The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-27
COAL CASE HEARING
LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE BE
 FORE THE COMMISSION.
First vice-Ppesident of Railroad Says That the Railway Had to Keep Up the Land COm-
 panles.

Louisville, Ky. Oct. 26.-The hear ing before tho Interstate Commerce Commission of the alleged illegal rela- tion between railroad and mining com panies in Kentucky was resumed to- day.
 He owns a half interest in the Rock Creek Coal Company of Wayne and Pulaski counties.
 The station of ts.e, company Is at Yamicrew, which is . little town sit .uated on the Kentucky and Tennessee Railroad. a line eight miles in length. Mir. Ross's contention is that the railroad refuses to accord him a through rate to the Cincinnati market
 for his coal. The Kentucky and Ten
 nessee connects with the Queen and
 Crescent and the owners of the rail-
 road also own four mines on the line and also have a half interest in Ross 8
 mine.
 J. N. Sharp of Somerset rcpresente ed tho Kentucky and Tennessee Railroad Company. He admitted that the Ken lucky and Tennessee line was owned
 by the same people and had the same
 offices as the Sterns Lumber Company and the Sterns Coal Company He said that the company in building the line as an outlet for their products had
 inadvertently made 1t. long enough to
 become 8 common carrier and realized
 that they would have to furnish rates. W. L. Mapother, First Vice-Presi
 dent of the Louisville and Nashville.
 was called to the stand. He said he
 owned no stock in any coal lands and
 knew of no employe owning stock or coal lands.
 He was asked by MT. McChord what
 was done with the earnings of the Louisville property company. MT. Map
 other said there had been no earnings
 and that the Louisville and Nashville made advances to meet deficits of the
 Louisville Property Company MT. Mapother explained that two tracts of coal land of about 10000
 acres were acquired by the L. & N.
 Railroad in the name of the Louisville
 Property Company, though advancing
 money for development purposes and
 subsequently, in foreclosing mort
 gage in one instance and purchasing
 the property outright in the other 4n- stance.
 MT. Mapother said the only mine which the Louisville property company Is operating has never earned a dollar
 MT. Mapother explained the manner of distributing cars on the requisition
 of mining companies When a division iidS dH <tHiplO cupply oi cars on n3n0
 1t honors the reduisition. Should the mne fail to utilize all the cars asked for and furnished the next requisition would be curtailed. Should there be a shortage of cars on the division the cars are pro-rated according to the capacity of the mines making requsi-
 tion.
 C. R. Compton, traffic manager of the Louisville & Nashville railroad says ft has always been a recognized policy of the Louisville & Nashville railroad to forbid its officers from being inter
 ested. directly or indirectly in any in dustry along its lines. and that as far as he knows this policy has never been violated.
 George Evans. fourth vice presiden, of the Louisville & Nashville testified as did MT. Compton and MT. Mapother that he does not know any official who owns stock in any coal or oil lands The price of coal in various cities was gone into MT. Sackett, who testi- | fled late yesterday afternoon that the retail prices of coal in Louisville was
 $4.12 a ton. came upon the stand to correct the statement. It should have | ton are that coal retails there at s5. 2f a ton but Lexington Is not on a water course The price of coal in Cincinnati ! Ia less than in Louisville necause of the shorter river haul from Pittsburg and because of shorter railroad hauls C. B. Compton, traffic manager ol the Louisville & Nashville made the statement that coal is sold here bS l inc wagon load, in Cincinnati by the 1 ton and in New Orleans and Memphis | by the barrel.