Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-30
PRESIDENT RIPLEY REPLIES TO
STRUCTURES OF IDA IARBELt
Makes Convincing Showing Of Santa fe's Connection With Stand.
ard Oil. --Declaes if the Fair Ida Is as Unreliable in Roasting
John D. Latter Is Much Abused.
paIcg BAKING POWDER Co.,
CHICAGO.

Hon. w. A. Calderhead, one of the
Kansas congressman. recently wrote
to Judge William r. smith. formerly
of the supreme court of Kansas and
now chief attorney OF the Santa Fee
company in Kansas, asking Mr.. Smith
for the bottom facts in the matter Of
relations between the Standard OIL
Co. and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Re Co. Judge Smith rs.erred the let
ter to President E. P. Ripley, of the
Santa Fee, and Mr.. Ripley gave Mr..
Calderhead a full and explicit answer.
Mr.. Ripley's letter IL very direct and
emphatic and seems to III. ely meet
the charges and ~insinua:'ons made by
Miss Tarbell in her magazine artlcies.
Mr.. Ripley's article is well worth
reading by all who are in any way in
terested in the oil controversy.
Mr.. Ripley's letter is in part as fol-
lows:
Mr.. Ripley's Letter.
Hon. w. A. Calderhead, Marysville,
Kas.;
Dear Sir-Your letter OF the 2Sth
instant to Judge w. X. smith has been
referred to me and it gives me great
pleasure to have the opportunity OF
giving you all the facts In connection
with the onslaught made by Miss Tar
bell on the Santa Fe Railway Co. IN
the current issue of one OF the maya
zines. Miss Tarbell is a writer of s m
sational fiction SO far as the Santa Fe
Co. is concerned and apparently has
no other object than to create preJu'
dice against that company and the
Standard Oil Co. Miss Tarbell, SO far
as | am advised, has s,;ade no effor'
whatever to ascertain the facts
SO far as the railway company Is
concerned. Had she made any such
efforts there would have beer
no disposition on our part 20 mold back
anything. Miss Tarbell's charges
are:
Advanced Weight In Oil.
First-That the railway companies
advanced the weight Of crude oil II
May. 1902, from ga pounds to q
pounds per gallon, while making nj
change In the weight Of refined oil
This is true and the plain and simple
reason Is that crude Oil weights T..
pounds per gallon, while refined Of
weighs GA pounds. When M. Knapp
oil business first started the only Of
which we had been carrying was r.
fined and naturally the SCENTS. havin
instructions as to oil In general, billie
It at Ga pounds per gallon, not know
ing that there was a difference l
weight between the refined and tn
crude oil. There existed an organ'z'
ton among the railroads known q
the weighing and inspection bureau,
the duty of which was to chez
weights and description Of perchal
disc. this bein necessary from the fat
innumerable frauds are constantly &
tempted. both as ~ weights and d.
~scripticn Of property. This burea
made the tests O. the Weight OF ka'
sas crude oil which resulted in motif
cation to us that the correct weigi
was "a pounds per gallon. NJ
Knapp. feeling agri we'd at our actio
in changing this weiqht, transfer
his shipments 10 anoth r line. sine
which time [ think ne has made +
shipments via the Sa.ta Fe. ! hay
10 apology 70 offer for changing Il
weight on this oil.
Doesr'. Get Oil Revenue.
The implied charge made bv Mi
Tarrer ttet the Santa re Go. ge
from the Standard OIL CO. az re
enue whatever en- oil carried throus