Producing Insecticides (1918-1920)

1918-1919
Several fires destroy old Canadian Goldfields mill complex and some workers' housing, the latter of which are rebuilt.

1920
Deloro Chemical Company is established and a plant erected to produce insecticides (in the 1920s arsenical based pesticides are significant in fighting the boll-weevil epidemic in the cotton fields of the southern United States).
Diversification (1925-1951)