The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-30
plsted within two weeks; on this transac.
ton the profit Ia 81 rs. In CLEVELAND.

pleted within two weeks; on this transaC
ton the profit Is Sl75, In Cleveland.
Just one year after the above mentioned
contract was made, the writer entered init
an agreement with ]. N. Camden, Presi
dent Of the Camden Consolidated Oh
Company, OF Parkersburg, in which Mr.
Camden agreed to purchase the writeF'I
refinery and account TO him for one
fourth OF the profits for term OF Eve
| years, assuring him that the refinery would
be run to It's full capacity whenever there
was any margin OF profit in refining. Al.
ter the contract was signed, Col. w. P.
Thompson, ViceP President of the Com.
pany, in conversation with the writer,
said that the contract on Mr.. Camden q
side was q d-d fool contract, that his own
business recSrd might be thoroughly
searched and nowhere could 1t be found
that he had mSde ..such foolish contract.
In Justice to the valiant Colonel, It must
be remembered that he, like honest Isgo,
has slain men in the trade OF war;" and
there still fingers in his speech and man.
ner somewhat OF the brusquenesa oi the
tented field. When reminded, come time
afterward, Of the disrespectful manner in
which had spoken Of Mr.. Camden's part
in the contract, be sent the writer letter
In which he speaks OF the contract as "a
foolish and unbusiness.like transaction"
so far as Mr.. Camden was concerned. The
writer then said to Col. Thompson that he
expected the contract to be carried out 10
good faith, and II the works did not
run when there appeared 10 be
a profit in refining he would
expect an explanation. The Colonel's
reply was: an be d-d II you won't have
to get your explanation out OF Mr.. Cam.
den, for l would tell you 1t was none Of
your business" SO, In each OF the three
years that have since passed Mr.. Camden
has been asked why he has not run the
refinery as he agreed to do, and on each
occasion he has replied that there could be
no money made in running refinery at
Parkersburg. On the last occasion he
generously added the information that
there would be no profit in refining at
Parkersburg for the remaining two years
to come.
The capacity OF the writer's refinery is
"a 900 barrels per annum, this for the FIVE
years would be 10000 barrels; on the
basis Of 81 Is per barrel, the admitted
profit OF Messrs. Schofeld & Co., the total
profit would be, say 100000, one fourth
Of which Is $4,000; this sum would be as
honestly due the writer as any dollar
which Mr.. Camden has obtained through
his connection with the Standard OIL Go.
Now, II Mr.. Camden will publicly and
honestly explain why Parkersburg re.
finer OF admitted skill and with superior
natural facilities could have made no
money, while Cleveland refiner Is max.
ing several hundred per cent profit per
annum, he shall have receipt In full
against any claim for damages which
might arise from his failure TO perform his
agreement.
II, when approached by the Standard
Company In 1875, Mr.. Camden could have
had little more OF the stern virtue OF Bru-
tus, who would rather coin bis heart and
drop his blood for drachmas than wringl
the earnings from the hard hand OF toll By |
any indirection, Parkersburg to-day would
have had her fair share OF the refining
business and his fellow.citizens would
have delighted to do him honor: but by
his connection with the Standard be has
raised up huge "Frankenstein," which |
will not down at his bidding, which now
stands In all its hideous deformity between
him and coveted honors, and can only be
removed by unstinted use Of the money
which has been wrested from the honest
laborer. F. W. MlNsHALL,
Refiner