Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-06-16
A GIGANTIC LAND GRAB.
A MILLION ACRES OF WHEAT LANDS
! Be GObbled Up by the Standard oil
Company Whole Counties Pass
iNg Into the Hands OF
tho Monopoly,
SUPPOSED OBJECT or THt SCHEME.

rlrusyiLLs, PA, June 10 Tho iirsl
issau 0i tho iclroieum World, tho oil. pro,
dudnrs' nov papor, will tomorrow
mofning publish tho details oi ,ho
Standard oil Oompany's latest ooncop'
ton IN the way ol monopoly, which ap'
peafa tn ho n movement On tho part oi
tho Standard tn gut control oi tho wheat
markols oi tho world This information
IL nov given IL tho public ior the frat
time, During tho past lew months Tho
standard has had agents through tho
Nurthwes, buying lands, principally Ia
MinnrSota, Iur which IA every instance
rash has hron paid. None hut tho host
wheat lands aro being taken
rheao purchases have already
amounted Ia lurly thousand acres Ia
Minnesota alone Two weeks Ruo n
man WAS Sonl quietly from rlllshuIg io
Hulcfinirnd large portion ol this hni,
Ol the 10000 acrcS, aO,OOOslll ho broken
up aud cultivated Ia what Ihis yrar
Purchasing agents aTo still Ia tho North
west, and the work ol gnhhlug landn
cuulinura, THIS Purchasing CommiI
tee travels ~ u Hprclal Car, aud when
ihUy encounter u tract ut land that HuiiH
thcn, II IN NJ nnCo absorbed. Much al
lhiB wopurly Ia IN tho shape oi laud
giants tu railroads II In the intention
al the Standard Ia posscEs NIL
lion acfCa ni tho choicrSt wheat
hId, oi tho WcH before AL,
other year. Tho chuncos ara that they
viii have this enormous quantity inAldc
al NiK months, as tho work ul huyiug IL
huing carried un iu tho uust prlncoly
manner Whole townships aud Cuun-
lloH ure paHHlng IA blocks into the hands
m thu standard II IN said ~ hu the
unsl Gigantic laud speculation that ANY
country has over known, and yet ~ ~
Crotly has II huru carried uu that nobody
outside al the giant oil monopoly know
ul II until ~ 0OO acres hal boon guhhlcd
up. ThrAu enormous purchases ate
huing mado from tho prulilR al the
SlandWd'S oil huHlnrHa, largo pcI
cruiRge III which comes in the
shape nl I0b ItcH from railroads
MUM u lho capital stock ui the
Company IN nov holng tied up IN lhip
iHnd grab nBCuHalng The hlg Epccu!a
ton, u prominent railroad mau Hayn
"ln this railroad mnuagcrN can sur sumc
al ihu rcpullH ui permitting cor
puralinh like the standard Oll Company
iu exact dlawha, kN aud rrhalrH un ship |
Asldu lruu rebates uu lrcighlH. |
u large puGIIuu al lhc Standards pIuiils |
,um,H irnm Ihrlr manipulation al the
oil markets lhcpu aIu hut two al |
the buuICvS whruru tho monopoly |
eau draw iu' tho capital aud
nIo now iuNching ~ thcHo
wcAlorn Nnds "A r'pwo'doo, 'Io,..o"
lnClrc"c. = . 'Ap,'i tho three great trunk
LrulylA'Nhs country, N probably not |
lur luudH, The opinion Obtain"
Rnnug ihuNr who Mu cnRnl1anl nl lhis |
move al thu STANDARD that the object ~
tn net ,nnirul al lhr wheat mntkrl nH
they nov control the oil market They |
viii hr large prnduccrH al wheat, AMI,
# nccopaary, large huyrrH ~ we'll " IN
Thought lhrir power "vrr lhc railroads.
ag phnNn ~ the transportation ul on,
viii enable tho Standard tu Say I" The
world iual how much u shall pay them
iuI tIH daily bread,