San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-09
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. THURSDAY. JUNE 9. 500

carry $4,000 cars, 80 cars per day, at q
rate Of 10 cents, would you consider
that good contract?"
II would not"
Estate to the court fully your rea-
sons"
! because the volume of the stone is
going the same way the volume of
other freights is going and there is no
freight to return"
do 1 understand that the rate
would not be renumerative in the fall
and winter 2"
| "Yes."
| "Why ?"
Because there is SD much other
freight to haul"
Il went there with DIR. Graves to
look at the yards and their location
as to the railroad tracks. He pointed
out how he would like for the
Arkansas Pass track to come in.
stated to him that approximately the
line would cost from Sl2 900 to SIS 900.
He persisted in trying to get me to
agree to put the track in. He stated
that he had been favorable toward
and had worked hard for the election
| of Judge King and was exceedingly
friendly to the railroad compay. I
tried to show him that the arrange.
ment then existing for getting our
business into the yard was just as
| good az could he If we put in q track.
He said he wanted 10 get the
| track in there under the present ad.
ministration and that IL didn't agree
to 1t he would get 1t in there anyway.
l refused to put 1t In and DR.. Graves
mas not been friendly to me since
then. The next time I heard of the
matter was when Mr.. Macnamara dis.
cussed 1t with me and told me he
thought IL ought to be built, as DIR.
Graves had treated US well. I told
MIN L didn't believe it would be q
profitable investment for the COM
pany. Mr.. Mcnamara afterward
presented petition to the court with.
out my signature, rs refused to sign
IL, and an order was granted for the
construction Of the track, but 1t has
never been constructed
Have you ever figured out the cost
OF hauling freight of this character?"
Yes, once, In Kansas"
"How was that?"
I'VE made a rate for l5s miles &C
20 per train mile"
DID you ever calculate what the
expense OF running freight train
would be?"
II never tried it. 1t lie an impossi-
BILE task, and do not think anyone
can do it. There are too many con-
tiDgencies.
What do you mean by contingent
cies?r
well, you have your contract. |
Some days it will rain and the men |
won't work. Then again you will |
have to take your cars out half
loaded.n
"How do you figure the cost?D
II have always taken the estimates
OF expense from the transportation
department. That is the only way"
The Kansas contract of ST. 90 was
aorogated by your company, was il
not?n
"Yes it did not give US enough
profit"
us there auy circumst ances in your
opinion that would justify asa cent
rate?"
mot in winter"
WAS there any circums tan ces In
your opinion. to justify that rate?n
mot on stone unless IL was on some
public work that the railroad would
tsrive benefit"
Hauling so cars per day; how long
would it take to carry SCOOP"
"l6 month";"
"Mr. Denmau said he did not think
lis testlmol y was in rebuttal, that
his witness had been here all the
lime and they ought to have put him
IN at first. Mr.. Newton replied that
his was for the benefit OF the court,
Mr.. Den man said this witness was al ,
Interested party and began to find
ut"
Denmau-" How long have you been q
n Texas"
Twenty years 4"
"How long have you known Mr..
4
"A bout Is years."
Are you not an intimate friend?"
ayes -
"Where did you first know him?r f
''Iu Galveston"
HE was IN your employ there,
'asn't he?
HE was my chief clerk; was gen.
raj freight agent"
"When did he leave you?'
"In the fall OF 1877
"Where haveyou been since them" o
~ have been auditor OF the New
ork, Texas and Mexican; general
gent for the Santa Fe; commercial
gent for the st. Louis, Fit. Scott and
Michigan; agent for the M. p, aud
18th the 3. A. & A. P. L have been
'cated in Galveston, Rosen burg, Dali v,
.s, Wichita, Kansas, and San An. n
mic" On
"What was your first position with
le ). A. d A. P.?'
l.T alinn frofnht u.,I,