Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-03-29

wAose receiving tanks At their wells were
fun, hesicged the pipe line Offices Tor re-
lief. and were told they mus sell their oil
to the monopoly before the blockade
would be removed. Tae producers were
helpless. There was no ether way to 2e.
their oil out, and their tanks were running
over.
The next turn Of the screw, this one
being found to stick, WAS for the Stand
ard, protesting to yield 10 popy!T clam
or against enforced sales" TO refuse to
buy or to run. A conplete blockade was
established. Then appeared few out
side buyers who chad little empty tank
nge in the pipe-lines," who, AS matter
of faver. could take the oil at from
twenty-five to fifty per cent discount
from the very low quoted rate OF the
monopoly. BY some mysterious power
these buyers could always "peh the stop
cocks. and relieve the tanks OF oil oi
which they had stolen oae- fourth or one,
halt the value.
Under his highway robbery, things
began to get ho, in the oil country
There are daredcyils there, and there ,s
nitro. & ycerinc there, and thousands of
/ s,opcocks Ia the Standards hiy tanks
awsy in lonely woods and on mountain
sides. "Yiplding aga.n t0 pnDhe opin>
Ion," the monopoly consented to allow
private storage tanks 20 be connected
with ~" nipe lircs and suffered mrn to
put their own oil in their own tanks.
But this remarkable lo1stni3g OF the
chains upon in lus'ry w,s,. accomp nnied
with terms .as humiiating as a success
ful cortoration eyer imposed on rc'urp
iNg strikers. suI at tac cCst -ot charges
and fees ehich gov NE m0rNpolJ Mi
tn. prof, there was III the producing or
holding tnc oil.
7, was ~ ere nnie charged tlIat the
standard Oh Comp,ry Intends to buy
and muAopJhz, all the "I-rrod"c'ng
ter.itcrv. I: lid nor need 10. 1t could havN
al. the oIi produced at its own rrice. ana
could pr,v,Lt we'll own.rs trom either
IN kim any money or using a cents
worh of tl!cir nwn properly ana take no
risk in drilling wells or caring tor them
1t had practically 10000 nen at work
TO. It for no gun, boarding Themselves
and furnishing their own capital 10
opcr.uu with. Ia, CIR of Russia Is uot
more ratcu, ever his subjects, an Irish
ana,ord has not his tenants more at his
mercy than ,hs monpPoly had the oil
producer of Pennsylvania and New York
Sane nf i;s Il o,icrs for oppression were
mean and hcartIe.s enough tor simon
L.r,cc. knew young fellow VII"
riyged up an abandoned well and
managed to pump barrel and half of
oil per day out oi 1t. To increase his
income 80 that he conld ges enough to
eat, he dipped waste oil from astream--
the water was constantly eolored from
overilo wing tanks-and carried It TO his
little tank. The gauger Of the pipe line
percevins that the output was increasing
alsrminsIy at little we'll inquire int"
il, aud to punish him for dipping oil cut
off his tank from the pipe line, and his
whole business was gone up. 1t claims
that all oil found loose belonging Z the
S,andarl-like the bank president VINO
kicked boy out when he picked up
p,n that belonged to the bank.
general average is another sw'ad'e
II Standard tank springs leak. or il
Jupiter Olympus volunteers an expires
sion OF opinioH on such fantastic
wretches 10y striking hig tank witt
Ii -htniag, the loss is assessed hy tht
Standard on NJ! the oil to the credit o
private parties in its lines. That is. II
helps itself to enough private prorert!
10 make good its own loss. And then,
!! any Of the escaped oil can bs damed
Up and gathered, the Standard covers
that into its treasury--s clean steal.
The story might be ''con'inued IN our
next" for weeks The profits ut this
monopoly are-no one knows how
much. Perhaps one '""''""'
per heps two million n month Il has