The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-06-27

THE CHARGES NEFuTED.
The actual facts in the transaction referred
TO as given by Alr. Morgan ID his own words
are as follows
ION the 18th day Of May. 1891. the Durham
Fertilizer Company shipped 10y the Richmond
and Danylle railroad 20 MeDaueyllla, \. c.
three car loads of fertilizer one 10 W. Is. Sci
lars. business agent Of Pleasant Grove ALL
ance. No. 1855 of Alamance county, and tine
other two car loads % 81. X. Smith, business
agent Of Bidge>iHe Alliance. No. 7s4. Of Cas-
well county Mr. Smith was 10 Durham at the
Office OF the company Ou That very day, and
personally urged the company to ship
the goods "a, the season was growing late ana
the farmers wanted the goods at once. We
had been buying taI-paid tags from the de-
paItmcrt i'm Raleigh from time to tDe. AMI
supposed we had enough tags for this, winch
was about our last shipment. AMI dld not dis
cover deficiency of tags until We began %
load the cars ON the evening az the Itth oI
MAY We a. once. on finding out that We d.
not have Oh hand enough tags for al TIC
goods i'm these shipments wrote the depart
ment on the next day 9th May enclo--
ing our check of that date for tie amount
necessary Our letter and check md not
reach the department sat Raleigh until the
next day Thursday, May Zothl after the
goods had left Durham. and we received tho
tags by express on the morning az May -3th
p
gave the tugs 90 the agent of the Richmond
and Danville Railroad Company at Durham,
10 be sent 70 the railroad agent 40 Mebane-
vile 20 tag the bags az DleDanevle. On
the next day. beng informed that the
tags given the agent were not suit-
cient We sent more, and all this occurred be-
fore we had intimatlu If any sort that Che
goods had been detained for want of tags. or
that anybody Intended 20 detain Thorn. Our
first official information Of the detention OF
the goods WAS on Monday. Juns lst when an
official letter came from Mr.. Robinson. CONE
missioner IL is not pretended by anybody
but that only part OF these goods
he tota, amount oi the tags on the goods de-
tanned at Me- anovilie was tho magnificent
sum Of S212- 3. and nobody VIII dispute the
fact that we have paid into the department
more tax on fertilizers than any other manu-
facturer IN the State OF manufacturing con-
Germ outside of the State and selling goods IN
North Carolina"
IN regBrd to the report that the sacks II
guanO were so packed IN the CARS that IN OPEN
ing the door the tagged bags only would be
seen and that the untagged bags were COM
cealed il thoroughly dlsprOyed by letter t.
Mr.. Morgan from Mr. Smith himself. O. whom
the goods were shipped VINO states that he
was present when the car was opened and
that such a report IS utterly false and without
ANOTHER CHARGE ANSWERED.
similar charge to the above has more re-
Gently been brought against the company
with regard 10 a small lot of fertilizer which
was found at oxford without tags, having
been shipped l. parties there. Tbs guanO
was shipped on the same day on which the
Mebaneyille shipment was made, and for the
same reason was shipped without TAGS the
company not having the requisite number at
IH.arr fuf Of It4r rffF lI4
been allowed 10 do this. They at once. how
ever. sent them 10 Oxford by mail a. soon as
they could be procured, but they mlscarr ed
and another lot was sent BEING notified that
these also had not come TO hand. the company
sent man 10 carry the tags III person. He
went TO oxford and found one Of the lots OF
tags IN the pOstOitice and took them % the
party who had the guano in store and in
structed him to properly tag every sack and
not 10 let IL 60 ont 20 the cOnsignees TIL IL
was tagged and Il was through his negligence
that the guano was not tagged before It WAS
seized and not through any purpose 10 de-
fraud on the part Of the Durham Fertilizer
Company
CHARGE or SHORTAGE.
The charge Of shortage in the required per-
centage has already been explained in IHE
IDiEs. The company IN this instance had
used more valuable Ingredient even than
the one required by Jaw and were giving their
customers better guanO than they would have
cotton if they had received the standard.
That the confidence of the Alliance IN the
Durham Fertilizer Company is mistaken IS
shown by the fact that resolutions have been
adopted by Ridgeville Alliance. Pleasant
Grove Alliance and others expressing their
confidence IN the company, and denOunclng
the unjust attacks which lhaye been made
against 1t.