after trying to float its proposition in the face of American
 competition, had been obliged to sell out its properties to the
American nickel interests. At that time the Government was being
pressed to put an export duty on nickel matte and thus compel the
refining of nickel in Canada. Subsequent to the war this matter
received a good deal of attention in Canadian newspapers, to such
an extent that the Government issued a statement to the effect that
it had received assurances from the International Nickel Co. and was
satisfied that no nickel was being exported to countries at war with
Great Britain. The Nickel Co. submits, it is said, certified statements
 in regard to the production and export of nickel.