Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-09

crease in the general market. The other
elevator men received cars as they were
needed and he got the worst OF It,
We'll. when there was an odd car or
two they would get the benent OF It. For
Instance. II I would have two cars ordered
and they had ordered two cars apiece,
there would be FIVE set In, say, and they
would get two apiece and / would get one
That happened in several instances"
difference to Farmer.
Witness said he had been selling corn as
a farmer for five years and had sold 1000
OF 5000 bushels. During the last year the
existence OF the shipping association at
Prairie Home had Increased his profits on
his grain about 500, and II he had had
the same advantage on all he had shipped
during the FIVE years It would have in
creased his profits about $500. He had
realized about 5 to s cents bushel in
creased price for corn through IT,
Attorney F. NJ. Hall cross-examined this
witness to disclose that he was not an
expert on figuring expenses of the regular
| dealers, including taxes insurance, inter-
est, depreciation. etc, and that he did not
know the cost of the regular dealers ele-
vators, machinery, etc. Witness confessed
that he only knew from estimates. The
Evans elevator there had a capacity Of
from 1900 TO 5000 bueshels, and was
| operated by horse power, with one regular
employee and an occasional assistant. The
expenses, he declared, were nothing COM
pared to the profit the regulars made prior
to the organization OF the shipping associa-
/ ton.
1t was from the testimony Of I. w. JAG
! oby OF Prairie Home that the plaintiff and
I NNaFa HNT.Wa lWNa
counsel for defendants, perhaps, the least.
| Jacoby is connected also with the Farmers
| COOPERATIVE Shipping association at Prai-
| RE Home and the national association. He
said his association loads direct to cars at
that point while there are two regular
| elevators there.
| He said that when the association first
| started to ship grain It applied to the Rock
| Island for cars, but could get no salts
| faction and no assurance as TO whether or
not that company would furnish them.
| Then It began hauling its grain to the Bur-
| lington across the Rock Island and three
or four miles away. Thereupon the COM
pany, after a great deal of negotiation
with its division freight officials at Lin
! coin agreed to furnish cars Freight Agent
! Miller, he said, told him that by furnish
ing the cars ne would bring the other fell
to mean the regular dealers, as there were
no others at Prairie Home except them and
| himself.
JacOby II Persistent.
Later he had trouble in getting cars over
the Burlington. He wanted to bill some
| grain over the Wabash and applied to Ed
| Bignell for cars. Bignell told him that
the Burlington and the Wabash were at
outs and that the former could not ship
cars over the latter. 1t would have to be
done in foreign cars, which he promised
| to procure.
| Witness said he had spotted some foreign
cars at Havelock and applied for them, but
Bignell told him they were already billed
out. Then he called up the Wabash agent
at Omaha, Mr.. Entrekin, who said he
would receive Burlington cars. He got
the Burlington cars, loaded them with
grain and they went through all right, but
1t took him three or four days to get them.
At that time the other elevators were
getting cars there as needed.
When his association first began doing
business at that point there was diff
ference of from to 6, and cents on corn
in what we could get and what they were
offering, and on wheat there was a diff
ference that ran as high as liz cents be-
tween what we got and what they Of
fered."
He said that this difference has not con-
tinued. Since the association began ship
ping the regulars have been paying more
for grain than the shippers could get by
shipping. He thought that on the whole
there had been difference of from to {
cents a bushel ever since the associa ton
began. He estimated that from 100 to Isl
cars OF grain are shipped annually from
that station, OF which his association had
shipped about fifty or sixty cars. He esti-
mated that the farmers who had shipped
through his association had profited on
those fifty or sixty cars about 5000 II
the entire 10000 bushels of corn and wheat
sent out had been similarly shipped II
would have meant an additional profit tc
the shippers OF about $4,000
Witness testified that the attitude OF the
regular dealers toward his association was
always hostile, although the agents Of the
ryal regulars appeared to be on good
terms. He had had a tight with Frank
Hendrickson, who operated one of tht
elevators, over prevailing prices of grain
His association had never received any
bids from regular buyers. nor had 1t asked
for any, as 1t considered the regulars IL
enemies and did not go to its enemies fol-
protection.
Applies for Elevator Site.
Through this witness counsel for botl
sides went into the afrairs of the Nationa
4 Farmers Cooperative Shipping associa
. ton. That brought out the fact that tn,
I association had sought to secure from III,
Rock Island railway a site for an elevator
In April. 1904, the application was file,
with the agent, who said he would send I
4 in and that 1t would probably take som
e time for It to get through the red tape. NJ
response has ever been received to tina
: application, although inquiry has bee
: frequently made. The president Of the as
ISOLATION later called on John r. UT. rem
resenting the Rock Island at Omaha an
! was Informed that in order to get a sit
the association would have TO build a ao or
bushel house or buy one OF the elevator
already there. 1t had tried to buv IN
c Hendrickson elevator. which cost 81 GOO an
s had capacity Of about 1900 bushels. HI,
i 1900 was the lowest figure for which
d could be bought The Evans elevate
: there had capacity OF about 5000 busbeI
n also It would cost about 5000 TO build
s 20.OO0-bushel house.
e AS to the national association. the wi,
i ness said that it has an authorized CAN'T,
stock OF 10000, Of which $4,000 Is paid M
IL has hve or six elevators in this stat,
at Upland Rising City Davey. and he Al
' not