The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-10

five cents for 81 miles.
The discrepancy between the rate
from the Pittsburg and Frontenac dis
tricts to Kansas City and from the
same district to Topeka was also made
a part of the record in the case.
The witness was asked if the Mount
Carmel Coal company leased coal lands
from the Santa Fe. The witness re-
piled that he did not know.
During the afternoon there was a
tiff between Mr.. Monet and Mr.. DUN
lap, the Santa Fe's general counsel.
Mr.. Monet had spent a whole day
in ramificationS in various directions
through the classification sheets and
the rate and tariff sheets, working out
evidence of Determinations of one
Mr.. Dunlap had 1nterposed objec-
tons at practically every question on
the ground of the question being lin
competent, irrelevant and imma-
terial, and having no bearing on the
case"
Towards the end of the afternoons
session Mr.. Dunlap's puuence wearied.
During the examination of the wit
ness on the coal rates Mr.. Dunlap
asked, and remarked that there was
work for the fool killer"
THE fool killer wouldn't have to
come all the way out 70 Topeka from
Chicago to find work to do" Mr..
You must be hired by the day."
said Dunlap.
Mr. Monet smiled complacent
smile. YES he said, sarcastically,
land I look forward to being with you
here for three months or more, any
way"
Mr. Monet went to Kansas City last
night, where he addressed a mass
meeting. He went from Kansas City
to Independence, where he will appear
today in behalf of the state in the
taking of dispositions of the shippers
ND nj to ha in ha
suits against the Santa Fe and the
Standard Oil company. At the mass
meeting last night at Kansas City Mr..
Monet said in part:
IF the state of Kansas will enforce
the laws passed this winter. instead or
the fabulous wealth of her oil fields
being carried to Whiting, Ind, and
BayOnne. N. j., and on to IS Broad
way, New York city, there to feed
lot of overfed pirates, and will keep
the wealth at home where it belongs
it alone will produce annually in Kan
Sas a city of the size of Topeka, as
measured by its tax valuation.
Mr.. Monnett has been in Kansas long
enough to make 4 study of the condi-
tons of trade in the oil product and al
so of the extent of the oil fields and
their possibilities for future productive
ness.
"On the basis of the present develop
ment I find that there is at least an
output of Is million barrels per annum
in the Kansas field,'' he said to a re-
porter for the Times. ''Ohio had 80 mil
lion barrels as its maximum output,
with not nearly so favorable a field as
Kansas. So I am conservative at put
ting the Kansas output at Is million
barrels per annum."
To this Mr.. Monnett would add the
wealth of oil at Tulsa and in the Creek
and Cherokee lands, which, he said, /
would easily reach so million barrels
per annum.
This means to the industries of
southern Kansas and the territories, |
and to the business houses in Kansas I
in exchange of commodities with the
territory, a gross revenue of billion /
dollars with the next ten years.
Still Mr.. Monnett insisted that his eS- /
Inmates were too low.
THE figures are incomprehensible. I
The valuation of the oil products alone
six times the valuation of !
the entire Santa Fe railroad system.
The Standard Oil company, at present /
prices, receives $3.50 to $40 barrel for /
the product when manufactured into 4
refined petroleum, gasoline, paraf1ine [
and the 2,100 different kinds of by
products.
IF properly kept in Kansas at the /
present prices the oil product of the
state would educate every young man
in the state in the best college in the /
land. Or, to put it another way, if
the price in the rock should be in
creased to the present price received
by the Standard Oil company, then
barrel at the mouth of the well---not
for one-eighth, but for five-eighths. To
use another illustration, out of 10 per
cent of the profits now going to the
Rockefellers, Rogers and Archibalds.
yau could build a five million dollar
oa pitoI or university in ten years IN
every one of the los counties in KAN
sas''
Mr.. MOnnett made another state
nent even more startling. He was
speaking of the marble pile at Wash
ngton known as the federal capitol,
which had cost 15,S00,OOO.
IF foreign foe would destroy this
1alue, either by incendiary torch or con-
luest, all the naval and military power of
he government would be invoked to pre-
yent the destruction and punish the de-
;troyers- Yet the Standard Oil company
proposes to come into Kansas and by
logging the pipe lines and by prohibitive
prices force the land owners to sell this
&iondike of wealth: or if the land owner
5 fortunate enough to escape, then de-
itroy his market for product which in
7alue is 100 times more than the destruc-
ion of the marble capitol would be- Yet
We see senators from 45 states standing
dly by and refusing to pass a national
pipe line law We see executive officers in