The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-14
Gas Investigating Committee.

Gas Investigating Committee.
Tho committee report that they held twenty-five
I@nsed forty sit Witnesses Of whom t% s,s at
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TSs Ts sarnS S. MOI % no &
les Manuel, PDd q Tru,tGs q s;oSno,s Mola ,so
subTo mas and to exsmine witnesses under oath, il
fails TO provide remedy when they refuse to appear,
gqs:SSsd EAsi3est Of the
e 81 be H. in Js Ss Tss :!
I Of 70 Sst ssbP DH 3 to an the 0hSI sRd
deprived the commttee Of the information which IL
Ts hHSSEs sysS ' e G Sy onS s a End y
and 5iSsf 5 S With s BY SO
duct Of itself shows that they unit 20 hold the
CHo dOaS a6G
sd hS BCr sVsn RsTi PO%h 0S
that suoh vas their wish bIt their indorsement Of the
pTetenoe Of Ignorance TO it. gave the others the
TO SS bds4a sS hS
their employees should abstain from testifying.
psmpty stiSHcd before the AND
ny answered their questions, giving all the informa-
Many citizens too, who ere suIp@ @uaed, and whose
testimony was known to be important, declined to at
tend.
the TSSSa By o e es 70 R
like ful examination Of tue management Of exten
they Cover ed Theiconmittee have done the best
were SURROUNDED, and selecting scme promne u fea.
T a oOse % SS at
which they have arrived ,o,,
ssssned Tor The failure Of the works realize
SSos that Of tnins In 1858 IIs ss
GSst q ross SSa 70 s q % More an man @ b q s S In
oeSng years put together -,
papers and dOOn%eHtS we're confined By resog0E o to
The year 1865 and S 50 that # was only when snteoe.
contracts Of the latter ran into 1855 that they were
permitted to Investigate outside OF the limits fixed by
The coal furnished to the Trust in 1864 and u.s.
tons and S0:tps 1a2 a9 The We.t@S and
RsHs f thres
s tons the % contract price being 50 10 per s
For Sa'f this iG the Trust paid 5Si,SSi IS IS
..nS's & 5~ss
May l6, Westmoreand Co., g, 200 tons, at $3.50
Dec, FEHHH, EsVs,, sSS%cSSS
Be- fho
MAJ, 1865 ysstmoroland, 1000 tons, at $Ss5
Oct, 1865, Cameron, 1000 0S
Total of contracts, 100000
Under these oontTSgts ll9sl7 tons Of coal costing
%sstmoisIand and Penn oOs,, 1888 ,sS2 tons, -. =.
william Hays, loaO9 tons, i''oa'os. oa -, ID 10
Other parties. 1856 tons. -''"'i %
receiving, 1894 a
Total, l49,997 tons,---------------
TSe and Pennsylvania SOsi oOmpa: i
nss Seas the rnsees oous
az e'sR d the they s tS an
issI t6s% iai infoSnstiap tGits value fSS
ears being bgt ty, Ave cents and the freight 81 10
the
Of 1884 and 1865, was $40 &c. o -,
Net Veto cost f'p per ton at the Mines slls Wv ~
ffsiaSs fSa s4,Tss ss 1sS 5sSisastl s6atlraos, 4A
ss e e. 4
say nothing Of the dIeybaoks or allSTanoes By the
snS HM s tSs FSs1gng
eppear closer examination will Increase rather than
prices demanded coal did arise
coal should f and would have BEEN GeilveTsd IN west
pS the S moE0poy Of @
working in harmony with the other There can be no
hs @ SSA
many Of their beds % lying level with the track Of the
EOad and the supply s SO vast htt the ne cNS i worth
Ths %GSR o Se OF I'll s.
TsstsT not We'll uneSrstooG; Every gas consumer hss
h ths q hd SSt oS the
g1lSed 70 prevent almost any competition mp in gas oOS
thousands OF dollars, and Mr. Jones states in his
Trust EQUAL to S7b COO if the same drawbacks were
allowed by the road as is conceded to coal sent east
This sliding contracts provide that if there be any
allowances made the contractors 1t shall accrue for the
benefit of the Trust. While it is believed that such
panes, the Trust has had dollar returned by
panes Il Is not Known how %uo was allowed and paid
on each bill for the increased cost of mining and how
Committee Vainy sought t to get this Information Il
can hardly be that the Trustees paid the bills witho
The Board 1866 are accountable for the disas
trous effects of the sliding scale contracts. To wha
i@possibe to say The parties having the G monopoly
of uniting with other companies hay
trustees tnst the Trust Obliged to pay an ave
rsge dollars aud fifty cents ton in s6iand 1865
tion bringing this state of things profted by
is unknown. Certain it is that some Of the panie
paid handsome dividends after these speculations
mines Persons may take coal to New York and f.tcf
Il back to Philadelphia for little or perhaps es
freight than IT brought to Philadelphia direct from th
Why it that the consumers of gas in Philade phis
Yania Coal Comp from three to four dollars pel
ton proht on coal when other parties would furnish
may be accounted for by looking into the origin
these companies and finding out the of the par
and coal would be furnished at Sc per ton, If not
In the contract for the Cameron coal there seems
riedly made, and the Trust ipcumbered with very
tween other coal The Yield from it is quite below the
Of little value, while the cost Of zug and pur
fyipg 1t 10 greatly above that for productive coal.
price at which much superior article could have beer
rha of oo;,, T.. A. 80 A.,