As Big As Manhattan Island 



Imagine a powder plant as big as 

 Manhattan Island, the heart of New 

 York City, and the home of nearly 

 3,000,000 people. Twenty Panama- 

 Pacific Expositions could be con- 

 ducted at one time and without 

 crowding on the ground occupied 

 by such a plant. It would easily 

 hold ten parks the size of Forest 

 Park, St. Louis. As large a building 

 as the Coliseum in Chicago would ap- 

 pear a mere detail in the landscape. 



Yet such a plant as this, a plant 

 covering slightly more ground than 

 Manhattan Island, would be formed 

 if the great Hercules Properties, 

 scattered from the Atlantic to the 

 Pacific, were combined in one. Large 

 as this composite plant may seem, 

 its size is none too great to meet 



the demands which the industrial 

 life of the Nation puts upon it. 



From it come explosives with which 

 is mined more than half of the cop- 

 per produced by the Country. 



From it come explosives which play 

 a vital part in placing at the Na- 

 tion's disposal such essential min- 

 erals and metals as coal, iron, alum- 

 inum, silver, gold, and the less well- 

 known manganese and chrome ores. 



From it come explosives used ex- 

 tensively in the building of our rail- 

 roads, our aqueducts; the improve- 

 ment of our harbors, and other large 

 construction work. 



Finally from it come explosives 

 which our boys over there are using 

 so effectively to win the war. 



HERCULES POWDER CO. 



Chicago Pittsburg, Kan. 



Denver Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Hazleton, Pa. Memphis 



Joplin New York 



Salt Lake City 

 San Francisco 

 St. Louis 

 Wilmington, Del. 



*' Mention the Geographic — It identifies you." 



